Ninjas Are Butterflies 183 - Sicily’s Catacomb Mummies, Saint Menas vs Nazis and a Vietnam Hero
Feb 27, 2026
A creepy tour of Palermo’s Capuchin catacombs and the bafflingly preserved mummies found there. A wartime legend about Saint Menas supposedly turning the tide against Nazis at El Alamein. The true-life rescue of a hockey goalie by a Vietnam medic that reads like a movie.
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Vietnam Medic Saved Hockey Player With Field Triage
- Jim Pizzatelli, a Vietnam veteran and hockey athletic trainer, rushed onto the ice in 1989 and physically clamped a skater's severed carotid to stop life-threatening bleeding.
- He then used his knee over the collarbone to slow the victim's heartbeat until doctors arrived, saving the player's life after 300 stitches.