A human foot in a hiking boot recently washed ashore on the banks of the Salish Sea in British Columbia. It is the 14th “disarticulated” foot that has washed ashore in a shoe or boot on the Salish Sea in Canada since 2007. If you include the shores of Washington State, the number of floating feet rises to 19.
What is going on? Are the feet from victims of organized crime or a drug cartel? Is there a mass murderer with a foot-fetish? Probably not. Apparently, it is not unusual for a decomposing human body in seawater to come apart at the joints over time. A foot in a running shoe might have the right match of weight and volume to allow it to float. A modern shoe could become like a tiny lifejacket for a separate foot.
A lack of evidence of foul play supports the theory that the feet naturally “disarticulated,” which is to say separated naturally. In 2017, the Guardian reported:
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