Footprints: How did human feet get washed up on the west coast of Canada and the US?
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In August 2007, on an island off Canada’s west coast, the remains of a human foot were found washed up on a beach.
Six days later, on another beach 50 miles away, a second foot was found. But, strangely, it does not match the first - they are from different people.
The BBC’s Celia Hatton travels to Vancouver to hear how more than 20 feet have been found in the area since then, and to speak to the investigators and scientists who have worked to unravel the mystery of why they started appearing.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. I'm Celia Hatton, and I've traveled back to my home country of Canada to explore a mystery that's been unfolding along the winding coastline of the Pacific Northwest for more than 15 years. It started back in August 2007. |
| 0:23.6 | We wanted to dec a break and get some fresh air, |
| 0:27.1 | and it was still daylight. |
| 0:29.4 | So we went to this park. |
| 0:32.3 | Michelle Jueris and her husband, George Bauer, |
| 0:35.1 | were on a weekend visit to Gabriola, |
| 0:37.9 | a tiny, heavily forested island off the west coast of Canada. |
| 0:42.1 | Just a few thousand people live there. |
| 0:44.2 | We decided to take this beautiful little trail that was going between houses. |
| 0:50.2 | The path they took that day led them to a shocking discovery. |
| 0:58.0 | We were walking towards the water and Michelle was in front of me. And at the corner of my eye, I saw the shoe. |
| 1:04.0 | And went into the bushes off the trail and found this thing at the foot of a tree. |
| 1:10.0 | I think it was a size 11. |
| 1:12.6 | It's a man's shoe. |
| 1:14.6 | It looks different. |
| 1:16.4 | The way he was sitting, it looked heavy. |
| 1:20.4 | You could tell there was something inside. |
| 1:22.8 | The knitting of the sock at Frey, |
| 1:25.4 | and you could see a white mass in there. |
| 1:28.6 | It's kind of a greasy white color. |
| 1:31.2 | And then he looked for a stick. |
| 1:33.9 | He found a stick pretty quick. |
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