Painter finds hand-me-down severed hand

Police in Waldboro, Maine, have seized a severed hand that had apparently been, er, handed-down over fifty to eighty years. A construction worker found the hand in a box at a home he was painting for the owner, a man who buys homes to restore and sell. The owner and police contacted the woman who lived there previously to (sorry) get a grip on the situation. From the Associated Press:

(Current home owner Bo) Jespersen was struck by its size, with fingers about an inch and
a half longer than his own…The wrist portion appeared jagged, Jespersen said, as if the
hand had been removed violently, and 6 to 8 inches of what appeared to be tendons were looped around it…
The previous owner claimed she had gotten the hand from a man down the road, who is now in his 80s and remembers his father having the hand.
“She had heard it was from a farming accident,” Jespersen said.