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This is one of the feet that washed up on the coast line. It is confirmed that this was in the water for a long time before washing up so it is believed that this one came from far away. It could have been something across the world for all we know. This ties in with reason to belief because there are so many other factors on how this got there and how this looks so decomposed.

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This video shows a newscast by the Washington post explaining the discovery of another foot that washed up on the shores of British Columbia. The families expressed their condolences and expressed how they felt just anyone who found this would express their feelings. The people had no reason to believe it was a murder and they got confirmation right away and they essentially described how anyone would want to know who it was no matter how many years and months its been.

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This a image of a foot that washed up on shore while it was still in the shoe. This is how most of the feet have been discovered. The reason for belief would be because people see a shoe and a foot and anyone who doesn't know about the topic may automatically think someone was killed or something like that. It was been confirmed that this foot could have came from anywhere as it stayed preserved in the shoe, it could be from 5 years ago, or 3 years ago etc.

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This is a newscast of them briefly explaining whats been happening in BC. Some people think this is a cerial killer that's just been under the radar for a long time and other people believe it could be from other coastlines. It is truly hard to confirm weather or not if its an act of evil or just the feet coming from other coastlines. This is a great video for the red flag, reasons for belief because it details both sides and really makes you wonder which to believe.

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Shoe containing human foot washes up on B.C. beach

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This website attached is an article explaining the weird and almost sinister events that's been going on in BC, which have been human feet washing up onto the coast line. It says in the article that scientific phenomena converge to periodically deposit feet of the Salish sea. That right there alone can change the way people believe in this being something more and using the red flag, reasons for belief. Also, theres been multiple suicides around the coast and people usually can get swept in the ocean and the body overtime will break down. That could also be another solution to this weird event because hands are feet are usually the first to break down.

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The 13th human foot in a decade washed up on the shores of British Columbia, Canada, this month.

The lone left foot wore a white sock inside a black Velcro athletic shoe and was still attached to its lower leg bones, the tibia and the fibula. Mike Johns, 56, found it sitting on a bed of kelp while walking on the beach with his dog Taz, a Rottweiler.

If you're wondering whether feet washing up on beaches on this particular coastline is A Thing, well, it is. It's been a source of fascination for Canadians, Americans, and the media for years, and has its own Wikipedia page. The British Columbia Coroners Service, the people you call if you happen upon a disembodied foot, even made this handy map last year (before the most recent foot was discovered).

Though morbid and grisly, there is nothing sinister about these finds, according to scientists and health officials. They aren't the handiwork of a serial killer or the remains of plane crash victims, as some have proposed. Instead, several innocent scientific phenomena converge to periodically deposit human feet on the shores of the Salish Sea, the body of water between Vancouver and Seattle that includes Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia.

That's why officials on both the US and Canadian sides of the border are pretty blasé about the whole thing.

"The BC [British Columbia] Coroners Service has been able to identify eight of the previous 12 feet, belonging to six individuals," the agency said in a statement. "In none of the cases was any foul play involved."

For starters, there are simply a lot of corpses in these waters. Kathy Taylor, a forensic anthropologist at the King County Medical Examiner's Office, which has jurisdiction along the Seattle-Tacoma coast of Puget Sound, explained that this is a consequence of having a densely populated area on the coast.

Suicides and drownings are somewhat regular events around any body of water, and sometimes people who die of natural causes on the shoreline also get swept into the ocean.

As for why body parts so often end up on the shore in the Salish Sea and not around other metro areas bordering water, like the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City, Parker MacCready, an oceanography professor at the University of Washington, said the story is simple. "Things that float at the ocean surface move with the currents, but also are pushed a bit by the wind, and this can be significant in getting them to shore," he wrote in an email. "The prevailing winds here [around the Salish Sea] are west to east, and so floating stuff in this part of the Pacific gets blown to the coast effectively."

Nonetheless, body parts including a foot have also washed up in Rio de Janeiro, near the beach volleyball courts before the 2016 Olympics.

And why feet?

