Real life mermaid in museum

To male Gen Xers, mermaids were real in 1984 when they watched Splash. Why wouldn’t we want to believe there were underwater mythical creatures that looked like Daryll Hannah and were smart enough to learn English in a day by watching TV?

But not everyone saw that movie, and mermaids have been part of folklore and legend since long before Thomas Edison came up with the idea of the moving picture.

So are mermaids real?

Real mermaids in the ocean

Or are they as “real” as the Sea God?

Logic says no, probably not. But sightings might make you rethink that idea. Some seem easily disproven, but others aren’t so easily brushed off. The answer to whether mermaids exist might not be so simple. 

What Is a Mermaid, Exactly?

In folklore from a surprisingly diverse collection of cultures’ folklore from around the world, a mermaid is a creature—half woman, half fish—that lives in the ocean and occasionally makes appearances to sailors.

As the upper half of the mermaid is the human half, sailors would see them and be struck by their beauty.

More than one mermaid story culmin

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