![]() It was this series of events that inspired the Jaws series of books and films about a man eating shark. But this seems to be exactly what happened in the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916.Īttributed to a single 9ft (3m) great white shark, the attacks left four dead and 7 injured. However, not many of these attacks are committed by a single shark that seems bent on coming back for more. Every year a handful of people are killed by one of the four most dangerous species of sharks the great white, the tiger shark, bull shark and oceanic white tips. There’s no doubt that sharks are capable killers. Whilst a 6ft goonch (which weighed three times as much as average) was caught soon after it has been suggested that the fish responsible would have had to be even bigger. With no other likely candidates living in the region it seems the culprit was likely to be one of these super-sized catfish. Another victim was a child dragged away whilst bathing with his father. The first live victim was an 18 year old Nepalese man who was dragged down in front of his girlfriend by something described as resembling an “elongated pig”. It is thought that the catfish developed a taste for human flesh after feeding on corpses thrown into the river as part of funeral ceremonies. It does however seem that attacks are pretty common and injuries are often severe enough to require hospital treatment.Ī story of a real life river monster comes from Northern India. The Kali River goonch attacks were a series of deadly attacks believed to have been carried out by an exceptionally large goonch catfish. I could only find two report of a fatal attacks involving piranhas, that’s not to say there haven’t been more. ![]() But are they the vicious man eaters they are portrayed? After some research I’m afraid I have to say, not really. On returning home Roosevelt wrote about these fearsome fish, unaware that the event had been largely set up for his benefit.Īnd so the piranhas fearsome reputation went global. An unfortunate cow was then pushed into the water at which point the piranhas lived up to their reputation and promptly stripped it to the bone. The men had blocked off part of the river and starved the piranha for several days. But, as with many myths there is a grain of truth and much of the legendary reputation of the piranha can be traced back to a single incident.ĭuring a visit to Brazil, and the Amazon, by the American president Theodore Roosevelt local fishermen set up a spectacle involving piranhas. ![]() ![]() Well, it turns out that most of the stories about piranhas are a little exaggerated. And that anyone falling into the Amazon River is as good as dead when these vicious fish are around. Now we all know that piranhas can strip a man to the bone in 30 seconds. In this article I’m going to find the deadliest of all these man eaters and look at some of the most disturbing habitual individual killers. Whilst rare, there have been a number of high profile man eaters, many occurring within the last 100 years. However, there are still far flung places and environments beyond the control of man, where even today, man-eating animals roam wild, stalking human prey as a between meal snack… Thankfully, since then things have improved somewhat for most of us – getting hit by a bus is probably the modern equivalent of being torn apart by wolves. Back in prehistoric times being eaten alive by some sort of ravenous beast was an everyday risk.
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