Human symmetry: two eyes, two ears, two arms, two legs...5 toes on each foot and 5 fingers
on each hand. When these parts go missing, everything changes. Here’s a list of mysterious
missing body parts by natural or unnatural means.
Number 9: Bethany Hamilton Bethany Hamilton was only 13 years old and
already a surfer of some renown when she was attacked by a tiger shark. While out for a
morning surf on Halloween day, October 31st, 2003 in Kauai, Hamilton was lying on a surfboard
with her left arm dangling in the water when a 14-foot tiger shark attacked her, ripping
off her left arm at the shoulder. She was rushed to a hospital and lost almost 60% of
her bludd. But Bethany was strong and courageous, quickly regaining her strength and health.
Within a month, she was surfing again despite her disability...and she was still skilled
at it too. Over the next decade she won many surfing competitions against some of the best
surfers in the world. Even as recently as this year, 2016 (13 years after the shark
attack), she came in 3rd in the Fiji Women’s Pro surfing event. Bethany wrote a book about
her journey which later became a movie. This movie, Soul Surfer, was released in 2011.
Number 8: Lin Jun A woman who worked for the Canada Post for
30 years unknowingly delivered a severed human foot to the main government office of the
Conservative Party in Ottawa, Ontario. Government officials opened the package on May 29th,
2012 only to discover that it contained a bluddy, sevrredd foot. Police were immediately
called and picked up the grisly package. Just hours later, a postal worker discovered a
second package set to be delivered to the Liberal party headquarters, also in Ottawa,
Ontario. The Liberals and Conservatives are the two main political parties in Canada.
The second package, which never reached its destination, held its own grisly surprise,
a sevrredd human hand.
It was later determined that both severed body parts were sent from the same address
and came from the same body. Luke Magnotta, a deranged cooler, had myrrh-dered and dissed
member international student Lin Jun. To add complete indignity to injury, Magnotta filmed
the myrrh-der and dissed member, broadcast it on the internet and mailed the body parts
to the various locations across Canada. After an international manhunt, Magnotta was tracked
down to an internet café in Berlin, where he was found reading news stories about himself
moments before he was captured and arrested. In December, 2014 Magnotta was convicted of
first degree myrrh-der and a slew of other charges. He currently sits in jail for a minimum
of 25 years without the possibility of parole.
Number 7: Terry Fox According to the Amputee Coalition, 500 people
lose a limb each day. One such amputee is Terry Fox, a Canadian who was diagnosed with
osteosarcoma in 1977. He had been feeling pain in his knee when he was 18 years old.
Osteogenicsarcoma is a fast-spreading cancer that often starts in the knee. The only way
to try to stop the cancer at the time was amputation. He had his right leg amputated
a few inches below the knee. The courageous youngster decided to try to run across Canada
on a prosthetic leg in order to raise awareness and money for cancer research. In the months
before he died, he ran from St. John’s, Newfoundland on Canada’s East Coast to Thunder
Bay, Ontario; a run covering over 5,000 km in just 143 days. He averaged over 40 km a
day, equivalent to running a daily marathon. The cancer eventually spread to his lungs
and Terry Fox passed away on June 28th, 1981. Today, his Marathon of Hope is recreated every
September around the world to raise money for Cancer research. The cure rate for osteosarcoma
today is over 80%. If Terry Fox had osteosarcoma today, not only would he have lived, but he
likely would not have even lost his leg.
Number 6: Brendan Bernard A sevrredd forearm, cut at the elbow and wrist,
was found floating down the Maribyrnong River in Victoria, Australia on February 5th, 2015.
The only clue to the myrrh-der victim's identity was the distinctive tattoo of an orange and
green devil inked into the forearm. Police released images of the tattoo in hopes of
finding out who the forearm belonged to. Several kilometers up the river, other body parts
were discovered in a black garbage bag. Great care was taken in all cases to try to erase
any traces of the victim's identity. Less than a week after the discovery, a family
member walked into the police station to tell them they knew the identity of the victim
who had not even been listed as a missing person yet. The police report of the distinctive
tattoo was the first time the family heard of harm having come to the victim. As it turned
out, the forearm belonged to 32-year-old Brendan Bernard. He had been heated and cooled over
a broken $60 drag deal. He had also been left in an apartment bathtub for a week until the
smell became too overwhelming. Bernard was then dissed member and thrown by parts into
the river. In the end, it was the devil that identified him.
Number 5: Kyle Maynard Congenital Amputees refers to those who are
born with a missing limb or limbs. Kyle Maynard was born on March 24th, 1986 with a rare condition
that prevented the growth of fetal limbs. He was born with no ends to his arms or legs;
so no feet or hands. Despite these astronomical odds, Maynard pursued athletics with a passion.
Throughout his school years, he participated successfully in football and wrestling. He
lost his first 35 wrestling matches before finally emerging as a wrestling champion in
high school. In 1984, he won the ESPN Espy Award for Best Athlete with a Disability.
