1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: Welcome to you stuff you should know from House Stuff 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:13,240 Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the turn of 3 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:17,119 Speaker 1: the century radio play. How's it going great? How are you? 4 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: I'm doing good? I'm like, this sounds not like a 5 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 1: radio play. No, it will very soon. Um, this is 6 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 1: a very special stuff you should know in honor of 7 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 1: Shark Week. That's right. Um, we're doing something different, something 8 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: that Mr Charles W. Chuckers Bryant put together, UM, a 9 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 1: group of radio diaries. I guess you could say, yeah, 10 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:42,560 Speaker 1: you know, I think we touched on the um shark 11 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: attacks at the Jersey Shore in Mattawan Creek in nineteen 12 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 1: sixteen and a previous podcast, how short Attacks work and 13 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: dogs a Shark's favorite. Meal's right because the dog was 14 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 1: actually in the water and the first victim was attacked. Uh. 15 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: This is the story that UM inspired Jaws Peter Benchley. Yeah, 16 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 1: and it is the famous UM. And there's been a 17 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 1: lot of specials on this, like some pretty good ones. Well, 18 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:10,119 Speaker 1: it's pretty sensational. It's like a hugely sensational. I would 19 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:12,400 Speaker 1: call this though, the special of all specials on this. 20 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 1: You did a great job, you think, so, yeah, Well, 21 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 1: thank you. Uh, so we want to give you a 22 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: little backstory so you know what you're listening to. Then 23 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 1: we want to introduce the players to this little radio 24 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 1: play or I guess you call it a podcast play. Yeah, 25 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 1: and uh so, so you know who you're listening to 26 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: and what you're listening to. Well, Chuck, let's let's talk 27 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:37,400 Speaker 1: about the attacks. Um, what year is this? Yeah, and 28 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: it's a time when beach recreation was like new, the 29 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 1: frozen banana had just been invented, Yeah, sort of, but 30 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 1: this was the first time, like this was the beginnings 31 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: of like massive amounts of people going to the beach. 32 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: Dude swimming in the ocean, Ladies just starting to show 33 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: a little ankle, just dipping their toe in. Mainly the 34 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: men out there swimming in there, one piece weightlifters, uniform 35 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 1: bathing suits. Right, that's right. And it was just like 36 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 1: a beautiful time to be alive in America. And so 37 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 1: this is the Jersey Shore. It's much like the Jersey 38 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: Shores today where if you live in New York or Philly, 39 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 1: this is where you're going when it's hot. Also very different, imagine, right, 40 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: but this is the origin of that time, yeah, or 41 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 1: of that movement or absolutely so this would all come 42 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 1: screeching to a halt. Uh over the course of twelve days, 43 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 1: with um five different victims of four which died on 44 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: two on the Jersey shore and then two more on 45 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: a creek on an inland Title Creek and Mattawan or Mattawan. 46 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,360 Speaker 1: So the first attack takes place on July one, nineteen sixteen, right, 47 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 1: and um, people thought it was a fluke. Yeah, it 48 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 1: was a Philly vacation or named Charles van Zant, and um, 49 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 1: he died. Five days later there was another attack on 50 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 1: the shore. So yes, now all of a sudden, you 51 00:02:56,120 --> 00:03:00,360 Speaker 1: have the entire nation's attention because everyone was like a 52 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 1: guy got attacked by shark. It never happens, totally unusual occurrence. 53 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: Then five days later in the same area there's another one. Yes, 54 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 1: a swissman attacked on the shore. And then um, after 55 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: that is when uh, they don't even know shark or 56 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 1: sharks moved inland to a Title creek and like kids 57 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: swimming in this creek thinking it's completely safe. Yeah, boy dies, 58 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:26,079 Speaker 1: man dies trying to save boy. Another boy severely injured. 59 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: And uh, it was pretty nuts after that, like the 60 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: President Wilson got involved. It was like a nationwide frenzy 61 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: because no one had ever known about shark attacks before. 62 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, this is like the first thing. It 63 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 1: was like an anomaly. Okay, so you were basically like 64 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: a sailor to know about a shark attack. I think 65 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 1: so ya an introduction it is. So that's what we 66 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: got going on. We'll introduce the players now. Um. First up, 67 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 1: you're gonna hear uh and these are lost diaries that 68 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: we found from the scene, right, we should point out 69 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 1: I thought that was a given. It is. Dr John C. 70 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 1: Nichols is played by tech stuff Jonathan Strickland. He uh 71 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: is regarded as the first American ich theologist and worked 72 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: with his mentor, doctor Frederick Lucas, who was very uh. 73 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 1: They were kind of at odds for a while on this, 74 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:20,839 Speaker 1: like Lucas was like, that's not sharks. Sharks don't do that, 75 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 1: and so Nichols went to the scene and he was 76 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:28,720 Speaker 1: kind of who Matt Hooper was based on Awesome of Jaws. Uh. 77 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:30,839 Speaker 1: Next up, you're gonna hear Louise Van's aunt, who was 78 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: the sister of the first victim, Charles, and she was 79 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 1: played by Rachel Frank, who coolest stuff on the planet. Yeah, 80 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 1: I was doing that. I don't know she's still doing that. Uh. 81 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:46,159 Speaker 1: And she actually saw her brother like from the beach 82 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 1: getting attacked in the water. H. Third up, we have 83 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 1: Stanley Fisher and then Mary Anderson after that, and they 84 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:57,840 Speaker 1: were um a burgeoning love relationship in Matajuan. Between these two. 85 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 1: Stanley was a local taylor, very well loved dude, and 86 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 1: Mary Anderson was a school teacher and they were just 87 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 1: like starting their courtship when Stanley perished right in front 88 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: of her face in the creek. Let me think about it. 89 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 1: It's bad enough to see someone killed by a shark, 90 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 1: and somebody that you care about killed by a shark. 