The Amity Bay Shark Attacks | A Short "Documentary" | Fascinating Horror
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- Опубліковано 31 бер 2021
- Happy April Fool's Day, everyone. If you haven't seen the movie Jaws yet... well, I'd highly recommend it. Especially if you enjoy this video!
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I always enjoy reading the comments people leave on my videos... but I have to say, this particular comments section is unusually brilliant. Thanks for watching, everyone!
Always a pleasure
My sister and I love your videos.
No, Thank you, Fascinating Horror dude. Thank you.
Good April fools joke
Bravo. *slow clap*
"Hey, that sounds a lot like the plot for Jaws-"
*Checks Today's Date*
"HEY, WAIT A MINUTE."
I did the same thing!!! LOL
I watched most of the video, thinking "Hmm, I guess Jaws was based on a true story, and they really made an accurate movie adaptation..." And then I realised.
Ditto LOL
It took me a minute to realize this hahaha
It took me far too long (about 4 minutes) to realize. Great April Fool’s joke!
This is probably the most unique April Fools joke I’ve seen in a decade or so.
In at least a year
The Lockpickinglawyer had a funny one last year about his ex girlfriends backdoor needing his assistance lmao.
I like it - unusual for April Fools (they’re usually lame). Well done FH!
Agreed. Took a second to realize oh hey he's just describing the movie!
Surprise spoiled
First thought: "Wait, Amity Bay is a real place? Interesting."
Second thought: "Amity Island? That's fishy."
Third thought: "First of April. Of course."
Haha same here!!
*Fishy*
I know I thought oh no there is a real place named amity, 3 seconds later, doh !
Little known fact: the shark expert on the boat was later taken away by aliens.
😂😂😂
"Oh, so it was based on a real- ... HANG ON"
Same lol
Sameeeee
LOL!
Got my ass
While this is certainly an April fools joke, Jaws is loosely based on real shark attacks that happened on the Jersey Shore in 1916.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Shore_shark_attacks_of_1916
"Was so ghoulishly spectacular that it seemed more like something from a Hollywood movie than anything that could have happened in real life."
Well played, sir.
I can't with this video. Lol. I was rolling on the floor when he said that. 🤣
If you watch it with subtitles on, the Hollywood Movie bit is all-caps. As was the word JAWS, earlier. This was such a hoot :D
What is crazy is that JAWS was released in 1975
@@fsdfgasgfisd 🤣🤣🤣
@@AmandaGeyerSnobahr Great catch! 👌🏻🙌🏻😂
I've seen Jaws enough times that I caught on pretty quickly, but hearing the events of a movie being described like it actually happened was amusing anyway. It makes me want to hear other movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre described as though they were actual news instead of a fictitious event.
Hysteria was rampant when War of the Worlds was announced as real
Actually, the Texas chainsaw massacre is based on a real story.
@@berenicemarchese1593 It's actually not. It's inspired by the crimes of murderer and bodysnatcher Ed Gein. The events depicted in the story itself are not even remotely anything that ever happened in real life.
I was confused at first because I’m not watching this on April 1st and Jaws was based on a true story (Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916). I wasn’t paying full attention and I wasn’t really listening to names and dates.
On April 1st 2022, he released a video about a petting zoo accident
"It was so ghoulishly spectacular that it seemed more like something that would happen in a hollywood movie than in real life"
This line right here is right on the money.
I can’t believe he forgot to mention one of the more disturbing parts of the story, that a theme park would later make a ride based on these attacks in a sickening attempt to profit off a real life tragedy
😂🙄
Rip jaws the ride
Lol I love it
Boo hoo 😭
lol I went on that shitty ride, I shit you not the shark actually "roared"
Still can't believe that they got Stephen Spielberg to shoot the documentary
I hope he covers the other shark that actually followed a family on a plane.
@@GanguroKonata But I've had enough of those m****er-f****ng sharks on that m****er-f****ng plane! (Sorry, couldn't resist. I'll get my coat!) :-)
😂🤣😂
Bahahahaha 😂🤣😂
Not watching this on April 1st, but I love the idea: Retelling a movie as if it were a real event, in a factual, unemotional way. Well done!
This is almost perfect... Unfortunately you missed 1 additional victim... A local veteran fisherman named "Ben Gardner". It is reported that in his wrecked hull, a shark tooth was pulled. The tooth in question was estimated to be the size of a shot glass.
