What were the shark attacks of 1916 in New Jersey? A mural of a shark is painted on a concrete wall along Gravelly Brook, a tributary of Matawan Creek, on Aberdeen Road which memorializes the 1916 ...

Henderson, the mayor of Matawan, "posted a $100 reward for ... In the end, a total of four people died from the shark attacks that year.

The following two attacks happened at Matawan Creek on the 12th of July. Some boys playing at the stream noticed something that seemed to be a board or log which turned out to be a shark’s ...

Shark attacks statistically are rare events ... In the U.S., possibly one of the most famous attacks occurred in New Jersey's Matawan Creek in 1916. According to the Matawan Historical Society ...

Shark attacks — particularly deadly ones — dropped substantially last year around the world, a new report shows. The latest iteration of the International Shark Attack File, a database run by ...

according to a new report released Tuesday by the International Shark Attack File. Worldwide, there were only 47 unprovoked attacks, down 22 from the previous year and well below the 10-year ...