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Let's Dive Deep into the Mermaid Legend · Pinky Boo Hauntings

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  Speaker 1: Why and welcome back to Pinky Boo Hauntings. I'll be
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  Speaker 1: your witchy host Shy, and I'll be your guide to
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  Speaker 1: all things paranormal, weird and spooky. So now that I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing this one, I realize I probably should have done
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  Speaker 1: it back in May for Mermay. But I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's the fact that when you think of mermaids,
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  Speaker 1: you think of the beach in the ocean, and of
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  Speaker 1: course those things make most of us think of summertime.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, so that's why I decided to do this
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  Speaker 1: topic now that is officially summer. Also, I guess it's obvious,
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  Speaker 1: but we're talking about mermaids today. I've always loved mermaids
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  Speaker 1: and wanted to be one when I was younger. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that as well as a vampire, a witch, and a
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  Speaker 1: magical girl and probably some other things. On top of that,
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  Speaker 1: I was a very ambitious child and I also had
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  Speaker 1: untreated ADHD, so there was that too. I did grow
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  Speaker 1: up to be a witch, though, so at least one
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  Speaker 1: came true. Sadly, I can't fly a broom. But oh well, mermaids.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get back to the mermaids. Oh wait, I did
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  Speaker 1: promise an update on the party. It went great. I
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  Speaker 1: of course was stressed for nothing, but I ended up
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  Speaker 1: getting everything done and the cake was cute. It wasn't perfect,
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  Speaker 1: but it came out pretty much how I wanted, which
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  Speaker 1: for someone that's never been a baker, is pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: I also shattered a bat trying to break the pinata.
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  Speaker 1: I put way too much faith in a toy bat.
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  Speaker 1: I swear I tested it and thought it could handle it,
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  Speaker 1: so that was my fault. Also, why are they building
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  Speaker 1: the pinata so sturdy? Now? If I had a known
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  Speaker 1: that thing was made of thick cardboard, I would have
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  Speaker 1: found something else, But I just assumed a toy bat
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  Speaker 1: would be enough to break that thing. Other than that,
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  Speaker 1: everything went well, and I guess that's all you can
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  Speaker 1: ask for, right. Oh. Also, if you saw my post
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  Speaker 1: on Threads about like me getting heard at work and
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  Speaker 1: losing my voice, I'm recovering. I'm sure you can hear
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  Speaker 1: it in my voice that it's still kind of a
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  Speaker 1: little fred but at least I can stand and walk now,
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  Speaker 1: even though it's still kind of sore and I can
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  Speaker 1: feel it once in a while. But other than that,
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  Speaker 1: I'm okay. All right, Enough of the life updates. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get back to today's topic. Let's talk about mermaids. When you
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  Speaker 1: think of mermaids, I'm sure the first one to come
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  Speaker 1: to your mind is probably aerial, or maybe even the
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  Speaker 1: ones from Peter pan Arm Maybe is something different, but
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  Speaker 1: for most of us, we all probably have a very
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  Speaker 1: similar picture in our head. A beautiful woman with a long,
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  Speaker 1: flowy hair floating around her as she swims, and of
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  Speaker 1: course she has a long fish like tail with shimmering
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  Speaker 1: scales that seem almost other worlds at On top of that,
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  Speaker 1: the unknowns of the ocean deeps. It's no wonder people
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  Speaker 1: see these creatures as magical and mysterious. It's also no
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  Speaker 1: wonder so many people dream of being one themselves. I
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  Speaker 1: was one of them, after all, so I get it. Hell,
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  Speaker 1: if I was a stronger swimmer, I'd love to have
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  Speaker 1: one of those mermaid tails. No, I would also have
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  Speaker 1: to get a pool for that, sadly, But why do
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  Speaker 1: so many of us find a fascination with these creatures,
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  Speaker 1: even to the point that some learn how to swim
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  Speaker 1: with a mermaid tail and make a whole career out
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  Speaker 1: of it. The magic of mermaids is clearly an alluring one,
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  Speaker 1: the one we all seem to share in all over
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  Speaker 1: the world. So what is a mermaid? The obvious answer
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  Speaker 1: is a mermaid is an aquatic creature that usually presents
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  Speaker 1: as a human woman on their top half in a
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  Speaker 1: fish like tail on their bottom half. There's a male
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  Speaker 1: equivalent that most call a mermaid. But to me, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that that really matters. I understand mermaid is
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  Speaker 1: a combination of the words merv, which means c in maid,
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  Speaker 1: which is of course a shortening of maiden. So I
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  Speaker 1: understand it is supposed to represent just the female version
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  Speaker 1: of the creature. But please tell me I'm not the
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  Speaker 1: only one that calls all murr people mermaids. In the
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  Speaker 1: earliest nme written origins of this word can be traced
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  Speaker 1: all the way back to thirteen ninety in The Nuns
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  Speaker 1: Priests Tell. But whether this is its true origin is
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  Speaker 1: still up in the air. But of course this is
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  Speaker 1: just the English word and maybe the most well known
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  Speaker 1: word to describe this mystical creature. Could be wrong about that, though,
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  Speaker 1: So don't come for me if I am, But I
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  Speaker 1: think no matter where you're from, if you heard the
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  Speaker 1: word mermaid, you know exactly what we were talking about, right,
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  Speaker 1: But yes, everyone around the world seems to have their
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  Speaker 1: own word for this half human, half fish like being.
