l Grabbing the headlines over the last year is the story of dismembered feet in training shoes washing up on Canadian shores. The first right foot, belonging to a male, was found inside a blue and white sneaker on Aug. 20, 2007, and a second right foot appeared six days later in a black and white shoe. On February 8, 2008 a third foot and on May 22, 2008 a fourth foot (the only female foot) in shoes washed up near the general area where the first two were found. The fifth foot was found on June 16, 2008. 

The feet have all been found on islands in the Strait of Georgia, off Vancouver, near the mouth of the Fraser River.

Using DNA samples, authorities have so far only identified one as a missing BC man, and the DNA proved that two of the feet were from the same person. The shoes are another big clue for investigators.  No evidence indicates trauma or the feet being cut off as they of apparently separated from the bodies naturally.  Investigators have found this mysterious.

The odd foot out washed ashore in July, 2008 in the Swedish resort town of Halmstad, about 500 kilometers southwest of Stockholm Sweden. The same naturally severed foot in a shoe, just in a far distant locality.  Are the two related? 

They could very well be.

In spontaneous human combustion, often there is an appendage, like a foot or two in shoes, left without any apparent trauma, while the rest of the body is gruesomely reduced to black powder.  Spontaneous human combustion can possibly be caused by ball lightning. The following scenario could very well account for the mystery of these feet:

 A group of people were enclosed by ball lightning all except their feet.  Ball lightning is also called a complex space charge configuration.  Sometimes ball lightning will produce a gamma ray burst.  A gamma ray burst has the power to propel a foot from Western Canada to Sweden if it is caught in the narrow gamma ray beam. So ball lightning and its associated gamma ray burst could be the culprit!