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Why Are Human Feet Still Washing Ashore in the Vancouver Area?

A human foot washed up in the Vancouver area Tuesday — the 11th one in four years.

According to police, the severed foot with attached leg bones was inside a running shoe and was found floating in the water in Vancouver’s False Creek.

Coroner’s office officials are investigating, the Vancouver Sun reported. For now, police have no explanation.

“There is no indication at this early stage in the investigation how the remains came to be there,” police spokeswoman Jana McGuinness told the paper.

Eight feet, all inside running shoes, have washed ashore in British Columbia since 2007. Three more have been found in Washington state.

According to the Vancouver Sun:

The first foot, discovered in August 2007 on Jedediah Island, northeast of Nanaimo, B.C., was associated with a deceased man whose name police withheld at the request of his family.

A man’s right foot found on Gabriola Island in August 2007 remains unidentified.

Two feet found on Valdez and Westham islands in July 2008 belonged to the same man.

And two female feet found in Richmond, B.C., in December 2008 belonged to the same woman.

In October 2009, a right foot was discovered on a beach in Richmond.

The New York Daily News adds this:

The bizarre discovers (sic) have attracted international attention – and spawned fears of a serial killer.

But cops have steadfastly denied that anything sinister is behind the gruesome discovers, suggesting that the deaths were drownings or suicides and that the decaying feet separated from corpses naturally in the water.

Comments (97)

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  • itsjannie
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:49am

    Just ask Al Gore…it has to be from Global Warming…
    Severe Weather = Global Warming
    Cool Summer = Global Warming
    Warm Summer = Global Warming
    Drought = Global Warming
    Flooding = Global Warming
    Mild Winter = Global Warming
    Cold Winter = Global Warming
    Feet Washing Ashore = Global Warming

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    • KickinBack
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:01pm

      I couldn’t read this story without hearing the Jaws theme in my head.

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    • desertspeaks
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 3:01pm

      move along, nothing sinister to see here.. hrm sounds like the cops are either in on it, or so far beyond incompetent that they should all be fired!

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    • The Underground Conservative
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 3:39pm

      I thought it was Bush’s fault.

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    • ProbIemSoIver
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 11:19pm

      Why would feet be washing ashore?

      Incoming tide, of course !!!!

      TEA !!!!

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    • pegw
      Posted on September 4, 2011 at 1:56am

      I am sure you would get “chicken little” to agree with that. Everything that happens is due to Global Warming if you ask Gore. He thinks we are all idiots because we do not agree with him. We are all racists according to him if we don’t believe in global warming. The “Chicken Little” Global Warming thing has sent this “wanna be” scientist over the deep end. Maybe it is him cutting off people‘s feet when they don’t agree on Global Warming, you thunk? Na! I know I should not joke about things like this.

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  • An AmericanMom
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:48am

    Serial killer land shark????

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    • Seamus236
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 5:09pm

      “This was NO serial killer accident-it was natural tissue separation from bodies in the water!”

      Tourism,and whale watching could be severely impacted, if the Canucks actually admitted that a serial killer was “afoot”(sorry, couldn’t resist) in British Columbia.
      Vancouver has been disintegrating over the last 10 years from the decay of urban drug use and their inability to control violent crime in downtown Vancouver, BC. So why not a serial killer? A rogue Orca? Could be Chinese “immigrants” who tried to jump ship and were punished, could be almost anything but the ridiculous explanation given.

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  • Inlandmar2
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:46am

    Sounds to me like they are drop outs from a foot race.

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  • freeweever
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:46am

    It is the progressive liberals in Canada, they see jogging and exercise an aggressive American masculine bettering yourself thing hated and feared by the left so they’re sending warnings to others who might be thinking of bettering themselves also without the assistance of their Progressive Government.

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    • dinadp
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 11:50am

      Canada’s Prime Minister Harper is a conservative. President obama is the “progressive liberal”. Sure, we don‘t have the Second Amendment but at least our government isn’t selling guns to drug cartels.

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    • the gray lensman
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 3:53pm

      Most Canadians don’t know which end of a firearm is which.

