All That’s Interesting

Beach cleanup workers in Wales have recently found hundreds of shoes believed to be from the Victorian era that mysteriously washed ashore. Since September 2025, volunteers from Beach Academy have stumbled upon more than 400 pieces of footwear, largely made of black leather, at the little coastal town of Ogmore-by-Sea. The current theory is that the shoes came from the Frolic, an Italian cargo ship that sank roughly two miles off shore after colliding with Tusker Rock on March 17, 1831. Approximately 80 people were lost, their bodies slowly washing ashore for months afterward — and now, almost 200 years later, it seems these shoes are doing the same thing