1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,320 From the unexplained to the mundane, come join us on a journey to the fringe. 2 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:17,280 Hello and welcome to Journey to the Fringe, maybe where those feet ended up, I don't know, 3 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:20,020 who knows, or where they came from, maybe even. 4 00:00:20,020 --> 00:00:24,680 We are your throwback-sling podcast hosts Taylor and Chelsea here today discussing a 5 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:30,820 topic that would be very near and dear to probably like a nine-year-old podcast host 6 00:00:30,820 --> 00:00:31,820 Chelsea's heart. 7 00:00:31,820 --> 00:00:32,820 Oh my god. 8 00:00:32,820 --> 00:00:33,820 Chelsea? 9 00:00:33,820 --> 00:00:34,820 What is it? 10 00:00:34,820 --> 00:00:35,820 Oh my god. 11 00:00:35,820 --> 00:00:36,820 Mermaid sightings. 12 00:00:36,820 --> 00:00:37,820 Mermaid sightings! 13 00:00:37,820 --> 00:00:38,820 Yes! 14 00:00:38,820 --> 00:00:40,200 It's not even nine-year-old. 15 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:42,200 It's however old I am, Chelsea's heart. 16 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:44,200 Because I've looked at this to-do before. 17 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:45,840 Did you see it on TikTok? 18 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:47,600 I did not see it on TikTok. 19 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,520 I got something from TikTok. 20 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:54,320 I don't think I'll end up showing it just because, you know, the medium which we use 21 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:56,960 is not conducive to TikTok all the time. 22 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:01,880 But this is a story that has captured the hearts and minds of humanity basically as 23 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:03,840 far back as we can go. 24 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:07,920 And pretty much most cultures have something along the lines of a water human in their 25 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:08,920 lore. 26 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:09,920 It's a ninja. 27 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:14,560 I think it's going to be fun to just look through time and see what people have spotted 28 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:15,560 for mermaids. 29 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:21,840 I've looked at this, but I never actually took the plunge on it. 30 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:24,560 And Chelsea, we're going to end up in some interesting places. 31 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:30,000 We're going to see some culturally different interactions and how it's used as we go through 32 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,000 the time. 33 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:32,000 And I think it's just fun. 34 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,480 I'm not going to talk that much about the mermaids themselves and how they differ. 35 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:38,440 I'm just more or less going to talk about the sightings and what happens from them. 36 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:40,920 We get to talk about if there's any sightings now. 37 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:41,920 Oh yeah. 38 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:42,920 Oh yeah. 39 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:43,920 We'll be talking. 40 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:44,920 Don't worry. 41 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:46,520 I saw them on TikTok, not in real life. 42 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:47,520 Okay. 43 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:51,080 And it was- it got me as TikTok does with those conspiracy theories. 44 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:55,120 I don't know why TikTok's so catchy, but anyhow, let's get to the episode. 45 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:56,120 Yeah. 46 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:57,120 Very sweet. 47 00:01:57,120 --> 00:01:59,760 With that, Chelsea, we're going to start right from the first writing that we have about 48 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:00,760 mermaids. 49 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:06,440 And sorry, before we get there, I need to establish this because I just- I always feel mermaid, 50 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:07,440 not great. 51 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:10,200 Again, another sexed word that doesn't necessarily have to be- 52 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:11,200 Oh, and it has made it. 53 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:12,200 It's not good. 54 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:13,200 Yes. 55 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:16,480 And I don't know what you call- a merman just seems like kind of sexist to say he's 56 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:18,480 a man and it's not a mermaid. 57 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:19,480 She has to work. 58 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:24,520 So I've generally fallen back on calling them mercens because, you know, mer- merperson. 59 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:25,520 But- 60 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:26,520 I do like that. 61 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:27,520 It has a great- 62 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:28,520 One individual is a merson. 63 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:30,200 I don't know what you would call a group of them. 64 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:32,440 Would they be merples or meeples? 65 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:33,440 Mer-son-murples. 66 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:34,440 Okay. 67 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:38,160 I think in the end, you just end up going with what sounds better. 68 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:39,160 And I think it's murple. 69 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:44,480 Well, and most importantly, whether or not they have a seashell bra, because then we 70 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:49,040 can fairly, I think, assume that it's a mermaid or a what-have-you from there. 71 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:51,880 No genitalia, unfortunately, on these back sides. 72 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:53,240 Not on the tails, I don't think. 73 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:56,960 I think it's specifically whether they have the seashell bra or not. 74 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:57,960 Yeah. 75 00:02:57,960 --> 00:02:59,960 And actually, in some cases, no, just the boobies. 76 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:02,760 Okay, I'm so excited to find out. 77 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:04,040 Anyhow, back to the story. 78 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,640 The first writing we have of this actually comes from a man who's come up before on 79 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:08,640 this podcast. 80 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:10,080 Chelsea, I don't expect you to remember him. 81 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:11,160 It's Pliny the Elder. 82 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:14,680 He writes about these exotic beasts way back in the day. 83 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:15,680 So we're talking like- 84 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:17,960 I would think I would remember whoever the elder. 85 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:18,960 Pliny the Elder. 86 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:21,200 He wrote in the hundreds. 87 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:22,680 I believe he's Greek. 88 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:24,120 Might be a Roman, but I'm pretty sure Greek. 89 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:25,680 Where have we talked about him? 90 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:29,760 It was another cryptid or beast that we were talking about because- 91 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:31,840 I feel like it was a meagre. 92 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:33,360 He might have talked about Atlantis, too. 93 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:34,360 I can't quite remember. 94 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:35,360 He talks a lot. 95 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:36,360 He's old. 96 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:37,360 He rambles. 97 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:38,360 Okay. 98 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:39,360 I can do that from his name. 99 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:43,680 So he describes a bizarre assortment of otherworldly sightings of supernatural sea creatures, including 100 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:48,480 mermaids, mermen, and gigantic sea monsters, back to mercens or murples. 101 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:54,560 He reports that an embassy was once sent to Emperor Tiberius to inform him that in a certain 102 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:58,800 cave, numerous people had seen or heard a Triton playing with a conch. 103 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:01,920 I believe a Triton is a kind of merperson, but- 104 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:03,480 I thought it was the king. 105 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:04,480 King Triton. 106 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:05,480 Well, that's- 107 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:06,480 Maybe he was a god. 108 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:07,480 Triton is- 109 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:08,480 Do you know what? 110 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,720 Yeah, Triton is the name of- what's his name? 111 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:13,160 It's the Greek name for Neptune. 112 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:14,160 Oh, okay. 113 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:15,160 Yeah. 114 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,760 But when in a way I didn't expect, that wasn't the little mermaid. 115 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:21,360 He then proceeds to explain that the corpses of so many- and- and- and- 116 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:26,280 Neerids wash up on the French shores that the governor of Gaul once even wrote a letter 117 00:04:26,280 --> 00:04:28,640 to Emperor Augustus to inform him of it. 118 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:32,560 Pliny claims that Neerids look exactly like they are shown in artwork, but states they 119 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:35,840 are completely covered from head to toe with fish scales. 120 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:40,400 Pliny mentions that a dying Neerid- then Neerids what they call, uh, mercens. 