91 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 1: That gotta really like leave an impression, I would say so. Uh. 92 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: And Stanley Fisher is voiced by Robert Lamb. Stuff to 93 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,679 Speaker 1: blow your minds, Robert Lamb, that's right. And Mary Anderson 94 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:30,679 Speaker 1: is voiced by the former I guess you's still Katie Lambert. 95 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 1: The former stuff you missed in history class host right, 96 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 1: it was now departed from our work ranks. I think 97 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 1: that was probably a good point that Katie still doing great. 98 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 1: And then finally we have Joseph Dunn, who was one 99 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: of the little Boys who actually survived. This is crazy, man, 100 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 1: Are you really going to tell everybody who does? Joseph Dunn? 101 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: I don't think so. Okay, I think we should just 102 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 1: leave the mystery boy. Okay, Joseph Donn is the mystery 103 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 1: boy who is of legal age to be acting in 104 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:02,359 Speaker 1: a podcast play without any kind of like child labor 105 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:05,160 Speaker 1: laws being broken. Right, that's right. And Joseph he was 106 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:07,039 Speaker 1: actually from New York and he and his brother Michael 107 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:09,840 Speaker 1: went to visit his uh aunt and uncle and Cliffwood, 108 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 1: New Jersey and go swimming in the creeks there with 109 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:16,719 Speaker 1: her buddy Jerry Howard hand and things turn pretty gruesome 110 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 1: for all of them. So some rotten luck for the 111 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: Jersey shore. With that, should we go ahead and proceed 112 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:26,719 Speaker 1: with the s y s K radio play? Okay? What 113 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 1: do you call this thing? Uh? Uh? Call it listener 114 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:34,840 Speaker 1: mail from a fan in Canada? That's terrible. Okay? How 115 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:38,239 Speaker 1: about the Shark Diaries of the attacks at Mattawan Creek 116 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:52,160 Speaker 1: July one, four p m. Dear Diary, We're headed to 117 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 1: Beach Haven on the train and it could not be 118 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 1: any hotter. I'm covered from head to toe in woolen 119 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 1: cotton and it is quite I considered trying the ocean 120 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: out this time, but Father says that women should not 121 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: bathe with me. Besides, whoever thought wool stockings and seawater 122 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,679 Speaker 1: go together should be run up a flagpole lead weights 123 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: in the hymn of the skirt. It's as if Third 124 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: attempting to drown us. Even so, it will be grand 125 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 1: to be at the beach for Independence Day. My brother 126 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: is beside me making fun of my diary. He has 127 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 1: threatened to steal it and shared around his office. I'm 128 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 1: sure there would be quite bored with it. Though. We 129 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 1: must be close to arriving, because I can smell the 130 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 1: salty air. M. July one, nineteen sixteen p m. Dear Diary. 131 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 1: The resorts are all booked full, and I bet half 132 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: of New Jersey and Pennsylvania are at the shore. Every 133 00:07:55,920 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 1: fifteen minutes a drain dispatches another thousand people. It is 134 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: quite a sight. Who would have thought that the ocean 135 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 1: would draw such a crowd. There are young men everywhere 136 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 1: playing cards and keeping an eye out for commers. Father 137 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: and sister are resting out before dinner, and I'm roasting 138 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 1: on the hot sand watching my brother swim to England. 139 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: Presumably he promised me a walk on the beach but 140 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: befriended a dog that seemed keen for a swim instead. 141 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 1: I call him Patches. Currently, he and Patches are swimming 142 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 1: out well past the others, both doing their best dog paddle. 143 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 1: I can barely see him from here, but he looks 144 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 1: to be having loads of fun. He's yelling and waving 145 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 1: his arms for Patches, but it looks like the pooch 146 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 1: has exhausted himself and is heading back. I'm beginning to 147 00:08:46,120 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 1: think that July two, n two pm where arrived this 148 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 1: morning of an attack on a human in beach Haven, 149 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 1: possibly a shark, most odd naturally. Dr Lucas has already 150 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 1: discounted it, but I wonder my inexperience next to Lucas 151 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: is pronounced yet I doubt his resolve to test his 152 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 1: own hypotheses now he nears retirement and news of sharks 153 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 1: feeding on humans is not something that appears to interest him. 154 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 1: His lack of investment was striking. I need to go 155 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: to beach Haven and investigate, but I am bound to 156 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 1: the museum. The fish commissioners said that it was likely 157 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: after a dog in the water with the victim stripped 158 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 1: the man to his bone on the right and lost 159 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 1: several pounds of flesh on the left. My early thought 160 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: is a tiger, or perhaps a bowl. Lucas is convinced 161 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 1: there are no great whites around here. The victim was 162 00:09:54,040 --> 00:10:04,719 Speaker 1: very young. July two, nineteen sixteen, three thirty a m. 163 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 1: Dear Diary, I cannot believe the words that I am 164 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 1: about to write. My brother has died. He was swimming 165 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 1: far out in the water when the people around me 166 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 1: began shouting. I saw a long, dark shadow in the 167 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: water just behind him. A man said that it was 168 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:29,719 Speaker 1: a shark, but I don't know. I've never seen one. 169 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 1: It had a tall fin that sat high in the water. 