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Not to bring this thread down too much, but it reminded me of a sadder mystery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish_Sea_human_foot_discoveries https://en.wikip
by alex_anglin 8y ago
Not to bring this thread down too much, but it reminded me of a sadder mystery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish_Sea_human_foot_discoveries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish_Sea_human_foot_discover.... Hopefully it gets solved as well.
- gerbilly 8y agoSimple, suicides or drownings. People die in the water wearing running shoes. Then most of the body decomposes, but the feet stay in the shoes, which float on the surface due to the buoyant cushy soles (often containing air bladder cushions).
- alex_anglin 8y agoSure - that's a reasonable hypothesis, but as the Wikipedia article notes, there are other potential explanations. The level of rarity section speaks to the decomposition process as well as the likelihood of finding feet without other body parts.
- Latteland 8y agoyou'd think with the new dna 'matching random dna leads to that person's relatives' that keeps happening would lead us to identify some of those remains.