121 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,600 Okay, thank you for that, because I was wondering. 122 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:48,320 Yes, once washed ashore on the coast of Gaul and that the inhabitants of the coastal village 123 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:52,320 heard her singing a song of mourning as she lay dying. 124 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:57,960 Pliny also asserts that a merman with a human body was often spotted in the Gulf of Cadiz. 125 00:04:57,960 --> 00:04:58,960 Had is. 126 00:04:58,960 --> 00:04:59,960 Cadiz, I don't know. 127 00:04:59,960 --> 00:05:03,440 This merman would often climb up onto the decks of ships in the middle of the night 128 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:07,400 and whatever part of the ship he sat on would become so weighed down by him that it would 129 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:09,000 instantly begin to sink. 130 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,320 If you remained there for a long time, the ship would actually go underwater. 131 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:15,560 So that's what Pliny tells us about from way back in the day. 132 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:21,520 Wise old man, probably happened obviously, he wrote about Triton, a god, and they exist. 133 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:25,960 Oh yeah, remember in the last episode when we talked about Zeus? 134 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:26,960 Definitely existed. 135 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:30,240 Yeah, she's one of the famous Greeks, remember? 136 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,040 Yeah, I believe it was just briefly mentioned. 137 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:37,440 It wasn't like a whole episode about how God existed, by the way. 138 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:45,240 Between Theor 1040 and 1105, we have writings in the Talmud from a rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki. 139 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:49,280 It's an ancient Jewish book of laws and legends and he wrote, there are fish in the sea with 140 00:05:49,280 --> 00:05:53,640 which half is in the form of man and half in the form of fish called serene in old 141 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:54,640 French. 142 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:58,320 A later rabbi comments on this phrase by saying, quote, this refers to the creatures in the 143 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:02,760 sea which is similar in part to a person from the naval upward and similar to a woman in 144 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:08,000 all aspects in that it has breasts and long hair like that of a woman and from the naval 145 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:09,680 downward is a fish. 146 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:14,880 So they've got writing about it in Jewish law books from that way back in the day. 147 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:15,880 Law book? 148 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:17,720 What was the law about it though? 149 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:21,560 Talmud, it's just a mention of it, like laws and like religious laws. 150 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:22,560 Oh, okay. 151 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:25,720 Kind of like, you call the Bible a book of laws. 152 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:29,120 It's probably an oversimplification, but just to give you an easy idea for it. 153 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:34,360 The Dutch have some interesting stories, first one happening in the 1400s, 1403, the city 154 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:36,280 of Kampen in the Netherlands. 155 00:06:36,280 --> 00:06:40,040 It's recorded a dike had a crack which opened to the sea. 156 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:43,120 Water started flooding the river in massive amounts. 157 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:47,360 After the locals repaired it, they saw a mermaid swimming in the river near the town. 158 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:51,360 At first people were scared, but the mermaid didn't bother anyone and just kept swimming. 159 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:55,680 Later, the villagers captured the mermaid and she transformed into a human with two 160 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:56,680 legs. 161 00:06:56,680 --> 00:07:00,840 They didn't speak, but they forced her to join their society and the mermaid tried to 162 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:06,080 escape and jumped back into the water multiple times, but someone was always there to stop 163 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:07,080 her. 164 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:08,080 What a story. 165 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:09,080 Yeah, I'm very confused. 166 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:10,080 No, it's not. 167 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:11,080 They're real dicks, hey? 168 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:15,040 Yeah, I'm not really quite sure what to make of that story. 169 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:16,120 That's that story. 170 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:21,800 In 1493, right around the time that Christopher Columbus was sailing across the ocean blue, 171 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:26,520 1492, in his three ships, he writes in his logs that he saw mermaids. 172 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:30,440 He describes seeing three sirens that came high out of the water. 173 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:33,720 However, he noted they were not as pretty as they are depicted. 174 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:36,840 For somehow in their face, they look like men. 175 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:40,800 Interesting, because I've also heard, and I don't know if you're going to get to this, 176 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:46,040 that they don't look as human as are depicted in like Disney movies. 177 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:47,320 So it's interesting. 178 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:50,760 Some of them say they do look that way, like the Dutch one. 179 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:54,800 And I'm sure that the little mermaid's based off of a Scandinavian book. 180 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,960 So that makes sense. It actually sounds a lot like her because she couldn't speak and 181 00:07:57,960 --> 00:07:58,960 she had feet. 182 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:00,360 Hey, like that 1403. 183 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:04,880 Yeah, others of them are depicted of more similar to monsters. 184 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:05,880 Am I? 185 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:06,880 Yes, yes. 186 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:07,880 Correct in that. 187 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:08,880 Okay. 188 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:09,880 Yes, you are correct. 189 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:11,680 And we're going to see just like kind of a whole array of them. 190 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:12,680 Okay. 191 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:16,800 That was my comment, I guess, that that's what Christopher Columbus saw was they look like 192 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:17,800 men. 193 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:20,000 And he's assuming they're women. 194 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:21,320 Maybe they were actually. 195 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:22,320 Yeah. 196 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:26,000 And he's just going to say like he was focused on genociding things at the time. 197 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,280 Like he was really busy. 198 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:31,000 So he probably saw them said like, I can't genocide that is in the water. 199 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:32,840 So I'm just going to keep doing my genocide. 200 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:36,720 How would I ever genocide that because that's not my realm? 201 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:41,040 He said, angrily in Italian and or Spanish, depending on who you ask at the time. 202 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:42,040 That to ocean gate. 203 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:43,040 The future. 204 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:46,120 Spoiler alert, they fail miserably. 205 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:52,080 Also it's regularly reported with the Christopher Columbus one that what he saw was a manatee. 206 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:54,280 But that's just people guessing from now. 207 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:56,600 They don't know what he saw. 208 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:01,480 Generally it's thought of that when people see mermaids as manatees or seals. 209 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:04,720 That's generally the given story. 210 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:06,200 That woman sure is ugly. 211 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,480 Sir, that is a manatee. 212 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:11,480 Maybe that's why it's called manatee. 213 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:13,440 Can you imagine though seeing a manatee? 214 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:17,720 They're so cute and actually being like, wow, that is one ugly girl. 215 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,320 Is she not wearing a bikini at the beach? 216 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:24,840 Why is she not covering her bosom? 217 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:25,840 Okay. 218 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:30,960 Next sighting I have is from 1801 by Governor Van Battenburg. 219 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:35,640 Van Battenburg, who was the governor at the time at the island of Burbis in the Caribbean, 220 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:38,880 gives the following account of the description of their local mermaid. 221 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:43,080 The upper portion resembles the human figure, the head smaller in proportion, sometimes 222 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,480 bare, but often covered with copious quantities of long black hair. 223 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:49,400 The shoulders are broad and the breasts large and well formed. 224 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:52,160 The lower portion resembles the tail portion of a fish. 225 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:57,200 Is of immense dimension, the tail forked and not unlike that of the dolphin as it is usually 226 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:58,200 represented. 227 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:00,040 The color of the skin is either black or tawny. 