170 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 1: It took him by the legs and drew him under. 171 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 1: A lifeguard swam out to retrieve him, but it was 172 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 1: too late. He was gone by the time he reached shore. 173 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 1: The water ran red with his blood around my feet. 174 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 1: And I've never felt so helpless in all my life. 175 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:58,680 Speaker 1: His left thigh was in shreds all the way to 176 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 1: the bone. His right leg was hollowed out from waste. 177 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: To me, his lifeless face stared skyward. July two p m. 178 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:23,199 Speaker 1: Summer has come upon us fully. It was more than 179 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 1: ninety degrees yesterday, and it may have been even hotter today. 180 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 1: Business has been steady, but slower than it was in 181 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 1: the spring and the winter before that. Mary and I 182 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:35,200 Speaker 1: went for a walk down by the creek after church 183 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 1: on Sunday. She told me about our students. We talked 184 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 1: about Mattawan. We both love it here and don't desire 185 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:43,960 Speaker 1: the bright lights of Philadelphia or New York. It is 186 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 1: a close community and we look out for each other. 187 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 1: I want to raise a family here. I've grown quite 188 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: fond of Mary, and I believe that in three weeks 189 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: it can be called a genuine courtship. She's kind, pretty smart. 190 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 1: It comes from a good family. There's a rumor in 191 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:03,600 Speaker 1: town that a man was attacked by a giant fish 192 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:07,199 Speaker 1: yesterday in beech Haven. Captain Catrell has told us all 193 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 1: stories of man eaters at sea, but has also regaled 194 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 1: us with tales of giant squids and waves as tall 195 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 1: as four stories. He's well known to stretch for truth, 196 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 1: and his words should be taken with a pinch of salt. 197 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:29,679 Speaker 1: July second, nineteen sixteen, seven thirty six pm, Dear Diary, 198 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:33,160 Speaker 1: July oh July. I cannot believe I have not written 199 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:34,959 Speaker 1: in my diary since the end of the school year. 200 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 1: Summer break was supposed to be my time to catch 201 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 1: up on this sort of thing. All well, Latita, I 202 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 1: am being courted by a man. He's tall and broad, 203 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 1: with blonde hair and blue eyes, very handsome. He's beloved 204 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 1: in town as well. His name is reputable as the 205 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 1: mayor himself. He's a tailor and has one of only 206 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 1: four shops on Main Street, and is consequently quite a 207 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 1: snappy dresser. We took a walk after church on Sunday 208 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: and talked about life and our hopes and dreams, and 209 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 1: our families and our past and our future. I'm just 210 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,880 Speaker 1: over the moon about it. Really. He loves Mattajuana as 211 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 1: much as I do, and would not give a nickel 212 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 1: for the bells and whistles of Philadelphia. We were in 213 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 1: his shop this afternoon and I watched him cut a 214 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: suit jacket. It was really something, a true art. A 215 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 1: strange thing happened as well. Captain Cotrell came by and 216 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:23,320 Speaker 1: told us a man in beach Haven was attacked by 217 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 1: a fish, perhaps a shark. Very odd to hear such 218 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 1: a thing. Jo nix Am, Dear Diary. Today's Independence Day 219 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 1: and it's very hot here in New York. Father is 220 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 1: home because it's a holiday for families. We're supposed to 221 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 1: think about freedom today, but I don't know what they mean. 222 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 1: My brother told me there was a man who got 223 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:57,840 Speaker 1: eaten by a shark in New Jersey. But I think 224 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:00,160 Speaker 1: he's just trying to scare me because we're traveling to 225 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: visit my aunt's house in Cliffwood next week. They say 226 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:04,840 Speaker 1: a lot of people go to the beach now and 227 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 1: swim in the ocean, but we only go in the 228 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 1: creek in Mattawan with our friends. We're going to parade 229 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 1: later today. My brother said he would buy firecrackers, even 230 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 1: though Mom said not to. I'm putting a picture of 231 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 1: New York in this diary so I can show my 232 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 1: friends at Mattawan what the city looks like. I hope 233 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 1: I get a good mark for my diary riding project 234 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 1: when we start school. I like it. M July three, 235 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:34,720 Speaker 1: nineteen sixteen, five seventeen pm, Dear Diary. I decided to 236 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: take lunch to Stanley today at his shop. I do 237 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:39,200 Speaker 1: not want to run him off by calling too much, 238 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 1: but I missed him, so I threw caution to the wind. 239 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 1: He seemed very pleased to see me, and we made 240 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 1: plans to go to the Twin Lights Lighthouse at the 241 