Hey everyone, Sebastian here. I just wanted to let everyone listening know that today's episode is going to be featuring some graphic descriptions of violence and cannibalism.

If you are sensitive to that kind of thing or you're listening with younger people who may not be ready for that kind of content, then you may want to sit this one out.

For everyone else, please enjoy the show.

There's a story that in the mid-1800s a mountain man found himself made a prisoner by warriors from the Blackfoot tribe.

The traveler had been heading west with a load of whiskey that he had hoped to sell to a group of Salish people. But the journey was stopped short when a group of Blackfoot warriors happened to cross his path.

When they saw the burly Euro-American, they knew who he was instantly.

This man had spent the last few years of his life engaged in a horrific blood feud with the Crow tribe. He had killed countless Crow tribes people often scalping the bodies as part of a years long near genocidal quest to avenge the death of his wife.

This was a dangerous man, but the Blackfoot party had him outnumbered. They were able to overpower him and bind his hands.

The plan was simple. The Blackfoot would send word to the Crow tribe that they'd captured their mortal enemy. Surely they would be able to trade him for a rich ransom, or at the very least they would put the Crow people forever in their debt.

We're told that night the Blackfoot group made a camp and posted a single guard to watch their prisoner. Meanwhile, the rest of the group dipped into the whiskey that they had commandeered from the captured mountain man.

The prisoner watched all of this and bided his time until it seemed like his captors were reasonably drunk and distracted. Then he made his move.

Using his great strength, he managed to free himself from the ropes that bound his hands. He then overpowered the one man who had been set as his guard and killed him on the spot.

He then scalped the body and even more gruesomely cut off one of his victim's legs. No. How he did this without drawing the attention of the other Blackfoot men is anyone's guess.

But we're told that after completing his gristly work, the prisoner made good his escape and he brought along that severed leg.

Now, I know what you're thinking. Why, oh why did this maniac feel the need to cut off a dead man's leg and carry it with him while making a difficult cross-country escape on foot?

Well, the answer is that this wasn't just any mountain man. This was liver-eating Johnson.

On top of his reputation as a ferocious killer, Johnson was a known cannibal. Over the course of his vendetta with the Crow tribe, he had taken to eating the livers of the men he had slain.

He had no compunctions about eating human flesh. And after escaping from the Blackfoot group, he had a nearly 200 kilometer journey ahead of him through the wilderness.

The severed leg was going to be a source of protein. This wasn't just some ghastly trophy. This was a meal plan.

But the leg would end up being even more useful than Johnson could have ever predicted.

While trekking across the wilderness back to the nearest settlement, Johnson took refuge in a cave, only to discover that it was already the home of an angry bear.

We're told that the bear ferociously attacked Johnson, but the indomitable mountain man could not be stopped by neither man nor beast.

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