228 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:07,120 The animal is held in veneration and dread by the Indians who imagine that the killing 229 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:10,360 it would be attended with the most calamitous consequences. 230 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:14,200 It is from this circumstance that none of these animals have been shot and consequently not 231 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:16,160 examined, but at a distance. 232 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:20,560 They have been generally observed in a sitting posture in the water, none of the lower extremities 233 00:10:20,560 --> 00:10:25,400 being discovered until they are disturbed, when by plunging the tail appears and agitates 234 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:27,680 the water to a considerable distance round. 235 00:10:27,680 --> 00:10:32,640 They have been always seen employed in smoothing their hair or stroking their faces and breasts 236 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:34,840 with their hands or something resembling hands. 237 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:39,600 In this posture and thus employed they have been frequently taken for Indian women bathing. 238 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:45,320 So that's his account of it. 239 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:48,600 And all over the world too, you're just going to keep seeing that. 240 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:52,560 Like we have rabbis, so I'm assuming it's either European or Middle Eastern at that 241 00:10:52,560 --> 00:10:53,560 time. 242 00:10:53,560 --> 00:10:55,800 We have Greeks, we have the Caribbean now. 243 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:59,600 I think we're heading up to Scotland now actually. 244 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:02,840 Citing from the 1890s, this is the Deerness Maid Citing. 245 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:07,120 This mermaid's sighting is unique as it took place over a few summers around the 1890s, 246 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:12,040 with a creature becoming known as the Deerness Mermaid who regularly visits Newark Bay in 247 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:13,340 Deerness Scotland. 248 00:11:13,340 --> 00:11:17,720 This mermaid made multiple appearances and hundreds of eyewitnesses swear to the validity 249 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:18,720 of their encounter. 250 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:22,880 One person wrote, quote, it is about six to seven feet in length, has a little black 251 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:28,400 head with neck, snow white body in two arms, and in swimming it just appears like a human 252 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:29,400 being. 253 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:34,800 At times it will appear to be sighting on a sunken rock and will wave and work its hands. 254 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:38,800 Of course we have to assume that's what they said, again they're saying it in Scottish, 255 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:40,800 which is it's hard to know for sure. 256 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:44,600 It's one of the hardest languages to know for sure and even worse than German. 257 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:46,440 Although probably more pure than English. 258 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:50,400 And then in 1913, a lot of people believe this is the same thing because it's the one 259 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:53,480 in Scotland, it's the Hoysee Woman sighting. 260 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:54,840 So close to Deerness. 261 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:59,680 This woman shows up in 1913, Merson, and of writing from the time Ralph Taylor and crew 262 00:11:59,680 --> 00:12:03,640 when visiting their lobster reels the other day saw a strange creature which looked like 263 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:06,380 a mermaid, close by the foot of the old man. 264 00:12:06,380 --> 00:12:10,640 It rose out of the water to the height of three feet and looked like a lady with a shawl around 265 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:13,080 her shoulders and streaming down her face. 266 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:16,320 This is the third occasion it has been seen at close range by them. 267 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:20,880 The oldest people have never seen anything like it before and wonder what it can be. 268 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:23,680 Some think it must be the Deerness mermaid on tour. 269 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:24,680 On tour? 270 00:12:24,680 --> 00:12:26,520 Yeah, that's from the Orcadian. 271 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:30,480 The article was on Saturday, September 13th, 1913. 272 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:34,240 And then again in 1947, another Scottish fisherman sees one. 273 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:38,320 An old fisherman from Scotland reported that he had seen a mermaid in the water from 20 274 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:42,880 yards from the shore sitting combing her hair on a floating herring box used to preserve 275 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:47,000 live lobsters according to Sir Arthur Woe in the folklore of the Murpho. 276 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,440 He says, quote, unfortunately, as soon as she looked around, she realized that she had 277 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:52,120 been seen and plunged into the sea. 278 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:57,240 A reporter named Mr. McClain says, but no one questioning could shake the old fisherman's 279 00:12:57,240 --> 00:12:58,240 conviction. 280 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:01,360 He was adamant that he had seen a mermaid, so one never knows. 281 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:05,160 I kept this one together just because I wanted to keep the Scottish ones all together, but 282 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:09,440 we're going to jump just a few years back in time to World War II where there's an 283 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:14,600 island in Malaysia called the Kei or Kai Islands, which had Japanese occupation. 284 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:19,520 And the Japanese soldiers there saw apparently many mermaids or manfish sightings, as they 285 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:20,520 called them. 286 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:25,160 They claimed to be 150 centimeters tall, having spikes on the spine, shoulders, and neck. 287 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:29,640 The local villagers in the Kai Islands of Indonesia had a creature that they were familiar 288 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:31,600 with and they called it the Rang Ikan. 289 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:34,880 I believe names like that in Malaysia have come up before. 290 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:36,600 I think there's the orang-miniak. 291 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:37,600 Has that come up before? 292 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:38,600 Is that the... 293 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:40,600 They're a bigfoot guy, right? 294 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:42,320 Yeah, they have come up before. 295 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:44,480 So orang means person. 296 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:46,120 In that kind of kan... 297 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:48,440 Not in detail, but they've come up. 298 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:52,360 And then the other one would be orang-itan, which, you know, human monkey or something 299 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:56,200 like that because it's the exact same start to the word. 300 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:57,920 So they call it the orang-ikan. 301 00:13:57,920 --> 00:13:59,640 It translates directly to manfish. 302 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:04,440 During the war, Japanese soldiers stationed in the 555 square mile area in the islands 303 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:09,400 had multiple claims of encounters with these manfish or with the modern world calls mermaids. 304 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:13,320 The Japanese soldiers recorded not one, but many different sightings claiming they all 305 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:18,000 saw the same thing, an amphibious creature that was mostly seen in the sea and not on 306 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:19,000 land. 307 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,880 Instead of a single tail, they had two frog-like fins and long arms. 308 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:23,880 Thanks god. 309 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:24,880 Yeah. 310 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:29,400 And they were said to have light pink skin similar to salmon and a mouth like a carp. 311 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:32,280 Not quite what other people have been describing in the European side. 312 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:35,080 A little mermaid would have been so much better like this. 313 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:37,480 And notice how these guys aren't talking about the boobs. 314 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:39,040 No, not at all. 315 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:44,840 All the other ones are like, yeah, she's got a belly button, giant boobs, friggin' awesome, 316 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:47,160 then a tail or something. 317 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:48,160 I don't know. 318 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:49,160 I've never really looked that far. 319 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:54,520 And then these guys are like, no, I couldn't even tell you if there were boobs. 320 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:58,080 It looks delicious though. 321 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:02,680 One such sighting happened when a troop of soldiers came to a natural lagoon after leisurely 322 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:03,920 exploring the island. 323 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:08,640 The lagoon seemed normal until they saw some thrashing in the water, suddenly an orangutan 324 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:11,040 jumped out of the water and onto a rock. 325 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:14,440 It turned, faced the soldiers, and let out a weird gurgling noise. 