Well, we can’t be sure the tooth ever existed. He could have made it up.
I don't care if it's an April's fools video, we were blessed with two videos in one week and that's all that counts
ikr that blew my mind
Same
@@ChristelVinot yeah
Literally my same thought
Agreed
It took me an embarrassingly long time to realise what was going on
4 minutes. Took me 4 minutes. It's the voice I swear.
@@tabytastick You were not the only one! I had a good laugh when I realized it rather late in the video!
About 4 minutes in I just had this realisation like "😐" great stuff!
Same, I was like oh cool, the case that inspired "Jaws" then felt like an idiot as he kept talking
I could see the link to Jaws from the start but thought he was telling the story of what inspired the movie. I was busy google maps searching Amity Island looking in the Amityville area and then something he said just twigged a fair few mins in.
Man, you got me almost the whole damn video. I’m sitting here thinking, “holy crap, I had no idea Jaws was based on a true story!” Then once I remembered that Jaws was in fact inspired by shark attacks that happened in Matawan Creek, NJ in 1916, I looked at the date the video was published and felt extremely stupid lol. Epic troll, sir, epic troll.
Me too 😂
Well ya got me
2 years later a few days after April fools
Well done 😂
"The boy was dragged under, and died in the vicious creatures' JAWS."
I see what you did there.
I sat here for four minutes asking my husband, "Isn't this JAWS? Isn't this the plot to JAWS?" I have been made a fool lmfao
There literally showing scenes from the movie.🙄
@@unropednope4644 some of us were too caught up in the date and place sounding familiar in the first 20 seconds that we didn’t even watch the video before scrolling to check the comments 😂
Took me 3:30.
Me too! 😂😂😂
At first I was like, "This must have been the inspiration for the movie." Then I saw the mayor. :D
This really was a slow realization of "hey that's messed up" "hey that's familiar" "hey that's jaws". Good april fools joke, 10/10
Same here, like his content is so good I thought it was a genuine story 😅
Same...same
You’re going to need a bigger channel.
Love all of your videos. This was extremely well done. Had me going for a minute.
I love how you capitalized JAWS and SOMETHING FROM A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE in the closed captions
"oh was Jaws based on a real-event shark attack?"
*sees date*
nevermind
lol
Jaws actually was loosely based on a real event, a series of shark attacks in New Jersey in 1912, but this is still a great video.
@@bryandeanmartin5848 I did see a History's Mysteries on that. It was extremely interesting.
dude... saaammmeee. I heard the name Amity Island and immediately thought of Jaws but was like "I didn't think Jaws was based on a true story." Looks at upload date... oh.
🤣
I don't know how Papa Horror read this with a completely straight face. This is the best April Fool's prank on UA-cam.
Well, we never see is face... but the vocal delivery was completely, comfortingly deadpan. It was beautiful.
As someone who listens only, I could definitely hear a small smile in his voice. One of my favorite things about it, actually. 🌟🍍
Watch lockpicking lawyer's. It's up there, too. ha
Aww man, I think I remember hearing about this incident. Those guys definitely needed a bigger boat.
Hi. I'm rewatching all the April 1 docs. Yeah your comment..excellent😅 . All his docs are so well done but these few are a super fun refresher from true horror. Plus a lot of younger folks don't realize what's happening..nudge nudge..wink wink ..say no more.😊✌
😂😂
I remember the 1975 Amity incident, you described it brilliantly. I hope, one day, you'll have time to cover the notorious Deep Blue Sea incident of 1999 where six people were killed by bioengineered Mako sharks, more people need to know about that.
okay, I'm not gonna mention I spent the entire 8 minutes wondering how Spielberg managed to shoot a movie about the incident so soon after it had happened.
I only took 4 minutes
I was thinking the same thing until I saw the "Welcome to Amity" sign. It's like "Did that town really have a sign just like in the Jaws movie?!" 😅
For the first couple minutes, I was thinking "Wait- Peter Benchley wrote about a true incident?" Actually googled Amity Bay shark attacks before coming back and seeing the posting date.
Maybe next April 1st, he'll tell us about Horton, and his astonishment upon hearing a voice issuing from a speck of dust.
@@LindaB651 ahhaha yeah
The billboard and description of first victim, Chrissy, I knew it.
Okay, I know this is a prank, but you ABSOLUTELY should do a side series where you treat the plots of horror/disaster movies the same way you do your usual documentaries.
