Posted on 02/10/2016 7:08:17 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
I was in Porto Novo on the border with Nigeria about to enter and met a guy coming into Benin and he told me not to go. I asked him why and he said: “There were bodies on the side of the road, all over. All were missing something. A hand, a foot, a nose, a breast. He said that voodoo is rampant and they use the parts for ceremonies.”
I also learned that the Christian missions are really just places where people go to for t-shirts and stuff. Voodoo is the main religion.
And there is a town in Benin name Vodum, where Voodoo originated. I went there.
If anyone remembers this video, it is you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSMR9CfDioM
(Todd Rundgren)
I’m not saying you are wrong, it would seem plausible, I guess. But how come these stories seem to come from the same area? I mean if everyone who is lost/drowned/disposed of at sea wearing shoes has their feet preserved, why does the media only pick it up in one area? Or has there been stories of feet in shoes being discovered all along and it’s just reported as ‘body parts’ or something? Are these feet all wearing a specific type of shoe or something?
Freegards
Crab trap bait. No biggie.
No, the best headline was “Headless Body Found at Topless Bar.”
Very interesting story about Benin. You are a brave person.
New York Post, naturally. They had the best headline writers.
drowning, wearing a running-type shoe that floats. Body comes apart, foot floats away inside floaty shoe?
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Or sharks don’t like the taste of feet.
Here are two articles that explain it better than I did. Just sad all around.
http://www.theprovince.com/touch/story.html?id=10281333
So from that it seems that this is happening in many areas where the particular current takes buoyant, air-Jordan type sneakers of suicides to shores where they are found.
Freegards
Do any of the shoes match? Inquiring minds, you know.
“It is too early to say if the situation is suspicious, police said.
Disembodied feet come ashore occasionally on B.C.’s coast.”
The casual acceptance of ‘disembodied feet’ is absurd. Anyone know of another place on earth where feet wash up on shore? I think not.
The rest of the body was found, wearing a wet suit, in the ash-covered area recently devastated by a forest fire. ;’)
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I thought Canada had gone metric. ;-)
The rest of the body was found, wearing a wet suit, in the ash-covered area recently devastated by a forest fire. ;’)
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Hah! Reminded me of the story a few years ago of the scuba diver found dead in a tree in, I think, CA after a large fire had been put out. Officials concluded he had been picked up by probably a helicopter or plane scooping water to drop on the fires.
Yeah, that’s where I plucked it, I don’t think that’s actually ever happened, one of those so-called urban myth, would make a great idea for the X-Files though...
A few years ago a LOT of feet came ashore!!!! Don’t know if they ever solved that.
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