Latest human foot washes up on West Coast wrote:A human foot has washed up on another West Coast beach, but this time in Washington state.

The right foot was found by a tourist on Whidbey Island, about 50 kilometres north of Seattle, on Friday morning.

"Based on the size, we're estimating it belongs to either a female or a juvenile," Island County Sheriff's Office spokesman Det. Ed Wallace said in an interview. "Based on the condition, we're estimating it's been in the water less than two months."

He said the foot was found without a shoe or a sock, and the tourist was quite startled by the discovery.

Wallace said based on the information police have gathered, they don't believe the foot matches any missing persons cases in the area.

Officers plan to reach out to surrounding jurisdictions, including B.C., to see if any of their cases might fit.

Seven feet have been found on B.C. shores since August 2007.

The most recent discovery was last October in Richmond. That foot was linked to a Vancouver-area man who had been reported missing in January 2008.

One other foot found in B.C. has also been identified. It belonged to a man thought to have committed suicide.

RCMP have said all of the feet separated from the bodies naturally in the water and foul play is not suspected in any of the cases.

The missing feet mystery brought international attention to B.C., as people around the world speculated on what could be causing the feet to turn up.

One other foot washed up in Washington state in August 2008.

Wallace said police on Whidbey Island are used to bodies washing up on shore, but not individual feet.

"Based on where we sit in the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the currents, we've had complete bodies wash up before, partial bodies wash up before, we're just in that pathway," he said.

He said the foot is almost complete, though there are a few bones missing from the toes.

"There's no trauma to it, it does not look like it's been severed," he said.

Wallace stressed the investigation is still early and officers are not ruling anything out.

Ron Caliburn wrote:Even on a dead body, a cut is still trauma.

The science types are trying to say that the feet "disarticulated" naturally from decomposing bodies. If that's true, then we still have about a half a dozen dead bodies that nobody knows the name of, where they actually are or how they came to wind up washing ashore where they did.

This latest foot is a bit different than the rest. The others were found in shoes still. The shoe acts as a flotation device, bringing the foot to the surface where it can be pushed ashore. This most recent foot came ashore without that assistance.

Also, the waters are full of life. I am not sure how these feet could remain in as well preserved state as they have been described for as long as we are being advised they have. All sorts of critters should be munching on them.

Too many things don't make sense here, if one buys into the "rational explanation."

Someone knows something and is covering it up.

Investigation under way after small human foot in hiking boot washes ashore in Tacoma, Wash. wrote:TACOMA, Wash. - Authorities are seeking more information about a small human foot that washed ashore in Washington state.

Tacoma police spokesman Mark Fulghum (FULL-jum) said Tuesday the right foot was still inside a boy's size 6 "OzArk Trail" hiking boot, and likely belonged to a juvenile or small adult. He says the boots were sold in Walmart stores from 2004 to 2005.

The foot found early last week is believed to have floated in from either the Puyallup River or Puget Sound. It's the second to wash ashore in Washington state in four months.

In late August, a right foot believed to be that of a woman or child washed up on a beach in Whidbey Island, about 70 miles north of Tacoma.

Fulghum says police don't yet know if the cases are linked, or if they have any connection to cases in British Columbia, where seven feet have washed ashore in the past four years.