The Huck Podcast
True stories from the wild.
Bear attacks. Survival epics. The last of a species. Every episode is a real story - pulled from the record and told like you were there. New episodes weekly.
Bear attacks. Survival epics. The last of a species. Every episode is a real story - pulled from the record and told like you were there. New episodes weekly.
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Episode 4
The 12 Days That Invented Jaws
In the summer of 1916, four people were killed by sharks on the New Jersey shore in just 12 days - and an animal almost nobody feared became the most famous monster on Earth. Then it did the impossible: it came a mile up a freshwater creek and killed there too. A great white was caught with human remains in its belly and the attacks stopped. Case closed - except the creek makes no sense for a great white, and more than a century later, no one can say for certain what actually did it.
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Episode 4 · 15 minThe 12 Days That Invented JawsIn the summer of 1916, four people were killed by sharks on the New Jersey shore in just 12 days - and an animal almost nobody feared became the most famous monster on Earth. Then it did the impossible: it came a mile up a freshwater creek and killed there too. A great white was caught with human remains in its belly and the attacks stopped. Case closed - except the creek makes no sense for a great white, and more than a century later, no one can say for certain what actually did it.
Episode 3 · 13 minThe Wolves That Changed the RiversIn 1995, the U.S. government drove wolves back into Yellowstone - 70 years after deliberately wiping them out. The elk changed, the willows returned, the beavers came back, and a video watched tens of millions of times said the wolves had changed the very course of the rivers. The catch: that beautiful story is now one of the most contested claims in ecology, and the messy truth is stranger than the legend.
Episode 2 · 14 minThe Last EighteenA cattle dog dropped a dead animal on a Wyoming porch in 1981 - a black-footed ferret, a species science had already declared extinct twice. Its rediscovery led to a wild colony, then a plague that nearly finished the job, then the brutal decision to capture the last eighteen ferrets on Earth. And decades later, one of them came back from the dead.
Episode 1 · 14 minThe Last CondorIn 1987, biologists made one of the most controversial calls in conservation history: capture the very last wild condor on Earth - on purpose. The story of a bird that outlived the Ice Age, the argument over whether to let it die free, and the man who waited in a hole in the ground to catch the last one.◆
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