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Thursday, August 11, 2022

Episode 12: The Shark Arm Case (Part 1)

 


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We’re baaaaaack! Finally! With a tale about a man's severed arm that was vomited by a huge shark at a Sydney aquarium in 1935. How did investigators discover the identity of the victim? Was it a shark attack? Medical waste? Or MURDER??? And do we really know what happened to the poor man who was supposed to be attached to it?

 

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Coogee Aquarium Baths in 1936 - Summer Cycle (no sharks, just swimmers!)


The 14'6" (4.42m) tiger shark that vomited a human arm, inside the Coogee Aquarium Baths
Source: Sydney Truth, 5 May 1935



The severed arm's tattoo of two boxers in a "fighting stance"
Source: Out of This World, Vol. 1


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