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It started with a shark attack at Beach Haven, New Jersey on July 1, 1916, that killed\xa0 Charles E. Van Sant. Five days later a shark would claim the life of another victim,\xa0 Charles Bruder, at Spring Lake, just up the shore.
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\nNerves were rattled but the terror really set in when two more victims, Lester Stilwell and Stanley Fisher, were killed the following week in Matawan Creek by a shark...11 miles inland! Another boy, Joseph Dunn was also bitten that same day (but survived).
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\nWas it one rogue shark? Or several? Was the killer shark (or sharks) among the hundreds that were hunted and killed that July?
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\nOr was it the 7 1/2 foot adolescent great white shark that Michael Schleisser and his friend John Murphy unintentionally caught on July 14, 1916, that was the culprit? When they slit open its belly, human flesh and bones were found inside.
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\nNo one knows. But just as suddenly as the shark attacks started that summer, they stopped.
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\nBut there was also one more unsolved mystery that summer: the disappearance of George Campbell. He'd been swimming in the same creek where Stilwell and Fisher lost their lives just a day before.
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\nDid he drown, or was he actually a sixth shark attack causality...and could it have been his flesh and bones found inside the shark?
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\nWe'll never know.
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\nAll we do know is that those awful shark attacks of 1916 griped the nation then, and would go on to inspire Jaws, one of the most iconic horror movies ever.
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\n\nIntro Music:\xa0\nPumpkin Demon by WinnieTheMoog\nLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/6866-pumpkin-demon\n\nLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license\n\n\xa0\nOutro Music:\nFrom https://filmmusic.io\n\n"Some Amount of Evil" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)\nLicense: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)\n\xa0\n\nEpisode\xa0 Music:
\nTale by Rafael Krux\xa0\nLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/5331-tale-\n\nLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license\n