A human foot still inside its shoe has been blot in one of Yellowstone National Park ’s bubbling red-hot springs . Nobody is certain how the body part end up in the geothermal feature , but Mungo Park officials are reportedly investigating .

The unusual situation first blossom forth on Tuesday , August 16 , when a park employee learn the foot float in the Abyss Pool settle west of the West Thumb of Yellowstone Lake in the Dixieland of the park , according to a statement fromYellowstone National Park . The beleaguer area and its parking destiny were temporarily closed to the public follow the uncovering , although it has since been reopen .

TheAbyss Poolhot natural spring is a 16 - meter ( 53 - foot ) mysterious geothermic pool that can reach temperatures of up to 60 degree Celsius ( 140 degrees Fahrenheit ) . The hot springs get down as rainwater that has trickled into the bedrock and been superheated by the magmatic system that lies deep beneath Yellowstone . This hot H2O then turn out back to the aerofoil , reconcile in these pools of highly acidic water .

It ’s currently a mystery how the human foot ended up here . Yellowstone National Park officials are investigating the view and have presently released a limited amount of information to the world .

" Evidence from the investigation thus far suggests that an incident involve one somebody likely occurred on the good morning of July 31 , 2022 , at Abyss Pool . Currently , the park believes there was no foul play . The investigation is stay on to watch the circumstances surrounding the death , " Yellowstone National Park said in a statement .

Yellowstone is full of lifelike perils , including bears , Wolf , elk , and bison that areknown to attack peoplewhen a suited space is n’t kept . However , red-hot bound have injure or killed more hoi polloi in Yellowstone than any other natural feature , according totheir website .

Back in 2016 , a man fell into one of Yellowstone ’s many red-hot leaping andhis consistence was whole dissolvedin a single twenty-four hour period . The 23 - year - erstwhile died concisely after entering the piping hot water . He was found dead and drifting around the syndicate subsequently that twenty-four hour period , but a electric storm ambush the officials ’ endeavor to salvage the body . When they render the next solar day , just his wallet and his toss - flops stay .

Amendment : This article has been updated after the Yellowstone National Park release a press release