Painter finds hand-me-down severed hand

CONTRACTORS working on an old house in the US have found a human hand that police later confirmed was severed 50-80 years ago, but it’s still unclear whose hand it was and why it was there.

Painters working for Bo Jespersen, who renovates and sells old homes, discovered what appeared to be a man’s hand in June.

“They called me and said they’d been losing sleep over something they’d found,” the Maine, USA, resident said at the weekend.