It turns out that in water, human bodies naturally disarticulate, or come apart at the joints, so hands and feet often disconnect from corpses after soaking in the ocean for a while.

"Feet easily disarticulate and when they are attached to a flotation device such as a running shoe, they are easily washed ashore," wrote Gail Anderson, co-director of the Center for Forensic Research at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, in an email. "Notice there are no feet washing ashore in stiletto heels or flip flops. Also today's running shoes are much more buoyant than in the past."

Tennis shoes also keep decaying feet in a neat package rather than letting toes and heels disperse, and footwear protects feet from hungry sea creatures, which end up gnawing on other exposed areas like ankles instead.

"[A]rthropods will skeletonize and disarticulate a body quite quickly depending on oceanic conditions," Anderson wrote.

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She found this out last year in a study using pig carcasses immersed in the Salish Sea. Previous studies using carcasses approximating a human body reported that a corpse could survive for weeks, even months, intact underwater. However, Anderson concluded that the well-oxygenated waters of the Strait of Georgia support a vast amount of aquatic life that in turn could skeletonize a carcass in less than four days.

Though shoes keep feet together, tracing them to their original owners has proven difficult.

"The ones I have seen are not fresh feet," King County's Taylor said dryly. "They've been in the water for a long time, with significant decomposition."

Often, DNA is too damaged to test from the days or weeks spent in salt water, and usually there is nothing to compare the DNA to since most of the people whose final resting place is in the water don't have genetic material on record. Other potentially identifying marks like scars and tattoos are lost to the briny deep, as scarcely more than bone and ribbons of flesh return to shore.

Taylor said she is advocating for shoe size to be included in standard missing persons reports, a detail that could help identify the next foot that turns up.

As for why we're noticing more reports of these feet on beaches, Taylor said it's partly due to the media keeping people on their toes, so now beachgoers investigate whether a lone sneaker has a foot in it.

"The reason it's become a phenomenon is it's gotten a lot of press," she said. "Now people are checking."

And of course, we in the media gleefully jump in with both feet when a story like this crops up. Officials say that people who encounter human remains should contact the police or the local coroner's office before touching them.

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The human feet that routinely wash ashore in the Pacific Northwest, explained

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The 13th human foot in a decade washed up on the shores of British Columbia, Canada, this month. The lone left foot wore a white sock inside a black Velcro athletic shoe and was still attached to its lower leg bones, the tibia and the fibula.

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This video was provided by CNN and was designed to inform the public on the events that were going on with the story of feet washing up on shore. Since 2007 there had been many feet found washing up on shore in the area. These reports were brought back to light when a local woman discovered another one recently. There are no available red flags that I can find in this video, they make no assumptions they simply present facts. There is no way to profit from the information they have provided, they gave all information available and took quotes from credible sources.

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Authorities in Canada are investigating the finding of a human foot on a Vancouver Island beach.

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The image below was provided by CNN. This image gives a run down of all the feet that have been found on different occasions since 2007. There are no red flags with this picture. There is well documented police proof combined with confirmed pictures of the feet that confirm the stories surrounding these feet. They washed up on shore based upon weather patterns that allowed for the perfect situation for feet to float back to the surface and eventually to shore.

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This website post describes the latest incident of a foot washing up on the shores of British Columbia. It was discovered by a couple walking their dog and this has been one of many incidents over the past decade. Although it has been happening over the past decade, people may think it because of murders but it was been confirmed by RCMP officers and the "coroner service" that there was no foul play the bodies and that they have likely been in the water for years. The bodies were also claimed to be deceased for a long time. The randomness of the feet washing up could get people to believe its something horrific but its been shown to not be the case.

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SEVERED feet encased in trainers have been mysteriously washing up along the coast of the Salish Sea between Canada and the US for the past decade, generating countless theories but no definitive answers.

Now the phenomenon is back in the headlines with the discovery of yet another disembodied foot - the 18th since 2007.

