MERMAIDS: THE BODY FOUND AND THE NEW EVIDENCE

Source: The Rebel Chick.

By Henri Cagnengues
September 15, 2013

The film Mermaids: The Body Found (Animal Planet) was watched by millions of people around the world. The documentary movie saw Mermaids as real life creatures and talked about the evolutionary possibility, based on the Aquatic Ape Theory, that one branch of the human phylogenetic tree took to the oceans and developed into a new marine species, the legendary mermaids.

The movie impacted people so much that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA) of the United States was flooded with phone calls and as a result it was forced to state that "mermaids were not real".

At least this film brought to light one thing: NOAA´s real experiments with marine sonars testing (see references) which are affecting marine mammals, according to some experts.

Now Animal Planet brings out "Mermaids: The New Evidence" in which new evidence of the possibility of the real existence of mermaids is considered based on a unique old photo from the recently found in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution. The report of a mermaid seen in Israel is also discussed.

The photo of the famous Fiji Mermaid, which belonged to the Barnum Circus, shows that the creature was not a fake freak of a big fish tail sewn to the body of a monkey (Fig. 1). 

Figure 1. A fake mermaid. Source: The Rebel Chick.

   
The Fiji Mermaid amazingly looks more like the specimen reconstructed in the film Mermaids: The Body Found. (Fig. 2).

Figure 2. The real mermaid. Source: The Rebel Chick.

For those of you who did not get a chance to watch Mermaids: The Body Found, we have both together for you here:

                      Video 1. Mermaids: The Body Found and the New Evidence.

If you prefer just to watch Mermaids: The New Evidence (Sirenas: La Nueva Evidencia) by itself, here it is:

Watch it in ENGLISH: Click HERE. Not available in the U.S.

Ver en ESPAÑOL: pinchar AQUI.


References

Cagnengues H. (2012). Las Sirenas: ¿Oreopithecus marinos? Gundhramns Hammer Blog (E-Rastrillo), May 11, 2012. 15 p.

Gostnell C., Davidson M. D. & Turner P. (2007). NOAA´s Use of Phase Differencing Bathymetric Sonar Tecnology to Survey the Western Sambos Ecological Reserve for Habitat Mapping and Charting Purposes. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Coast Survey, USA. 4 p. 

Gostnell C., Yoos J. & Brodet S. (2006). NOAA Test and Evaluation of Phase Differencing Bathymetric Sonar Technology. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Coast Survey, USA. 8 p. 

Gostnell C., Yoos J. & Brodet S. (2007). NOAA Test and Evaluation of Interferometric Sonar Technology. Hydrogr. J., 123:3-8.