I vote for Towering Inferno
Yes!! I would love a vid like this but with the Alien movies
@@vimfuego1 Poseidon Adventure
I'd watch that!
Thinking the same thing!! I'd do Halloween.
I sat there the whole time thinking "wow, I had no idea that Jaws was based on a true story!"
(In my defense, the algorithm gave this to me in July.)
I love how there were no images from the Orca and everything that happened out there was described as a fantastical tale relayed by Hooper and Brody, making it far more believable and an effective 4/1 video than it would have been if you had showed scenes from, for instance, Brody shooting the oxygen tank.
Brody … “Smile you sonofabitch!!!”
Orca is a whale
"Wow, Jaws must have been inspired by this story, it's so similar."
*Looks at date*
*Facepalm*
its the second of april where im from so I didn't think anything of it omg
@@madiannc Yeah, it seriously got me too. April 2nd here.
I. Feel. Dumb. It took me an embarrassingly long time before realizing. I watched Jaws a million times as a kid in the 80s, too, so no excuse
The thing is, Jaws was inspired by a real string of shark attacks off the coast of NJ which I've watched several documentaries about so I didn't think anything odd until halfway through, thinking like "oh, probably another place claiming to have their shark attacks be the inspiration."
Same here.
I was originally surprised that a movie was based off of real events. Then I realised what day it is
Me too! Glad I'm not the only one!
Same. I even told my husband. I feel like a dumbass.
It actually was based several different shark attacks that happened around New Jersey over a century ago
Same! I was like, "Oh, wow, I didn't realize Jaws was based off a real event - wait a minute, what's today?" XD
Me too!
Clicked on this thinking, "Whoa, Jaws was real?"
About 90 seconds in, I noticed the date. Well done!
I love it when fictional stories are told as if they were real events! This should be an April fools tradition for the channel.
Wow, there ought to be a movie based on this, I think Steven Spielberg would be perfect to direct it.
Jaws IS based on a true story. He could've made a video about the real story instead of this sick attempt at a joke. 😡 Real people died. I thought at first he was covering the true story behind Jaws, but the dates were wrong.
Except Jaws wasn’t solely based on a true story, it was mostly based on a novel that was made out of the author’s fascination with sharks after seeing one get captured.
Also, the dates were within the month and year Jaws was released in theaters; June 1975
I loved that film. This is silly 🌞❤️
@@stephencoldbear butt hurt much?
Boy do I have news for you
Took me a while to realise there's something 'fishy' about this episode... Good one ;)
Teeeeeeecchnically sharks aren't fishes. 🤓🤓
It admittedly took me until they got to the mayor not closing the beaches
@@masterimbecile why?
@@pandosham me too that's when I was like wait a second this is jaws
@@masterimbecile how would you know the difference
Just discovered your channel and have been so impressed by how you handle truly heartbreaking disasters…. And now I find out for April Fools you pick a disaster movie and give it the History Channel “Seconds From Disaster” treatment! Excellent!! I hope you’ll consider doing those 1960s-1970s era disaster movie classics: “Airport”, “The Poseidon Adventure,” “Earthquake,” etc. Your retelling of “The Towering Inferno” would be fantastic! Heck, for Christmas you could even cover the terrorist incident at Nakatomi Plaza back in the late 1980s! It’s a serious channel done well, but it’s good you’ve found an appropriate way to have fun too.
Awesome 😅. Hi its 2023 & I'm rewatching these fun vids wishing it came twice a year.. seeing your comment.. Your wish is granted sir. I swear when i first glanced at the title in 2023 i wasn't paying enough attention & thought to myself..' who would EVER name their ship after that?" Wait.. Was it a true story?? Duh Immediately paying attention then laughing.. but ah-haaa there are young folks who perhaps unaware of this channels devious nature in April..that will be glued. And i love the thought of that.😅
He did The Towering Inferno this year ( 2024)
What a crazy story! I would honestly love a movie about this event…
How april fools should be done. No harm, entertaining and extremely well created.
And super self-aware.
@Dick Johnson Whilst I'm sure a lot have suffered physical harm I was referring more to the emotional side, public humiliation, panic, heartbreak etc.
But what about that innocent tiger shark? The poor guy didnt even do anything
I was thinking man this sounds like jaws.
*Looks at the screen
Cute he's using jaws pics to help with visuals.
*brain turns on.
OH wait...
You and me both, sir!!!!
