Are these fakes, or are they mermaid sightings?
by Deborah Smith
For centuries, people all over the world have claimed to see mermaids. Either the beautiful, Hollywood siren type, with flowing hair and bodacious bosoms, but more often an odd, ugly creature with a humanoid head and torso but the lower body of a fish, dolphin or seal.
There have been photos, and drawings, and presentations of weird skeletons found on remote beaches. But until recent years there weren’t videos.
Now, there are.
The amateur photographer has a shaky grip. The video blurs in and out. Its focus is on a large rock in the edge of the tide, far below the cliff where the camera owner and his friend stand.
“I don’t think that’s a seal, man.”
“I’m trying to zoom in. Where’s the zoom button? Ouch. There.”
The image closes in. A large, dark form with tail flukes like a dolphin’s is stretched out on the rock.
“Where’s the Zoology on this? That is NOT a seal, man!”
Suddenly, the creature twists toward the camera, looking directly at the two young guys on the cliff. It has a pale area where a face and torso would be. The details show little more, perhaps a hint of dark eyes?
The mysterious being whips around, propels itself over the edge of the rock using what are clearly a pair of human-like arms, and splashes into the surf.
A hoax? Great use of computer wizardy, with actors pretending to be two hikers who just happen to capture video of a mermaid sunning herself in an isolated spot along the coast of Israel?
Regardless, it will send goosebumps down your spine.
http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/mermaids/videos/mermaid-sighting-in-kiryat-yam/
And then there’s this video:
Two men sit in a deep-sea observation capsule several thousand feet below the ocean surface in the frigid waters off the coast of Greenland. They’re marine experts who routinely go to those depths as they use sonar to map the ocean floor for oil and gas exploration.
But they’ve also grown curious about marine sounds they can’t identify. An ordinary listener would say the high-pitched whistles and piercing shrieks are just the songs of whales. But these two men have heard every kind of whale song there is, and this is very different.
They sit in the blue-black light of the tiny pod. A main camera films them and the view in front of the pod, which has big windows that allow the occupants to see almost entirely around them and above them. The pod’s headlights beam ghostly white light into the sheer darkness.
As they listen intently to the unknown song, one researcher points a small video camera upward, hoping the mystery creature will swim past, above the pod. His back is turned to the pod’s front window and the white glow of its lights.
Suddenly, a ghost-white hand slaps the window, inches from his body. The loud thump can be heard. For a split second the hand splays on the surface.
A palm, four fingers and thumb. Human. But webbed.
The researchers jump in fear. They pivot toward the hand. It pulls away with a swishing motion. The creature—or human being—disappears below the pod, out of sight.
When they watch the video from the front-view camera, pausing it to study the image frame by frame, they see a pale, sunken face with distinctly human features, slender shoulders and arms.
The visitor gazes back at them before it swooshes away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ROaTfBILM8
An elaborate hoax for a television special on mermaids?
Most likely.
Because, as all of us who believe in merfolk will tell you, they’re far too smart to be caught on tape.
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