Park officials at Yellowstone National Park shared that early last week, a shoe was found with a foot inside of it floating in a hot spring.
The foot is believed to be connected to a death that occurred at the park on July 31, officials shared in a press release.
A park employee found the shoe on Tuesday of last week in the Abyss Pool, a hot spring located at the West Thumb Geyser Basin. The hot spring reportedly reaches 140 degrees and goes down approximately 53 feet deep.
"Visitors are reminded to stay on boardwalks and trails in thermal areas and exercise extreme caution around thermal features," the National Park Service said this week after the discovery. "The ground in hydrothermal areas is fragile and thin, and there is scalding water just below the surface."
Law enforcement in the area is looking into the incident, but currently, foul play is not suspected.
The July death marks the first fatal incident at the hot springs since June 2016, when a 23-year-old man fell into the Norris Geyser Basin, 225 yards from the boardwalk.
The park shared that the West Thumb Geyser Basin was temporarily closed to visitors after the discovery but has since been reopened.
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