Comments on: Jersey Mermaid

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:17:00 +0000

Let’s just hope that (if real) it was just a mermaid and not a siren or any other of the dark mer-creatures that lurk in the scary stories of ancient sailors.

oh, and I would have to vote big foot

By: mauka

mauka — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:13:10 +0000

Humm, which would the lot of us rather discover a mermaid, or Bigfoot. I vote… uh.

By: Tengu

Tengu — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:54:11 +0000

Most mermaids round here have legs…

Sounds like a manatee.

By: Benjamin Radford

Benjamin Radford — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:53:13 +0000

One must remember to take old newspaper accounts with a grain of salt… there were many newspaper hoaxes in the 1800s, designed to attract readers. In my lake monster research, I found that newspaper accounts before about 1900 were often very outlandish and incredible (that is, “not credible”)!

By: Bob Michaels

Bob Michaels — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:08:15 +0000

No such creature as a Mermaid, A Manatee yes, it could come up along the coast from Florida