WEBVTT - The Shark Diaries 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.280 Welcome to you stuff you should know from House Stuff 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:13.240 Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the turn of 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:17.119 the century radio play. How's it going great? How are you? 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:19.919 I'm doing good? I'm like, this sounds not like a 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:24.079 radio play. No, it will very soon. Um, this is 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:26.400 a very special stuff you should know in honor of 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:29.960 Shark Week. That's right. Um, we're doing something different, something 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:36.040 that Mr Charles W. Chuckers Bryant put together, UM, a 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:39.440 group of radio diaries. I guess you could say, yeah, 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.560 you know, I think we touched on the um shark 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:46.040 attacks at the Jersey Shore in Mattawan Creek in nineteen 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:50.559 sixteen and a previous podcast, how short Attacks work and 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:54.160 dogs a Shark's favorite. Meal's right because the dog was 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:56.960 actually in the water and the first victim was attacked. Uh. 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:01.400 This is the story that UM inspired Jaws Peter Benchley. Yeah, 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.640 and it is the famous UM. And there's been a 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:06.920 lot of specials on this, like some pretty good ones. Well, 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:10.119 it's pretty sensational. It's like a hugely sensational. I would 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.400 call this though, the special of all specials on this. 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:14.520 You did a great job, you think, so, yeah, Well, 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.360 thank you. Uh, so we want to give you a 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.840 little backstory so you know what you're listening to. Then 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.600 we want to introduce the players to this little radio 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:25.840 play or I guess you call it a podcast play. Yeah, 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:28.120 and uh so, so you know who you're listening to 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:31.880 and what you're listening to. Well, Chuck, let's let's talk 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:37.400 about the attacks. Um, what year is this? Yeah, and 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:41.480 it's a time when beach recreation was like new, the 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:45.080 frozen banana had just been invented, Yeah, sort of, but 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:47.400 this was the first time, like this was the beginnings 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.280 of like massive amounts of people going to the beach. 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.400 Dude swimming in the ocean, Ladies just starting to show 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.760 a little ankle, just dipping their toe in. Mainly the 0:01:56.760 --> 0:02:01.680 men out there swimming in there, one piece weightlifters, uniform 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:03.720 bathing suits. Right, that's right. And it was just like 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:07.800 a beautiful time to be alive in America. And so 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:09.919 this is the Jersey Shore. It's much like the Jersey 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.720 Shores today where if you live in New York or Philly, 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:16.120 this is where you're going when it's hot. Also very different, imagine, right, 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.600 but this is the origin of that time, yeah, or 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:22.600 of that movement or absolutely so this would all come 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:26.680 screeching to a halt. Uh over the course of twelve days, 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:32.840 with um five different victims of four which died on 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.600 two on the Jersey shore and then two more on 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:39.800 a creek on an inland Title Creek and Mattawan or Mattawan. 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:43.360 So the first attack takes place on July one, nineteen sixteen, right, 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.120 and um, people thought it was a fluke. Yeah, it 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:51.200 was a Philly vacation or named Charles van Zant, and um, 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:53.720 he died. Five days later there was another attack on 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.080 the shore. So yes, now all of a sudden, you 0:02:56.120 --> 0:03:00.360 have the entire nation's attention because everyone was like a 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:04.080 guy got attacked by shark. It never happens, totally unusual occurrence. 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.000 Then five days later in the same area there's another one. Yes, 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.880 a swissman attacked on the shore. And then um, after 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:13.720 that is when uh, they don't even know shark or 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:18.200 sharks moved inland to a Title creek and like kids 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:22.560 swimming in this creek thinking it's completely safe. Yeah, boy dies, 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:26.079 man dies trying to save boy. Another boy severely injured. 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:30.040 And uh, it was pretty nuts after that, like the 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:35.280 President Wilson got involved. It was like a nationwide frenzy 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:38.400 because no one had ever known about shark attacks before. 