Comments on: Six severed feet wash ashore... What's going on?

By: Sean Smith

Sean Smith — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:33:26 +0000

I live in Campbell River and I find it kind of sad that the only way this beautiful community will be recognized for the next while is for being the place the some moron decided that adding a fake foot to the floating foot mystery would be funny.

As for the theories, I will throw this one out there. Human trafficers making a point to those on a voyage. A rope or a chain tied to a block and the body thrown overboard. The body sits on the bottom for a while, the ocean and sealife take their toll, the foot and leg seperate, the rope or chain falls away and the foot is caught by the current, made bouyant by the shoe.

Who knows. The west coast of BC is the end of the line for a lot of powerful currents. You should see the whirlpools created around here just by our tides.

Don't hold this hoax against Campbell River, folks. Even paradise has its idiots.

By: Mic

Mic — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:28:33 +0000

I'm from the small town of Ladner in which Westham Island is located and I happen to know the people who found the 5th foot and they said it seemed as if there was no cut at all to it as if it just became dismembered due to decomposing so it makes one wonder if according to the threory that the foot can float up to 1000 miles in a shoe it is from the plane crash that took place up in Campbell River...

By: amadeusmax

amadeusmax — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:56:49 +0000

IT's obvisouly the work of some type of murder,er probably from a serial killer. IF they all came from one single plane, why mostly left feet? Why only feet? If you take a look at lake currents one should be able to see where the feet came from. Unfortunately this looks like the work of some derranged killer. Maybe the police need to be looking for bodies that were missing both feet, legs altogether. Or simply the missing. Because I would like to know the bizzare plane crash scenario that would only allow mostly left feet to be found after an accident. I don't mean to sound sick, but can't you tell if the feet were decomposed at the same length of time?

But whats even more sickening is that now people are making a joke out of this by placing fake feet in the water.

By: Annie Kate

Annie Kate — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:52:38 +0000

I love all the theories advanced in the comments – particularly the one about the feet being from people who died in the Tsunami. That was a while back now but maybe its possible the feet could have lasted this long. Whatever the cause is, finding unattached feet on the beach gives a whole new slant to beach combing
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Annie Kate
Birmingham AL

By: Lily of Vancouver

Lily of Vancouver — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:13 +0000

I'm also from Vancouver and never heard of a serial killer with a serious foot fetish. It is highly possible that the feet come from missing people, be it from a boat or plane and of course, there are many homeless who disappear all the time. Anyway, if someone chopped off your feet because you forgot to pay for that pound of coke, you would need to go to a hospital and eventually be fitted for prostheses. That kills the therory of footless people. They'll figure it out. Someone ought to call Grissom and Willows and the mystery will be solved in 24 minutes (sans commercials). Still strange that the feet are in runners and mostly right feet. Sure is creepy.

By: Oreste Matellini , Toronto-ON.

Oreste Matellini , Toronto-ON. — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:21:14 +0000

Now I read last "foot found" was an "animal paw"????? This is just macabre-surrealism and I KNOW sooner or later a movie or documentary is going to come out about this story.......I still stick to my "theory" of some sick jokester removing feet from unclaimed bodies in some morgue.... Just watched actually some documentary about what happens to unclaimed bodies in Los Angeles and apparently they are "stored" for ages til eventually they are cremated and buried in mass graves.... Who would know if someone is taking bits or their limbs away?? This story is just freaky yet with a touch of macabre humour thrown in...
Cheers!

By: Norm Bush

Norm Bush — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:57:32 +0000

I think that Stacy's post above is spot on. But would you respect the opinion of a guy with the last name of Bush LOL (for the record no relation , born and bread Canuk here)

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:50:47 +0000

Perhaps it is a Viral Ad campaign for Dexter Season 3...

By: Sammy

Sammy — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:36:23 +0000

Seems the 6th foot is a hoax.. an animal claw in a sock, stuffed into a shoe and packed with seaweed. kind of sick if you ask me.
So we're back to 5 feet, 4 right and 1 left. all in shoes. Seawater critters and bacteria are making DNA testing difficult. could take months to solve. When muscle and tendons decay, its pretty easy for a foot to "fall off" at the ankle.. especially if it has the extra weight of a shoe. The shoe is what is making the foot float and find its way to the beaches. Unlikely that this is Tsunami related given tidal currents. This is something local.

By: Amanda, Alberta CA

Amanda, Alberta CA — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:17:10 +0000

Stacy McCurdy, I'm impressed and intrigued by your theory. I never would've thought of that but it certainly makes alot of sense to me.

