Peter Benchley has said that his classic novel "Jaws" – which went on to inspire the summer blockbuster starring Richard Dreyfuss – was not inspired by the very real story of the 1916 shark attacks on ...
MATAWAN, N.J. (AP) — Until the summer of 1916, many scientists believed sharks would never harm humans. That myth was shattered when the first recorded multiple fatal shark attacks left four people ...
The year 1916 was a fantastic summer on the Jersey Shore, if you liked the threats of war, polio, and a deadly attacker stalking the waterways. That was the summer that a series of strange, violent ...
The Matawan Creek shark attacks of July 1916 spawned books, movies and television shows — an entire cottage industry, really. But the ultimate proof something has made an impression in 2016 America?
The terror began at 5:10 p.m. on a stifling, hot Saturday, the first day of July, 1916 in Beach Haven. Charles Epting Vansant, a 25-year-old stock broker from ...
The shark mania that grips the country each summer began July 1, 1916, when a young stockbroker from Philadelphia headed into the surf at Beach Haven, New Jersey. Before then, there wasn't much fear ...
A view of Matawan Creek, just yards upstream from the area in which a shark fatally attacked two men in 1916. (Star-Ledger file photo) There's nothing particularly hidden about Matawan, situated amid ...
The shark mania that grips the country each summer began July 1, 1916, when a young stockbroker from Philadelphia headed into the surf at Beach Haven, New Jersey. Before then, there wasn't much fear ...
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