The latest grisly find was made by a man walking his dog in British Columbia on December 8, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

The pair was strolling on a beach in Jordan River, 30km northwest of Sooke on Vancouver Island when the animal came across the foot - with part of the leg still attached - inside a trainer, an RCMP spokesman said.

He called authorities, who sealed off the area and sent a coroner down to seize the limb while a search was carried out, unsuccessfully, for the rest of the body.

British Columbia Coroners Services spokesman Andy Watson said a preliminary analysis indicated the remains were human.

There have been so many cases of pranksters stuffing trainers with animal remains like chicken bones over the years that authorities no longer make the obvious assumption.

The coroner will now work to determine the identity of the deceased, how the person died and whether it was accidental, a suicide or homicide, Mr Watson told The Star.

The first severed foot was found on August 20, 2007. It was a right foot, size 12, encased in a shoe made in India. Authorities were able to link the foot to a male who suffered from depression, concluding he most likely committed suicide in or near water.

Of the 18 feet and shoes found, only two have been matched together.

On February 7 last year a hiker found a running shoe that contained a human foot in a sock at Botanical Beach near Port Renfrew. Five days later, a beachcomber found a second running shoe and contacted authorities.

The Coroners Service confirmed they belonged to the same person, but that person's identity is still not known.

The shoes involved are men's New Balance runners, size 12 and blue and black. This type of shoe was first sold in North America in March, 2013, which suggest the shoes' owner died at some point between March, 2013 and December, 2015, according to the Global News.

The Coroners Service has been able to identify eight feet that have washed up locally, linking them to six people. They do not believe any of the cases involved foul play. More likely the victims died from accidents or suicide.

That hasn't stopped peoples' imaginations running wild with grim theories about serial killers chopping up bodies.

"(Such stories are what) some people do think. Sad but true," BC Coroner Barbara McLintock told Buzzfeed Canada last year.

"A lot of this is simply the quelling of the public imagination, to say 'No, this is unfortunate and they're all very sad cases."

Forensic expert Gail Anderson said there was a simple reason why all of the cases involved trainers.

"Something you'll notice is that the only feet washing up are in running shoes ... they're not washing up in stilettos or sandals, or as bare feet," she said.

Air pockets inside the trainers make them buoyant, she said.

"It's basically a flotation device, so it's going to hold it all together and get it washed ashore," she said.

No foul play is suspected in any of the cases, and nothing has suggested otherwise.

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Neverending story of the unclaimed severed feet

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SEVERED feet encased in trainers have been mysteriously washing up along the coast of the Salish Sea between Canada and the US for the past decade, generating countless theories but no definitive answers. Now the phenomenon is back in the headlines with the discovery of yet another disembodied foot - the 18th since 2007.

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This website gives a brief overview of the history of the feet washing up on shore, along with quotes from the RCMP stating that there is no need for alarm and that no foul play was involved. In my opinion this report appears to be legitimate. The way the information is being presented doesn't allow for interpretation. They simply lay out facts surrounding the case, and don't assume anything beyond the information they are given.

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"Our early analysis suggests these are human remains and we will do further investigation and testing ... in the coming weeks," said Andy Watson, a spokesman for the BC Coroners Service, about the Thursday discovery. The remains included a tibia and fibula.

The Coroners Service said all previous 12 feet were human. The service identified eight of them and determined they belonged to six individuals.

No foul play was involved in those cases, according to the Coroners Service, though it did not say how it arrived at that conclusion.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Coroners Service are trying to identify the owner of the foot found this week, as well as the cause of death. They said they will look into any possible matches to missing persons cases.

It's not clear why so many feet have washed up on British Columbia shores. When asked, the coroner's spokesman said, "I'm not able to speak to" the reason.

Watson said, however, "There's no reason to believe that they (the cases) were connected in any way."

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13th dismembered foot found on british columbia shore - cnn

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13th dismembered foot found on Canadian shore

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A man found a human foot on a British Columbia beach this week. It is the 13th dismembered foot found along the Canadian province's shore in the past decade, and the coroner is now trying to figure out the identity of the owner.

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