A severed foot washed up on the shore of a beach in Campbell River today. That’s the sixth foot found on the coast since last August, and the origins are still unknown.

I’ve been strangely fascinated with this. It’s like something straight out of a cheesy horror movie from the eighties, and certainly one of the most bizarre things I’ve ever heard.

The whole thing is still shrouded in mystery. The origins are unknown, and there really isn’t anything to match the feet with missing person reports, as you’d need a DNA sample from the missing individual. All they have to go off of right now are the sneakers, but they’ve only released details about one of the shoes to the public, and it was a size ten Nike that thousands of people around the world own. Another news report I read interviewed an oceanographer who said the feet could have come from anywhere within 1000 miles of the coastline.

I find this incredibly interesting, almost entertaining, because it doesn’t really seem real without names or identities or grieving families on the television. Since it’s just the feet, it’s easy to forget that there’s a real tragedy behind this - a shipwreck or foul play.

Hopefully they eventually find out what’s happening.