{"id":13226,"date":"2024-07-12T21:08:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T21:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=13226"},"modified":"2024-07-12T21:08:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T21:08:56","slug":"eerie-reason-why-shoes-were-found-in-pairs-at-titanic-wreckage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=13226","title":{"rendered":"Eerie reason why shoes were found in pairs at Titanic wreckage"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a horrifying reason that shoes were found scattered in pairs throughout the wreckage<\/h2>\n

More than a century on and the tragedy of the Titanic continues to capture the public imagination.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While we have succeeded in reaching the wreck at the bottom of the Atlantic, there’s one thing which many have noticed about the site.<\/p>\n

The wreck is a unique site as it effectively contains a snapshot of how life was in 1912, with many objects surviving at the bottom of the ocean.<\/p>\n

Some were recovered from the wreckage, including musical instruments, clothes, and all manner of random fragments of everyday life.<\/p>\n

As for the wreck itself, one kind of object has been noted as extremely prevalent among the haunting remains of the ill-fated vessel.<\/p>\n

Nestled among the rusting hull and the disintegrating rooms many expeditions have noticed a lot of\u00a0shoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But perhaps more intriguingly, the shoes were always found in a pair, hardly ever just one shoe.<\/p>\n

By itself one or two pairs wouldn’t seem that big a deal, but this is a lot of pairs of shoes, and there’s a very sad reason that they’re found in pairs.<\/p>\n

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Shoes at the wreck of the Titanic. (CNN)<\/cite><\/div>\n

The shoes were mostly leather and contained a lot of tannic\u00a0acid<\/a>, which had preserved them at the bottom of the ocean.<\/p>\n

But why were they always in pairs?<\/p>\n

Another thing that many have remarked about the wreckage is the complete absence of any human remains.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of people are known to have died in the tragedy, so where are all the bodies in wreckage? They must be there, right?<\/p>\n

Well, in a way they are.<\/p>\n

That’s because the shoes are all that’s left of the bodies of the people who went down with the ship.<\/p>\n

Animals<\/a>\u00a0living at the bottom of the ocean, combined with the water itself, would have made short work of the remains.<\/p>\n

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The shoes are all that’s left of those who died. (CNN)<\/cite><\/div>\n

One\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0found that placing a pig carcass roughly the same size as a human on the seabed resulted in it being reduced to bones in just four days, with bones gone after around six months.<\/p>\n

So after more than 100 years it’s no surprise there is nothing left.<\/p>\n

The shoes themselves survived as the tannins in the leather made them unappealing to the marine life at the bottom of the ocean.<\/p>\n

Hardy leather also meant the shoes were better able to resist the ravages of time long after the person that occupied them was completely gone.<\/p>\n

So the pairs of shoes found around the Titanic are in fact the last vestiges of the\u00a0people<\/a>\u00a0who lost their lives in the disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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