326 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:17,200 Another same creature was seen swimming in the water towards them. 327 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:20,440 They didn't seem friendly and not knowing the creature's intentions, the soldiers started 328 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,560 shooting at them, but the creatures escaped and disappeared out of view. 329 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:28,120 And to be fair, we don't know how good of fighters they were because, you know, they lost the war. 330 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:33,360 So maybe the orangutan could have beaten the allies in a war we don't know for sure. 331 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:35,760 We do know that they thwarted the Japanese. 332 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:39,120 They sound like they got some freaky stuff going on there. 333 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:40,440 That's enough to deal with. 334 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:42,040 That's spooky enough. 335 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:48,000 And then a sergeant named Mr. Tarot requested the villagers inform him if any of the orangutan 336 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:49,760 were captured dead or alive. 337 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:53,360 The soldiers summoned the general soon after who saw these creatures with his own eyes. 338 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:57,400 Mr. Tarot tried his best to get the scientific community involved after the war, but unfortunately 339 00:15:57,400 --> 00:15:58,400 it didn't happen. 340 00:15:58,400 --> 00:15:59,920 So that one's pretty cool. 341 00:15:59,920 --> 00:16:05,600 And then, Chelsea, this is the market change here where we come into the modern capital 342 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:06,600 day. 343 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:09,320 Basically everything from here on out is like, oh, somebody saw a mermaid. 344 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:11,080 We got to market the shit out of this. 345 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:16,800 Okay, I'm intrigued because I don't actually know the stories behind these. 346 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:22,000 I have seen the little mermaid, so I am thinking that you're going to start reading the script 347 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:23,560 from the little mermaid. 348 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:24,560 Okay. 349 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:25,560 Over to the watchers. 350 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:27,480 See, I already covered the little mermaid. 351 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:32,360 I made it very clear that that woman that they tore from the sea to have legs and not 352 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:34,080 talk was the little mermaid. 353 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:37,440 Okay, I still think you're going to read from the script. 354 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:44,720 Well, this story actually comes from the Daily Colonist, the June 13th, 1967 version of it, 355 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:47,640 because it is a sighting in BC, Chelsea. 356 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:49,160 No, shut up. 357 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:50,160 In a newspaper. 358 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:51,160 Yeah. 359 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:54,520 In the early season, oh my God. 360 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:58,200 This creature was seen in the early evening by passengers on ferries close to the west 361 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:00,040 entrance to active pass. 362 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:03,480 The Daily Colonist reported on the sighting the next day and included a photograph that 363 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:07,400 is said to be taken by George Harrison of the city of Iowa. 364 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:12,600 Several witnesses said the mermaid had a large fish, apparently coho salmon, and one swore 365 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:14,720 she had taken the bite out of it. 366 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:18,960 Long silver blonde hair and topless condition were generally agreed upon. 367 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:21,680 And I just love the way this article goes. 368 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:23,120 Just stay with me here. 369 00:17:23,120 --> 00:17:27,120 The next day, the colonists referred to her as a dimpled mermaid and said she had the 370 00:17:27,120 --> 00:17:29,160 lower body of a fish or porpoise. 371 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:34,080 The newspaper said she had been at Helen Point on the northwest corner of Main Island and 372 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:36,240 had been seen eating a large salmon. 373 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:41,360 Quote, a cobble hill man who flew over the area shortly after 7pm managed to get an aerial 374 00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:45,680 photograph which corresponded closely to a picture taken from the queen of sandwiched 375 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,200 by an Iowa visitor, the colonists said. 376 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:52,160 The aerial photograph which was not published in the newspaper apparently showed a silvery 377 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:54,560 object on the rock beside the mermaid. 378 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:58,760 One male witness said that the mermaid was quote, a cute blonde with dimples. 379 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:00,720 It was definitely a girl. 380 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:01,720 Definitely. 381 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:02,720 End quote. 382 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:08,040 He said the mermaid seemed to enjoy the wake of the fairy washing over her. 383 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:11,480 The witness did not want his name used in the newspaper, he said because his boss would 384 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:12,680 think he was crazy. 385 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:18,800 On June 15th, the colonists cranked it up a notch and they reported that a $25,000 reward 386 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:22,520 would be offered for the dimpled mermaid of active pass. 387 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:26,880 The offer was made by Charles White of the undersea gardens who added that a panel of 388 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:31,320 competent marine biologists would have to confirm that the mermaid was a real thing. 389 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:33,520 White promised to negotiate a contract with the mermaid. 390 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:34,520 I love this part. 391 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:37,160 Quote, I think we could come to terms. 392 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:41,520 We would offer a substantial salary, room and board, and a supply of those special 393 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:43,600 combs that mermaids use, he said. 394 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:48,000 In planning for accommodations for the mermaid, White said he would need to know if she preferred 395 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,840 to sleep with her tail above or below covers. 396 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:54,240 White was not troubled by the fact that the half-girl, half-fish creature was apparently 397 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:57,360 topless, saying that her natural state would be fine. 398 00:18:57,360 --> 00:19:00,200 Quote, we are very conscious of conservation. 399 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:01,200 End quote. 400 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:05,840 He said Earl Dignother, manager of the Victoria Chamber of Commerce, suggested that the mermaid 401 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:10,560 could be convinced to pop into view from time to time and even give a leer to play. 402 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:14,180 Quote, of course they'd have to tie the captains to the mast. 403 00:19:14,180 --> 00:19:16,960 Even if it's not a real mermaid, it's a great idea. 404 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:19,640 How come we overlooked this for so long? 405 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:20,640 End quote. 406 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:24,480 There was one more sighting of the mermaid at Cordova Bay more than a week later, but 407 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:26,800 the woman who saw the creature was not convinced. 408 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:29,600 I don't believe for a moment it was a real mermaid, she said. 409 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:30,920 And that was that. 410 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:33,240 The final colonists report on the mermaid. 411 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:35,560 And sorry, I said this was from that article. 412 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:40,080 The colonists did a look back at the story later on, and this is from that story from 413 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:41,080 the colonist. 414 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:42,080 Okay. 415 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:45,040 But I just love how they're like, oh, we gotta market the shit out of this. 416 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:47,000 We're gonna put up a reward. 417 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,480 If she's gonna be topless, like hey, that's just natural. 418 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:52,640 Can't do nothing about that. 419 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:58,480 Now it doesn't appear that there is an actual picture, am I correct in that? 420 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:00,240 There are pictures. 421 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:02,600 It's a 1967 black and white one. 422 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:04,120 You can't see shit. 423 00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:12,560 I can't find a thing if I Google it and obviously the man's name who apparently took the photo 424 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:16,760 gives way too lame a more photo than someone else. 425 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:18,960 Not being George Harrison. 426 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:24,560 But I would like to point out this is a very good explanation for just feet washing up 427 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:25,600 on shore. 428 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:31,280 If we combine this story with the Dutch story from 1403 where she jumps in the water, her 429 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:32,600 legs disappear. 430 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:39,400 What if it's just mermaids going in and out of the water and their feet fall off? 431 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:42,320 I think we gotta add that to the list of explanations. 