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  Speaker 1: At first, I wanted to list all of the different versions,
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  Speaker 1: but when I say everyone around the world has a
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  Speaker 1: different word for the same thing, I mean it, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you guys would have too much fun
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  Speaker 1: listening to me list off all of the different variants,
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  Speaker 1: especially since I'd be struggling through most of them, which
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  Speaker 1: I because it was so cool seeing just all of
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  Speaker 1: the different ways to not only say mermaid, but also
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  Speaker 1: how everyone describes them. But it was also just as
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  Speaker 1: cool seeing how we all pretty much do agree on
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  Speaker 1: what this thing looks like for the most part, and
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  Speaker 1: how we all seem to have pretty much the same
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  Speaker 1: words for it in just different languages. I think the
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  Speaker 1: strangest one I saw was the Japanese version, which I
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  Speaker 1: did kind of know about but also totally forgot about,
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  Speaker 1: if that makes sense. It is known as a ningil
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  Speaker 1: I think I pronounced that right, and is classified as
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  Speaker 1: a yokai, which if you didn't know, can be translated
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  Speaker 1: to monster, demon, spirit, or goblin, though I think most
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  Speaker 1: think of it as demons, which is only one of
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  Speaker 1: the many things that yokai can be, Yokai encompass a
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  Speaker 1: large range of different things from Japanese lure, So no,
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that the niow is a demon or anything.
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  Speaker 1: What a ninhow is described as, though could make someone
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  Speaker 1: think it was a demon if they saw it. A
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  Speaker 1: Niinow is described almost like every other mermaid except for
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  Speaker 1: one glaring thing. This mermaid would probably not entie sailors
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  Speaker 1: to their doom because it is said to have a
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  Speaker 1: human head on a fish body, which is probably the
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  Speaker 1: scariest version of a mermaid you can see because it's
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  Speaker 1: not even trying to hide that it's probably going to
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  Speaker 1: eat your face off, even though I don't think it
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  Speaker 1: actually wants to do that. In fact, the only folklore
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  Speaker 1: I could find on it was about how it got
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  Speaker 1: its flesh eaten to help other people live long lives
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  Speaker 1: and stay young and beautiful. So if anything, it's the victim,
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  Speaker 1: even if it looks like it would be the predator.
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  Speaker 1: Though really all mermaids could be seen as scary if
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  Speaker 1: you look into the lore of them, because they aren't
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  Speaker 1: just sweet, innocent humanoid creatures that live in the sea.
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  Speaker 1: They are darker in nature, While most see mermaids as
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  Speaker 1: a separate entity from sirens, they can be seen as
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  Speaker 1: the same, which means all we know about sirens can
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  Speaker 1: be applied to mermaids too, and it's not really that
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  Speaker 1: surprising because even if you see them as two different creatures,
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  Speaker 1: their folklore has a lot of similarities. Both are described
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  Speaker 1: as half human half fish beings that lurk in the
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  Speaker 1: oceans and are said to be so beautiful that men
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  Speaker 1: easily fall in love with them. And if their beauty
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  Speaker 1: didn't lure sailors in alone, they are also said to
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  Speaker 1: have a haunting but lovely singing voice that will draw
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  Speaker 1: anyone in that hears it, usually to their doom at
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  Speaker 1: least when it comes to the sirens. Where people don't
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  Speaker 1: agree is if mermaids are benevolent or not, because while
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  Speaker 1: their origins could have been in on by the sirens
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  Speaker 1: of Greek mythology, people don't treat them as the same.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe there is a reason for that, because if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't know, in the early Greek period, sirens were
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  Speaker 1: actually depicted as a humanoid birdlike creature, not a fish.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't until the Christian era that sirens became more
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  Speaker 1: mermaid like, making the two almost indistinguishable at that point.
