The Deerness Mermaid: Our Best Attested Nineteenth-Century Cryptid

Source	http://www.strangehistory.net/2025/05/06/the-deerness-mermaid-our-best-attested-nineteenth-century-cryptid/
Author	Beachcombing
Published	2025-05-06, 11:51 AM
Summary	Dear friends, this month’s podcast is on the Deerness Mermaid: the Best Attested Nineteenth-Century Cryptid Background. What is the DM? Between 1887 and 1899, something strange haunted the waters off Deerness, Orkney. Locals called it a mermaid; newspapers across Britain ran breathless headlines. It had a black head, long white neck, and a white body […]
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