Exactly my thoughts... only found this video 12th May so it took 4 minutes, some googling and then reading comments to confirm I’d been duped. Hilarious 🤣
Bro legit I was so into the story thinking it was fucking wild that this happened, but then realized this was uploaded on April 1st and was just jaws but told as a story. You got me even after 3 months.
I knew something was up from the words “shark attack” and “amity island” but I thought it looked interesting.
We’ll done, old boy!! What a great way to make a summary of an enormous 1970’s blockbuster!
Really was like 'damn this must be the event that Jaws was based on' right until you started showing pictures of the fishermen . I mean you never know
Same lol
I had the same thought!
I'm tired, I've been drinking and I'm an idiot. Me too.
Yup...same thing I thought, then I remembered what day it is...lol
Hey, sorry I'm late. Yes, i also thought this
"Wait, was this what inspired Jaws?" Me before realizing I'm an idiot and what day it is.
Lol me too at first , so I cheated and read comments 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣love it !
Same!
I just realized it was really the movie when he mentioned the "eccentric local fisherman" and his knowledge of man eating sharks shark.
Lol Same!!!
Honestly, same
“Although, not the only incident involving shark attacks off the coast of Amity Island, the shark attacks there nonetheless remain an infamous part of the island’s history, one which many visitors remain unaware of…”
I visited Martha’s Vinyard over the summer, the real life version of Amity Island where Jaws was filmed. Having traveled all over the island, there are references to Jaws everywhere in all the tourist traps on the island. One bar in Oak Bluffs called Nancy’s, has a big fat great white shark hanging from the wall outside. Forgotten and unaware? Nope! Not when there is money to be made!
My grampy Pippet went missing that day. I love hearing the stories of him being a good boy.
I sure hope that shark didn’t have any offspring. It might come looking for it’s parent and end up terrorizing the island again like some sort of sequel.
That would be a horrible mess.
:D this vid and the comments made my day lmao
That would be shocking!
you mean you didn't hear about the incident at Sea World!?
Multiple sequels.
Everyone was afraid of sharks after jaws, but it was really a cautionary tale about mayors.
This comment is very underrated
Best comment so far 👏
A tale of greed.
Politicians in general. They do not have your welfare in mind. It’s all about money. Note how business making money was placed before many lives in the US over the past year...with one leading politician insisting the waters were safe and we should go out and enjoy ourselves.
Haha so true!
It's July and I wasn't watching at first. Only listening, the familiarity of the story slowly started to dawn on me and laughing, I had to check what was going on. 🤣🤣🤣
Jaws is one of the greatest films that will ever be made. I saw it when I was a kid back in the 90s with my dad who saw it back in the theater during the 70s. We've been afraid of the ocean since.
"Don't believe everything you read on the internet." -Abraham Lincoln
Lol, and don't believe everything you see and hear.
@@bonnerscott5374 Was that a quote by Helen Keller?
@@Backroad_Junkie No, Jimi Hendrix "Bold as Love" Lol...
😂😂😂
Lincoln definitely did not say any such thing. There was no internet in his time. Jesus christ.
“An extensive recovery operation, however, discovered that the shark was a large animatronic covered in rubber. This only raises further questions...”
And then the head of the animatronic shark made it to Disneyland, where it tormented unsuspecting boaters, like me, for years.
@@lesleyray17 it never was at Disney it was at universal
A shark named Bruce.....
AAAAHHHH yes... Dear ol' Bruce "The Great White TURD"... I remember those stories and interviews. Hilarious stuff.
In earning the nickname and practically everyone forgetting about the "Bruce" part, that non-functional to dysfunctional pain in the technical posterior was the reason why so little footage of the actual shark made it into the movie originally. It simply didn't work, and spent the first couple months of "wet time" sunk in a couple dozen feet of water scarcely a yard or two from where it was launched before they could figure out how to retrieve it without destroying it...
...bent dorsal fin and all.
It's PURELY by coincidence that Spielberg figured out that resisting the temptation to show a monster early in filming would heighten the tension for audiences.
AND by the time he got the thing recorded for editing, he was HOPELESSLY over-budget and behind schedule to a degree that short of it being the classic it became, he would NEVER IN HELL have worked in cinema again... He was in THAT much trouble with investors, producers, studio exec's, and literally everyone else involved...