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 1: Atlantic Highlands on the Bay. It is going to be 242 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 1: just splendid and I can hardly contain myself. I'll pack 243 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 1: a picnic supper and we'll watch the sunset together and 244 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: then the big fireworks show. My favorite. Stanley traded a 245 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 1: man a tailored suit for life insurance to a cecil suit, 246 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 1: which was far too generous. What on earth does a 247 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 1: man his age need with life insurance? But that is 248 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: also what I am growing to love about him. His 249 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: generosity is only matched by his kindness. He plays baseball 250 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 1: with the children and they absolutely adore him. I want 251 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 1: to bring him by the schoolhouse that's fall to meet 252 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 1: my students. Listen to me already planning for fall with 253 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 1: him by my side. Oh and I just had to 254 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 1: clip out the ads Stanley placed in the MOTTA one Journal, 255 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 1: July nineteen sixteen, p M. Dear Diary, I met the 256 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 1: lifeguard who tried to save my brother at the funeral. 257 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 1: He was very kind. I believe that he did everything 258 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 1: he could do to save my brother. No one has 259 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 1: ever been attacked by a fish before, and many doubt 260 00:15:56,760 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 1: the events as they occurred. There have long been stories 261 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 1: of man eaters in the sea, but I most believed 262 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 1: them to be legend. I was there. I know. I 263 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 1: saw him flung from the water. I saw his mangled 264 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:18,000 Speaker 1: left leg exposed fully to the bone. It had been 265 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 1: virtually torn from his body. The Times ran a small 266 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 1: story on page eighteen. My brother deserved more, so much more. 267 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 1: N six am. Another shark attack yesterday in New Jersey 268 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 1: Spring Lake. The Times this morning is already all over 269 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 1: this event. So much for dodging a media circus. Lucas 270 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 1: finally agrees that something is a miss. This is no 271 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 1: blasted sea turtle. We have eyewitness accounts this time. It's 272 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 1: clear that someone should go to Spring Lake and examine 273 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: the body. I feel like I'm the most qualified man 274 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: in New York, maybe even the country. Lucas may fight 275 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 1: me on this press conference in the morning at the museum, 276 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:10,880 Speaker 1: so we had better get our ducks in a row. 277 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:13,159 Speaker 1: Lucas said that the jaw of a shark is not 278 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:17,960 Speaker 1: strong or capable of severing human bone. I have grave doubts. 279 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 1: July sixteen PM. Dear Diary, It's been almost a week 280 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:34,359 Speaker 1: since we lost my dear brother. I found his journal 281 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 1: today and reading his final entry breaks my heart each 282 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:41,919 Speaker 1: time my eyes pass over it. We received word this 283 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:44,359 Speaker 1: morning that another bay there was killed two days ago. 284 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 1: Its Spring Lake, a bellhop at a local resort. His 285 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:51,399 Speaker 1: attack has drawn much more attention than our own just 286 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:56,080 Speaker 1: days ago. I feel terrible for his family. Perhaps in 287 00:17:56,119 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 1: time I can reach out to them. No one seems 288 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 1: to know what is happening on our beaches that were 289 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:05,199 Speaker 1: so different just days ago. What was previously a welcome 290 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: distraction from the polio epidemic in New York is now 291 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 1: a beach awash with the blood of our brothers and sons. 292 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 1: I pray for the end of summer. J n PM. 293 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:25,119 Speaker 1: Word has come to Mattawin that another bathere was attacked 294 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 1: on the shore yesterday. This time it was spring Lake, 295 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 1: not far from here. If this is true, it is 296 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:33,920 Speaker 1: most uncommon. We have never heard of a shark attacking 297 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 1: a man, and now we have heard stories of two 298 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 1: in just one week. I imagine that the news will 299 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:41,440 Speaker 1: disrupt activity at the shore. Luckily, for us, all we 300 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: have to worry about is the odd catfish nipping our toes. 301 00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:47,800 Speaker 1: I tried to talk Mary into coming for a swim sometime, 302 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:49,920 Speaker 1: but she said she prefers to watch me from the bank. 303 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:52,879 Speaker 1: I think she's just being shy. She said that she 304 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:54,920 Speaker 1: would not want Captain Cattrell to see her in a 305 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,200 Speaker 1: bathing gown, and I think she may have a good point. 306 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:00,919 Speaker 1: She's smart, she is. Surely the shark business is just 307 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,200 Speaker 1: people's imagination getting the best of them. There're no sharks 308 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:22,960 Speaker 1: in New Jersey. July seven, nineteen sixteen to seventeen pm. 309 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: Stanley just phoned and said that Captain Cotrell reported another 310 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:28,800 Speaker 1: shark attack on the shore. They did not believe him 311 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 1: at first, but the newspaper confirmed it. It was Upspring 312 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:34,439 Speaker 1: Lake this time, which means much more to do about it, 313 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 1: I'm sure. Stanley said that a scientist in the paper 314 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:40,639 Speaker 1: insisted that sharks do not come to New Jersey, and 315 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:43,320 Speaker 1: even if they did, they would not be interested in humans. 316 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:46,600 Speaker 1: I just do not know what to think sharks biting 317 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 1: people in New Jersey? Whoever heard of such a thing? 318 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:51,480 Speaker 1: Stanley swims in the creek, but you would not catch 319 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:53,960 Speaker 1: me dead in there. You cannot see six inches into 320 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:57,480 Speaker 1: the water. Besides, Captain Cortrell is always running up and 321 00:19:57,480 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 1: down in his motor boat. And let me just say 322 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:02,160 Speaker 1: that he will never see me in a skirt and stockings. 323 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 1: The very thought makes me pale U nineteen sixteen three 324 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:18,480 Speaker 1: pm press conference went well enough. Lucas was met with 325 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 1: questions straight away. The first blasted question asked what he 326 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:24,160 Speaker 1: would tell the thirty mayors of the Jersey Shore about 327 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 1: their beaches. High loath reporters. We did our best to 328 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:32,360 Speaker 1: calm nerves. Lucas is convinced that it was mistaken identity 329 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 1: and that the incidences are a merely a sad coincidence. 330 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:38,639 Speaker 1: He avoids using words like man eater and does a 331 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:40,920 Speaker 1: much better job with the press than Murphy or I could. 332 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:44,879 Speaker 1: Asbury Park has erected wire netting, and that, along with caution, 333 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,159 Speaker 1: should do for now. It is highly unlikely that we 334 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:50,639 Speaker 1: should ever hear of another shark incident on this coast. 335 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:54,080 Speaker 1: Even so, this is rich with opportunity for our records. 336 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: A man has never been attacked by a shark before 337 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 1: in the United States, and I go to em tomorrow. 338 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 1: July n six pm. Just returned from the examination of 339 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:14,679 Speaker 1: victim number two, Charles brewder Spring Lake, Swiss, with no 340 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 1: family in the States. The Times was correct in its story. 341 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 1: Both legs were taken, one at the knee and one 342 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 1: at midcalf. Lifeguards rode out in the boat this time 343 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 1: and pulled his body in. One remarked about how light 344 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:32,919 Speaker 1: it was, not realizing initially the legs were missing. Most disturbing, 345 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:38,560 Speaker 1: the flesh was torn in strips, jagged, the bones splintered 346 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: like wood. There's no doubt that this was the result 347 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 1: of a shark, but what species? Could it be? A 348 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:49,879 Speaker 1: road great white? The President has mobilized the Coastguard. I 349 00:21:49,880 --> 00:22:00,119 Speaker 1: am reporting news to his men now. July nine, R 350 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 1: D E. P. M. Dear Diary. My brother told me 351 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:05,919 Speaker 1: today in church that another man was eaten by a 352 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 1: shark in New Jersey. But Mom said it wasn't true. 353 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 1: She said they both got bit and died. But sharks 354 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 1: only go into the ocean, and I don't need to 355 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: be scared of them. In Mattawan, Mom said after supper 356 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 1: tonight she's going to talk to her aunt on the telephone, 357 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:22,400 Speaker 1: and my brother and I could talk to our friend 358 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 1: and Mattawan because he has a telephone now too. July six, 359 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:36,439 Speaker 1: eight am Dear Diary. My brother and I talked to 360 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 1: our friend on the telephone last night. It was really swell. 361 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 1: Mom says that he's a hooligan, but my brother said 362 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:46,400 Speaker 1: he's a good egg and swims good too. We asked 363 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,120 Speaker 1: him about the sharks and he said nobody there talked 364 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:52,040 Speaker 1: about it, but they are sad. He said, we could 365 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:54,360 Speaker 1: sneak into the dock at the New Jersey Clay Company 366 00:22:54,720 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 1: and no sharks are there. M. July eleven, nine, sixteen 367 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 1: eleven p m. Dear Diary, It has now been ten 368 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:13,480 Speaker 1: days since we lost my brother. I miss him so much, 369 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,960 Speaker 1: we all do. His car is still in front of 370 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:21,399 Speaker 1: the house, and I catch myself seeing him behind the wheel. 371 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:26,359 Speaker 1: After the second attack, a scientist who studies ocean fish 372 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,639 Speaker 1: came to Spring Lake. He's having a hard time with 373 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 1: the local journalists. They've printed that my brother was bitten 374 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 1: by a giant sea turtle. They've written that it was 375 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 1: a bloodthirstea rogue shark. The scientist makes claims of sensationalism 376 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 1: and pleads for patients. He says that only a great 377 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:48,399 Speaker 1: white has been known to attack a human, and that 378 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 1: there are none in New Jersey. Resorts have hired armed 379 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:55,960 Speaker 1: guards to patrol the beaches. They've erected wire nets for 380 00:23:56,080 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: bathing areas. I never to see the ocean again. July eleventh, 381 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:16,680 Speaker 1: nineteen sixteen, nine fifteen PM. Dear Diary, I'm in bed now. 382 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,679 Speaker 1: My brother is teasing me. He said that when we 383 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:23,040 Speaker 1: go back to Mattawan, it's going to be scary. He 384 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,720 Speaker 1: said that last summer he felt something touched him underwater 385 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 1: by the dock, and he said it was a shark. Probably. 386 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be asleep now because it's my bedtime 387 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 1: and we leave early in the morning. I'm scared of 388 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 1: the shark, but I don't want him to know, because 389 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 1: he'll tease me again. July twelve, nine, sixteen eleven. AM 390 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 1: back at the museum at last. Seems like all is 391 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,520 Speaker 1: calm now. It has been nearly a week since the 392 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 1: brutal attack. The media has taken a rest for the 393 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,920 Speaker 1: time being. There is much research to be done now. 394 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,159 Speaker 1: Lucas and Murphy are keen to hear my account. Everyone 395 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,920 Speaker 1: looks to us now for answers, and for now my 396 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:12,400 Speaker 1: colleagues are deferring to me as the only ichthyologists. Popular 397 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 1: theories abound ship sinkings and sailor deaths in the North 398 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 1: Sea are creating a taste for human flesh. Naval bombings 399 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,400 Speaker 1: are driving European sharks this way. Some have even said 400 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,240 Speaker 1: it was a purposeful conspiracy of the Germans to Luis 401 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,480 Speaker 1: into war. It's tiresome to deal with such poppy cock. 402 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 1: My strongest inclination is that there is a Pacific weather 403 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 1: phenomenon known as El Nino that has shifted the warm 404 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,920 Speaker 1: Gulf stream closer to shore. This has brought sharks that 405 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 1: have never been to our waters. More Later, July twelfth, 406 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:55,680 Speaker 1: nineteen six pm, I am famished. Mary said she would 407 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 1: bring lunch by after she finished her tutoring, and she 408 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 1: cannot arrive soon enough. In fact, I believe I see 409 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,359 Speaker 1: her coming my way now. She told me last night. 410 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 1: To today marks one month, and when I first called 411 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,720 Speaker 1: on her. It's hard to believe that much time has passed. 412 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,159 Speaker 1: We should do something special. Maybe I should close the 413 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,440 Speaker 1: shop early and take her into Philadelphia for dinner. She 414 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 1: is closer now, and the sun is cast an angelic 415 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 1: glow around her head. Or perhaps that is not the sun. 416 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:27,200 Speaker 1: I may curse myself by writing it down, but I 417 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 1: believe I might love her. July seven oh three, a m. 418 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 1: Dear Diary, I feel positively on cloud nine this morning. 419 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:45,440 Speaker 1: Today marks one full month since Stanley first called Everything 420 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:47,560 Speaker 1: is going so well. I hate to tempt fate by 421 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:49,879 Speaker 1: writing about it, but I think that I may be 422 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,800 Speaker 1: in love. It gives me goose bumps to even write 423 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,720 Speaker 1: such a thing. I stopped by his shop yesterday evening 424 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 1: and he was going out with Red to play baseball 425 00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 1: with the boys. He invited me to come along and walk, 426 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 1: and was surprised to learn that I enjoyed the game 427 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 1: very much. It's very exciting to me, and there's a 428 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 1: great level of skill involved. He is so wonderful with 429 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:10,640 Speaker 1: the boys. They love him and fight over whose team 430 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,120 Speaker 1: he should play on. It has been a full week 431 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,120 Speaker 1: since any word of shark attacks. We are all relieved 432 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,959 Speaker 1: to know that it is over. The scientists from New 433 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,160 Speaker 1: York are learning what happened and trying to decide why 434 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 1: this occurred. It is largely perplexed them. I do not 435 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,720 Speaker 1: plan to go to the ocean anytime soon. Even so. 436 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 1: I don't like the boys in my class or Stanley 437 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: swimming much at all. But the creek feels like a 438 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:39,679 Speaker 1: much safer option. July twelfth, n eight am, Dear Diary, 439 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 1: I had a bad dream that a giant fish with 440 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 1: a big mouth ate me. I don't know if it 441 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:48,399 Speaker 1: was a shark because I've never seen one. It was 442 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,639 Speaker 1: as big as a street car and had long teeth 443 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,240 Speaker 1: and were red. I was swimming in the creek with 444 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:57,639 Speaker 1: my brother and my friend, but they looked different. The 445 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 1: fish bit my leg and pulled me in the creek, 446 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:02,840 Speaker 1: but I came up and I was in the ocean. 447 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:05,600 Speaker 1: My aunt was on the beach and a wooden chair, 448 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 1: but she could not hear me scream. Then my brother 449 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:11,560 Speaker 1: was in a boat beside me, and I tried to 450 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 1: climb in. He laughed and kicked me until I fell 451 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,480 Speaker 1: on the ocean, and the big fish bit me again 452 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,840 Speaker 1: until he ate me. I woke up and my brother 453 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 1: said I was screaming, so I guess I really did 454 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 1: scream when I was a sweep. I don't want to 455 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,639 Speaker 1: go to mattawan anymore. Maybe I can fake sick and 456 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:46,000 Speaker 1: stay in Cliffwood. We leave on the train U nineteen 457 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:52,960 Speaker 1: six pm. Shocking news today. We'red in from Mattawuan, New Jersey, 458 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 1: of three shark attacks in the tidal creek. This is 459 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 1: very difficult to believe, and we all suspect that the 460 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 1: state has succumbed to sharkus. Drea Matta Juan is a 461 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 1: full eleven miles inland. Very doubtful. Regardless, Dr Lucas has 462 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 1: dispatched me directly. I depart on the morning train. H 463 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 1: July nine, sixteen am. Dear Diary, it is with a 464 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 1: broken heart that I write these words. Stanley is dead. 465 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,920 Speaker 1: He has gone from me before he was even mine. 466 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:44,200 Speaker 1: It has been two days since the awful event. It 467 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 1: was a shark, dear God, a shark. It got him 468 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,680 Speaker 1: right in front of my eyes, in front of the 469 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,280 Speaker 1: eyes of many. We buried him at two today in 470 00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:58,400 Speaker 1: the pouring rain. I am unable to sleep or eat. 471 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:02,560 Speaker 1: I have hardly moved from my bed. Father said it 472 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,360 Speaker 1: will take time, but I will never forget the events 473 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:09,360 Speaker 1: of July twelve. The immente will haunt me to my grave. 