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:40.800 Oh yeah, yeah, this is like the first thing. It 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.600 was like an anomaly. Okay, so you were basically like 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.000 a sailor to know about a shark attack. I think 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:50.280 so ya an introduction it is. So that's what we 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:54.320 got going on. We'll introduce the players now. Um. First up, 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:57.600 you're gonna hear uh and these are lost diaries that 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.960 we found from the scene, right, we should point out 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.200 I thought that was a given. It is. Dr John C. 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:08.280 Nichols is played by tech stuff Jonathan Strickland. He uh 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:12.120 is regarded as the first American ich theologist and worked 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:16.120 with his mentor, doctor Frederick Lucas, who was very uh. 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:17.839 They were kind of at odds for a while on this, 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.839 like Lucas was like, that's not sharks. Sharks don't do that, 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.800 and so Nichols went to the scene and he was 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:28.720 kind of who Matt Hooper was based on Awesome of Jaws. Uh. 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:30.839 Next up, you're gonna hear Louise Van's aunt, who was 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:35.440 the sister of the first victim, Charles, and she was 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:39.480 played by Rachel Frank, who coolest stuff on the planet. Yeah, 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:43.760 I was doing that. I don't know she's still doing that. Uh. 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.159 And she actually saw her brother like from the beach 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.960 getting attacked in the water. H. Third up, we have 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:52.800 Stanley Fisher and then Mary Anderson after that, and they 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:57.840 were um a burgeoning love relationship in Matajuan. Between these two. 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:01.280 Stanley was a local taylor, very well loved dude, and 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.120 Mary Anderson was a school teacher and they were just 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:08.120 like starting their courtship when Stanley perished right in front 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.960 of her face in the creek. Let me think about it. 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.000 It's bad enough to see someone killed by a shark, 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.200 and somebody that you care about killed by a shark. 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:20.360 That gotta really like leave an impression, I would say so. Uh. 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:24.000 And Stanley Fisher is voiced by Robert Lamb. Stuff to 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:27.679 blow your minds, Robert Lamb, that's right. And Mary Anderson 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.679 is voiced by the former I guess you's still Katie Lambert. 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:33.800 The former stuff you missed in history class host right, 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.920 it was now departed from our work ranks. I think 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:39.560 that was probably a good point that Katie still doing great. 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:44.000 And then finally we have Joseph Dunn, who was one 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.960 of the little Boys who actually survived. This is crazy, man, 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:50.000 Are you really going to tell everybody who does? Joseph Dunn? 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.000 I don't think so. Okay, I think we should just 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:55.360 leave the mystery boy. Okay, Joseph Donn is the mystery 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.800 boy who is of legal age to be acting in 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:02.359 a podcast play without any kind of like child labor 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.160 laws being broken. Right, that's right. And Joseph he was 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.039 actually from New York and he and his brother Michael 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.840 went to visit his uh aunt and uncle and Cliffwood, 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.200 New Jersey and go swimming in the creeks there with 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:16.719 her buddy Jerry Howard hand and things turn pretty gruesome 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:20.400 for all of them. So some rotten luck for the 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:24.440 Jersey shore. With that, should we go ahead and proceed 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.719 with the s y s K radio play? Okay? What 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:31.000 do you call this thing? Uh? Uh? Call it listener 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.840 mail from a fan in Canada? That's terrible. Okay? How 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:38.239 about the Shark Diaries of the attacks at Mattawan Creek 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:52.160 July one, four p m. Dear Diary, We're headed to 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.560 Beach Haven on the train and it could not be 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:58.320 any hotter. I'm covered from head to toe in woolen 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:03.040 cotton and it is quite I considered trying the ocean 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.960 out this time, but Father says that women should not 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:10.160 bathe with me. Besides, whoever thought wool stockings and seawater 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.679 go together should be run up a flagpole lead weights 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:15.880 in the hymn of the skirt. It's as if Third 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:20.000 attempting to drown us. Even so, it will be grand 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.640 to be at the beach for Independence Day. My brother 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:26.440 is beside me making fun of my diary. He has 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:30.240 threatened to steal it and shared around his office. I'm 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.280 sure there would be quite bored with it. Though. We 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.600 must be close to arriving, because I can smell the 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:48.880 salty air. M. July one, nineteen sixteen p m. Dear Diary. 