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Shattered Souls

Thinking Sideways: The Salish Sea Feet

Shattered Souls

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Education

4.34.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2014

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In August 2007, a severed foot in a running shoe washed up on a beach on the Salish Sea (in Canada). Since then, 12 more feet have been found. The likelihood of finding two feet in this situations is estimated at one in a million. Four of the feet have been identified, the rest belong to persons unknown. Why are these severed feet washing ashore in this location?

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0:00.0

I don't know your stories of things we simply don't know the answer to August 2007 a

0:21.8

severed foot in a running she washes up the shore but wait wait wait I don't

0:25.8

want to go through the hole hi there this is thinking no yes okay fine all right fine okay

0:32.8

hi everyone this is thinking sideways the podcast I'm Devon joined as always by Steve and Joe

0:38.6

Steve that was easy it was fast yeah I didn't really need it did we why are you talking so fast

0:43.4

I don't know if you have a lot of sugar today the story just kind of excites me

0:46.9

ah and I think I'm excited because Joe always kind of solves mysteries I think we can actually

0:53.0

solve this one oh cool okay really so I'm just like ready to go all right let's have

0:58.8

let's do it okay what are we doing here's the facts we're doing the severed feet of the

1:03.0

Salish Sea oh so the mystery is a foot oh it is a foot all right all right so ready yeah I'm

1:15.1

gonna go back into it all right okay August 2007 a severed foot in a running she washes up on the

1:21.6

shore of a beach in Canada since then 12 more feet have been found the likelihood of finding

1:28.2

two feet in the situation is estimated at one in one million who calculated those odds hi how

1:34.9

exactly do you calculate those how you calculate those odds I think he's the wind pattern and the

1:40.2

stars and everything aligned ocean pattern you probably just go to the there's a webpage I have

1:46.3

no doubt I'd never seen it think you go out to made-up statistics.com yeah you could go to that one

1:51.3

and I think there's probably a webpage just devoted to severed feet somewhere on the world

1:55.8

go out there you download all the numbers and yeah yeah so four of the feet have been identified

2:03.0

as belonging to two people two separate people but the rest of them belong to persons unknown and

2:08.5

the reasons for the severed feet washing up has not been discovered so the they were actually

2:13.4

identifiably associated with named persons two of them yeah two of these two of these can I'm sorry

2:18.6

four of the feet so two of the people yeah okay and so what were the circumstances under which

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