Couple Stunned After Stumbling Across "Weird Stone" On The Beach – And It Could Be Worth £50,000

When they smelled rotting fish, Overton, Lancashire residents Gary and Angela Williams were walking along Middleton Sands beach close to Morecambe Bay. They followed the smell until they came upon an odd-looking “rock” that looked like a chunk of ambergris, sometimes known as “whale vomit,” which is used to make perfume.

The couple covered the large lump in a scarf and brought it home after reading about the highly sought-after substance in a newspaper. Gary, 48, afterwards put the lump on his fishing scales and determined it weighed 1.57kg, which is little over half the size of a lump found several years ago near Morecambe. The previous piece of "whale vomit" had a startling 2013 value of £120,000.