Case file · Anomaly hotspot
Feet of the Salish Sea
Starting with a running shoe found on Jedediah Island, BC, in August 2007, more than twenty detached human feet have washed up along the Salish Sea from British Columbia to Tacoma, usually still in sneakers.
2007 CE · 49.53, -124.19 · status: explained
The account
The finds set off rumours of a serial killer, organised crime and even a curse. Coroners in BC and Washington identified most of them by DNA as people who had died by accident or suicide, some years earlier.
The sceptical view
Forensic studies with pig carcasses in the Salish Sea showed that scavengers separate bodies quickly, and modern running shoes float, so feet in sneakers turn up far from where people died. No foul play was found.