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.400 The resorts are all booked full, and I bet half 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.840 of New Jersey and Pennsylvania are at the shore. Every 0:07:55.920 --> 0:08:00.720 fifteen minutes a drain dispatches another thousand people. It is 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.200 quite a sight. Who would have thought that the ocean 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.920 would draw such a crowd. There are young men everywhere 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:11.000 playing cards and keeping an eye out for commers. Father 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:14.440 and sister are resting out before dinner, and I'm roasting 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.000 on the hot sand watching my brother swim to England. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.600 Presumably he promised me a walk on the beach but 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.440 befriended a dog that seemed keen for a swim instead. 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:28.320 I call him Patches. Currently, he and Patches are swimming 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:32.080 out well past the others, both doing their best dog paddle. 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.480 I can barely see him from here, but he looks 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.880 to be having loads of fun. He's yelling and waving 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.400 his arms for Patches, but it looks like the pooch 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:46.080 has exhausted himself and is heading back. I'm beginning to 0:08:46.120 --> 0:09:06.400 think that July two, n two pm where arrived this 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.600 morning of an attack on a human in beach Haven, 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:13.520 possibly a shark, most odd naturally. Dr Lucas has already 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:17.440 discounted it, but I wonder my inexperience next to Lucas 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:20.520 is pronounced yet I doubt his resolve to test his 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:24.280 own hypotheses now he nears retirement and news of sharks 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:28.400 feeding on humans is not something that appears to interest him. 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.520 His lack of investment was striking. I need to go 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.160 to beach Haven and investigate, but I am bound to 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:37.640 the museum. The fish commissioners said that it was likely 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.400 after a dog in the water with the victim stripped 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.480 the man to his bone on the right and lost 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.720 several pounds of flesh on the left. My early thought 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:49.400 is a tiger, or perhaps a bowl. Lucas is convinced 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.560 there are no great whites around here. The victim was 0:09:54.040 --> 0:10:04.719 very young. July two, nineteen sixteen, three thirty a m. 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:10.480 Dear Diary, I cannot believe the words that I am 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:15.920 about to write. My brother has died. He was swimming 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.640 far out in the water when the people around me 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:22.440 began shouting. I saw a long, dark shadow in the 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:26.240 water just behind him. A man said that it was 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.719 a shark, but I don't know. I've never seen one. 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.120 It had a tall fin that sat high in the water. 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:38.320 It took him by the legs and drew him under. 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:43.640 A lifeguard swam out to retrieve him, but it was 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:47.800 too late. He was gone by the time he reached shore. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.640 The water ran red with his blood around my feet. 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.720 And I've never felt so helpless in all my life. 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.680 His left thigh was in shreds all the way to 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:03.400 the bone. His right leg was hollowed out from waste. 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:19.480 To me, his lifeless face stared skyward. July two p m. 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.199 Summer has come upon us fully. It was more than 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.200 ninety degrees yesterday, and it may have been even hotter today. 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.080 Business has been steady, but slower than it was in 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.200 the spring and the winter before that. Mary and I 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.200 went for a walk down by the creek after church 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.160 on Sunday. She told me about our students. We talked 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.280 about Mattawan. We both love it here and don't desire 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:43.960 the bright lights of Philadelphia or New York. It is 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.280 a close community and we look out for each other. 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:50.280 I want to raise a family here. I've grown quite 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.640 fond of Mary, and I believe that in three weeks 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:56.880 it can be called a genuine courtship. She's kind, pretty smart. 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:01.200 It comes from a good family. There's a rumor in 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:03.600 town that a man was attacked by a giant fish 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:07.199 yesterday in beech Haven. Captain Catrell has told us all 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:10.280 stories of man eaters at sea, but has also regaled 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.200 us with tales of giant squids and waves as tall 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:16.120 as four stories. He's well known to stretch for truth, 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.280 and his words should be taken with a pinch of salt. 