Andrew (host)
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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It was a mummified figure, half man and half alligator with a leathery torso tapering into a scaled reptilian lower half.
No.
Yeah, I've seen pictures.
It is kind of grotesque.
They called him Jake and bolted him into a glass case at 409 South Pacific Avenue, where he has held court ever since.
And you can even Google this.
Yeah, you can see it on Google.
You can even watch a video on YouTube.
So Jake was almost certainly not pulled from any Florida swamp.
The likeliest author of his existence was Homer Tate, a craftsman who built sideshow gaffes, like fabricated oddities, during the 1940s and 50s.
Yeah.
Very disturbing man, yeah.
very disturbed yeah so if so jake may be the like the most or the finest i should say surviving specimen of a like vanishing folk art the carnival illusion built to make a paying crowd lean in and wonder
So for decades, that's mostly what he was, like a regional oddity, the reason travelers pulled off the road, like at a shop otherwise full of like kind of like kitsch and souvenirs.
Then in November 1993, the tabloid Weekly World News put a postcard image of him on its front page under the headline that a half human, half alligator had been discovered in a Florida swamp.
The paper renamed and reinvented him, and a Spokane columnist grumbled that the tabloid had defamed one of the state's homegrown treasures.
The mischief only fed the legend.
Yes, exactly.
So over the years, the news spun ever taller tales around Jake.
Daring escapes, lured crimes, even fatherhood.
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