I have been following this for a while as well and as I understand it from news reports in Canada, they have DNA off three of the feet and DNA from some of the plane crash victims, which leads me to believe that the feet came from somewhere else. I would think that if the DNA matched the plane crash victims then it would be reported.

Of course whoever planted the fake sixth foot they should be ashamed of their actions.

By: Alain Troi

Alain Troi — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:48:24 +0000

I think that what we are looking at here are remnants of the Tsunami and other disasters in Asia that have made there way to the North American shores. In the Queen Charlotte Islands there are certain marine animals that are not indigenous to the area showing up every so often because of the ocean currents. As well, the foam and structure of modern shoes make a foot boyant and would thus allow it to float away. What the RCMP should release is the ethnic background determined from the DNA and the sex of the person who once wore the shoe and the time that decomposition has taken place. I read that a shark was caught off the coastof Madagascar (tiger shark) that had several arms and legs of humans in it's stomach. It was later determined that the human parts were from the Tsunami victims that were washed out to sea. Sharks and currents can and do move around more than what we think.
Atleast that is what I think.......

By: Stacy McCurdy

Stacy McCurdy — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:17:10 +0000

I believe that the shoes/feet belong to tsunami and/or typhoon victims that have been washed out to sea. The rest of the bodies have long since be devoured, but the foot is being preserved and protected from fish by the shoe. The shoes float, thereby traveling along the sea currents (and being pushed by storms, etc.) and are now washing up along the coast and inlets of Canada. If bottles thrown in the ocean can travel halfway around the world, so can shoes. That's my theory...

By: Toni Clark

Toni Clark — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:58:00 +0000

I think it's a serial killer or from drug dealers, they do freakish things, tied up a girl in this area and set her on fire, she managed to get (burn) loose and walked to help, still smoking.

By: Betty Ann, Nacogdoches,TX

Betty Ann, Nacogdoches,TX — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:43:31 +0000

Hi Randi~
That is bizarre! What kind of sick person is doing this?
Well, you always find the most interesting stories!
I look forward to hearing how this severed foot mystery unfolds.. . I think~
Thanks!

By: Tabby

Tabby — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:32:07 +0000

I live on the BC coast (Lower Mainland) and according to the news here, I believe all the feet that were found had shoes (runners) on. If these feet were part of the people who died in the plane crash, I don't think your shoe would stay on on impact. Even people getting hit by a car, their shoes tend to fly off, so I don't believe the theory that the feet are the remains of the plane crash victims, just my opinion. Also, the witness that did find the last foot in Campbell River did say that the the cut was a clean cut 3 to 4 inches above the ankle. They are all men's feet except for one.

There are theories flying around that these feet could be part of the missing men that have been disappearing the last few years in the Fraser Valley and Lower Mainland – disappearing without a trace!

I do find it strange only feet are showing up and I am sure that the police know more than they are saying, which is understandable.

It is very unsettling.

By: jacey

jacey — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:02:00 +0000

I've secretly wanted to see the theories devolve to Canadian piranhas.

By: Gary Chandler in Canada

Gary Chandler in Canada — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:52:02 +0000

From this desk, I can see Gabriola Island, where one of the feet was found.
As I said above, and Oreste Matellini, reiterated in the next Post, there is only one explanation.
I just phoned the Gabriola RCMP detachment to suggest they interview all the newest and employees of crematoriums and mortuaries, especially ones that have a boat. I also suggested showing pictures of the footwear to all the owners of these businesses. There is NO way these feet could be 'washing up'. Somebody is planting them, and who has access to body parts!?

By: John Victoria

John Victoria — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:46:17 +0000

Why are we so nieve.

I'll go out on a limb:

Five right feet show up from a plane crash some years ago with four passengers aboard?

The limbs are not severed but are mearly falling off?

Nobody is claiming any feet?

Tides move right feet in different directions than left feet?

Some two years later feet with running shoes finally wash ashore here only?

Salt water either preserves or destroys flesh?
These reasons escape imagination. How about,

MS 13 is working in Vancouver.

By: Lilibeth

Lilibeth — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:21:55 +0000

Anything is possible. I can only imagine how unsettling this would be for those who live in the area. I hope they get to the bottom of this soon.

By: twyla landry hawaii

twyla landry hawaii — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:11:21 +0000

I still think it is strange that only feet are washing up.....does the shoe on the right foot match any of the shoes on left feet that have washed ashore???? All the junk you find in a shark's belly, it just seems strange that they would be spitting feet out but like Oreste said "Anything is possible....: