You think your life is strange?  You should see how strange things can get after a storm.  A surprisingly high number of beachcombers have reported stumbling across some strange and unbelievable examples of Neptune’s notable neighbors following a tsunami.
Some of these castoff creatures of the deep are so strange even scientists are often initially confused and befuddled by them.  Mind you, much like many UFOs, there is generally an explanation for the initially unexplainable,  Whether or not you choose to believe it, of course, is another matter entirely.  Without further adieu, here are 10 unbelievable creatures found after tsunamis. 

Kivalina Strain

Kivalina is a remote native island village found on the Chukchi Sea in the northwestern area of Alaska.  You might not consider it as a prime location for an alien invasion and yet that is just what went down on August 3rd, 2011.  It was then that the unexpected occurred.  
Appearing on the beach for literally miles, the first wave aliens rolled onto the isle.  There were billions of them.  (No, not little green men from Mars but tiny orange spores.)  They were determined to be a type of plant rust.  (Uh-oh!  Wasn’t the deadly pathogen in The Andromeda Strain a fungal spore?)
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Storm Sturgeon

Beware the “nightmarish Lovecraftian sea monster” some said.  Still, others thought that something was just “fishy.”  Was it something carried along on the sea breeze or was it what washed up on the shore of South Carolina’s Folly Beach in March 2012?
Whatever this thing really was, it looked like something that had been dragged through the mists of time from the era of the dinosaurs.  A local veterinarian determined that the corpse in question was a scute-covered sturgeon.  Sturgeons weigh up to 800 pounds and grow to be up to 15 feet in length.
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Montauk Monster

One cannot compile a complete list of creatures washed ashore without including the famous Montauk Monster.  In July of 2008, the internet exploded with numerous reports of a dead “ferocious-looking carcass” discovered in eastern Long Island, New York. While it was indeed DOA by the time it had washed up on the well-known Ditch Plains Beach, it lives on even today in the annals of pop culture.  In fact, it was immortalized in a memorable albeit disturbing painting by American artist and New York native Dan Lacey.
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Headless Creature

Basil Park of McIvers told the press: “I’ve lived here all my life and never seen anything like it.”  As he stood on the shore of Canada’s Newfoundland’s Bay of Islands he added: “There’s fishermen around here who fished all their lives and they couldn’t tell you.”
Park was speaking of a mysterious headless creature discovered on the beach.  It was 15 feet long.  10 of which formed a tapered tail.  As this goes to press, Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans have yet to officially announce what it was that was found on the shore back in February of 2010.
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Awful Opah

No, not Oprah but “Opah.”  While they may both often appear to be quite big, the beached beauty in the picture never had a TV talk show.  Although this big beached beauty with the somewhat satanic look hails from somewhere not at all that hellish.  These creatures are known by many monikers including Kingfish, Moonfish, and even Sunfish.
The truth is that these deep sea dwellers are only rarely seen when experienced anglers and even biologists are actually looking for them.  So it was no surprise when one October morning in 2010 someone panicked when they discovered one of these massive fish off the coast of San Diego.  Local surfer Scott Williams admitted: [It] “looked like it was from another planet.”  The Opah was reported to be about the size of a manhole and weighed 100 pounds.
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Mysterious Blob

Temuka, a small town on the coast of New Zealand’s South Island, was always a quiet place.  At least it was until October 28th, 2009 when the mysterious blob invaded the innocent isle.  It was then that resident Rose Fraser discovered the blob on Temuka Beach.
She told the Fairfax NZ News: “I thought: ‘Heck, this is an alien’.  She added that it had “big ribs coming out of it” [that] could [have been] tentacles.”  Scientists later determined the mysterious blob to be just the top of a sperm whale’s head.  (No one knows what happened to the rest of the whale.)
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Purple Storm Snails

These snails are only found on washed up beaches.  Their shells are paper-thin and they create “bubble rafts” of clear chitin in order to stay afloat on the water’s surface.  Their name came from the fact that they are blown onto the beach by very strong storm winds.
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Monster From Russia

If James Bond had discovered this, we might title this section From Russia, With Yuck!  On Russia’s island territory of Sakhalin in 2006, a group of Russian soldiers stationed there discovered something monstrous and “seriously decomposed.”  Once the story got out about what had happened, the Russian Special Service personnel were quick to remove the washed-up remains from the beach in order to conduct “in-depth studies.”
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Bigtooth

No, not Bigfoot, bigtooth.  As it turns out, this particular creature would only be dangerous to you if you stubbed your toe on it.  Juan Cabana, an artist in Tampa Bay, Florida created and posed this purported toothy sea monster for his “Seamystery” series of aliens, mermaids, monsters, and mythical creatures.  He auctioned it off in 2006.  Online images come from pictures Cabana featured in the original eBay description.
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The Salish Sea Human Feet Discoveries

It’s a case of “the thrill of victory” and “the agony” of “da feet.”  Bad puns aside, it was actually the latter that washed ashore upon the northwestern coast of America and Canada.  In fact, as this goes to press the authorities have only solved roughly half the cases.  It is theorized that the feet belonged to people who drowned and missing fishermen lost in the 2004 Asian Tsunami since the shoes were not that old.

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