A-014: Severed Feet

== Status and Warnings ==
* Currently considered Active
* Validity - Confirmed
* Unknown causes 
* Content contains Gore
* Article written by Dryant
== Description ==
Severed Human Feet are being found in the Salish Sea within the areas of Vancouver, Canada and Washington State, United States. These detached feet are usually right feet found in sneakers. There have been 21 cases of detached feet as on January 1 2019. 
== History ==
On August 20 2007 in Jebediah Island, a girl visiting from Washington picked up a size 12 Adidas shoe and opened the sock to find a man's right foot. Six days later, a couple on Gabriola Island finds a man's right foot which was disarticulated due to decay. A right foot in a size 11 Nike was found on February 8 2008 in Valdes Island. The remains were identified as a 21-year-old Surrey man reported missing four years prior. It was confirmed that the right foot found February 8 on Valdes Island and left foot found on June 16 on Westham Island belonged to the same man.
A woman's right foot; blue-and-white New Balance sneaker was found washed down the Fraser River in May 22. On August 1, a right foot inside a black shoe was discovered covered in seaweed by a camper on a beach near Pysht Mountain. A woman's left foot, in a shoe that was found floating in the Fraser River in Richmond. The foot was found on November 11 and forensic DNA profiling indicated that it was a match to the foot discovered on May 22 on Kirkland Island. 
On October 27 2009, a right foot in a size 8½ Nike shoe on a beach in Richmond. The remains were identified as a Vancouver-area man who was reported missing in January 2008. A woman or child's foot was found on August 27 2010, but police couldn't find no DNA matches. Eleven more discoveries of feet were discovered until January 1 2019 on Jetty Island and Everett, Washington. The foot was found in a boot and was later to be identified to belong to Antonio Neil, who went missing since December 16 2016.
Recently, another instance of severed feet has happened again when a shoe with human remains was found in Gonzales Beach in Victoria, British Columbia on July 27, 2023. 
== Possible Explanations ==
* One theory is that the feet may be those of people who died in a boating accident or a plane crash in the ocean.
* One explanation is that some of the feet are those of four men who died in a plane crash near Quadra Island in 2005 and whose bodies have not been recovered. 
* Foul play has been suggested, although none of the first four feet showed tool marks. 
* Another theory is that the feet belonged to people who died in the Asian tsunami on December 26, 2004.
== Gallery ==
salish-sea-human-foot-discoveries-0a69ddb4-41df-44e1-9fff-7e0ab8f6ab6-resize-750.jpeg|One of the human feet found on Vancouver Beach
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