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Is it the work of an organized crime ring? Are they remnants from bodies that have floated across the Pacific Ocean following a tsunami more than a decade ago? Perhaps a serial killer with a particularly twisted signature is on the loose in the Pacific Northwest?
Speculation surged once again Tuesday following Monday's announcement by Canadian authorities that a human foot had washed ashore in Vancouver -- the 15th such occurrence in British Columbia in just over a decade. The grisly phenomenon has captivated the minds of the public and media for years, with theories of the feets' origins ranging from natural disasters to something more sinister.
"There's someone doing this all right. Think about it, if they tied a chain around someone's ankle and threw them overboard, the foot would just pop off," a man who made one of the morbid discoveries told
The Guardian in 2008. "Maybe they got a lot of bodies stored up in a container and they got washed out. We don't know. There's a lot of stuff goes on over there."
One theory, the
Toronto Star has previously reported on, links the feet washing ashore to missing bodies from a plane crash that happened near Quadra Island in the Vancouver area in 2005. Another,
The Guardian says, ties them to human remains that have - with the help of ocean currents - drifted across the Pacific following the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004.
Comment: There it is: no one's even allowed to call attention to the fact that much of the news as promulgated by the corporate media is, indeed, fake news,