474 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:24,719 Speaker 1: July nineteen, sixteen, six fourteen pm. Today I examined two 475 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,480 Speaker 1: of the victims, a man named Fisher who was trying 476 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:30,480 Speaker 1: to retrieve the body of another victim, a boy named Stillwell. 477 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,440 Speaker 1: Another boy, Joseph Dunn, is the only survivor and is 478 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:38,520 Speaker 1: recovering in the hospital. His left calf is torn to pieces. 479 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,640 Speaker 1: Fisher's injury was similar to the two at the shore. 480 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,360 Speaker 1: The right thigh had a deep wound and the femoral 481 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:48,000 Speaker 1: artery was severed. There was no way to stop the blood. 482 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 1: He was taken in front of dozens of locals, including 483 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 1: his new sweetheart. Stillwell, was not recovered until the following day. 484 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:00,160 Speaker 1: His left ankle was chewed off, left thigh mangled from 485 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 1: hip to knee. His left abdominal region was open, and 486 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,760 Speaker 1: his intestines were nearly all torn out. The right hip, 487 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,520 Speaker 1: chest muscle, and left shoulder were also lost. His right 488 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 1: leg and face were the only parts untouched. July nineteen, 489 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:23,640 Speaker 1: sixteen PM. I have just returned to my boarding house 490 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:27,240 Speaker 1: after two days of chaos. Matajuan has turned into a battleground. 491 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,200 Speaker 1: Men dangle legs of lamb and sides of beef from 492 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,880 Speaker 1: the bridges. There's a near constant barrage of exploding dynamite. 493 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:38,760 Speaker 1: Women line the banks with rifles. Their methods are not safe, 494 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,240 Speaker 1: but I cannot deny my desire to catch the beast. 495 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,720 Speaker 1: I believe that the shark is moving north and attacking 496 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 1: people on its journey. I suspect it is either a 497 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 1: rogue white or a tiger shark that has strayed thousands 498 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 1: of miles from its natural environment. July nineteen, sixteen PM 499 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,240 Speaker 1: at the Museum. Again, the shark hunt in Mattawan seems 500 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,840 Speaker 1: to be working, but I doubt that any caught so 501 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 1: far are responsible. Could be the work of more than one. 502 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,840 Speaker 1: A local sea captain named Cartrelle caught a seven footer 503 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,760 Speaker 1: and has it on Ice and Town a nickel per viewing. 504 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 1: A nine footer was captured in Long Branch twenty five pounds. 505 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:24,760 Speaker 1: Lucas informed us that a man drowned at the Atlantic 506 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:28,600 Speaker 1: Highlands yesterday. People were afraid he was being attacked by 507 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:32,000 Speaker 1: a shark. The headlines now reach all the way from London. 508 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,760 Speaker 1: A parcel was delivered today from the men who captured 509 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:39,320 Speaker 1: a seven footer. It contained human bones taken from the 510 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:43,719 Speaker 1: belly and a description dark, dull, blue white belly. They 511 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:46,200 Speaker 1: said a man's head could fit inside its mouth. It 512 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,800 Speaker 1: sounds like a small great white to me upon an examination, however, 513 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:53,080 Speaker 1: the bones, while human, were from the lower arm. All 514 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 1: five victims in New Jersey were attacked at the legs. 515 00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:00,960 Speaker 1: This means there's been at least one unreported attack. People 516 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:04,520 Speaker 1: will never hear the words shark again without feeling fear. 517 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 1: July four, nineteen sixteen, twelve fourteen pm. It has been 518 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,600 Speaker 1: nearly two weeks since I lost Stanley. Though I can 519 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:27,600 Speaker 1: still smell him on my clothes. Each day brings new promise, 520 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:31,440 Speaker 1: only to shadow again. I feel like the story must 521 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,440 Speaker 1: be recorded, as hard as it is for me to 522 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:37,400 Speaker 1: write it. I was at his shop in the afternoon 523 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:39,840 Speaker 1: on July twelve when some boys ran down the street 524 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,320 Speaker 1: by the shop in a panic, shouting about a shark 525 00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:45,520 Speaker 1: in the creek. Stanley dismissed them at first, but I 526 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,960 Speaker 1: saw that the boys were naked and pale as ghosts. 527 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,320 Speaker 1: They said that a shark had taken Lester, stillwell, in 528 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:54,800 Speaker 1: the creek. Stanley did not hesitate for even a moment. 529 00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:57,040 Speaker 1: He said that Lester had the fits and that if 530 00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,120 Speaker 1: he did not get to him soon, he would be finished. 531 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,400 Speaker 1: He grabbed Red and Arthur Smith and was gone before 532 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:06,320 Speaker 1: I could stop him. I arrived at the creek several 533 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,399 Speaker 1: minutes after Stanley. He was in a rowboat with Arthur 534 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,759 Speaker 1: and Red searching for Lester. They dragged chicken wire under 535 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:15,719 Speaker 1: the boat to try and find him. The water was 536 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,400 Speaker 1: red with blood and people began to arrive in a panic. 537 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:23,000 Speaker 1: Stanley became frustrated and suggested they dive for him. They 538 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,319 Speaker 1: all changed into bathing suits behind a tree, and one 539 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:29,160 Speaker 1: by one entered the water. They searched for a while, 540 00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:32,680 Speaker 1: and we're losing hope and cold Red said they should 541 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:34,239 Speaker 1: call it off, and they all began to come to 542 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:39,120 Speaker 1: the bank. Stanley decided to take one more dive. He 543 00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:43,080 Speaker 1: went deeper than before you could tell. Stanley surfaced holding 544 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:46,160 Speaker 1: what remained of Lester, stillwell in his arms. He was 545 00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:48,400 Speaker 1: walking toward the bank, knee deep in water when the 546 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,480 Speaker 1: beasts took him by the right leg. He dropped Lester 547 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,479 Speaker 1: and yelled, he's got me. The sharks got me. Those 548 00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:58,920 Speaker 1: words ring in my head. I do not remember what 549 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:02,239 Speaker 1: happened after that. They told me that a deputy was 550 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:04,279 Speaker 1: able to fight off the shark with an oar, and 551 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:08,080 Speaker 1: that Stanley was aware of what happened. His only words were, 552 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,879 Speaker 1: oh my god. A doctor applied a rope to his thigh, 553 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,640 Speaker 1: and they took him by train to Monmouth Memorial Hospital. 