Best described as the Western Cape's own Loch Ness monster, the legendary "mermaid" known as the Kaaiman has reportedly been spotted in the Buffelsjags River at Suurbraak, a village close to Swellendam.

Suurbraak resident Daniel Cupido said he and a group of friends were at a camping site next to the river when he heard something that sounded like someone "bashing on a wall".

Cupido said he walked toward the sound coming from the nearby low water bridge. At the bridge he said he saw a figure, "like that of a white woman with long black hair thrashing about in the water".

Thinking to save her, he waded toward her, but said he stopped in his tracks when he noticed a reddish shine in her eyes. He said the sight sent shivers down his spine. Cupido claimed the creature was "hypnotic".

His friend said he saw what was "definitely" a female figure swimming, first on one side of the low water bridge, then on the other, and then standing on the bridge before diving back into the black water. He said all the while the figure was making "the strangest sound", like a woman crying.

They identified the figure as the legendary Kaaiman. The Kaaiman was described as a half-human, half-fish creature that lived in deep pools in the river. It is white in colour and has long black hair and red eyes, and had an eerie silver-white glow.

The last sighting of the Kaaiman was about 15 years ago. Previously it was last spotted more than 20 years earlier. Some people hold the Kaaiman responsible for drownings in the river, believing it traps you with objects your heart desires.
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My first question to the witnesses would be How could it have been standing on the bridge, if it is half fish?? Doesn't standing require legs??
Also, if someone was swimming underwater, with their eyes open, it causes your eyes to become bloodshot, which at a slight distance, can just make them appear red.

Interesting story though. Thanks OS.

What was your source for this??

Lol interesting

There's never a camera around when you need one, eh ??

Wierd, yet interesting..I suppose.

I always think the same thing when I read these kinds of stories.

not if the bottom part of the body is 'human' and the top part is a fish with "red eyes and black hair"

Hm.

1.Hit on the crazy hot mermaid chick and risk your life being taken by drowning, arguably the worst way to die?

2.Or just leave her be and walk past?

Well duh, doesn't take a genius to figure that out.

Option 1.

A fresh-water Mermaid?

Isn't a mermaid full-stop a bit of a strange idea?

They didn't even describe all of her body! all they said was that it was a woman with white skin and black hair and red eyes. Couldn't it had been just that, a plain ol' woman with black hair and red eyes (either for swimming with your eyes open or for smoking certain "things" ;-) )

It's strange to think

weird