I saw the most amazing 2 hour documentary on TV last night. It was on the Animal Planet Channel (or what usually is National Geographic). The documentary was titled: "Mermaids: The Body"

A couple years back, the U.S. Navy decided to conduct some top secret testing of a new sonic weapon in the oceans around the world. They were doing the testing all summer, and the result of their tests was the mass murder of whales, dolphins, and ... mermaids ... washing up on the coastlines around the world.

A group of scientists went out to examine the corpses of the whales and dolphins, take tissue and organ samples, and also - of course - to try rescuing some of the animals that were still living. They observed the U.S. Navy collecting something on the beachs in the USA (East Coast). They saw the U.S. Navy present at EVERY whale beaching after that first big one. (We're talking about MASSIVE whale beachings here.) The documentary was hosted by 3 scientists, a man & his wife, and one older scientist. However, there were cameo appearances by scientists in South Africa, Europe and Japan!

At the time of the first massive whale beaching, 2 little boys were on the beach, and they saw the first merman! He wasn't quite dead yet, but he died shortly after. They got a picture on a brand new cell phone with a camera, and the U.S. Navy failed to get that phone from them (they hid it - when the Navy men started harassing them and their mother. The Navy made them agree to say that they did NOT see a mermaid - they saw a "dolphin".

But at the very end of the 3 hour documentary - after the evidence was all presented ... the scientists showed the film interview with those teenage boys. They presented the cell phone with the film of the mermaid (ALIVE) (Barely ... dying)

The scientists presented all their research evidence. They had been collecting sonar sounds of whales and dolphins, and some strange sound that they couldn't identify - which turned out to be mermaid speech.

They were brought onboard a ship where a huge shark had been captured, and was hung on a hook. Inside the shark's body they found the remains of a mermaid male.

They presented theoretical evidence as well as actual evidence. They said the mer people were in prehistoric times, early humans ... they were driven back into the sea by their struggles to survive on little food. Food was plentiful by the sea shores. They showed how the polar bears today are reverting to sea mammels, and how other animals have done that in history - there is reasonable precedence for human ancestors to "go back to the sea".

The bones in the tail fins of that male mermaid they got out of the shark's belly were human foot bones. There was also a human hand in the mess, and the handle of a handmade knife. One scientist pulled a huge bone from another fish out of the sharks 'face/lips' area - that bone fitted into the groove in the knife handle that was in the shark's belly. There was also a humanoid pelvis in the belly.

They had a scientist reconstruct the facial structure from the skull cap they found. The mermaid had a large ridge on top of it's skull, and a special hole up there with special structures under it that make it possible for them to dive very deep. The eye orbits were very large (necessary to see better in dark waters.)

They had the South African University research group test the DNA on the remains. The final results were that it appeared to be human DNA - but since it was from a shark's belly, and the rest of the remains did not look human, they thought the samples were contaminated. They couldn't believe they were looking at a human being that had lived in the sea.

The U.S. Navy got in the way of the research repeatedly! They actually captured one mermaid alive and had it in a tank for a couple years! They didn't want the civilian scientists exposing their operations, because they were busy blowing up all the whales and dolphins in the ocean to prove their damn sonic weapon can kill people in mass quantities! There was one Naval officer (his face grayed out in the dark to protect his ID and his voice "altered electronically" who admitted the Navy knew those scientists were onto some BIG, and they did NOT want them finding out about those mermaids! (I think it's because they were busy killing all the sea life, and they didn't want to have to deal with the uproar that was going to cause in the public arena.)

So the mermaid population is decreasing drastically, of course, right along with the rest of the sea population because the U.S. Navy wants to test weapons of warfare in the sea that are killing the sea!

And I have spent the whole day thinking about this... and feeling absolutely terrible about it!
The mermaids don't have any hair - hair is a drag on a sea creature's ability to swim fast. They apparently travel with the big whales in a migratory pattern to warm seas to bread (speculation by the scientists based on the appearance of mermaid remains on all the coasts after the sonar bombings). They have a growth on their forehead that allows them to communicate in the sea by sonar. They also do their hunting alongside, WITH, the dolphins! And they talk to the dolphins.. the dolphins talk to them!

