Curious Explorers
Kids love to touch anything they are curious about, even if it’s dirty or slimy. Nothing can stop them when they want to explore everything in sight. They are those curious little explorers, and there’s nothing wrong with that!
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However, it is natural for parents to make sure their children are unharmed. In September of 2018, parents rushed to their kids to stop them from touching the odd creature the kids found by the shore. Curiosity filled them when they saw a huge purple blob lying in the sand, so they did an investigation.
What They Found at New Zealand’s Pakiri Beach
Adam, Eve, and their two kids decided to spend the day in Pakiri Beach. The highlight of their day was a purple blob in the sand. Obviously, this creature was new to them and they did not have any idea what the creature was and what it was capable of.
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Naturally, we stay away from things we know nothing about, but their kids, Sofia and Lucas ran towards the purple blob to satisfy their curiosities. It is understandable, however, that children have no concrete and firm concept of danger especially when things are new to them.
Parents Rushed To Their Kids
Adam and Eve sprinted to their kids, wishing that they were safe from the purple blob. For all they know, it could be dangerous and lethal. They went to see and check the mysterious creature lying on the sand.
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After the ordeal, Adam was interviewed and he said, “My initial thought was, ‘Don’t let my kids touch it,’” With his four-membered family, there was this one question on their mind, “What is this creature?”
Pulsating
The family initially investigated on their own, and they have noticed that the thing they found was actually pulsating. It was moving on its own. Therefore, they assumed the thing was still alive since it still kept moving and pulsating, kind of like it was breathing.
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Adam recalled, “It almost looked like a load of muscles contracting, it was pretty incredible and really hard to describe.” The kids also described that it was odd when they saw the purple, slime-like creature.
A Volcano
Lucas their kid, described the pulsating thing as a volcano. Basically, the thing had sloping sides and a thing that looks like a crater. However, it is obvious that it is not a volcano and so the family investigated further.
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As mentioned, the family did an initial investigation about the pulsating creature. However, the parents made sure that the checklist of safety from the potentially dangerous foreign thing was followed.
The Creature Was Alive
The kids blew on the creature and it moved. They kept repeating this until they were able to arrive to a conclusion that the creature is alive and it is aware of the changing conditions from its environment.
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The family then grabbed a stick and poked the pulsating creature with it. Apparently, they found out that it reacts vigorously when they poke it. Eve recalled the interesting yet fearsome experience that day.
Peculiarity
The family continuously did all kinds of external forces like poking, prodding, and blowing the creature to keep it moving. The parents actually said that there was something peculiar about the beach.
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According to them, they actually saw tons of jellyfish all across the shore. They thought that what they saw was just a jellyfish, however, the creature looked nothing like such. And so, they thought that maybe it was just upside down.
Jellyfish
With a stick, they flipped some of the jellyfish over that washed on the shore. They were actually hoping that upon turning the jellyfish upside down, they could prove that the creature they found was a jellyfish.
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Comparing the jellyfish from the creature they found, it still looks nothing alike. The mystery of finding out began to go back to zero. The marine experts intervened with their confusion.
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Diana Macpherson from New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research describes the thing as common and yet for the family, the thing wasn’t just common for they do not have knowledge about it.
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The expert said that the pulsating creature they found at the laden shores of Pakiri Beach was known to be the largest species of jellyfish. It was indeed the largest one they found in the waters of New Zealand. The creature is known as the giant jellyfish or Lion’s mane jellyfish.
Cyanea capillata
The giant jellyfish species can grow as huge as seven feet wide and its tentacles can grow as long as a hundred feet. The long tentacles gave the name of this giant jellyfish, the lion’s mane.
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It has the scientific name Cyanea capillata. The jellyfish alone are not deadly, however, the tentacles attached to them carry toxins. When someone got caught with the jellyfish’s mane, it can cause serious hives.
Autumn
With the jellyfish washed ashore. Species of jellyfish such as the lion’s mane normally washed up during summer or spring. However, this time, when Adam and Eve’s family were on the beach, it was autumn.
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Of course, from Adam’s family in September at the beach, the family was delighted by the experience they had. In the news interview, Adam recalled, “It was an incredible experience for us.”
