Posted on 08/19/2022 8:37:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
Law enforcement authorities are investigating a human foot that was found floating in a hot spring in the southern part of the park, Yellowstone National Park officials announced on Thursday.
The discovery of the foot and a shoe by a Yellowstone employee on Tuesday led to the temporary closure of the Abyss Pool near the West Thumb Geyser Basin, according to Morgan Warthin, public affairs officer for Yellowstone National Park.
Warthin did not release any further information on the investigation; however, a Montana resident was in the area and told Cowboy State Daily that she was not allowed into the geyser basin because of the law enforcement activity.
Jen Mignard, a resident of Shepherd, Montana, was coincidentally at the basin to be interviewed by VICE media for a separate story when the area was closed to the public.
“We knew something bad had happened,” Mignard, told Cowboy State Daily.
“It was such an abnormal sight to see in the park,” she said. “There was a lot of fear and apprehension that something was seriously wrong. It was a dark feeling.”
Mignard said the parking lot was empty except for two passenger cars.
She said yellow police tape stretched the entire length of the parking lot and beyond and there were numerous law enforcement vehicles in the area.
“The police tape actually extended through the trees all the way along the length of the geyser basin,” she said.
Mignard also spotted a helicopter flying to the area earlier when she was eating lunch at the general store at Old Faithful.
“Helicopters don’t fly here,” she said. “There were too many coincidences. Something major was happening.”
Abyss Pool is 53 feet deep and the temperature is about 140 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the Associated Press.
Scaldings and deaths are not uncommon in Yellowstone National Park.
The most recent scalding occurred in September 2021, when a 19-year-old teen from Rhode Island jumped off of a boardwalk to save her dog that had wandered into the scalding hydrothermal pits at Old Faithful.
The teen escaped with only second- and third-degree burns on 5% of her body and returned home after a few months at a burn center in Idaho.
The most recent death in a hot spring was in 2016 when a 23-year-old man from Portland, Oregon, slipped and fell near Porkchop Geyser. His body was never recovered as it was likely dissolved.
The boardwalks are too far from the dangerous areas for someone to “slip and fall” in them. I have no sympathy for morons who ignore the signs. They can all dissolve for all I care.
you win the thread.
I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop
Salish Sea human foot discoveries
Since August 20, 2007, at least 20 detached human feet have been found on the coasts of the Salish Sea in British Columbia, Canada, and Washington, US. The first discovery, on August 20, 2007, was on Jedediah Island in British Columbia. Feet have been discovered on the coasts of islands in British Columbia, and in the US cities of Tacoma and Seattle. In Canada, the B.C. Coroners Service said in December 2017 that foul play had been ruled out by authorities in all investigations and that the feet came from people who died either in accidents or by suicide, and the feet detached during the normal decomposition process. The feet were usually found in sneakers, which the coroner thought were responsible for both keeping the feet buoyant enough to eventually wash ashore, and for giving the feet enough protection from decomposition to be found relatively intact.Wikipedia
This little piggy went to Yellowstone.
Paging Dick Morris
I'm not saying we should kill all the stupid people, I'm just suggesting we remove all the warning signs and let the problem sort itself out.
Might as well, because that’s the way it usually winds up working out, signs or no signs.
There’s only one place to look for the owner. IHOP.
“Human Foot Found Floating In Yellowstone Hot Spring; Witness Says “Awful Feeling””
wait! i’ve always been told that Yellowstone hot springs will dissolve ALL the parts ...
Yeah, but he’s half the man he used to be.
CC
You don’t have the right to ask such a question!
Must have been in a shoe...................
Was it “done”?
Part of a human foot, inside a shoe, found in Yellowstone hot spring, park officials say
Associated Press
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2022/08/19/human-foot-yellowstone-hot-spring-park/7838320001/
“’We knew something bad had happened,’ Mignard, told Cowboy State Daily.”
LOL! Master of understatement.
Once I was watching a true crime story where the top cop went to a house to investigate something suspicious. Telling the story, he was a slow talker, low-key and monotone.
He drawled, “When I was in the front yard, a dog ran by with a human hand in his mouth. I said to myself, ‘Now, that’s something you don’t see every day.’”
It struck my funny bone.
Something is afoot.
There was only a sole survivor
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