Major contributions to the scheduling and expenses was trying to shoot on location... Errant planes and other craft drifting into the scene would cost hours of down-time to get rid of the background interference (things that would either distract audience or just didn't belong in the shot)... The animatronic monster (that didn't work) also diminished funding and faith in the movie and director...
BUT... as they say... then it hit theaters to sensational reception and the rest was (or became) movie history. ;o)
🤣
OMG, that was magnificent! Well played, sir! Well played...
Suggestion for next year:
"Shipwrecked: The Minnow Disaster"
A couple years ago I held a 1970’s movie night and JAWS was the flick of the night. We had snacks from the 70’s. We all screamed at the appropriate moments. We were all teens in the 70’s so remember this clearly! Great job fascinating horror!!
Spielberg made an excellent documentary about this incident. It won an Oscar for editing.
Me watching this in May: "This must be what the movie Jaws was based on."
That happened to me too 😭
Same, except I'm watching in June.
@@TheMusicalFruit me going wait .. I thought Jaws was pure fiction .. in 70s .. ok I'll bite 🤣
July
Same 🤣!
"...and died in the vicious creature's jaws."
TITLE DROP!!!
I'm watching (really just listening to) this in July, at work. After a little bit of the story, I was like "oh, maybe these are the real events that Jaws is based on" Then I got to the part where "Brody teams up with an eccentric fisherman" so I checked the date of this video.....
my first thought was "wow i didn't know Jaws was a true story"
Same here! Until I see Roy Scheider in a picture. And even then, I am thinking it interesting to see he used a picture of Jaws ;-)
I also thought "wow it's based on true story, the movie" not watching this on April, so...
That's exactly what I was thinking! I was sitting here wondering if this was the story of Jaws
Same!!! LOL
It kind of was inspired by true events... New Jersey like in 1916 ish...
Amity local here. Thank you so much for covering this; few people on the mainland have heard of the tragedy.
It's only an island if you look at it from the water.
That makes a lot of sense.
Are you joking?
@@RaccoonKCD Obviously.
“ local boating instructor “
That’s gold right there folks
I was listening to this without watching the video, and I was thinking, "This sounds a hell of a lot like the movie, Jaws!" I totally had to start reading the comments to figure out what was going on, lol!
I deadass went the whole video thinking "I thought Jaws was based on a book not a real event." I need to quit drinking and go to bed.
It was based on attacks from the summer of 1916 in New Jersey
Alcoholic
Same here. I was busy while listening and not looking at the video. As I listen, I thought, "This is awfully close to Jaws. But the timeline is too close to the movie, which came after the book. So where is this from?" Obviously overthinking.
BUT - You DID figure it out. I say keep drinkin! 🤷♂️
The movie Jaws is based on the book Jaws which was based on an actual event
This deserves an award....
for most thoughtfully crafted April Fool's joke
Dang, I forgot about the first of july thing. He really got me.
I’d actually like more film plots done like this as though they were real events. Nicely done!
I feel so stupid. Of course it's an April fools joke! Thank you pointing that out for airheads such as I. Lol
Hahaha it took me a while to realize this wasn’t about the story that inspired the Jaws movie lol I kept thinking “I really thought this happened in New Jersey or Long Island?” Hahahah
Sucks that this comment is seen without clicking on the comments because it ruined it for me right away
This is not only a good April fool's joke but also an excellent example of how information can be manipulated on the internet.
I have never seen Jaws, but every time the “mayor” picture came up, I kept thinking “wow this looks like a movie scene” can’t believe I didn’t catch on sooner! Brilliant!
I was like “Did this inspire Jaws? Wait, didn’t Jaws come out in 1975?” Lmao
Yep same lmao
That's what I thought at first as well. 😂
That’s what I was thinking to and then I realise it’s April fools
My jaws dropped when I heard this tragic story. I've never heard it before from any other source! Your ability to find these obscure historical anecdotes is astounding! If you keep this up, you're gonna need a bigger platform. You deserve it.
I see what you did there
I see it too, and I approve
Top comment!
🤔🤔🤔hold on-
😏
Ever seen the movie "JAWS"? This is nothing more than the movie.
Perhaps you could cover the devastating fire at a brand new skyscraper in San Fransisco back in 1974, although there were many deaths and reports later suggested that cost cutting on electricals as the main contributing factor, the fire was eventually brought under control and the main structure saved by the ballsy actions of a fire chief and the building’s architect ……… a working title could be The Glass Tower Disaster! 😊
Yes please😂
"At the time, many people considered *Brody's quest* to be a bizarre flight of fancy."
