Another shoe has washed up in Washington but this time it seems to have been worn by a bear
In a scene straight out of the Pacific Northwest’s weirdest recurring event, a lone white Puma sneaker washed ashore near Port Williams Beach in Sequim, Washington. As has happened disturbingly often, it looked like it contained a human foot. This time, however, the twist: it wasn’t human. It was a bear.
Two days after reporting that a shoe was found on Port Williams Beach in Sequim and believed to have human remains inside it, Clallam County Sheriff’s Office reports that the remains actually belong to a bear.
The Sheriff’s Office stated in a Dec. 11 press release that the Clallam County Coroner’s Office sent the remains to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office which determined that the bone and tissue material inside the shoe was of bear origin, and no human biological matter was present.
It is unknown how bear bone and tissue came to be located inside the shoe that washed ashore, Chief Criminal Deputy Amy Bundy wrote in a press release.
No additional related items were located in the area, Bundy wrote.
Authorities initially treated it like a potential crime scene, as a human foot in a shoe usually sets off a few alarms. But after forensics experts got involved, they discovered the remains inside were from a bear. Why a bear was apparently rocking Pumas remains unsolved, but at least no one needs to notify next of kin.