Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the scary interesting podcast.

You might not need to be told this, but it's a good idea to avoid eating brains.

It doesn't matter if they're human brains, cow brains, or the brains of a relative, it's almost always a really, really terrible idea.

So in this episode, we're going to look at what might happen to you if you do, and the horrible fate that awaits you if you're unlucky enough to be born with a brain that acts as though

you have. As always, listener discretion is advised.

Dr. Pietro Cortelli was a doctor at the Neuroological Institute in Bologna, Italy.

One of his main jobs was to collect information about patients for a supervisor, Dr. Elio Luguresi,

so they could use them to work on the best course of treatment.

In April of 1984, he'd been asked to assess a new patient who had been referred

after some strange results from previous studies. This patient's name was Silvano. Silvano was a

trim and handsome man in his early 50s, immaculately dressed in a suit with a pressed pocket

square and perfectly manicured red hair on top of a rugged forehead. He wasn't acting erratically

or in any way that might suggest that

something was wrong. Maybe the only visible signs, if any, were that he was sweating quite a bit,

which Pietro just figured was the hot Italian son and that he seemed extremely tired. Pietro got

at his notepad and asked Silvano how they could help, and then in a calm, matter-of-fact way, Silvanna looked up at Pietro and said, I'm going to die,

and I can tell you exactly how I'm going to go. A year earlier in the summer of 1983,

Silvano had been held up at gunpoint during a bank robbery in his hometown of Venice, Italy.

It was obviously a stressful time, and his family knew that he was struggling to cope with

what had happened. His brother decided that the best way to help him get past the

ordeal was to take his mind off it, so knowing that his brother liked to party, he booked

them on a cruise for a night of dancing, drinking, and forgetting about whatever problems

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