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Detached Human Feet Washing Up On Pacific Northwest Coast

Discarded human feet have been mysteriously appearing along the Pacific Northwest coast. The grisly finds have appeared among normal debris along the coastline. Sixteen human feet have been found since 2007 in British Columbia, Canada, and Washington state, mostly right feet and all in hiking boots or trainers. The Independent reports: 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 United States and Canada. What these scavengers sought remains a prickling curiosity: severed feet attached to running shoes, washed up from origins unknown. Sixteen of these 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 earlier 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, which they could see right away. But a closer inspection revealed something more. [...]