Most people would not expect Chatham County to be home for North Carolina's mermaids. But hidden in the woods where the Haw and Deep River converge to form the mouth of the Cape Fear is a magical ...

Pop open your favorite fairy tale book from when you were a kid, and you're sure to find a story about mermaids, mythical half-human, half-fish beings that dwell in the depths of the ocean. Some ...

A medievalist and cultural historian from the University of Liverpool has uncovered the history of the "mermaids of Staithes", finding the legend of mermaids leaving a curse on an old English fishing ...

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum will reopen its exhibit Mermaids: Visualizing the Myths and Legends through Photography, 16 images printed on canvas by Ralph Clevenger and friends, Nov. 11-April 30 ...

SHINE ON: Erin M. Brydon’s photo captures the ideal of mermaid undersea serenity. In the limitless blue sea, iridescence glimmers off the scales of her slick and powerful tail. She is graceful and ...

In recent years, so-called “mer-culture” has been on the rise. Take, for example, Disney’s 2023 remake of “The Little Mermaid,” the 2023 Netflix documentary “MerPeople” and Fairgrounds St. Pete, an ...

In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue. And in 1493, the Italian explorer spotted what he believed to be mermaids. Of this account, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that Columbus ...

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In recent years, so-called “mer-culture” has been on the rise. Then, there’s the whole “finfluencer” trend, with mermaids and mermans like Grace Page and Merman Chris making a splash on social media.