Way back in 1924, this strange blob appeared on the coast of South Africa.

Technically called a globster, but unofficially named Trunko, it was described as looking like a fish/polar bear hybrid and was apparently “battling” killer whales before washing up ashore.

Scientists never carried out tests, but some say it’s a some sort of whale.

The sea creature naturally horrified onlookers, and researchers are still unsure of what exactly this mass was.

Only four photographs exist today.

October 28, 2009 horrified the people of Temuka, a 4,000-person town on the eastern coast of New Zealand’s South Island when a beached creature was discovered.

It had eyes and ribs or tentacles on both sides, causing eyewitnesses to think it was an alien, but scientists came to the rescue, revealing that the blob was just the top of a sperm whale’s head.

There was no sign of the rest of the whale so what killed it? Or better yet… What ate it?

This washed up beast looks like it could swallow up small boats.

Residents discovered this creature on South Carolina’s Folly Beach in March 2012 feeling like they were in a Pirates of the Caribbean movie, at the mercy of Davy Jones and his locker.

The creature discovered is as equally impressive as a local vet identified it as an Atlantic sturgeon.

It is an ancient creature which grows up to 15 feet and can weigh as much as 800 pounds.

Scientists think this is the same creature that could have inspired several mythological and folk tales about serpentine sea monsters attacking boats and swallowing men at sea.

This is a type of deep-sea shark.

This specimen born from a nightmare was discovered near the Lakes Entrance off southeastern Victoria, Australia, in January of 2015.

These sharks have been seen at depths greater than 1000 meters below sea level. They can grow up to double digit meters long, more than enough to terrify even the bravest of divers.

The shores of Northwestern Alaska became overrun by billions of tiny orange spores on August 3, 2011.

But before any Independence Day, or Andromeda Strain like scenarios could happen and cause panic, scientists identified these spores as native terrestrial.

These are fungal spores from a type of plant rust, so there was no need for a mass evacuation or quarantine.

These aren’t as frightening as compared to other washed-up sea creatures.

You are looking at sea snails that commonly blow ashore after a storm takes place in warm and tropical climates. They dwell near or on the surface of the water, which makes them vulnerable to the wind and the waves.

This thing came ashore from the fork of Long Island and was the first of three reported “Montauk Monsters” in 2008.

The scientific consensus on its origins say that it is a raccoon but cryptid enthusiasts aren’t convinced.

Especially since the carcass mysteriously vanished. Talk about creepy.

This is a rarely seen species called moonfish, sunfish or kingfish.

They’re deep-sea dwellers that are sometimes preyed on by angler fish.

This one was discovered off the coast of San Diego and may have weighed around 100 lbs.

This carcass washed up on the shores of St. Augustine, Florida in 1896 and was thought to be the remains of some kind of giant squid.

The massive oddity measured at 5.4 meters long and 4,535 kg in weight.

Scientists of the late 20th century are still trying to identify the creature with the tools of modern biology.

In 1995, they concluded that this was the collagenous matrix of whale blubber from a sperm whale.

The Stronsay Beast washed up on the shores of Stronsay Island in the Orkley Islands of Scotland in 1808.

Believers in folktales of sea monsters loved the discovery but nearly 200 years later, we’re still waiting for answers.

At 55 feet minimum, since the tail seemed to be cut off, popular speculation labeled the beast as some kind of plesiosaur.

If the tail was cut off, what did it to this creature?

This curious cross between a dolphin and a crocodile was found on Bungalow Beach in the Gambia in 1983.

These colorized sketches are the only depictions of the creature that exist. Unfortunately, it was hacked and sold per piece to tourists.

Owen Burnham, the man who first encountered and sketched the creature, says it was 15 feet long and not very decayed. It was brown with smooth skin leading to many speculations even to this day.

The Bermuda Blobs were two globsters found in 1988 and 1997.

Fisherman and treasure hunter Teddy Tucker of Mangrove Bay described one as “2½ to 3 feet thick… very white and fibrous… with five ‘arms or legs,’ rather like a disfigured star.”

The first specimen was analysed in 1995, with findings suggesting a Poikilothermic sea creature, either a large bony fish, shark, or ray.

A reanalysis confirmed that it was the remains of a whale.

The second blob’s samples suggested it was a large mass of adipose tissue that also came from a whale.