Season Two kicks off with a mystery that’s been speculated about across the globe for a handful of years, and has been allegedly solved by a doctor on TikTok. There’s a dedicated Wikipedia page, compelling Vox article, whose phenomenon is helping to solve a strange case in Australia, and begins a stone’s throw away from my corner of Washington state.
I’ve been compelled to track this mystery since the first foot washed up on the shores of a Canadian island fifteen years ago. Recently, though, when a doctor professed to solve the mystery once and for all on TikTok, I still scratched my head. Even today, when I googled the Salish Feet Mystery, my stomach hurt thinking of the people, maybe as many as 21 as of this recording, who passed away and part of them washed up on the coastlines of Washington state and British Columbia. These are real people that lived and died, and in all other tellings of it, that’s been missed. That’s why I felt I needed to tell their story.
There’s a cluster of picture-perfect islands just a hair west of Washington state, the shape of breadfruit. One glance at the map and your brain fits the chain of islands into the greater land mass like a missing puzzle piece. Known as the Gulf Islands, they broke apart and drifted into what is now the Salish Sea, the Strait of Georgia and the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
The islands are lush with old growth evergreens, wildflowers, high cliffs, sandy bluffs, inlets, and wide-open meadows. They hold secrets, too; abandoned homesteads, forgotten campgrounds, even the remnants of one long-forgotten cult whose leader died with the knowledge of where he’d buried gold coins buried in Mason jars. That cult leader is Brother XII and the place that may still hide the treasure is Valdes Island...
Sources and Materials:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish_Sea_human_foot_discoveries
https://coolinterestingstuff.com/the-strange-salish-sea-foot-mystery
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/human-foot-found-in-shoe-on-vancouver-island-beach/(article after 13th foot found)
https://www.insider.com/british-columbia-find-severed-human-feet-on-shores-2019-2
https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/569067-doctor-explains-why-21-human-feet-in-sneakers-may-have-washed-on/
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