A couple of months back, the third right foot washed up:
Canadian police are investigating the mystery of three right feet that have turned up off Vancouver Island in the past six months.
The first was washed up in August on an isolated island in British Columbia. A 12-year-old girl beachcombing with her family found a size 12 running shoe with a human right foot still inside. Six days later a couple hiking around coves on another remote island found another size 12 right foot in a trainer under a tree trunk. Then, last month, another right foot was spotted, this time bobbing about in the water off a third island.
And now it's four:
For the fourth time in less than a year, a right human foot has been found off one of four different islands in the Strait of Georgia in British Columbia.
Police said again that they do not know if there are any links between them. Speculation in the region is rife, including that the feet were from murder victims or they were the remains from a plane crash.
Police said a passerby found a human foot in a shoe on Kirkland Island in the South Arm of the Fraser River on Thursday.
Last August, a foot was found inside a man's Reebok trainer on nearby Gabriola Island, just a few days after another foot was discovered by beachcombers on Jedidiah Island. The remains of a third right foot were found on the east side of Valdez Island on February 8.
There is no evidence to suggest the foot – or any of the previous three – was forcibly removed.
I'd have thought that the very presence of a foot on its own was evidence of its having been forcibly removed – they're not normally detachable – but still…
When the third foot was found, Curtis Ebbesmeyer, a former professor of oceanography at the University of Washington, who studies floating objects, said the feet could have drifted from as far as 1,000 miles away.
The foot could have been severed or separated from the body on its own.
He added that it may not be a coincidence they were found in the same area. He said left footwear and right footwear often tend to wash up at different times at different places because they float differently.
According to Ebbesmeyer, some beaches collect mostly right feet and others collect mostly lefts because of currents.
Mick Hartley 
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