Fraudulent Cryptids
–Hoaxes regarding hidden or cryptic animals did not start with Bigfoot. Master showman P.T. Barnum in the 19th century as well as Robert Ripley in the 20th were well known for exhibiting sewn-together specimens such as the Fiji Mermaid (depicted), the mummified upper body of a monkey sewn onto the bottom half of a fish! To some of the more naive and gullible people of earlier generations, such creations of a taxidermist were proof enough of a fantastic or mythological creature.
This isn’t exactly the kind of mermaid likely to arouse anyone’s romantic fantasy, however, unless you’re into very dead things and have a stronger stomach than I do…
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February 26, 2009 at 4:23 am
Manatees are fascinating mammals, alright. But, for sailors of the 15th and 16th centuries to mistake one for a sexy mermaid, they’d have to be more than lonely. They’d have to be super h—y!
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