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Skeptoid #901: The Mystery of the Severed Feet

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Paranormal, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Science, History

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Severed feet have been washing up on the shores of the Salish Sea since 2007. What could be the cause?

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It is a mystery as creepy as any can get, and that has just about as many proposed explanations

0:09.2

as one could shake a stick at, and the really scary thing about it is that more victims

0:14.6

are still found to this day, and will probably always continue to be.

0:20.0

In fact, in all likelihood, it will probably never stop.

0:25.0

The severed feet in the sailor's sea is coming up right now, unskeptoid.

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You're listening to Skeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

1:23.3

The mystery of the severed feet.

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Ever since 2007, periodic news reports of a particularly grizzly kind have come out of

1:33.8

the Pacific Northwest, the finding of a shoe on the beach, with a human foot still inside.

1:42.4

The first was found by a 12-year-old girl on Jedadaya Island in British Columbia.

1:47.8

Over the years since, at least 20 more human feet have been found on the coasts of the

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Salish Sea.

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