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 4:58pm

      @THE GRAY LENSMAN

      If you have the chance to visit Canada on Rememberance Day, you will see true and faithful rememberance of Canada’s war veterans. Listen to Last Post (Canadian Taps). Canada stops for the day and remembers their war dead from WWI, WWII, Korean, Viet Nam (many Canadians came to the US and joined our military), Gulf War 1 and the current war. Canada’s soldiers died in great bloody numbers. These boys know which end is deadly.

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    • saranda
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 6:32pm

      Graylensman – in fact Canada ranks third behind the US and Norway in ownership of guns. http://www.cdnshootingsports.org/tenmyths.html
      Most studies only take small arms into account, but including rifles and shotguns Canadian gun ownership is very high.

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    • Susie
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:11pm

      Sorry DINAP, but Prime Minister Harper is no conservative. He is a CINO – conservative in name only; a true one-world Globalist. If the shoe fits ….. just say’n

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  • 80mesh
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:41am

    you put your left foot in…. you put your left foot out .. you do the hokey pokey and shake it … splash..oops foot fell off

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    • azitdad
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 11:57am

      Lol!

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    • the gray lensman
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 4:18pm

      Lends a whole new perspective to expressions like: Are you pulling my leg? or You need to just get your feet wet. or Shake a leg, dude. or He just wanted to get a leg up on the situation.

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 7:55pm

      Cute! The Hokey Pokey was always my favorite. I used to volunteer at the Hollywood USO to dance with the troops and this was my favorite one to do. Sorry about the feet tho.

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  • CHEFJK26
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:12am

    All but two of the feet were right feet and one foot found in hiking boot and one foot had no shoe.

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  • BeerSnob
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:11am

    Looks like the Canadians are getting “swimming with the fishes” and “running with the bulls” confused.

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  • DanWesson455
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:09am

    If you ask me. I think there is a SICKO out there somewhere and he is whacking on homeless and prostitutes. Don’t want to describe the rest of what he is doing. In the end he is throwing “parts” into the Ocean with the thought the fish will do the rest….

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  • piper60
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 7:56am

    Why does it always involve running shoes? I find that to be the most interesting point.

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    • neidermeyer
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 2:54pm

      Perhaps it’s because foam rubber soles FLOAT … I can guarantee that you won’t find any feet floating ashore in a heavy lugged boot.

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  • qpwillie
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 7:20am

    Something is definitely afoot here.

    Sorry.

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  • GERATMO
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 7:19am

    It might be the Mexican cartels killing people in Mexico and the currents carry them north to Vancouver. Weird story

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    • twoifbysea
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 9:21am

      The current flows north to south on the left coast.

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  • joehanx2
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 7:08am

    running shoes just were`nt fast enough

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  • DeltaHawk
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 6:57am

    All the victims were customers at IHOP!

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 6:38am

    Its Bush’ s fault

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    • PATRIOTMAMA
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 7:29am

      Love it!!!

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    • starman70
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 10:13am

      Naaaah! It’s an Obama make work program for Canadians. Just think about all the people employed in researching missing persons and doing DNA analysis.

      SERIOUSLY! No one has commented on the ethnicity of the remains found or any DNA traces to existing populations. It may be the result of some of the native population using traditional burial at sea. Really, more information should be released.

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    • sairis00
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 11:39am

      That comment is my favorite! I had a good belly laugh, thank you :)

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  • dcwu
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 6:28am

    The bear doesn’t eat running shoes.

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  • raderby
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 5:27am

    Vancouver is pretty, but lots of commie/prog mentality there. When this serial runs out of easy bodies to chop, he will be upping his game… you watch. My hunch is a fisherman using human bait. Literally. chopped chum human. Look for a machine that does that to fish. The intact feet are the signature. Overweight 30s – 40s. Any report on DNA on this? Time in water? Any report of drugs in remains? Race? Skin color? We are not getting much info at all on this story.

    Hey nay sayers! How about doing a search of the USA’s east coast current states for feet from “suicides”…….or anywhere else.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 6:09am

      Don’t sharia compliant muslims chop off body parts as punishment? I‘m just sayin’. Possibly it was from people who tried to leave the Muslim faith, so they lost their feet. Only thing besides a serial killer that popped into my head before coffee.

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    • OUTRIDER WRITER
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 7:27am

      Fishermen are going to use the cheapest item they can chum. I doubt it’s human body parts. Get real.

