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Out here in God’s country, beautiful British Columbia, people are not necessarily losing their heads, but we have received up to five mysterious lost feet.  The big story of course is that we’ve discovered that two of the 5 feet that mysteriously washed ashore over the past year are from the same man.  The right foot was found on Valdes Island in February the second and the left foot was found on Westham Island on June 16, and they matched through DNA testing. 

            The RCMP have said police have been going through release of hundreds of missing people trying to find a match.  Based on that information, the authorities have identified 243 missing males that could be associated with these feet.  So far they’ve been able to eliminate up to 132 people from that place.

The RCMP identified 159 women could match the missing female foot, but didn’t mention that they eliminated anybody from that list.

            One of the things I find interesting is that they can’t see anywhere where the feet were severed there are no tool marks on the feet.

            The RCMP spokeswoman Constable Ann Linteau said, “It appears that these feet have naturally disarticulated from the body through a natural process.”  Linteau also mentioned that they ruled out the possibility that some of the feet may belong to murder victims.

            My particular interest in the story is that a man and his 12-year-old daughter visiting from the US found the first foot on Jedediah Island.  In the early 90s, as a real estate agent, a client approached me and offered to purchase Jedediah Island. I’m sure there’s no connection to the man from the US and his 12-year-old daughter but I still have some very vivid images of that beautiful piece of real estate burned into my brain.

            The discovery of a second foot was found on the beach relatively near my former home on Gabriola Island. The third foot was found on Valdes Island adjacent to Gabriola Island.  We were starting to get worried that we had people dumping bodies near our beautiful islands.  All sorts of theories existed at the time from mob hits to gang wars to ship wrecks and shark attacks. 

The feet kept showing up. The fourth foot was found on Kirkland Island at the mouth of the Fraser River and the fifth foot, The only left foot, was found on Westham Island at the mouth of the Fraser River.  Both of these Islands or on the other side Strait of Georgia, and are relatively far enough away from Gabriola and Valdes.  It kind of alleviated our fears about murderers in close proximity to our beautiful islands.

            Reading the paper the other day I noticed that they found a 6^th foot on a beach in Sweden earlier this week, and the authorities are trying to figure out if it was tied into the British Columbia floating feet.

            I guess it just goes to show that nothings ever boring in beautiful British Columbia.  There’s always something interesting happening.