They appear on the sand like any old piece of sea detritus. Sometimes they're found, amid the sweet wrappers and cracked shells, by volunteers cleaning up the area. Other times a holidaymaker might glimpse the grisly discard from the corner of their eye, a serene walk along the beach interrupted just like that.
As more people learned about these discoveries, they attracted morbid scavengers to the Pacific Northwest shorelines, where the Salish Sea connects waterways along the west coasts of the US and Canada.
What these scavengers sought remains a prickling curiosity: severed feet attached to running shoes, washed up from origins unknown.
Sixteen detached human feet have been found since 2007 in British Columbia, Canada, and Washington state. Most of these have been right feet. All of them have worn running shoes or hiking boots. Among them: three New Balances, two Nikes and an Ozark Trail.
The most recent one turned up this week.
Charlotte Stevens, of British Columbia, was taking a walk with her family on Vancouver Island, the CBC reported, when her husband spotted something in the sand.
It was a shoe, that they could see right away. But a closer inspection revealed something more.
"He picked it up and brought it out on to the beach," she told CBC, "and we had a look at it for about five minutes and we thought, 'it almost looks like there is an actual foot bone in it'."
Sure enough, the BC Coroners Service confirmed that the shoe came with a dismembered foot. As with the others, there's no telling for exactly how long the foot was in the water, but the regional coroner Matt Brown said the exact model of shoe had gone on the market after March 2013, indicating that it once belonged to someone who went missing between then and last December.
Mr Brown is working with the police to connect the foot to individuals who disappeared from the area around that time
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Canada still defeeted
Canada still defeeted
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Canada still defeeted
Running shoes and hiking boots have a lot of rubber and plastic which would help it float once the ankle had separated.
Quite a few so far. Mostly right feet. 16 since 2007? 2 per year. Could that be consistent with accidental deaths or suicides for that region where the body was washed into the water?
yrs,
rubato
Quite a few so far. Mostly right feet. 16 since 2007? 2 per year. Could that be consistent with accidental deaths or suicides for that region where the body was washed into the water?
yrs,
rubato
Re: Canada still defeeted
This strange story inspired a Bones episode...
"Bones" The Feet on the Beach (TV Episode 2011)
Eight pairs of dismembered feet wash ashore after a recent flood on the U.S.-Canada border...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1628113/
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Re: Canada still defeeted
Strange, but the simplest explanation is that most of them are the remains of suicides. There are a LOT of bridges in the area that are, sadly, somewhat popular as a jumping off point for their final destination. The few feet that have been identified, most belonged to people with known depression or other mental illnesses.
Death is Nature's way of telling you to slow down.