Gooooooodamnit.
;)
Lmao that part played at the exact moment I was reading this comment, that was a super weird coincidence lol
*DU DU DU DUDUDU*
*DUDUDU*
"you had me in the first half, not gonna lie"
Im asian. Didnt watch Jaws growing up. He had me in all the halfs! Good thing I read comments after watching. Felt like total idiot.
i mean, there WAS a similar incident in 1916
@@minerdalta
Shit I laughed at myself realizing this too, thanks Comment section!
Watching in July and was like "This an April Fool's video, isn't it?" Love Jaws.
Dammit, watching in September and im still the fool. Litterally made this so damn well that it convinced me to be real and jaws was based on real life events.🤣🤣🤣 dude, love your videos.
Me who’s never seen jaws: *watches video without looking at the comments* “hmm another nice fascinating horror video” then I come to the comments and like damn he got me good
Same
You've never seen Jaws?!
You’re in for a treat. Greatest shark attack/horror movie ever made
Dude, you need to watch Jaws.
@@AHAGSA I know lol I’ve just never gotten around to it
"Died in the vicious creatures jaws?" Jaws would make a great title for this story in history.
Great idea! The new movie: _Vicious Creature_
IDK, seems a bit over dramatic
I love these April Fool's videos. This is twice you've gotten me (I've never seen Jaws and it's been at least 20 years since I saw Jurassic Park). I can't wait for the next one!
Brilliant!👏
“Here’s to swimming with bow-legged women”
it took me a full five minutes to realise this was an April Fools ffs, i was thinking oh this must be a series of real events Jaws was based on
Yeah, when I saw the title I thought, “Amity Bay is actually a place?”. I’m too much of a Jaws fan to get sucked in further.
I got caught on that one also. Lol
This is the last channel I expected to see an April Fool's joke on. Well done!
At first I thought this was just a legit video, then I thought it was going to explain how Jaws was based on a true story, then I realized it was a joke when he mentioned crystal clear water anywhere in the state of New Jersey
I missed that this was an april fools video, and was thnking "Was this event what inspired Jaws?" and then it went right into the shark killing, at which point it occurred to me to check the date...Brilliant :)
I honestly listened for about 7 minutes enthralled thinking this was the event that inspired jaws before I pieced together that I wasted 7 minutes of my life to hear the best april fool's joke ever.
You're so gullible. I was only conned for 1.5 minutes because I could glance at my pc screen and the date while casting to a TV. :)
It wasn’t a waste if it’s one of the best 😁
It got me too! I’m not really a big movie buff. Eventually I could tell this was the plot for Jaws but then I just thought Jaws was based on a true story 😂
It took until the air canister for me to be like - oh. This is a joke. Got it. 👍
So... That _wasn't_ a waste of 7 minutes of your life then...
I highly entertaining Fascinating Horror story, One of the best on the channel!
This has to be the classiest April Fool's prank I've ever fallen for. Bravo. Bravo.
When watching this I literally said out loud "This police chief and everyone in the town are idiots. That guy's story is literally the ending to Jaws! He's full of s$!t!"
Since I'm watching this 6 months later and watched it on my TV which doesn't readily show the date or the comments, I was super confused. I double-checked the Wikipedia page for Jaws and saw the plot was literally the same as this episode, down to the names and everything. I then, finally noticed the word documentary in quotes in the title and realized that I had been had.
Sweet April fools joke, works even better when not watched on April qst.
Brilliant, thank you. I look forward to watching the The Glass Tower Tragedy.
For everyone talking about the particular day, this is an absolutely true story. I was born that year, and spoke to the shark myself. He had a vendetta with humans over mainstream exploitation.
Did you say “hallo Bruce “ 🤣
Ah, yes, I remember that day vividly. Sad that shark got killed by them dirty poachers.
It actually is loosely based off a true story but it took place off the jersey shore in 1916
And the fisherman was based off a real person in more recent history who caught the largest great white ever and largest fish to ever be caught by rod and reel off the shore Frank Mundas
Chrissy's boyfriend was too intoxicated to swim: he knew better than to drink and dive.
i'll sea my shellfish out.
Haaaaaaaa
BadaBING tssssss
Ahh baloney.
@@FranktheDachshund we're making Kip Adotta (¿sp.?) proud.
Me: "Oh, that's actually surprisingly responsible for a drunk guy."
