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The travels of Christopher Columbus
The navigator reported mermaid sightings while he was at sea. He said: "They were not as beautiful as they are painted, although to some extent they have a human appearance on the face…." -
Henry Hudson near Russia
Henry Hudson explorer and discoverer, wrote in his diary that he saw a real mermaid near Russia, during his travels. -
Sighting mermaid in Spain
The Kennebec Journal of Augusta published a report about the sighting of a mermaid with a fin on its lower back, black skin and five feet high. -
Cape Breton, Canadá
Zoologist Karl Shuker reported sighting of a mermaid. The report reached the ‘Cape Brooklyn Eagle’ newspaper in August 1886. -
Kei Islands, Indonesia
In 1943, around the time of World War II, Japanese soldiers saw mermaids swimming off the shores of the Indonesian Kei Islands. They said that the creatures had pink skin, human faces and fish mouths. -
British Columbia, Canada
Tourists aboard a ferry saw a blonde woman with a dolphin tail eating raw salmon. She appeared in the ‘Times-Colono’ newspaper and attracted much attention, but since then no one has seen her again. -
South África
30% of the remains of an unknown humanoid creature were found in the belly of a dead great white shark in southern Africa. The body had human limbs and a fin instead of legs. -
Greenland Sea
Marine geologist Torsten Schmidt took some strange photos of what he believes to be a mermaid during a deep-sea exploration. -
The mermaid KAAIMAN
Some campers saw a very thin and tall mermaid, with very shiny skin like frost, long black hair, with terrifying red eyes. The mermaid screamed in a terrifying way and scared the campers. -
Kiryat Yam's Mermaid
In Kiryat Yam, Israel, a group of young people saw a mermaid on the beach and took a video as it quickly jumped into the sea. -
The mermaids of Zimbabwe
Efforts to complete the dam construction were delayed because the sirens scared the workers, the company thought it was a simple superstition, so they hired new workers, but they too were scared. In the end the people of the area did a cleaning ritual to scare away the mermaids.
