Movie:finders Keepers

  • NewsGwynne Watkins

    The Inside Story Behind 'Finders Keepers,' This Year's Most Unbelievable Documentary

    Shannon Whisnant poses with a leg lamp in a scene from ‘Finders Keepers’ (Photo: Adam Hobbs) Eight years ago, a man named Shannon Whisnant found an amputated human foot in a barbecue smoker he’d purchased from a storage locker in Maiden, North Carolina. His gruesome discovery became national news, drawing the attention of John Wood, the amputee to whom the foot belonged. Wood asked for his limb back. Whisnant refused, under the principal of “finders keepers.”

  • NewsJordan Zakarin

    Here’s the Trailer for the Craziest, Funniest Documentary You’ll See This Year

    It’s not hard to understand why: After all, the foot had been discovered in a BBQ smoker that had been purchased at an auction, and the man who’d found it — a flea-marketer named Shannon Whisnant — was eminently quotable. The result of their long investigation is the stranger-than-fiction documentary Finders Keepers, the trailer for which is embedded above. The film, a Sundance breakout that hits theaters in limited release on September 25, explores the lives of the two men at the center of th