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Joe Ball was born in Texas in 1896. After serving in WWI, he returned home to Texas and opened a bar laughably named “The Sociable Inn”. This bar had two distinctions… VERY pretty waitresses, and the five alligators that were kept in a pit out back. The friendly innkeeper would entertain his customers by tossing huge bloody chunks of meat to the alligators, and when that got boring, live cats or dogs. There were many rumors about the man and his bar, most notably where the meat chunks came from, and the fact that waitresses kept vanishing. When the police eventually decided to look into things and went to see the guy, he shot himself and died. Human remains were found in a barrel near the alligator pit, though lack of bodies, and lack of investigation, leave the actual number of victims unknown.

He is buried at the Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Cemetary in Elmendorf, Texas.

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