432 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:46,760 That might actually be the best explanation we've heard so far. 433 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:50,720 They're born with feet, but they're mermaids so they fall off. 434 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:51,720 Of course. 435 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:54,160 I don't know how we missed it. 436 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:58,320 The answer was right in front of us and topless this whole time. 437 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:00,720 Wow, that's a crazy story. 438 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:02,440 I've never heard of that. 439 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:05,320 I love it when we come back to a local story. 440 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:06,320 I love that. 441 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:09,440 You think you live in such a mundane part of the world and for the most part we do, 442 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:11,120 but there are fun stories every now and then. 443 00:21:11,120 --> 00:21:14,400 Yeah, I mean we got Lake and Boots Square. 444 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:16,240 I love that address. 445 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:19,240 Next one is I believe this is 1998. 446 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:21,320 We're going to Kauai. 447 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:24,280 And this one does allegedly have a photograph with it. 448 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:29,200 So if you look up 1998 Kauai mermaid photo you should find something here. 449 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:33,360 This comes from a diving webpage which I think is the actual diver who found this. 450 00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:35,840 The article is titled First Ever Photos of Mermaid. 451 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:39,520 For more than 50 years people have reported seeing a mermaid off the coast of Hawaii's 452 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:43,520 Big Island, but the sightings were never taken seriously until a dive boat captain finally 453 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:45,760 captured the half-woman half-fish on film. 454 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:51,440 Dive master Jeff Leisher, 43, photographed the creature known as the Kauai Point Mermaid 455 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:56,880 on April 12, 1998 as he and six other divers were exploring the ocean bottom about 20 minutes 456 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,080 off Hawaii's sunny Kota coast. 457 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:01,280 Leisher points to the spot where he photographed the mermaid. 458 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:03,320 Jeff Leisher spots the Kona mermaid. 459 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,800 I'd heard about her before. 460 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:10,360 Most of us who are out in these waters regularly have heard stories but I'd never seen her 461 00:22:10,360 --> 00:22:14,160 until that morning says Leisher who operates Jack's Diving Locker. 462 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,440 And this came right from Jack's Diving Locker website. 463 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:20,640 Quote, we were on our way out to the point when a school of dolphins started following 464 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:24,840 the boat, playing in our wake and suddenly one of the men in the port side starts yelling 465 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:25,840 and pointing. 466 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:27,480 I couldn't believe what I saw. 467 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:31,880 The one that was about 10 feet from the bow was what looked like a nude woman. 468 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:35,520 She had long flowing hair and one of the most beautiful faces I'd ever seen. 469 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:40,080 But there was no way a human being could be swimming so fast she kept keeping right up 470 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:41,200 with the dolphins. 471 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,080 Then she left into the air and my heart almost gave out on me. 472 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:49,560 The entire lower half of her was covered with scales and tapered back into a huge fishtail. 473 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:52,360 She jumped once more and then disappeared under their surface. 474 00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:53,360 End quote. 475 00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:56,880 All 10 people on the boat witnessed the bizarre incident but there was another incredible surprise 476 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:57,880 still ahead. 477 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:01,240 Quote, about an hour later we arrived at the point and we were diving. 478 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:04,880 I was photographing some colorful fish with my underwater camera. 479 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,600 Suddenly I felt something brush against my right leg. 480 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:11,840 She shot by me like a streak of lightning and then turned and came back past me, swimming 481 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:12,840 the other way. 482 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:14,960 I just aimed the camera and started snapping pictures. 483 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:18,120 I kept shooting as she broke for the surface and swam away. 484 00:23:18,120 --> 00:23:19,120 End quote. 485 00:23:19,120 --> 00:23:21,920 Weekly World News, you know the most reputable source on earth. 486 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:25,600 Had Leishers picture analyzed by three noted photography labs? 487 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,800 All three say the photos are genuine and have not been tampered with. 488 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:33,440 And the photos of the Kauai Point mermaid have been studied and authenticated by experts. 489 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:38,040 Quote, I feel very lucky that I'm the one to finally prove to the world what people 490 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:40,800 here have known for half a century said Leishers. 491 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:42,960 The Kauai Point's mermaid is real. 492 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:43,960 End quote. 493 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:45,120 Did you find that photo Chelsea? 494 00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:46,120 I did. 495 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:50,960 It legitimately looks like the stereotypical mermaid. 496 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:51,960 Right? 497 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:52,960 Yeah. 498 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:53,960 By looking at the right one? 499 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:54,960 I think so. 500 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:55,960 You can see the tail, hair. 501 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:56,960 You can see. 502 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,280 And it's looking up, so you only see the outline really. 503 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:03,080 Yeah, it looks like you can see it had arms or to its side, right? 504 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:04,520 And then you can see like a tail. 505 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:06,120 It looks like a female. 506 00:24:06,120 --> 00:24:10,240 So if it's real, that's a pretty dead, like whenever we're talking about photos, they're 507 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,540 always blurry really far away. 508 00:24:12,540 --> 00:24:14,960 This one is 10 feet at most away. 509 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:16,280 Like it's a good photo. 510 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,000 We'll probably post it on the socials. 511 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:22,520 If you're this close to it, you should see a few more details other than just an outline. 512 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:26,960 But yeah, it is a human top, tail, bottom, mermaid hat. 513 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:31,600 We're going to skip ahead to 2009, the Jerusalem Post. 514 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:34,960 Israel is in the grips of a mermaid fever after continuous sightings of the mythical 515 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:36,640 sea creature off its coast. 516 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:41,360 One town council is taking the report so seriously it is offering a $1 million reward to anyone 517 00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:43,600 who could prove the existence of a mermaid in its waters. 518 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:48,240 Kiryat Yam municipality near Haifa says it has been told of dozens of sightings in the 519 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:49,240 past few months. 520 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:50,240 Quote. 521 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:53,560 They are telling us they are sure they've seen a mermaid and they are all independent 522 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:54,560 of each other. 523 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:55,560 End quote. 524 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:57,800 Council spokesman Natty Zilberman told Sky News. 525 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:02,440 The nautical nymph is only seen in the evening at sunset according to media reports, drawing 526 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,040 crowds of people with cameras hoping for a glimpse. 527 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:06,040 Quote. 528 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:09,000 People say it is a half girl, half fish jumping like a dolphin. 529 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,520 It does all kinds of tricks and then disappears. 530 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:12,520 End quote. 531 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:13,520 Mr. Zilberman said again. 532 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:17,680 Asked whether a dolphin or large fish could be a more traditional explanation, he insisted. 533 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:18,680 Quote. 534 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:19,680 They say it's a female figure. 535 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:20,840 It's like a young girl. 536 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,680 So probably a manatee as we've learned. 537 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:25,360 End quote. 538 00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:26,360 How disturbing. 539 00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:30,960 The council denied its offer of a reward was a publicity stunt, but said it hoped to 540 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:34,840 nurture the mermaid as something which could bring in more tourists. 541 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:36,920 Capturing a mermaid is not necessary. 