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Human toe found in gift-wrapped box at Dash Point State Park

Jul 8, 2025, 6:18 PM

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Dash Point State Park. (Photo: Ruth Hartnup via Flickr Creative Commons)

(Photo: Ruth Hartnup via Flickr Creative Commons)

Kevin Ewing was walking along Dash Point State Park with his family on Father’s Day when he discovered something unexpected, reported Monday.

Ewing noticed what looked like a Christmas present at the end of the park’s property line. However, when he untied the yellow string and removed the green cloth packaging covering the pine box, he found a severed toe inside.

Wrapped box found at Dash Point State Park

Also in the package was a feather, burned grass, sage, lavender, and tobacco. Ewing initially thought the box was a prayer bundle or a message in a bottle, but after discovering the appendage, he quickly took pictures of his discovery and showed it to a local park ranger. Ewing also saw a dead seagull near the box, which appeared to have been mutilated.

“At first, I was very shocked, and it took me a few minutes to kind of be like, ‘Is this what I think it is?’ Then once it dawned on me that that鈥檚 what it was, I set everything down,” he told The Federal Way Mirror.

Washington State Patrol (WSP) is now investigating, and the toe is at the medical examiner’s office, according to the media outlet.

“Just very odd,” Ewing told The Federal Way Mirror. “The toe definitely did not look like it was amputated. It definitely didn鈥檛 look like a surgeon had taken it off. It didn鈥檛 look like a very clean medical cut.”

WSP saidthe toe appears to be from an adult man. The agency also sent out information to local law enforcement to see if the toe might match any of their records.

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