554 00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:21,240 Speaker 1: He died there hours later without me by his side. 555 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:45,600 Speaker 1: M August nineteen sixteen, five p m. Dear Diary, I'm 556 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,920 Speaker 1: in St. Peter's Hospital in a town called New Brunswick. 557 00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:51,960 Speaker 1: It has been a month since I wrote in my journal, 558 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:56,560 Speaker 1: and it's because I was bitten by a shark. My 559 00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,719 Speaker 1: brother feels bad about teasing me now, and it's very 560 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:02,800 Speaker 1: nigh to me. We were swimming at the dock with 561 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,759 Speaker 1: our friends and Magdalen, and an old man came by 562 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:09,520 Speaker 1: in a boat yelling shark. My brother and the others 563 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,840 Speaker 1: got to the dock and got out, but I was 564 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,920 Speaker 1: behind him. I got all the way to the ladder 565 00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:18,880 Speaker 1: when I felt something bite me very hard. It was 566 00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:21,279 Speaker 1: a shark and it pulled me back into the water. 567 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,480 Speaker 1: My brother and my friend jumped in and pulled me 568 00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,799 Speaker 1: away from the shark, and they put me on the dock. 569 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:31,120 Speaker 1: I don't remember anything after that. I woke up in 570 00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:35,279 Speaker 1: a hospital and my leg hurt very bad. I have 571 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,560 Speaker 1: had three surgeries and my doctor put new skin on 572 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:42,759 Speaker 1: my leg. He said I'm going to be okay. My 573 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,360 Speaker 1: mom cried when she saw me, but I told her 574 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,879 Speaker 1: it didn't hurt. The nurse here is nice and gives 575 00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,640 Speaker 1: me candy. She says, I had bad dreams when I 576 00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:54,560 Speaker 1: first got here about the shark, but now I'm not 577 00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:57,600 Speaker 1: scared anymore. The people that work here called me a 578 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,200 Speaker 1: little Jonah because he was eaten by a a O. 579 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:16,239 Speaker 1: August sixteen, six pm, Dear Diary. They let me walk 580 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,680 Speaker 1: today with crutches, and it hurts some. The doctor said 581 00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:22,880 Speaker 1: that it will not hurt forever. My mom told me 582 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,600 Speaker 1: today about the other people in Mattawan who died because 583 00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:29,520 Speaker 1: of the shark. Some boy named Lester stillwell, and a 584 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,440 Speaker 1: man who tried to save Leicester. I think his name 585 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:36,680 Speaker 1: was Stanley. That makes me sad for their families. They 586 00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:40,400 Speaker 1: say that I'm brave before people got killed by the shark, 587 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,920 Speaker 1: and I think the least I could do is steel fortunate. 588 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:59,359 Speaker 1: I'm okay. October sixteen pm. It has been three months 589 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:03,440 Speaker 1: since the terror at Mattajuan Creek. Joseph Dunne fully recovered 590 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,719 Speaker 1: and was released home one month ago. My final thoughts 591 00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:10,440 Speaker 1: on what happened in New Jersey this summer. Whether sharks 592 00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:13,120 Speaker 1: in general are more numerous in our waters this summer 593 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,840 Speaker 1: than during previous years may be seriously questioned, notwithstanding the 594 00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,360 Speaker 1: way in which local fishermen and the crowd of incoming 595 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:23,480 Speaker 1: steamers have vied in frightening the public. Shark stories with 596 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,640 Speaker 1: a certain foundation, and truth will always be forthcoming when 597 00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,600 Speaker 1: reporters have been ordered to get them. It may be 598 00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:32,440 Speaker 1: recalled that the summer of nineteen fifteen, although marked by 599 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,080 Speaker 1: no such horrifying events as we have known this year, 600 00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:40,520 Speaker 1: was nevertheless popularly considered an exceptional Sharks season. So now 601 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:42,560 Speaker 1: we must move forward and try to learn from the 602 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:46,000 Speaker 1: events of July nineteen six, a summer that I believe 603 00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,840 Speaker 1: in the future may be remembered not only as a 604 00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:52,160 Speaker 1: terrible tragedy, but as the birth of modern Eck theology. 605 00:38:55,800 --> 00:39:05,880 Speaker 1: M Wow, holy cow, that was chilling. Chuck, you did 606 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:10,360 Speaker 1: so good with this. Jerry did great Who Jerry sound 607 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:13,080 Speaker 1: designed the whole thing? Oh yeah, yeah. And then Robert 608 00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,160 Speaker 1: and Jonathan and Katie and Rachel and uh the mystery voice, 609 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,480 Speaker 1: the mystery boy. Everyone did a great job. And that 610 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:21,840 Speaker 1: was that. I hope you guys enjoyed it. That's a 611 00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:23,279 Speaker 1: heck of a way to wrap it up. That was that. 612 00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,399 Speaker 1: How about the uh the familiar sign off? Let's hear 613 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,560 Speaker 1: it for Chuck Bryant first, everybody, way to go. Check 614 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:32,239 Speaker 1: writer producer director. I believe. Uh yeah, I guess it's 615 00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:36,560 Speaker 1: a little directing going on. Yeah, triple threat. Um yeah, Okay, Well, 616 00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:38,680 Speaker 1: if you want to contact us, you can tweet to 617 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:40,759 Speaker 1: us at s Y s K podcast. 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