SOLVED! Shoe with Human Foot Found on Beach in 2008 IDENTIFIED
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
On August 5, 2008, a beach goer near the former Silver King Resort, west of Port Angeles, Washington, found a shoe containing a sock and what appeared to be human remains.
It was not the first discovery of its kind—and would not be the last—but today, the person behind the foot has been identified.
Since 2007, at least 20 detached human feet, often in sneakers, have washed ashore along the Salish Sea in British Columbia, Canada, and Washington state. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack examine the mystery and go behind the scenes at Othram to explain how forensic experts identified the remains—and how the public can help.
Othram collaborates with forensic scientists, medical examiners, and law enforcement to solve cases when other methods have failed.
Transcript Highlights
00:00.12 Introductin
01:57.78 A shoe with a human foot found on beach
06:48.11 Water meeting the sea, creating odd currents
12:09.99 How do feet wind up on the beach inside shoes
17:02.94 Geography of the area
23:51.44 Investigation starts very broad
28:31.49 Forensic anthropologist needed to ID remains
33:34.69 Why say "human remains" instead of "foot"
37:10.65 Othram Labs solving mysteries
43:12.33 Conclusion
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| 0:00.0 | Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore. |
| 0:05.0 | As many of my friends know, I love the beach. |
| 0:10.0 | That has not always been the case though. |
| 0:13.0 | As a matter of fact, for many years, I did not want to go to the beach. |
| 0:18.0 | I couldn't stand it. |
| 0:20.0 | I prefer always to go to the mountains, |
| 0:22.3 | particularly the Blue Ridge. But something changed in me. I took an academic appointment |
| 0:29.5 | in the Blue Ridge Mountains for a decade. And you get up every morning and it's like, yep, |
| 0:38.3 | there's the Blue Ridge Mountains. |
| 0:41.3 | And then you drive in the ice and the snow for a while. |
| 0:46.3 | You get blocked out in your driveway, you can't get in. |
| 0:50.3 | It takes forever to get somewhere, and that's with no traffic. |
| 1:02.0 | And one day, we decided as a family that we would start going to the beach. And now I can't get enough. I always tell Kimmy and my wife, I always say, |
| 1:07.0 | someday I want to be that old guy with a brown leathered skin with the long white hair and the long white beard riding a three-wheel bicycle, which I guess is a tricycle with a basket on the back, and have people drive by and say, that guy, I bet he's got a story. |
| 1:30.9 | But you know, sometimes when you go to the beach, you can find peace there. |
| 1:37.6 | You can listen to the wind blow and you can feel like kiss your skin along with the sunshine. I don't even mind the sand |
| 1:47.6 | too much anymore. And what I really enjoy is walking on the beach, endlessly, because you |
| 1:56.1 | never know what you're going to find. But sometimes, just sometimes, you come across something that you can't |
| 2:05.5 | quite make heads or tails of. Something like that happened a few years back. And as it turns out, |
| 2:14.2 | has happened several times since. A person wandering down the beach, |
| 2:21.0 | they see a shoe with a sock in it and contained within that sock, |
| 2:27.4 | are the skeletal remains of a human foot. |
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