Vancouver–The mystery began when one severed foot washed ashore last summer. The second foot was found a week later, on a busy beach trail. Now, what began as a strange coincidence has taken on downright baffling dimensions with the discovery earlier this month of a third male foot.

All three feet washed up on a Gulf Island between B.C.'s mainland and Vancouver Island. The connection between the feet doesn't end there. They were all right feet, size 12, and all three were shod in sneakers.

The RCMP and the coroner's office are investigating who the three men were and what may have happened. The feet are being investigated individually as separate cases....


TheStar.com | Canada | Third foot washed ashore in B.C. adds to mystery

......................... What the fuck..........

Too close to home for me.

Seems I might need to track down my ex-wife.

I came home one day to find all of my left shoes lighted up outside in the yard. She denied having anything to do with it.

Well, I'm safe, I don't have size 12 feet :>

Some guys taking out the competition?

I'm okay. I wear 13's.

That's pretty creepy, though.

There are lots of homeless people in Vancouver and here on the island; people who aren't accounted for, so this could be impossible to solve. What creeps me out the most is, there must be a lot more feet out there if they found three. Ugh.

I wonder if there's other body parts, too, or if it's just a twisted foot fetish...

Maybe he's keeping the left feet..

maybe he always wanted to have 2 left feet and decided the others would make good spares?

Who says it's a he?

Really doesn't make me want to take my daughter down to the shore right now.

Although it is somewhat common to find individual body parts, Dolen said this would be "the first instance of three such similar remains being discovered" in such proximity.

A body in the ocean will first sink and then, depending on the depth, float back to the surface as it becomes bloated with gas.

It is common for hands, feet and the head to detach as a body decomposes, said Gail Anderson, a forensic entomologist from Simon Fraser University who has submerged pigs in Saanich Inlet to study ocean decomposition. But generally, those limbs do not float, she said....

Third right foot discovered in Gulf Islands

True..

Maybe She has a severe foot fetish!!

Do you think it will bring the housing prices down?

however, if it was severed by a human and not an animal or by decomp, it's more likely male as women are less prone to violent acts such as dismemberment.


And i gotta quite watching so much CSI

What the fuck? Random body parts happen a lot in Canada? You guys are scary.

It's 'cause we are thinking we're going to have to clean it all up.

Hey I never heard about this before either; I'm an American. What the heck am I doing in Canada. By the shore. I'm creeped.

Then why am I always being asked to clean it up?