A British Columbia man made an unusual discovery while walking his dog along the coastline- the remains of a human foot, still inside of a shoe.
It's the latest in more than a dozen such grim discoveries over the past decade.
"She was sniffing the bones so I stopped and took a look, and I saw the bones and noticed it was attached to a shoe," the owner of the dog Mike Johns, 56, told CTV Vancouver Island News.
Johns added that “the foot was totally intact. The ankle bone still worked and the bones were attached at the base of the knee.”
After calling police, Johns carried the foot home for safekeeping, worried that high tides might wash the foot back into the ocean or that it would attract the attention of wildlife in the area.
British Columbia Coroners Service spokesman Andy Watson said Wednesday foul play isn't suspected.
The foot is reported to be the 13th found along British Columbia’s coast since 2007 and eight of the feet have been identified as belonging to six people, the Associated Press reported citing the spokesman.
Watson also told The Times that the foot could belong to someone from Alaska or Oregon, hundreds of miles away, and may have traveled the distance due to extremely high tides that can flood coastal areas during the area's winter months.