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    • onegodinkansas
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:25am

      Coffee first. Then share what pops into your head. Safer that way, I’ve found.

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  • Wilhelmus
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 5:14am

    I would like to make the following observations

    –Why is it only feet that was ashore and no other material (Like vertebrae)that has a far greater buoyancy.
    –Since the first foot washed ashore in August 2007 It can not be the Japanese Earthquake.
    –In 5 years a mass murderer would have an established MO why is it that the detectives can not pinpoint which area this monster functions in (If there is such a murderer).
    –Is there no single footed people hopping around the Vancouver area (or the Island for that matter)

    I would like to offer the following hypothesis;
    If you are somewhat squeamish stop reading here…
    The Queen of the North sank near Gill Island in Wright Sound March 22 2006 (remember first foot found August 2007) Due to very cold water, lesser oxygen levels and great depth decay might be slower than normal. Could it be that these are the feet of a group of people that was not “registered” as passengers on the Queen of the north? Just saying…

    God bless America

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  • Fina Biscotti
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 5:07am

    Police are trying to downplay the serial killer aspect of these incidents – since not too many people are going swimming or surfing – these days with running shoes.

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    • PATRIOTMAMA
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 7:26am

      Thank you for pointing that out. I’m thinking that whoever is doing this is targeting runners (maybe trail runners in the area.) That part of the continent is popular with trail runners and since all of them have running shoes on, it stands to reason that they are in fact the target. From what I know of suicides people usually take off their valuables including their shoes (unless they’re bridge jumpers.) Either way lets not act like the public is stupid. People watch too many episodes of Criminal Minds and other shows like it and read too many crime novels nowadays and know that something as specific as all of them having running shoes and only their feet with attached leg bones being found is a definite signature. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist here folks. Just be careful anyone out in that part of the world if your hiking or running trails (I’m just sayin.!)

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  • Dustyluv
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 5:07am

    But cops have steadfastly denied that anything sinister is behind the gruesome discovers, suggesting that the deaths were drownings or suicides and that the decaying feet separated from corpses naturally in the water.

    Stop trying to run on water!

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  • MysteryGirl
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 4:38am

    It’s a bit unsettling – they’re all wearing RUNNING SHOES! It doesn’t sound like something random, especially since they all have this in common.

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    • Fina Biscotti
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 5:05am

      Correct!

      It appears that “runners” are targeted – and their bodies are dropped into the water – way offshore – probably weighted – hoping the fish get to them.

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  • ALibertarianCitizen
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 4:27am

    I’d assume they were accidental drownings and suicides. I wouldn’t be surprised considering that many people commit suicide by jumping off of a bridge or cliff. The fall itself would definitely break your ankles, and a broken ankle is much more likely to snap off the body and drift with the current. My hypothesis is that it‘s a high chance it’s just people jumping to their ends, and over time they come to shore. Serial killer sounds beyond unlikely. Also @Colo it’s possible, considering the ocean currents do travel from Japan toward Washington then down along the Western Seaboard, but north of Washington the current goes toward Japan. I’d consider them oceanborne, riverside, bridge, etc suicides.

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    • DeannaRae
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 5:35am

      A broken ankle would snap off of the body? Are you serious?

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    • Kr@tosKnowsBest
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 2:00pm

      LMFAO, a broken ankle snaping off the body. thank god i am not made of glass or some other cheap material.

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  • cologoddess
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 3:54am

    I suppose it couldn’t have anything to do w/ the Tsunami in Japan? A lot of ppl were washed back out to sea…?? Just thinkin’………. I don’t have any idea.

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    • quicker
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 6:26am

      Did you read the full article ?It said the frist was found in 2006.Japan had it`s tsunami this year.

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    • captainbars
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 7:27am

      hey Quicker; YOU didn’t read the article!! the first was found in 2007, not 2006!

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  • Ron_WA
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 2:54am

    One could say it’s Gods warning & punishment but the logical explanation is that is unfortunately the way the tides & currents flow for those lost at sea.

    If you’ve ever been to Vancouver you know it’s one on the Lord’s most beautiful & blessed sites but w/ that beauty comes some price.

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  • sairis00
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 2:40am

    Ewwwwwww!

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