Marathon, 1910. Photo of a supposed "Feet on Head." "Feet on Head" sightings are spread across North America, South America, Africa and Europe.[9][28][29] Some "Feet on Head" advocates, such as sports reporter Harold Willinson Gray, have postulated that feet on head is a worldwide phenomenon.[30] The most notable sightings include:
* 1943: Julia Wielopolski claimed that she and four other women witnessed a female jogger with "Feet on Head" in July 1943, running outside her house. [31] Wielopolski claimed that she and her friends called out to the woman, but the woman increased her speed and fled. The incident was widely reported at the time.[32] Wielopolski wrote an article about the event in 1967, in which she argued that the alleged jogger was a mystical being from another dimension. The women who were with her refused to comment. There are also local rumors that the jogger was a prankster or that Julia and her friends had been drinking.[9]
* 1943: Julia Wielopolski claimed that she and four other women witnessed a female jogger with "Feet on Head" in July 1943, running outside her house. [31] Wielopolski claimed that she and her friends called out to the woman, but the woman increased her speed and fled. The incident was widely reported at the time.[32] Wielopolski wrote an article about the event in 1967, in which she argued that the alleged jogger was a mystical being from another dimension. The women who were with her refused to comment. There are also local rumors that the jogger was a prankster or that Julia and her friends had been drinking.[9]
* 1952: Robert O’Mally and his children claimed to have fled their picnic when a runner with feet on his head stumbled towards them in the park, near their home in Ruby Creek, British Columbia.[35]
* 1981: Fitness centre employee Koos Van Den Bergh took to a local TV station security footage he and other workers had recorded. The late night footage shows a lone runner on a treadmill at the gym, seemingly unaware of the protrusions on his head.
The footage was dismissed as a hoax, but resurfaced years later on YouTube.
* 2003: Fernando Gomez reported that on October 20 he had spotted three runners with "Feet on Head" while running the London Marathon. Fernando’s wife, Anna, claimed that he must have been suffering from heat stroke and exhaustion.