When this started, I was just listening to it in the background while working. Even though I know better, I genuinely began to doubt my recollection of the fact that Jaws wasn't based on a real event. I quickly muttered 'what the...' then I checked your notes. Bravo!
Also known as the Amityville Horror, where the shark actually comes back to haunt a family home.
If a place has the word “Amity” in the name u know to avoid it
@@70zcowboy So true. Even if you see "Amity" in the same sentence as puppies and babies...RUN.
Hahahahaha 😂🤣😂
@@70zcowboy I work on amity rd..
Ok LMAO tho
"That it seemed more like something from a Hollywood movie than anything that could have happened in real life" 😂😂
As soon as I heard and saw the date at the beginning, I thought the following would be something like: "A new blockbuster movie opened in theaters that would change cinema forever". But when he described the first attack as real, I thought he would soon reveal that it was fictional, and that this video would be about the 1916 shark attacks that inspired "Jaws".
at first i thought he was telling a story about the incident that inspired Jaws, until i began to realize characters in movies do not generally have the same name as the inspired events. 😁
The book was at least partly inspired by the Jersey shore shark attacks. That would make an interesting addition to this series of videos.
Brooo i watched half of it before realizing what I was listening to lmao
Same
Really? I knew from seeing the title.
@@jenewok hoorah for Jenny .
Yep.
Yeah, unfortunately I'm not as perfect as Jenny. I thought maybe the movie was based on this, for way longer than I should have. XD But this is a joke I'm happy to have been a victim of. :P
The 5 stages of being pranked:
1 Initial Encounter: "Oh there's a new video, I'll watch it later."
2 Mild Interest: "Oh, it's about a series of shark attacks. Certainly a suitable subject matter for Mr. FH."
3 Dim Recognition: "Amity.... Oh. THAT Amity. Amity?"
4 DOUBT "That wasn't real, was it. No! No? It's based on a book but that novel wasn't based on something... right?"
5 REALIZATION. "Damn it, it's 4/1. You got me."
There was a series of shark attacks in New Jersey that the book was based on. But other than that, yeah.
@@SadisticSenpai61 yes, but it was way before 1975 - which is what lead to my initial confusion. Then I realized we were being "pranked."
Pretty much my exact thought process. 😂
Same thought process. Oh I didn't know this was based on a real story. I read the book as a teenager and was like...wait...
Yep..me too.
This is how you really make an april fools video! Lots of UA-camrs just say they quit but then say “haha just kidding”
Definitely did not take me 5 min to realize this was a joke…LOVE it, that’s hilarious. Absolutely GOT me. Solid prank, my dude! 😆💕
literally took me until the “compressed air canister detonation” to realize something seemed a bit familiar about this tale. VERY well done.
Haha 😂🤣😂
OMG me too! I was like ‘that sounds familiar...’. Hahahaha
How old are you? I imagine zoomers would only have a cursory knowledge of Jaws.
Ditto
The photos he used didn’t do it? 😂
You had me. Hook, line, sinker, and exploding gas cannister.
At first, I thought maybe there was some actual story behind the movie. A lot of horror movies are loosely based on an actual event. As the video started, I started a Google search and found there is an actual Amity Harbor. But as the video continued to be essentially a summary of the movie plot, I knew he was playing a trick on us.
I was thinking like wait... Sharks don't actually act like that...
@@ressljs Actually, Jaws *was* (loosely) based on a real life incident with a shark in New Jersey that killed four people- One of only two known times in history a single shark killed multiple people.
It was the exploding cannister that made me say WTF. (Along with pics of Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfus) Mythbusters proved that the tank of just compressed air would not explode. So, I was duped like everyone else. :/
He had me too. Hook, line, sinker, exploding gas cannister, exposed electrical wire, hand grenade, sailing ship bow sprit.
I was like “wow this was actually a true story?” Then I check the release date 😅 you had me there
What is so crazy is that now the most reasonable, logical, and hypothesized theory, is that it was Bull Sharks responsible for most of these. And although it cannot be proven, seems pretty accurate to me in my humble opinion.
My mind went from "Huh this event sounds a bit like Jaws..." to "Wait a minute, this is Jaws!"
My mind went from "I thought the New Jersey bull shark spree was in like 1916" to "Hey! It's Jaws."
I was like “holy shit did this incident occur while Jaws was being produced and serve as an influence? Or was this an extreme coincidence-“ (looks at comments) 😭