542 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:38,920 A verifiable photograph will do. 543 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:39,920 Zilberman said. 544 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:41,760 Asked if the council can afford the payout. 545 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:42,960 He told Sky News. 546 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:43,960 Quote. 547 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:48,000 I believe if there really is a mermaid then so many people and tourists will come to Kiryat. 548 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,200 Yeah, a lot more money will be made than $1 million. 549 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:52,200 End quote. 550 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:53,200 End article. 551 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:55,320 And then Chelsea, this next one, I just have to preface this. 552 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:59,840 I'm probably gonna have to say the most racist thing I've ever said on this show in this 553 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:00,840 next one. 554 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,560 Wow, we've said a lot of racist things actually. 555 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:05,160 In a very weird way. 556 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:06,160 Not ourselves. 557 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:07,160 Quoted. 558 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:11,320 Just brace yourself for it because it gets weird in this article, but we're going to Zimbabwe 559 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:12,720 on this one. 560 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:14,320 Oh, okay. 561 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:15,320 Interesting. 562 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:20,000 Yeah, and the racism isn't going to be what you think, but it is very apparent once I 563 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:21,000 get to it. 564 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,000 Okay. 565 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,000 It's 2012 Zimbabwe, they're building a dam. 566 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,360 That's as much as I need to tell you to preface this. 567 00:26:26,360 --> 00:26:31,600 A mermaid plagued dam in Zimbabwe is up and working after traditional healers brewed beer 568 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:33,760 to appease the mischievous water spirits. 569 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:38,360 The mermaids were harassing workers installing water pumps at the dam near the small town 570 00:26:38,360 --> 00:26:41,160 of Gokwe in northern Zimbabwe. 571 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:46,680 According to local media reports, water resource minister Samuel Speppa Nkomo told a Senate 572 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:52,360 committee last week that work on the pumps at Gokwe Dam had stopped after terrified workers 573 00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:56,560 complained of machines breaking down under mysterious circumstances and blamed mermaids. 574 00:26:56,560 --> 00:27:02,120 The state run Harold newspaper reported Nkomo said the same problem had been reported at 575 00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:05,600 Osborne Dam near Mutare in the country's east. 576 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:09,560 He called for traditional rituals to be performed at the dams, including traditionally brewed 577 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,520 beer to rid them of these mermaid menaces. 578 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:17,440 At Osborne Dam, divers had been sent down to investigate the cause of blockages in the 579 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:21,760 pumps but returned to the water surface, vowing to never go back down again. 580 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:26,520 Quote, we even hired whites, thinking that our boys did not want to work. 581 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:31,120 But they also returned saying they would not return to work there again. 582 00:27:31,120 --> 00:27:32,120 End quote. 583 00:27:32,120 --> 00:27:38,120 Nkomo said to the Senate committee, the problem at Gokwe was reportedly solved late last week 584 00:27:38,120 --> 00:27:42,000 when the water ministry hired traditional healers to conduct rituals. 585 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,720 The traditional leaders held a ceremony in which they slaughtered cattle and brewed beer 586 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:47,400 to appease the water spirit. 587 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,800 Quote, I do not believe in mermaids, but communities around here do. 588 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:51,800 End quote. 589 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:53,320 Nkomo said according to Sapa. 590 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:57,760 According to the Voice of America, belief in mermaids persists among some Zimbabweans, 591 00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,680 though many are skeptical of such claims. 592 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,120 Quote, mermaids are supposedly mythological creatures. 593 00:28:02,120 --> 00:28:06,280 With a female body and a tail of fish, those tales were mostly in circulation hundreds 594 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:10,640 of years ago, but stories continue to make their rounds in Zimbabwe, VOA said. 595 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:13,040 Which I believe is the newspaper I use for that one. 596 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:14,640 Very different that one, hey? 597 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,080 Yeah, it's strangely similar. 598 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,440 But nobody talking about the boobs. 599 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,680 And if I were a mermaid, I would want to be made in Zimbabwe, because they brewed beer 600 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:24,680 for me. 601 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:28,800 To finish this off, just to say that these are still ongoing in 2012 isn't the most 602 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:34,160 recent story I have, I took to Reddit to see what stories people were telling on there. 603 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,760 With my goodness, did I find quite a few of them. 604 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:38,440 So we're going to read a couple from there. 605 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:42,760 Oh please, can I just interject before this, because I don't want to leave it as an afterthought. 606 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,280 I want to get it while you're talking about normal. 607 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,000 Like what do we call the day that we are today? 608 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:49,000 Modern times? 609 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:50,000 Present day? 610 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,280 Modern times, present day sightings. 611 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,080 There was a time that I was up very late. 612 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:58,480 Growing through TikTok, it was around the same time as Ocean Gate, let's just say. 613 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:02,200 TikTok was a flame with Ocean Gate at that time. 614 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:09,320 However, I was, and this is what got it onto our list, I came across one video that was 615 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:16,720 of a guy on TikTok who was on a boat late at night, and he went out and he had the big 616 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:21,360 lights going on to the dark ocean, which just creeps me out. 617 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:28,080 And the subtitles on the video say that Siren was calling him out of the boat. 618 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:29,920 I found that one, yeah. 619 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:31,520 So that started me. 620 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:32,520 You can hear something. 621 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:36,440 Yeah, you can hear something calling him out of the boat, and he has the big spotlights 622 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:41,560 off this big, it's not an ocean liner, it must be a fishing boat or something like that. 623 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,880 To which it just gives me the creeps, because I hate the ocean. 624 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,400 I just don't know what's in the ocean. 625 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:53,520 Mermaids, Loch Ness monsters, Kraken's, I don't know, I don't want to find out. 626 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:57,320 I'm not going to go down in the Ocean Gate to go look at the Titanic. 627 00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,160 I don't care what's down there. 628 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:00,480 It's very unexplored. 629 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:04,760 We know more about the moon, and that being said, aliens versus mermaids. 630 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:08,120 We know nothing about them, especially their boobs. 631 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,520 Yeah, we actually know too much about aliens. 632 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,440 We do know a lot about their boobs. 633 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:16,800 We know more about their boobs than about anything else about them. 634 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:23,280 And let us just say that this is the most genitalia that has actually come up in cryptids, and 635 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:27,800 let me just say, everybody's incredibly casual about bringing that information about us. 636 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:28,800 It's true. 637 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:29,800 I didn't even think about that. 638 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:30,800 But you're right. 639 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,120 This is the most genitalia information we've had. 640 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:39,480 But yeah, that's where it made it to our list from, was that video that I saw on TikTok. 641 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:45,440 And then I got into another TikTok hole that was an Ocean Gate that was siren sightings 642 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,400 that are just on TikTok. 643 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:53,000 And I do also think that sirens could in themselves be a different episode, because that one doesn't 644 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,440 necessarily have a sighting up in mermaid. 645 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:59,520 And sirens specifically are lowering in, I believe. 