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🗓️ 19 July 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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A necropolis in what is now Northern Italy holds a strange and, at first glance, terrifying corpse. A Lombard man, aged somewhere between 40 and 50 years old, lost his right arm in a brutal accident. Normally this sort of wound would be a death sentence, but in this case the guy didn't just survive -- he created a prosthetic limb from a sword and officially became Knife Hand (a title we gave him because we think it sounds cool). Listen in to learn more about the life and times of Knife Hand, including why his story, when you get down to the details, is more an inspiring testament to human compassion than a frightening tale of a killer with a blade for an arm.
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0:00.0 | Folks, it's time. |
0:01.9 | You know what time it is. |
0:03.3 | It's time for a classic episode of ridiculous history where we're hanging out with a guy |
0:11.3 | who has one of the coolest street names we run into. |
0:14.5 | Old knife hands. |
0:15.3 | Oh, man. |
0:16.9 | I was thinking that we had a bit of a run of spooky themed episodes here. |
0:20.7 | And I'm realizing these were all from October of 2018. |
0:25.4 | I guess we used to be a little more seasonal with our episodes. |
0:28.3 | We've since gone totally off the rails in that department. |
0:31.1 | So let's harken back to a perhaps more seasonally organized time in the world of ridiculous history to a necropolis in what is now in northern Italy that held a strange and at first glance terrifying corpse. Also, I should say, you know, I just remembered we're the guys who made up the nickname Knife Hand. Oh, we did. That's okay. That's his name. He was a lumbar man and we call him old knife hands. Fill in the blanks. |
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