Missing shoes in Germany? You might want to talk to this Fox

The mystery behind a spate shoe thefts in a German town has been solved: a local fox had been stealing them.

Locals in the German town of Föhren had wondered for over one year why shoes kept disappearing from doorsteps and garden terraces at night. The mystery was solved by accident, when a forestry worker discovered 120 shoes in a fox’s den in woods just outside the town.

The collection, which German media claimed would have given Imelda Marcos a run for her money, included over 100 hiking shoes, Wellingtons, steel-capped workman’s boots, flipflops and old slippers.

The unnamed Fox with the shoe fetish is believed to be a vixen with a family of cubs, and continues to remain at large. The shoes have been returned to their rightful owners.