Something Similar
Just like the giant jellyfish washed up on the shore, on the Dutch island of Terschelling, everyone was startled when they found thousands of sneakers on their shore. It seems like a cargo ship lost one of its shoe containers.
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Another similar thing is a piano washed ashore below the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. The piano was found intact however, the piano can no longer play. Who would have thought that a piano can be found under that bridge?
Toys They Found By The Shore
Looking back in 1992, shipping containers fell overboard in the ocean. It contained hundreds of thousands of bath-time toys, the rubber ducks. Occasionally, bath-time toys would still wash up on the shore of different countries and beaches.
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Ego Leonard is a Dutch painter and sculptor, his works feature humongous Lego figures. Occasionally, one of Leonard’s created oversized Lego toys can be found along the shore of many countries.
Snowballs and Giant Eyeball
Also in 2016, the Siberian beach was covered with perfectly formed snowballs. The snowballs were formed due to a rare phenomenon that causes ice to roll up. The ball becomes smoothly polished and gets washed by the shore.
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In 2012, a giant eyeball was washed up by the shore in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It was when someone saw the giant eyeball and got intrigued. Most of the people believed that the giant eyeball was from the kind of undiscovered sea monster. However, scientists found out that a massive swordfish owns it.
Life-Size Doll and Bananas
A person walking by the beach thought there was a lifeless body floating in the shallowness of the ocean water. Upon careful investigation and inspection, they found out that it was just a life-size E.T. doll.
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In 2007, shipping crates of bananas fell overboard around the oceans of Cuba. However, thousands of bananas were also found along the shores of Terschelling, Netherlands— a similar situation to the thousands of shoes found in the same area.
Rocks and Prosthetic Hand
Along the beach of Oakville, Ontario, the people found a stack of rocks with messages written on them. The messages were inspirational and personal messages. To whoever wrote the messages, did they meet their soulmate already?
Underwater New York
In the waters of Staten Island, New York, someone might have dropped their prosthetic hand that is washed by the shore. However, who would have lost their mechanical hand just like that?
Debris
Pieces of metal from the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket were found on the shore of Elbow Bay in the Bahamas. The people were shocked to have found a massive debris like this, especially when it is from a space rocket.
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The famous ship called Navagio that was build in 1937 is now an intact shipwreck and is a tourist attraction in Greece. It used to be a ship smuggling cigarettes. Unfortunately, it was wrecked by a massive storm in the year 1980.
Other Blobs and Doritos
In the year 2015. billions of odd gelatinous blobs of jelly were found on the west coast shores of the United States. These weird blob jellies were called velella and washed-up jellies like this happen roughly once every three to six years, according to experts and biologists.
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One morning in North Carolina beaches, thousands of Doritos were found. It was said that ship containers full of Doritos fell overboard. Lucky for those people who were at the beach at that time. It’s free Doritos for them!
Flyswatter and a Motorcycle
Another shipping crates were lost in the middle of the ocean. The crates are full of flyswatter printed with college sports teams’ insignia. Several of the flyswatters were washed by the shore.
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In 2011, a tsunami hit the country Japan, many are affected by the natural disaster like this. For instance, a Harley- Davidson motorcycle was swept 5,000 miles away from Japan. It was found along the beach of British Columbia.
Birds
It was natural that living things will die eventually, however, if thousands of dead birds were found on the shores, would it be natural? There are at least 6,000 dead waterfowl found in Georgian Bay.
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Experts believed that these birds consumed botulism-laced fish. Botulism can cause serious illness, as well as for the birds, which even causes death. For experts, it is so unusual finding a thousand birds lying dead on the shore.
Drugs, Sea Mine and Giant Pipes
Six backpacks of cocaine were found along the coast of Japan in 2013. The weight totaled 78 kilograms and it is estimated to be $70 million worth. Another circumstance was when beachgoers found a World War II-era mine.
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Lastly, a giant pipe was found along the beach of Norfolk, England in August of the year 2017. These pipes were as long as 1,500 feet and eight feet in diameter. These pipes were known from the Norwegian tug boat after the collision with an Icelandic shipper, reportedly.