Over the past several years, twelve severed feet have washed ashore around the Vancouver area.

Now two of the mysterious feet that have recently have been identified. apparently they belong to a missing Canadian woman.

The woman, whose name was withheld at the request of her family, jumped to her death from the Pattullo Bridge in New Westminster, B.C., in April 2004, according to the Coroners Service.

The woman’s right foot was found in May 2008, and the left was in November 2008, at two different points in the Fraser River near Richmond, B.C.

The feet, which police said detached naturally from the body over time, were in New Balance running shoes.

The Coroners Service identified the woman through a postmortem investigation and DNA analysis, according to a statement.

Eleven feet in all have washed ashore on the Northwestern coast since 2007, when the phenomenon began. Canadian authorities have said that the eight feet in their province are most likely the result of suicide bridge-jumpers in the area’s many water-ways.

After being submerged in water and strong currents, bodies begin to deteriorate, leading to the separation of foot from leg.

Police say the buoyant, lightweight sneakers found on most of the feet account for the recent trend: as the feet separate from the body, the sneakers carry them up to the surface, where they then wash ashore. Heavier sneakers and shoes sink to the bottom.

The BC Coroners Service has now positively identified six of the feet as belonging to four individuals.

A mystery is brewing in British Columbia. Over the past 15 months, human feet in running shoes have been washing ashore.

Last Tuesday a couple, Ken and Diana Johnstone, were walking along the tidal flat area along the Fraser River and spotted a shoe. On closer inspection they discovered what looked like a sock with human remains inside the shoe. This makes it seven sch discoveries over the past 15 months.

Five disembodied human feet have mysteriously floated ashore in the Canada’s Georgia Strait since August 2007, and sixth foot was found three months ago in adjacent U.S. waters near Port Angeles, Washington.

There have also been a number of hoaxes, with one that turned out to be a pigs foot sneakily put into a shoe and put on shore.

The latest grisly discovery has been sent to the local coroner to test on whether it really is human, or just another hoax.

“Obviously due to the fact that a hoax was perpetrated previously and then extensively reported on we want to proceed cautiously until we know exactly what we are dealing with,” said Constable Annie Linteau of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police told reporters.
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Trunko is the nickname for an animal reportedly sighted in Margate, South Africa on October 25, 1924, according to an article entitled “Fish Like A Polar Bear” published in the December 27, 1924 edition of London’s Daily Mail.

The animal was reputedly first seen off the coast battling two killer whales, which fought the unusual creature for three hours. It used its tail to attack the whales and reportedly lifted itself out of the water by about 20 feet. One of the witnesses, Hugh Ballance, described the animal as looking like a “giant polar bear” during a final fight.

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The creature reputedly washed up on Margate Beach but despite being there for 10 days, no scientist ever investigated the carcass while it was beached, so no reliable description has been published, and no photographs of it have ever been published. Some people who have never been identified were reported to have described the animal as possessing snowy-white fur, an elephantine trunk, a lobster-like tail, and a carcass devoid of blood.

While it was beached, the animal was measured by beach-goers and turned out to be 47 ft (14 m) in length, 10 ft (3.0 m) wide, and 5 ft (1.5 m) high, with the trunk’s length being 5 ft (1.5 m), the trunk’s diameter 14 in (36 cm), the tail 10 ft (3.0 m), and the fur being 8 in (20 cm) long. The trunk was said to be attached directly to the animal’s torso, as no head was visible on the carcass. For this feature, the animal was dubbed Trunko by British cryptozoologist Dr Karl Shuker in his 1996 book The Unexplained. In the March 27, 1925 edition of the Charleroi Mail, in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, an article entitled “Whales Slain By Hairy Monster” reported that whales there were killed by a strange creature which was washed up on a beach exhausted and fell unconscious, but made its way back into the ocean and swam away after 10 days, never to be seen again.
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When searchers found the KAZ II catamaran, they found the engine still running, neat piles of clothes on the rear deck, a laptop computer found switched on and the sail shredded. They did not however discover the three men who were supposed to be aboard.

On April 15th 2007, the three men left the holiday resort town of Airlie Beach on the Whitsundays coast of eastern Australia. They were on their way back to western Australia. But something happened in the waters to the north east of Townsville in North Queensland.

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Authorities think that the men must have disappeared only hours after leaving. The boat was observed by fishermen over the next three days, but none saw any life aboard.

The disappearances are not the only mystery in this story. After the search was called off, it was discovered that a Volunteer Marine Rescue radio operator had had radio contact with the Kaz II between 6pm and 7pm on April 15, hours after they were supposed to have disappeared.
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