646 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:00,520 Yes, they are. 647 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:01,760 They're allowing you to your doom. 648 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:02,760 Okay. 649 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:06,400 So I just thought I would bring that up before you go into modern day sightings. 650 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:07,400 Okay, fair enough. 651 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,120 Because that is originally what put me into wanting to do an episode on that. 652 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:15,240 And yeah, if you TikTok siren mermaid, you will find this video. 653 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:16,240 Oh, it'll come up. 654 00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:17,240 It's probably the most. 655 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:18,240 It's very popular. 656 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:19,240 Yeah. 657 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:20,240 I just want to make the distinction at this point. 658 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,320 Sirens and mermaids are not the same thing. 659 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:23,320 They can be. 660 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:27,440 They often are interchangeably used through mythology and whatnot. 661 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:31,160 I'm just saying you could make an argument that that would be its own episode, because 662 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,320 sirens definitively are lowering you to doom. 663 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:35,320 Fair enough. 664 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:36,320 I just wanted to make the decision. 665 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,960 There doesn't necessarily need to be a sighting of a mermaid for a siren to happen. 666 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:40,960 Ah, okay. 667 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:41,960 That makes sense, right? 668 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:42,960 No, it doesn't make sense. 669 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:43,960 And we're here. 670 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,720 I'm just doing stories where people are saying they saw mermaids. 671 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,000 I haven't heard any doom speak yet. 672 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,800 Well, get ready for some of that. 673 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:51,800 Oh, good. 674 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,800 A lot of these just come from the mermaid subreddit, and it was posted two years ago. 675 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:57,920 Hold on, I'm not on the subreddit. 676 00:31:57,920 --> 00:31:58,920 I need on it. 677 00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:02,480 I need you to know that a lot of it is just like, you know, those people who dress up 678 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,320 like mermaids to swim around on the mermaid tails. 679 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:06,320 No, I don't need it. 680 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:07,320 Yeah, that's most of it. 681 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,840 But two years ago, somebody's like, hey, are there actual mermaid sightings? 682 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,360 And my God, did people respond to this? 683 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:16,400 Wow, everyone's on the wrong reddit. 684 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:22,240 Two years ago, Corn Holio69-666 has this story to share with us. 685 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:23,240 Yeah, for real. 686 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,120 I was living in the Caribbean as well in Utila Honduras. 687 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:30,160 Once I was in Neptune's one of the most virgin beaches here, and I was just swimming, not 688 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:31,880 even diving, or doing snorkel. 689 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:35,320 And I felt a hand pulling me, and I have long hair to my shoulders. 690 00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:37,800 I'm 6'5", so it started pulling my hair. 691 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:39,840 Obviously, I panicked and started screaming. 692 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:43,360 And two of my friends who were looking at me like, what the fuck is going on, lol. 693 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:49,440 So I got to the dock, and then I see a remora, and they have a soft tissue that makes suction. 694 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:54,000 And that's how they cling to sharks and whales, but I've never encountered a fish that 695 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,440 pulls down, and it's swimming near the deck when I got off of it. 696 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:02,040 My friend is a dive instructor, and she got into the water, and the remora never got close 697 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:03,040 to her. 698 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,640 And it touched my legs, arms, it pulled my hair, and that was like a month ago. 699 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,800 And still living in an island, I'm a little frightened to go to the sea. 700 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:13,760 So my friend who is an instructor for diving vouches for my mermaid story, because she told 701 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:17,240 me she felt threatened by something she didn't know, I believe in them honestly. 702 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,760 I didn't see it, but he felt something pull on his hair in the water. 703 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,800 That's specifically why I hate going into water. 704 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:28,520 Old supermarket 5657 says, I'd like to add mine. 705 00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:34,400 In 2021, in Montego Bay, Jamaica, I was sitting on the beach alone during a silent lightning 706 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:38,760 storm at night, and all of a sudden I felt the intense urge to run into the water. 707 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:40,720 Mind you, I don't swim. 708 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:45,160 After a while, the urge intensified, and I stupidly went, put my feet in the water, 709 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,680 and I remembered the water was bubbling and it was pitch black, and I immediately felt 710 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:50,600 this sense of dread and danger. 711 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:51,920 Ran out of the water. 712 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:55,640 After getting out, I went back to sit down on my folding chair, and out of nowhere, a 713 00:33:55,640 --> 00:34:00,480 bolt of lightning lit up the night sky and the sea, and I saw a black figure with long 714 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:04,760 hair not too far away from me, staring at me from the water. 715 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:08,680 After the lightning was gone, the figure was nowhere to be found, and I sat there for half 716 00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:13,400 an hour trying to figure out what the figure I saw was, but it never appeared again, and 717 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,240 I really believed it was a mermaid trying to take me into the sea. 718 00:34:16,240 --> 00:34:17,240 They hate that. 719 00:34:17,240 --> 00:34:18,480 I would have gone so fast. 720 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:24,000 Eight months ago, Zebediah said, yes, mermaids are real, but because many people are skeptical 721 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,520 about it, I chose not to discuss my encounter. 722 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,360 I was 13 years old, and it was not a pleasant encounter. 723 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:33,720 I ended up in the hospital emergency room and have the scars to prove it. 724 00:34:33,720 --> 00:34:35,160 Mermaids do not exist only in the sea. 725 00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,640 I believe they exist in any body of water. 726 00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:39,240 It can be a dam or a pond. 727 00:34:39,240 --> 00:34:40,960 I don't know why I had the encounter. 728 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:44,840 I was with my sister, and I was the only person that saw them and tried to draw her attention 729 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:45,840 to them. 730 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:46,840 They were three of them. 731 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,720 I was on top of a tree by a pond in the secluded area when I saw them. 732 00:34:49,720 --> 00:34:54,320 I fell down from the tree, and then I had my encounter and ended up in the hospital emergency 733 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:55,320 room. 734 00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,640 They didn't get into detail, but kind of terrifying. 735 00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,240 Wish he probably would have on that one. 736 00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:02,840 I believe no, this one didn't do a follow up. 737 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:06,680 I think this person here gave a vague story like this one. 738 00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:10,720 This is Ladder Towel 9403 five months ago. 739 00:35:10,720 --> 00:35:15,200 They gave an answer like Zepadaya did, and then they responded with a more in depth story. 740 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:16,320 So it says it's hard to explain. 741 00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,640 I was fishing in a river about a mile and a half from my grandfather's house. 742 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:23,360 I had always walked there and fished from the bank, where I had gone since I was a kid. 743 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:27,680 I was down fishing with my dog, Josie, and was sitting and leaning against the tree. 744 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:31,360 Then my bobber went down hard and my rod almost went out of my hands. 745 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:33,320 I figured it was a bass or a catfish. 746 00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:37,520 For some reason though, I started following my line as if something was drawing me in. 747 00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:43,920 Josie was freaking out, yelling and even biting my leg trying to get me back, but I kept following it as if I were in a trance. 748 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:44,840 Then something broke. 749 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:50,680 The surface of the water in front of me, now all I could see was the torso and head of like a greenish brown head. 750 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:54,760 And I saw its hand, yes a hand, was pulling my line towards it. 751 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:58,000 I was so scared, but couldn't stop as it brought me closer. 