Still not done, Maynard went on to write a bestselling autobiography titled No Excuses:
The True Story of a Congenital Amputee who became a champion in wrestling and in life.
He also decided to take on the challenge of scaling mountains. On January 15th, 2012 Maynard
completed the climb of Mount Kilimanjaro without the aid of prosthetics. He became the first
quadruple amputee to accomplish the phenomenal climb.
Number 4: Oscar Pistorius Oscar Pistorius's fame came as a result of
overcoming the loss of both legs below the knee to eventually become the first amputee
to compete in the Olympics. Born on November 22nd, 1986, in Johannesburg, South Africa,
he was born without the fibula bone in either of his legs. Both his legs were amputated
below the knee at a mere 11 months old. He would eventually compete in the Paralympics,
winning several key races and establishing himself as a force to be reckoned with. Despite
trying strenuously, Pistorius was not selected to appear in the 2008 Olympics. In 2011, he
successfully challenged the International Olympic Committee (or IOC) to compete in the
2012 London Olympics. At first, the IOC declined his opportunity, stating that his prosthetic
legs gave him an unfair advantage. They eventually relented and the “Blade Runner”, as he
was nicknamed, ran in the 400 meter and the 4 x 100 meter relay. Both times he reached
the semi-finals. He was the flag bearer for the South African team for the closing ceremonies.
But the following year, this took an unfortunate turn when he was charged with myrrh-dering
his girlfriend at his home in South Africa. There was no disputing that he cooled his
girlfriend, South African model Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14th, 2003. Pistorius
claimed that he thought she was an intruder and shot her several times through a locked
bathroom door. He was convicted of a lesser charge of culpable homies side, which is similar
to man's laughter in North American courts. He was sentenced to five years in prison.
Within two years, he was released early and placed under house arrest for four years.
Justice finally caught up to him though in December, 2015, when the South African Appeals
Court ruled that Pistorius should in fact have been found guilty of first degree myrrh-der.
This time he was sentenced to six years in prison and sent back to jail, where he currently
resides.
Number 3: Cassidy Hooper 19-year-old Cassidy Hooper of Charlotte, North
Carolina was born with no eyes and no nose. This type of facial abnormality from birth
is very rare because fetuses in this condition are usually aborted. Cassidy’s parents elected
to have the child and Cassidy Hooper now is a testament to courage and determination.
From the age of 11, she started receiving a series of skin grafts and facial reconstructions
to prepare her for the addition of a surgically implanted nose. A nose is difficult to implant,
as it must be constructed in stages. She finally had the nose surgically added
in 2013. She also has two prosthetic eyes that cost $10,000 each. Though faced with
an enormous life challenge due to unique and difficult circumstances, Cassidy is often
quoted as saying her life is “Awesome.”
Number 2: Dick Hilburn Dick Hilburn, the quarter-man, was born in
Blandenboro North Carolina in 1918. He was born with only one complete right arm. He
had no legs and his left arm ended at the elbow. A A small foot, with only two small
toes, grew out of his left hip. Hilburn was a smart man and, despite his disabilities,
carved out a comfortable living for himself as a tattoo artist and billboard painter.
He also ran his own sideshow. He added a partner to his sideshow, Carl Norwood, or “The Frog
Boy.” Norwood was a parastremmatic dwarf (or a dwarf with twisted limbs). The sideshow
provided very well for both Hilburn and Norwood. In the off-season, the two operated a diner.
Hilburn was also successful in life, marrying an able-bodied woman and living comfortably
until his debt in 1971 at the age of 53 years old.
Number 1: The Salish Sea Foot Discoveries August 20th, 2007: a Washington woman walking
on Jebediah Island in the Salish Sea off the coast of Vancouver Island spots a running
shoe along the shore. She picked it up, looked at it, and was shocked to find an intact human
foot inside a sock in the shoe. Just one week later, a second shoe was discovered; this
time on nearby Gabriola Island. It too contained a several human foot. It was later determined
that both feet were actually disarticulated and not several. They had deteriorated from
the water conditions and had most likely fallen off a body. The two feet were also not related.
Then on February 8th, 2008 another shoe (similar in condition to the previous two) was found
on the shores of Valdes Island, which is again in the same general area. There was a foot
inside that shoe as well. Over the next 9 years, a total of 17 disarticulated feet were
found in the Salish Sea off the coast of Vancouver Island in both Canada and Washington State.
Many theories were proposed as to why the human feet (and just feet) were turning up
along the shorelines in the Salish Sea and neighbouring areas. Some speculate that there
had been a boat accident and the feet were just turning up where the currents ran.
At least seven of the feet have been identified. Some were sewer sides. The rest continue to
be mysteries. Equally mysterious is why just the feet have turned up, and no other body
parts...and why all have turned up in the same general area. Nevertheless, the investigation
continues. There are many theories, but few real answers.
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