Why Do People Believe in Mermaids? 🌊

Let's take a look at why the mermaid legend is so universal.

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Timestamps:
Intro: 0:00 - 1:09
History: 1:09 - 07:46
Blackbeard and mermaids: 07:46 - 11:00
Mermaid Capture: 11:00-12:38
Kei Island Mermaids: 12:38 - 15:34
Mermaid Photos: 15:34 - 19:06
Modern Mermaids : 19:06 - 23:23
Fiji Mermaid : 23:23 - 26:24
Animal Planet Shows : 26:24 - 35:13
Conclusion Outro : 35:13 - 39:26

Unexplored Ocean Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWvTTXBLz5s

The Coelacanth Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxfbIqNnQ_c

Sources:

https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Mermaids_(Merfolks)



Aquatic Ape theory
https://johnhawks.net/weblog/why-anthropologists-dont-accept-the-aquatic-ape-theory/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9361254/

Cave paintings;
https://www.flickr.com/photos/panorama_paul/50443203388/in/photostream/

Mermaid history
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/what-mermaid#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20earliest%20mermaid,top%20half%20in%20human%20form.

Irish mermaid
https://irelandseye.ie/mermaid-sighting-in-the-boyne

Mermaid in Hawaii
https://www.jacksdivinglocker.com/en/the-mermaid-story

Modern Mermaid sightings
https://folklorethursday.com/folktales/top-mermaid-sightings-in-the-last-century-that-are-hard-to-deny/

Columbus mistake
https://short-history.com/christopher-columbus-cant-tell-a-manatee-from-a-mermaid-b008e117c78d

Blackbeard
http://www.piratesurgeon.com/pages/surgeon_pages/halloween6.html

List of sightings
https://everythingmermaid.com/mermaid-sightings/

Mermaid in Greenland
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/61264/61264-h/61264-h.htm

Picture of Welsh Mermaid
http
s://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/9084#?xywh=-49%2C103%2C532%2C533&cv=
Mermaid in bathtub
https://www.newscientist.com/gallery/fallours-fish/

Weekly World News
https://weeklyworldnews.com/category/headlines/

Zimbabwe Killer Mermaids

https://www.inquisitr.com/4128988/killer-mermaids-of-zimbabwe-real-or-not-its-a-story-worth-noting

1967 BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/dave-obee-mermaid-had-no-legs-but-story-does-4630716

1998 KAILUA-KONA
https://www.jacksdivinglocker.com/en/the-mermaid-story
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYjU4ZDM5NzAtMjQzMi00YjE3LTk1NWEtYWE0MGY0OTRhZjRmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyODEzNjM5OTQ@._V1_.jpg

2009 ISRAEL
http://edition.cnn.com/blogarchive/insidethemiddleeast.blogs.cnn.com/2009/08/18/video-1m-reward-for-mermaid-photos/
2012 ZIMBABWE
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-29/mermaids-feared-in-landlocked-zimbabwe/3978462?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web