The Secret Roots of Our Shark Freak-Outs

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 8, 2014

It's a summer ritual - everyone freaks out about shark attacks. But, according to WNYC reporter Jim O'Grady, it's a fairly recent phenomenon and one that can be traced to an attack in 1916 in Matawan, NJ.

Listen to Jim O'Grady's Story of the 1916 Attack

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