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Venda Mermaid (1)
Image credit: © Juan Cabana

Uploader comment: Got this email about an apparent "mermaid" found in Venda.

Image status: HOAX One of a set of photographs that have been distributed around the web and claimed to be of a mermaid-like creature, in truth however this is actually another creation of artist Juan Cabana.

 
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Comment icon #7 Posted by Pineapple Milk on 5 February, 2013, 21:15
It's tail is very detailed and realistic but I still think it's a hoax!
Comment icon #6 Posted by necrochildk on 29 August, 2007, 13:39
It's a sculpture done by an artist that does primarily mermaid, fairy and other oddity mummies. I've seen the website.
Comment icon #5 Posted by epitaph wavemaster on 8 September, 2006, 19:17
""The emails containing these images variously claim the specimen was found on a beach in South Africa, the Philippines, or Malaysia. These were lies made up after the fact. The first place the images turned up was on eBay, where the seller, a Tampa, Florida resident using the screen name "Seamystery," described the sale item as a "golden mermaid found dead on a lonely Florida beach." It was "a few inches shy of being 5 feet long" and lay on a "Fresh natural bed of seaweed." The circumstances of the discovery were described as follows: While...
Comment icon #4 Posted by jacques terreur on 8 September, 2006, 11:41
I found a page where they show photos of the WHOLE carcass, but I'm not quite shure whether to yell photoshop or not....hope they let me post that link (...) the link is not displayed, just go google "venda mermaid",visit "urbanlegends.about.com" and judge by yourselves...
Comment icon #3 Posted by epitaph wavemaster on 8 September, 2006, 9:22
Check again... Any "expert" have an opinion? Or is anyone about to start yelling photoshop? Just wondering... ;P
Comment icon #2 Posted by lovingspirit on 30 August, 2006, 3:31
that was what i was about to ask...
Comment icon #1 Posted by stitches on 29 August, 2006, 18:01
why is thre no photo of waist, torso, chest and head? just the tail tells me nothing
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