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They find a piece of foot in a pool of boiling water in Yellowstone Park

2022-08-19T20:29:55.900Z


Authorities link the find to a recent death at those hot springs. In previous incidents, hardly any remains of people who fell into these springs were found.


By Beth Hanson and Thomas Peipert

Associated Press

Yellowstone National Park is investigating Tuesday's discovery of a piece of a human foot, still inside a shoe, floating in a hot spring known as the West Thumb Geyser Basin.

The shoe was spotted by an employee at the Abyss Pool, a 53-foot-deep pool in which the water is about 140 degrees Fahrenheit (60 Celsius).

Authorities believe the foot belongs to a person who died in July;

They have not offered more details about that incident, although they assured that there is no indication that it was a murder.

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News of the discovery prompted a Maryland man to contact park authorities to report seeing the shoe floating in the pond on August 11.

Chris Quinn of Pasadena, Maryland says he took a photo and sent it to the park rangers.

Park spokeswoman Linda Veress said she could not confirm if the shoe in Quinn's photo was the same one found in the pit.

The Abyss Pool hot spring in Yellowstone Park on June 15, 2015. Diane Renkin/AP

The park asks visitors to stay on the fringes of the hot springs because they are surrounded by a thin layer of solidified minerals that can easily crack.

People can fall into the scalding and extremely acidic water in some parts and be seriously injured.

At least 22 people are known to have died since 1890 from injuries related to hot springs in the park, which covers some 3,471 square miles (9,000 square kilometers).

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The most recent death occurred in June 2016 when a Portland, Oregon man slipped on gravel during a walk and fell into a spring of scalding acidic water.

There was practically nothing left of his body.

The park has attracted more than 4 million visitors annually in recent years, with the exception of 2020, when it was closed for a time due to the pandemic.

It was also closed for part of June due to historic flooding.

In fact, the north and northeast entrances are still closed to vehicles.

Source: telemundo

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