752 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:04,400 Then Josie was between us barking and snapping at it, and I was able to suddenly go back towards the banks, leaving everything. 753 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:11,960 I saw it grab Josie, and grabbing at my knife, I cut the line, which I guess broke the trance, and as I struggled out of the water, 754 00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:14,480 I saw Josie and grabbed her and ran out of the water. 755 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:19,360 I heard a weird slapping sound in a grunt, and I kept running until I was almost home. 756 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:23,960 I saw Josie was hurt, one of her ears was gone and bleeding, and I finally got to the house. 757 00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:28,600 I was crying and threw her in the car, and straight to the vet, still wet and shaking. 758 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:33,640 I told him something got her and waited anxiously until he came back, and said she was lucky. 759 00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:38,600 They had extracted a tooth from her skull, and he said it looked like an alligator tooth, but I knew better. 760 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:43,040 I never told my family what happened, but I knew damn well it wasn't an alligator. 761 00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:46,040 I hate that story too, I believe him. 762 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:47,440 That is a creepy story. 763 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:54,080 And the last one I have was posted two months ago by one amphibian, 5831. 764 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,400 Oh my god, I'm so happy I found this post. 765 00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:00,800 I really suck at explaining things, and English isn't my native language, so please keep that in mind. 766 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:02,040 I hope it's not German. 767 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:05,400 That was told to me by Pataw. 768 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:08,640 This is something that's been bothering me for years. 769 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:13,800 I'm a 20 year old female, and when I was 13, me and my dad and my younger brother went to Thailand. 770 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:18,360 We traveled to PP Island by boat, and one of those travel companies for tourists 771 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,440 and stopped by different islands to snorkel. 772 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:26,920 On one of these stops, me and my brother were right next to each other, looking at a fish that I found really cute. 773 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:30,840 To paint the picture a bit better, at this moment me and my brother were snorkeling in the water, 774 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:32,440 right by a floating island. 775 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:36,240 While the others in our group were a bit further away from this island, 776 00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:42,320 this island was like a chunk of land that extended downward into the water, rather than having a gradual slope. 777 00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:43,720 Suddenly, our dad called out for us. 778 00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:47,560 Someone in our group saw a small shark, and everyone was gathering around to see it. 779 00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:52,840 My brother swam over there, for some reason I stayed put, and kept watching the different fish that were swimming so close to me. 780 00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:54,520 Then, something caught my attention. 781 00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:59,440 There seemed to be smaller caves underwater by the shore, and I saw something slowly coming out of there. 782 00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:05,240 It was similar to a human head, facing down towards the bottom of the ocean, and I completely froze up and kept staring. 783 00:38:05,240 --> 00:38:10,600 The person kind of floated out of the cave, never faced up towards the surface, and did it really slowly. 784 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,240 Nothing of this person that I could see was moving. 785 00:38:13,240 --> 00:38:16,400 By this point, I could see the back of the head and most of the back. 786 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:22,480 The person had really sparse black hair, slicked down to the scalp, and their skin looked great. 787 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:28,240 The spine was extremely pronounced, and I was so sure that it was looking at a corpse, and I completely froze up. 788 00:38:28,240 --> 00:38:35,520 I couldn't breathe or move, time felt like it was standing still, and the person kept floating out of the cave, and that's when I started seeing its tail. 789 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:38,720 The tail was dark gray, and looked like a stereotypical mermaid tail. 790 00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:43,000 I blinked multiple times to convince myself I was not hallucinating, but I kept seeing it. 791 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:49,160 I've never believed in the supernatural, but this thing was only a few meters below me, and I could see it so clearly. 792 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,040 I felt a sense of danger. 793 00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:55,480 I knew that I wasn't supposed to be seeing this, and I was terrified that it would see me and attack me. 794 00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:57,400 But the thing never once faced up. 795 00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:02,120 Once it was out, it swayed to the side and kept a close distance to the island. 796 00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:03,480 That is freaking. 797 00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,320 And disappeared into another cave. 798 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:12,880 After a few seconds, I snapped out of it, gradually slammed back to my dad and brother, and I burst into tears and frankly told them that we had to get back to the boat right away. 799 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:15,440 My dad asked me what happened, and I told him what I saw. 800 00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,640 Obviously, he didn't believe me, but got furious at me for lying. 801 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:22,440 When we got back to the boat, I told him again, and stood by the fact that I wasn't lying. 802 00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:27,280 My father told me he really hoped I was, that it was either a lie or that I was insane, 803 00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,320 and to be locked up in a mental hospital. 804 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:33,240 I knew how crazy all of this sounded, and honestly, I did not believe and believe myself. 805 00:39:33,240 --> 00:39:35,320 I decided to tell him that I made it all up. 806 00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:42,320 Since that day, I've tried to convince myself that I made it all up, but I've never experienced any hallucinations and I know what I saw. 807 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:50,280 I've told others, but of course, most of them thought I made it up, and it's so insanely frustrating feeling like you're being gaslit by the entire world, 808 00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:52,840 and I truly hope that someone out there believes me. 809 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:53,800 End of story. 810 00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:55,480 End of Reddit. 811 00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,000 End of the episode. 812 00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:58,320 I hate that story. 813 00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:00,960 I hated multiple stories in the Reddit episode. 814 00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,120 It was really the Reddit part that you did not like. 815 00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:04,680 It took a turn there. 816 00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:11,240 Yeah, it took a real turn there, being that I also really hate open bodies of water for this reason, 817 00:40:11,240 --> 00:40:13,920 because you don't know what the fuck is down there. 818 00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:18,200 It could be gray, like in fish humans with long, 819 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:19,960 care that look like your corpse. 820 00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:24,160 You don't know why would you want that touching you or knowing where you are. 821 00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:26,920 Chelsea Point, don't ever go in the water. 822 00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:28,800 I love that episode. 823 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,240 I will still not go in the water because it freaks me out. 824 00:40:32,240 --> 00:40:40,440 There was more in the Reddit than the whole episode of that kind of fear and luring. 825 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,880 Yeah, really outside of the Zimbabwe one. 826 00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:44,840 They worked quite positive. 827 00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,920 Yeah, probably because of the boobs. 828 00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:51,480 Again, if they're talking about the boobs, it's a good interaction with it. 829 00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:53,760 If they're not, it's not a good creature. 830 00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,440 I would have been interested to hear if the boobs weren't there, 831 00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:58,040 how the interaction would have went. 832 00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:01,440 Manatees, I think, do have boobs though, if I know a manatee. 833 00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:02,360 They're mammals. 834 00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,880 They have mammary glands, so it makes sense. 835 00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:08,000 I quite enjoyed that. 836 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:09,680 I thank you. 837 00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:15,720 I will probably be having nightmares tonight due to the topic because it was one. 838 00:41:15,720 --> 00:41:20,880 I am not afraid of cryptids or anything to the sort of what we talk about deep water 839 00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:21,840 and what's in it. 840 00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:22,520 Terrified. 841 00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:23,200 I hate it. 842 00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:28,360 Mermaids love it a little bit, but I will be having nightmares tonight. 843 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:29,080 We sure. 844 00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:30,840 And with that, I have been Taylor. 845 00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:31,520 Here with Chelsea. 846 00:41:31,520 --> 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