Something fishy? Man finds gruesome remains that look like a DEAD MERMAID

I'm going to leave you all, as I bid goodnight, with this very true story about mermaids.
They are out there people.
You're most welcome.

Pictures and video on link, bottom.



Something fishy? Man finds gruesome remains that look like a 'dead mermaid' on deserted beach

A man claims to have found a mermaid washed up on a windswept Norfolk beach.

If it’s true, she had deserted warm tropical waters to swim among the oil rigs, fishing trawlers, crude oil tankers, ferries and cruise liners in the chilly North Sea.

Paul Jones posted photographs which he says were taken at Great Yarmouth and which have been shared 15,000 times on the social media website in two days.

In his post he wrote “Today at Great Yarmouth we found what looks like a dead Mermaid washed up on the beach.”

The gruesome images show the decaying body of a human-like creature with a fish tail lying on the sand.

The mid section of the body appears to be rotting while the tail and head have stayed relatively intact.

The eerie discovery was captured on camera by Paul Jones, who posted the images of the 'mermaid' online, with many people speculating on the origins of the body

Many online posts support his claim that it’s a mythical mermaid. But others say it’s a dead seal - the east coast has a large colony of grey seals.

One post, from Paige Cook, said ‘Rip Ariel’ in a reference to the Disney film The Little Mermaid.

But there may also be a more simple explanation. Mr Jones’s Facebook profile shows him to be a keen modeller - particularly of creepy figures. He is a member of the ‘Horror and Halloween DIY’ Facebook group.

Fascinating facts about the myth of the mysterious mermaid

A mermaid is a mythical creature that is half woman and half fish. The name comes from ‘mer’ meaning sea. The male version is called a merman.

Above the waist they appear as a lovely young woman, whilst from the waist down, they are like a fish with fins and a spreading tail.

Legends of half-human, half-fish creatures go back thousands of years. Sightings were made by the early Arabs and the Greek Pliny in 586 A.D.

Mermaids described by the famous explorer, Christopher Columbus. He reported seeing three mermaids in the ocean off Haiti, in January of 1493.

The modern view of mermaids has also been influenced by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale, The Little Mermaid, written in 1836.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3822814/UK-man-stumbles-gruesome-remains-look-like-dead-mermaid-deserted-beach.html

yeah I'm pretty sure it is fake.

look at the tail fins look very plastic, not like rotten fins.

and it does point out he makes horror models

From the source:

But there may also be a more simple explanation. Mr Jones’s Facebook profile shows him to be a keen modeller - particularly of creepy figures. He is a member of the ‘Horror and Halloween DIY’ Facebook group.

Yeah, I wonder why he didn't do better on the tail than to just attach a piece of plastic bag to the end of the thing.

Listen have any of you seen a dead mermaid before? No? Well then, you have no idea what one looks like!

Pffffff.

WHEN they have any genuine bodily remains and bones to use as part of any "mermaid" claims, they inevitably come from the Dugong/Manatee/'Sea Cow' group of aquatic mammals, (Order Sirenia).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manatee

http://www.indigoscuba.com/the-difference-between-manatees-and-dugongs/

http://thewebsiteofeverything.com/animals/mammals/Sirenia/

https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-news/mermaids-manatees-myth-and-reality

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2014/11/141124-manatee-awareness-month-dugongs-animals-science/

eddie wrote:Listen have any of you seen a dead mermaid before? No?  Well then, you have no idea what one looks like!

Pffffff.

How to counter such airtight logic?

AS you know I go fishing, I caught one a few weeks ago, I put her back, she was too small and out of season !

Ben Reilly wrote:

eddie wrote:Listen have any of you seen a dead mermaid before? No?  Well then, you have no idea what one looks like!

Pffffff.

How to counter such airtight logic?

With grace dude.

eddie wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:

eddie wrote:Listen have any of you seen a dead mermaid before? No?  Well then, you have no idea what one looks like!

Pffffff.

How to counter such airtight logic?

With grace dude.

And with style, don't forget. To wit:

If having seen a dead mermaid before was prerequisite to identifying a dead mermaid, nobody could ever identify a dead mermaid, even on a beach littered with mermaid corpses, because by definition, nobody would know what a dead mermaid looked like.

Whatevs. I think I've proven my point by the photographic evidence and the geezer who saw it.