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From sharks that apparently had the answers to a murd*r, to fish that simple didn't add up, and more! Join us as we reveal to you some of the most surprising things found while fishing!
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6. The Shark That Solved The Murd*r Case'
The act of catching a shark honestly isn't something very new if we're being honest. Granted, there are now a lot of laws against catching sharks of any kind, but they have been caught over the years and decades before those laws were made. Which brings us to the year 1935. Australians Albert and Charles Hobson were doing some fishing in the waters off the coast and they had a 'Brilliant' plan that they felt would get them a lot of fish and other things. In short, they filled their lines full of bait, and then left them in the water. Then, they decided to go to sleep on the boat while the fishing lines did their work.
If you can see the problem with this, you're not alone.
Anyway, when they woke up they were in for quite a shock, because as they hauled in their lines, they were witness to a literal a bloodbath. Something had gotten to all of these fish and had ripped them to shreds. There was even the remains of a small shark that had gotten onto the fish and it had been brutalized.
So what caused all of this? That would be a 14-foot Tiger Shark that had also gotten caught up in the lines the fishermen had laid down...and as you can probably tell, it wasn't happy. But it was about to be even unhappier as the fishermen decided to make it their prize.
But wait, there's a few twists along the way. After getting the shark and seeing that it wasn't going to die easily, they sold it to the Coogee Aquarium. End of story, right? Wrong. Because after putting it in the aquarium for about a week, the shark decided to go and belch up an actual human arm! One that had a rope tied to it belief it or not.
The arm was retrieved, taken to an examiner, and then it was revealed that the arm was not ripped off a body by the shark that swallowed it. Rather, it was an arm that was cut off the body by a human knife. Which led to the question of, "who was this guy?" That would be Jim Smith, a tattoo helped identify him, and he was a former boxer turned police informant.
He apparently tried to blackmail some powerful people and they ki**led him as a result and cut off his arm to prove that the deed was done. Once it was proven the arm was attached to a rope and weight and thrown into the water so that it wouldn't return to the surface.
So if that shark hadn't eaten the arm, and the fishermen hadn't caught that shark on accident, this murd*r mystery would've never been solved. How's that for a series of unfortunate and random events leading to a positive result?
5. Your Friend's Skull
If you thought that story was crazy, get a load of this one.
The year was 2007, and the man we're going to tell you about is Barry Hunter, who was a fisherman who did a lot of net fishing. One time after catching a good haul he brought his net onto his boat, spilled its contents and observed all the wriggling fish. However, as he observed the various fish on his boat, he saw something he didn't expect, a human skull.
After no doubt recovering from the shock of finding a real human skull in his catch, he turned it over to the police. Their investigators would later discover that this particular skull once belonged to Brian Allison, a fisherman who had gone down at sea.
Here comes the first twist in this tale. Brian and Barry? They used to be drinking buddies. So what are the odds that he was the one who found his late friend's skull? Slim, that's what.

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