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:29.679 July second, nineteen sixteen, seven thirty six pm, Dear Diary, 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.160 July oh July. I cannot believe I have not written 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:34.959 in my diary since the end of the school year. 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:37.320 Summer break was supposed to be my time to catch 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.920 up on this sort of thing. All well, Latita, I 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:44.240 am being courted by a man. He's tall and broad, 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:47.360 with blonde hair and blue eyes, very handsome. He's beloved 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.600 in town as well. His name is reputable as the 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.640 mayor himself. He's a tailor and has one of only 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.880 four shops on Main Street, and is consequently quite a 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:59.280 snappy dresser. We took a walk after church on Sunday 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.640 and talked about life and our hopes and dreams, and 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.720 our families and our past and our future. I'm just 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.880 over the moon about it. Really. He loves Mattajuana as 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:09.600 much as I do, and would not give a nickel 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.560 for the bells and whistles of Philadelphia. We were in 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:14.640 his shop this afternoon and I watched him cut a 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:18.360 suit jacket. It was really something, a true art. A 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:21.400 strange thing happened as well. Captain Cotrell came by and 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:23.320 told us a man in beach Haven was attacked by 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:26.560 a fish, perhaps a shark. Very odd to hear such 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:43.960 a thing. Jo nix Am, Dear Diary. Today's Independence Day 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:47.120 and it's very hot here in New York. Father is 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:50.120 home because it's a holiday for families. We're supposed to 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.360 think about freedom today, but I don't know what they mean. 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:55.320 My brother told me there was a man who got 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.840 eaten by a shark in New Jersey. But I think 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.160 he's just trying to scare me because we're traveling to 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:03.160 visit my aunt's house in Cliffwood next week. They say 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:04.840 a lot of people go to the beach now and 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.120 swim in the ocean, but we only go in the 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.520 creek in Mattawan with our friends. We're going to parade 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:14.120 later today. My brother said he would buy firecrackers, even 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.280 though Mom said not to. I'm putting a picture of 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.000 New York in this diary so I can show my 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:22.040 friends at Mattawan what the city looks like. I hope 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.200 I get a good mark for my diary riding project 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:29.640 when we start school. I like it. M July three, 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:34.720 nineteen sixteen, five seventeen pm, Dear Diary. I decided to 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:37.240 take lunch to Stanley today at his shop. I do 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:39.200 not want to run him off by calling too much, 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.120 but I missed him, so I threw caution to the wind. 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:43.560 He seemed very pleased to see me, and we made 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:45.480 plans to go to the Twin Lights Lighthouse at the 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.200 Atlantic Highlands on the Bay. It is going to be 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:51.720 just splendid and I can hardly contain myself. I'll pack 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.040 a picnic supper and we'll watch the sunset together and 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:57.760 then the big fireworks show. My favorite. Stanley traded a 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:01.320 man a tailored suit for life insurance to a cecil suit, 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.760 which was far too generous. What on earth does a 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.520 man his age need with life insurance? But that is 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:08.760 also what I am growing to love about him. His 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:12.440 generosity is only matched by his kindness. He plays baseball 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.160 with the children and they absolutely adore him. I want 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:17.080 to bring him by the schoolhouse that's fall to meet 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:20.280 my students. Listen to me already planning for fall with 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.760 him by my side. Oh and I just had to 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.160 clip out the ads Stanley placed in the MOTTA one Journal, 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:43.320 July nineteen sixteen, p M. Dear Diary, I met the 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:45.880 lifeguard who tried to save my brother at the funeral. 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:50.160 He was very kind. I believe that he did everything 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.560 he could do to save my brother. No one has 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.680 ever been attacked by a fish before, and many doubt 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:00.680 the events as they occurred. There have long been stories 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.960 of man eaters in the sea, but I most believed 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:08.440 them to be legend. I was there. I know. I 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:12.880 saw him flung from the water. I saw his mangled 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:18.000 left leg exposed fully to the bone. It had been 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:23.680 virtually torn from his body. The Times ran a small 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:28.560 story on page eighteen. My brother deserved more, so much more. 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:42.560 N six am. Another shark attack yesterday in New Jersey 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:46.040 Spring Lake. The Times this morning is already all over 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:50.160 this event. So much for dodging a media circus. Lucas 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:53.080 finally agrees that something is a miss. This is no 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:57.440 blasted sea turtle. We have eyewitness accounts this time. It's 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.920 clear that someone should go to Spring Lake and examine 0:16:59.920 --> 0:17:02.440 the body. I feel like I'm the most qualified man 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.960 in New York, maybe even the country. Lucas may fight 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:09.200 me on this press conference in the morning at the museum, 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:10.880 so we had better get our ducks in a row. 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.159 Lucas said that the jaw of a shark is not 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:17.960 strong or capable of severing human bone. I have grave doubts. 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:30.600 July sixteen PM. Dear Diary, It's been almost a week 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:34.359 since we lost my dear brother. I found his journal 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:37.760 today and reading his final entry breaks my heart each 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:41.919 time my eyes pass over it. We received word this 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:44.359 morning that another bay there was killed two days ago. 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:48.720 Its Spring Lake, a bellhop at a local resort. His 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:51.399 attack has drawn much more attention than our own just 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:56.080 days ago. I feel terrible for his family. Perhaps in 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:59.320 time I can reach out to them. No one seems 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:01.440 to know what is happening on our beaches that were 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:05.199 so different just days ago. What was previously a welcome 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.280 distraction from the polio epidemic in New York is now 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:11.040 a beach awash with the blood of our brothers and sons. 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:22.040 I pray for the end of summer. J n PM. 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:25.119 Word has come to Mattawin that another bathere was attacked 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:28.000 on the shore yesterday. This time it was spring Lake, 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:31.000 not far from here. If this is true, it is 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:33.920 most uncommon. We have never heard of a shark attacking 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.040 a man, and now we have heard stories of two 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.560 in just one week. I imagine that the news will 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:41.440 disrupt activity at the shore. Luckily, for us, all we 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:44.000 have to worry about is the odd catfish nipping our toes. 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:47.800 I tried to talk Mary into coming for a swim sometime, 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:49.920 but she said she prefers to watch me from the bank. 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:52.879 I think she's just being shy. She said that she 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:54.920 would not want Captain Cattrell to see her in a 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:57.200 bathing gown, and I think she may have a good point. 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.919 She's smart, she is. Surely the shark business is just 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:04.200 people's imagination getting the best of them. There're no sharks 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:22.960 in New Jersey. July seven, nineteen sixteen to seventeen pm. 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:26.040 Stanley just phoned and said that Captain Cotrell reported another 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:28.800 shark attack on the shore. They did not believe him 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:32.000 at first, but the newspaper confirmed it. It was Upspring 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:34.439 Lake this time, which means much more to do about it, 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:37.600 I'm sure. Stanley said that a scientist in the paper 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:40.639 insisted that sharks do not come to New Jersey, and 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:43.320 even if they did, they would not be interested in humans. 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:46.600 I just do not know what to think sharks biting 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:48.960 people in New Jersey? Whoever heard of such a thing? 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:51.480 Stanley swims in the creek, but you would not catch 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:53.960 me dead in there. You cannot see six inches into 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:57.480 the water. Besides, Captain Cortrell is always running up and 0:19:57.480 --> 0:19:59.760 down in his motor boat. And let me just say 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:02.160 that he will never see me in a skirt and stockings. 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:14.600 The very thought makes me pale U nineteen sixteen three 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:18.480 pm press conference went well enough. Lucas was met with 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:21.840 questions straight away. The first blasted question asked what he 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:24.160 would tell the thirty mayors of the Jersey Shore about 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:28.800 their beaches. High loath reporters. We did our best to 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:32.360 calm nerves. Lucas is convinced that it was mistaken identity 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:35.600 and that the incidences are a merely a sad coincidence. 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:38.639 He avoids using words like man eater and does a 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:40.920 much better job with the press than Murphy or I could. 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:44.879 Asbury Park has erected wire netting, and that, along with caution, 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:48.159 should do for now. It is highly unlikely that we 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:50.639 should ever hear of another shark incident on this coast. 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:54.080 Even so, this is rich with opportunity for our records. 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:56.840 A man has never been attacked by a shark before 0:20:57.000 --> 0:21:00.720 in the United States, and I go to em tomorrow. 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:10.760 July n six pm. Just returned from the examination of 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:14.679 victim number two, Charles brewder Spring Lake, Swiss, with no 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:18.760 family in the States. The Times was correct in its story. 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:21.720 Both legs were taken, one at the knee and one 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:25.080 at midcalf. Lifeguards rode out in the boat this time 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:28.080 and pulled his body in. One remarked about how light 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:32.919 it was, not realizing initially the legs were missing. Most disturbing, 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:38.560 the flesh was torn in strips, jagged, the bones splintered 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:41.800 like wood. There's no doubt that this was the result 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:45.840 of a shark, but what species? Could it be? A 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:49.879 road great white? The President has mobilized the Coastguard. I 0:21:49.880 --> 0:22:00.119 am reporting news to his men now. July nine, R 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:03.720 D E. P. M. Dear Diary. My brother told me 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:05.919 today in church that another man was eaten by a 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:08.720 shark in New Jersey. But Mom said it wasn't true. 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:12.760 She said they both got bit and died. But sharks 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:14.800 only go into the ocean, and I don't need to 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:18.040 be scared of them. In Mattawan, Mom said after supper 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:20.320 tonight she's going to talk to her aunt on the telephone, 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:22.400 and my brother and I could talk to our friend 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:31.600 and Mattawan because he has a telephone now too. July six, 0:22:32.320 --> 0:22:36.439 eight am Dear Diary. My brother and I talked to 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:39.560 our friend on the telephone last night. It was really swell. 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:42.960 Mom says that he's a hooligan, but my brother said 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:46.400 he's a good egg and swims good too. We asked 0:22:46.440 --> 0:22:49.120 him about the sharks and he said nobody there talked 0:22:49.119 --> 0:22:52.040 about it, but they are sad. He said, we could 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:54.360 sneak into the dock at the New Jersey Clay Company 0:22:54.720 --> 0:23:04.000 and no sharks are there. M. July eleven, nine, sixteen 0:23:04.400 --> 0:23:09.560 eleven p m. Dear Diary, It has now been ten 0:23:09.640 --> 0:23:13.480 days since we lost my brother. I miss him so much, 0:23:14.600 --> 0:23:17.960 we all do. His car is still in front of 0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:21.399 the house, and I catch myself seeing him behind the wheel. 0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:26.359 After the second attack, a scientist who studies ocean fish 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:29.639 came to Spring Lake. He's having a hard time with 0:23:29.680 --> 0:23:33.720 the local journalists. They've printed that my brother was bitten 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:36.720 by a giant sea turtle. They've written that it was 0:23:36.760 --> 0:23:42.240 a bloodthirstea rogue shark. The scientist makes claims of sensationalism 0:23:42.240 --> 0:23:45.840 and pleads for patients. He says that only a great 0:23:45.840 --> 0:23:48.399 white has been known to attack a human, and that 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:52.080 there are none in New Jersey. Resorts have hired armed 0:23:52.160 --> 0:23:55.960 guards to patrol the beaches. They've erected wire nets for 0:23:56.080 --> 0:24:10.320 bathing areas. I never to see the ocean again. July eleventh, 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:16.680 nineteen sixteen, nine fifteen PM. Dear Diary, I'm in bed now. 0:24:16.920 --> 0:24:19.679 My brother is teasing me. He said that when we 0:24:19.720 --> 0:24:23.040 go back to Mattawan, it's going to be scary. He 0:24:23.080 --> 0:24:25.720 said that last summer he felt something touched him underwater 0:24:25.760 --> 0:24:28.280 by the dock, and he said it was a shark. Probably. 0:24:29.080 --> 0:24:31.560 I'm supposed to be asleep now because it's my bedtime 0:24:31.880 --> 0:24:34.840 and we leave early in the morning. I'm scared of 0:24:34.840 --> 0:24:37.800 the shark, but I don't want him to know, because 0:24:37.840 --> 0:24:50.040 he'll tease me again. July twelve, nine, sixteen eleven. AM 0:24:50.800 --> 0:24:53.560 back at the museum at last. Seems like all is 0:24:53.600 --> 0:24:56.520 calm now. It has been nearly a week since the 0:24:56.520 --> 0:24:59.040 brutal attack. The media has taken a rest for the 0:24:59.119 --> 0:25:01.920 time being. There is much research to be done now. 0:25:02.480 --> 0:25:05.159 Lucas and Murphy are keen to hear my account. Everyone 0:25:05.280 --> 0:25:07.920 looks to us now for answers, and for now my 0:25:08.080 --> 0:25:12.400 colleagues are deferring to me as the only ichthyologists. Popular 0:25:12.520 --> 0:25:16.280 theories abound ship sinkings and sailor deaths in the North 0:25:16.359 --> 0:25:19.960 Sea are creating a taste for human flesh. Naval bombings 0:25:20.000 --> 0:25:23.400 are driving European sharks this way. Some have even said 0:25:23.480 --> 0:25:26.240 it was a purposeful conspiracy of the Germans to Luis 0:25:26.320 --> 0:25:29.480