I've seen the other documentary about the dolphin communications and social organizations. The dolphins are highly evolved - they have communities, they DO talk, they give each other gifts, they save each other from shark attacks. They are sentient.

The mermaids make weapons ... rudimentary - but they make spears and knives and other tools. LOTS of tools have been found in big fish by the fishermen.... they were presented in the movie.
This is such amazing news. And the U.S. Navy is trying to hush it all up and keep the people from knowing about it! (Maybe that's a good thing in a way, considering how many of us would just go out there and hunt them down to kill them for sport. Sigh.. I feel so sad about this!

You know, I was kinda thinking along the same lines. Surely SOMEBODY else saw that documentary besides me, and filmed it! It's going to pop out somewhere.
This is WAY TOO BIG TO IGNORE....
And it's NOT Science Fiction, Buba! GODS I wish you had seen that show with me last night!
I think I sat there glued to my sofa for 3 hours with my eyes out on stalks!

This has to be the biggest discovery of this century! I kid you not!
And right before the end of the world in December. Why does all the good stuff have to happen at the last danged minute!
I really don't want anybody finding those mermaids! We're MEAN to other species not like ourselves. THere would be some nasty exploiters out ther catching the mer women and mer babies and putting them in cages... and not feeding them, and poking them with spears, and laughing at them as they bleed and die!

But these mermaids just show up now after some expieriment... mind you wars on the seas have been around since spice boats were attacked by pirates... my question relates to NOW?
sounds like navy guys playing with dna and sh*t and doing tests on these MAN MADE subjects...
I don't believe it one bit.. there's a little area51 about this stuff... i'm a sceptic i want all the facts and pictures...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mermaids:_The_Body_Found
i mean, haven't you really tried searching for the name on the internet before making a big fuss? It says it's a docu-fiction; meaning it's a fictive film made like a doccumentary. The same as district 9 :)

Yeah? Really?
Let's see here. The U.S. Navy convinces the eye witnesses they have to lie and not admit what they saw.
The U.S. Navy suppresses information and puts out tons of dis-information, and we're all just going to accept that what they say is the truth, and what somebody else says to the contrary is blarney right?
You can disbelieve if you want. I choose to believe the story has merit.
You want to believe it's just another story like "The War of the Worlds". That's your choice.
I hope you're right. Because I sure as heck don't like thinking about what will happen to those mer people if they are found. We will kill them all, then stand around and say, "Gee, that's really too bad!"
Bubanee those mermaids have been hiding from human predators since the time of Christ. The ocean is a LOT bigger, a LOT deeper than the rest of the planet. Lots of places to hide. The fact they weren't discovered until the U.S. Navy blew them out of the water seems to me to be perfectly believable.

That's the first thing they say when covering up stuff!!

The plot thickens...

I really am going to try and find that documentary and watch it again. IF there's any way I can record it, and upload it, I will do that. For those of you who are dyed-in-the-wool sceptics and non-believers, it will be an entertaining "War of the Worlds" flic for you to watch. And for the rest of us, who don't trust our government any further than we can throw a Naval Commander, and who know that our government covers up it's crimes and pumps out propaganda to control us and make us ignore the facts, and for those who wait in hope for the truth to manifest... it will be an exciting visual experience - and one that will leave you all feeling the dismay that I feel for the sake of those poor creatures in our seas.
If they do exist, and I am fairly convinced they do, then they are in terrible danger. Encounters between industrialized peoples and aboriginal peoples are most often devastating for the aboriginals.

Well, fortunately, if you are interested in watching bits and pieces of that film, you can go to YouTube. I saw some stuff in the Google search list that says it was a fictional docu-drama, so the nay-sayers may carry the day on this. But the issue of the U.S. Navy conducting experiments with dangerous weapons that are killing our sealife is NOT a joke. If our sea dies, folksies, we ALL DIE.
The show aired last night on the Animal Planet channel. I didn't remember that detail. I never watch Animal Planet as a rule.
So, for the curious, go check out YouTube for the movie.

And for a "fairytale" - that was the best piece of fiction I've seen in years!