Results tagged “mystery”

So we thought Microsoft's big ol' ray of Bing was a one time deal. Then last night, the UFO-esque light was back again shining in all its blurry glory. So, was it a re-do from Tuesday's celebration? Or was the light for the decision engine's new travel section? We wonder if we'll see it again tonight. Until then Bing, you've left us all in the dark.

The Clallam County Sheriff has released the above photo of the shoe and sock found on an area beach Saturday morning. Remains found in the shoe were confirmed to be human, but who they came from is still unknown. If you do happen to know a guy who wore size 11 Everest hiking shoes just like this one and you haven't heard from them in a long while, you may want to contact the Clallam County police.

Not content to let Canada have all the creepy foot fun, a tennis-shoe-clad, possibly human foot has washed ashore in Clallam County, Wash. A woman spotted the foot in some seaweed early Saturday monring, 14 miles south of Canadian shoreline. Clallam County police are working with Royal Canadian Mounted Police to see if there is any connection between this foot and the five that have washed ashore in British Columbia. The first of the five human feet was found last August, making this a year-long mystery--and still no end in sight.

"...Our bad."

Just when you thought the Green Lake spike story was coming to an end, a dive crew has found 40 additional spikes at the bottom of the lake today. The discovery nearly doubles the number of spikes found, though only 15 of the spikes found today were sharpened. Somehow, that doesn't make us feel much better about the whole thing.

After almost a year of mystery, the first of five severed feet found in British Columbia have been identified as belonging to a missing man. While the man's family has asked that his identity not be released to the public, Royal Canadian Mounted Police say the man was depressed and disappeared over a year ago. Which of the found feet belonged to the missing man has also not been released.

Royal Canadian Mounted police announced today that two of the five severed human feet found along the coast of British Columbia came from the same person. Who that person is or how they lost their feet is still unknown...but surely, this is a step in the right direction.

Italian officials have concluded their investigation into the death of UK exchange student Meredith Kercher. Per Italian law, the prosecution informed the defense yesterday of their final findings--that they believe Kercher was murdered by Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito, and Rudy Hermann Guede. Prosecutors contend that the three strangled and stabbed the 21-year-old exchange student to death and that Guede sexually assaulted her, with the help of Knox and Sollecito.

Now that a sixth foot has washed ashore in British Columbia and the mainstream media has picked up the story (because, five severed feet washing ashore—not national news; but half a dozen—now that's a headline!), the theories on the source of the severed feet are coming in.

I work for a newspaper in Campbell River, B.C. on Vancouver Island. Another foot was found here this morning at Tyee Spit (the second this week!).

If you are as intrigued by the mystery of D.B. Cooper as Seattlest is, but have more expendable cash than we do, we have just the auction for you!

Back to searching rural Washington and Oregon! The FBI has confirmed that the parachute found in a Clark County, Wash., field is not infamous hijacker D.B. Cooper's. Parachute experts, as well as Earl Cossey, the man who packed the parachute given to Cooper the night of the hijacking, determined the recently discovered was not Cooper's. FBI spokesperson Robbie Burroughs crushed our mystery-loving hopes by saying, "From the best we could learn from the people we spoke to, it just didn't look like it was the right kind of parachute in any way."

Slightlynorth is one of our busiest and best Flickr pool contributors. "Delivery"? Delightful. Bonus points for black and white and for being shot on film. Thanks! (Mystery: who will be the lucky 400th member of our pool? You? We'll find out any day now.)...

We recklessly disregarded Seattlest Audrey's advice and saw Gone Baby Gone this weekend.

A big 'thank you' to Seattlest commenters for making the previous two posts on the Gas Works Park Mystery Party the definitive places for speculation and conjecture. Just this morning an unregistered guest indicated that they'd received an email asking for actors to "protest" the party at $100 a head, which kind of dulls the luster on a previous commenter's note that Melinda Gates's birthday is August, 15. Anyway, in lieu of any actual, factual new information on our part we'd like to point you once again to those threads and leave you with these bad photographs and the lyrics to the seventh song on Simon and Garfunkel’s 1966 album The Sounds of Silence.

--The Seattle Mystery Bookshop gets sucked into a publisher's con game. [Seattle Mystery Bookshop]

Below is the video for Annuals' "Brother." The Raleigh, NC band tends to be known as much for the age of their bandleader (he's right around drinking age) as for their musical output, which is a shame, since the music should stand on its own. Earnest and enthusiastic with plenty of wide-eyed ambition, Annuals remind us of when we wanted to be in a band, touring with friends in our own Mystery Machine, having misadventures in every town we visited. Annuals are touring in support of their album "Be He Me."

--Mystery at the Mystery Bookshop: their author signature book disappeared during the Left Coast Crime Convention.

BOOKS: Like mysteries? The 17th Annual Western Mystery Fan convention continues through the 4th. For a group focused on clues and figuring things out, they spell things out incredibly well on their website. Where's the fun in that?

AUTHOR, AUTHOR: Barbara Ehrenreich talks about her book Dancing in the Streets, in which she explores the desire for collective joy (see photo), historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing.

Garlic Gulch, that's what Belltown's Fourth Avenue has turned into, between downtown and Denny Way. At the north end, the venerable Zeek's appears to take intergalactic orders for traditional, predictable, topping-heavy slices. Bambino, a block away on Cedar, styles itself as "East Coast Pizza," whatever that means (thin crust, light toppings, one assumes). Given the flap over Domino's so-called Brooklyn-Style Pizza, probably not a great idea. Ordered a Tropicale (east-coast-speak for Hawaiian); despite 575-degree, wood-fired oven, pizza was limp, soggy; application of freshly-grated Parmesan no help.

--The first college basketball poll is out, and the Huskies are ranked #16.

A record-setting 20 teams competed in Seattlest trivia at the Old Pequilar last night. The winning team scored 64.5 points (out of 80) and toook home $150. We'll post complete results this afternoon.

RSVP is req'd.

We don't spend our spare time hanging out on Amazon.com, looking for new and crazy stuff they sell. So it took a Salon.com article to draw our attention to Amazon's unique new marketplace: Mechanical Turk.

Occasionally we drop in to see something we've recommended in advance to check if it's worthy of the Seattlest Seal of Approval. Sunday night we took in Chris Jeffries' Kaleidoscope Eyes: Songs for Busby Berkeley. We weren't quite sure what to expect when we walked in. What it turns out to be is a pianist and six vocalists performing "alternate" soundtracks to actual Berkeley-choreographed movie clips -- so it really is a celebration of the man's insane drill-sergeant-for-showgirls vision.

Once, Seattle had an afternoon paper. It was called the Seattle Times, and had sensible columnists like Emmett Watson who knew how to write a sentence. We can only assume it has no connection to the shrill, idiotic Seattle Times that now appears in the mornings. Anyway, the afternoon Times was there to tell you what happened while you were at work. Since it's gone, Seattlest steps into the void with our daily afternoon news roundup, "All the News."

Most evenings, Seattlest drives down 6th Avenue from Seneca to Stewart. And we've noticed, just about every day, that Seattle police officers in yellow vests direct traffic out of the parking garages for the Seattle Hilton and the Washington Athletic Club. When a guest wants to leave, the officer stops traffic in the left lane to let the exiting car turn right.

Bill, you founded the Seattle Mystery Bookshop?

The holidays are over (except for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, of course), so authors are starting to make their way to Seattle again, ready to read excerpts and sign autographs so that you'll be tempted to buy their latest title. Here's a cheat sheet for the week in book tours.