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  Speaker 1: And to blur the lines between the two even more,
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  Speaker 1: let's get deep into the folklore of the mermaids. People
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  Speaker 1: might see sirens as the most dangerous of the two,
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  Speaker 1: but are they really Because while some telles talk about
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  Speaker 1: how mermaids bestow blessings upon them are how they fell
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  Speaker 1: in love with a human, other tells make them seem
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  Speaker 1: just as dangerous as a siren. Stories talk about how
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  Speaker 1: they are seen as an ominous omen. Seeing one could
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  Speaker 1: mean a storm is coming, a shipwreck would occur, or
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  Speaker 1: there had been a drowning, And while that doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: they caused any of those, it still made a sighting
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  Speaker 1: a feared thing. But that isn't the only reason men
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  Speaker 1: would fear an encounter with a mermaid. And yes, I
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  Speaker 1: mean just men, because, as you probably know, sirens and
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  Speaker 1: mermaids usually are only known to go after men. Whether
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  Speaker 1: that is because back then men were the only ones
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  Speaker 1: that sell the seas, so it was their only prey,
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  Speaker 1: or if they just hated men is kind of up
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  Speaker 1: in the air. What we know for sure is that
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  Speaker 1: they did lure men to their doom, whatever the case
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  Speaker 1: for sailor. The best thing they could do was avoid
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  Speaker 1: coming in contact with a mermaid at all cost because
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  Speaker 1: while we know they were known to lure men in
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  Speaker 1: with their singing to their underwater grave, did you know
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  Speaker 1: you should also never take a gift from a mermaid,
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  Speaker 1: for it is said to bring misfortune. But if you didn't,
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  Speaker 1: that might offend the mermaid, and you couldn't do that either,
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  Speaker 1: for if you were to offend them, they could bring
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  Speaker 1: floods and other disasters your way. So no matter what,
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  Speaker 1: you probably were bringing misfortune onto you and those around you,
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  Speaker 1: which is why the best thing was to stay away
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  Speaker 1: from the mermaids. So while nowadays a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: would love to see one, back then they were seen
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  Speaker 1: less as a wonderful and magical creature and more like
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  Speaker 1: a monstrous being to be feared. Mermaids were also said
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  Speaker 1: to entice young people into living with them underwater, something
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of us now would jump on
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  Speaker 1: so fast. But of course that was just one more
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  Speaker 1: reason to fear them for those in the past, because
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  Speaker 1: for those folks, the mermaids were stilling their children, and
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  Speaker 1: what parent wouldn't fear a being taking their kids from them? Now?
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  Speaker 1: After saying all of that about how they could be
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  Speaker 1: seen as darker in nature, let's talk about European folklore
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  Speaker 1: that might change your mind once again on them. European
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  Speaker 1: stories of mermaids described them as beings with very long lives.
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  Speaker 1: Though while they do live a long life, they are
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  Speaker 1: still mortal. They are just said to not have a
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  Speaker 1: soul of their own, and of course they love music
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  Speaker 1: and often sing. I assume that is just them wanting
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  Speaker 1: to sing and not using their voice to draw men
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  Speaker 1: into the water. European folklore also talk of them being
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  Speaker 1: beings with magical and prophetic powers, a lot like fairies
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  Speaker 1: are in their folklore. Maybe those powers is why stories
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  Speaker 1: tell the men forcing mermaids into marrying them. I know
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  Speaker 1: we're all surprised to find out a man saw a magical,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful creature and said, I'm going to force her to
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  Speaker 1: be with me and keep her to myself. But why
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  Speaker 1: did they do this? Folk tells say that the way
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  Speaker 1: to force a mermaid into marriage was to steal an
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  Speaker 1: object from them. The usual objects were things like a belt,
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  Speaker 1: a cap, a comb, or a mirror. Taking these objects
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  Speaker 1: would hold her hostage. Because what says a loving, healthy,
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  Speaker 1: marriage better than stealing something from your wife to force
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  Speaker 1: her to stay with you. The sad part is I
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  Speaker 1: could absolutely see a guy doing this. Sadly, as long
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  Speaker 1: as the object is hidden from her, she was trapped
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  Speaker 1: and had to stay with this man. That being said,
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  Speaker 1: if she were to find it, she was free to
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  Speaker 1: run as far away from that gross man as possible,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully bringing a flood his way afterwards. There is a
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  Speaker 1: less creepy version of this, though some variants. The marriage
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  Speaker 1: gives the mermaid more agency within it. Instead of having
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  Speaker 1: an object stolen from her and being held hostage, she
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  Speaker 1: only stays in the marriage as long as they agreed
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  Speaker 1: upon terms are met. If they are ever broken, she
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  Speaker 1: ends the marriage and leaves the man in the dust, which,
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  Speaker 1: if you have to be in a loveless marriage at
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  Speaker 1: least is not against your will, and if the conditions
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  Speaker 1: aren't being fulfilled, you can leave. It's definitely a less
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  Speaker 1: gross option between the two. And now you see why
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  Speaker 1: I was wondering before if they just went after men
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  Speaker 1: because they were just the only things around, or if
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  Speaker 1: they were targeting them because if I was a mystical
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  Speaker 1: creature that could lure men to their deaths, with my
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  Speaker 1: voice and change the ties at my will. I'd be
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  Speaker 1: tempted to do so if I found out my friends
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  Speaker 1: and family were getting kidnapped and forced into marriage against
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  Speaker 1: their will. Maybe mermaids were just misunderstood and we're just
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  Speaker 1: trying to fight back in the that's way they could.
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  Speaker 1: One thing that was strange about looking into this is
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  Speaker 1: while stories change slightly, most legends of mermaids have similar
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  Speaker 1: elements all around the world, which is why I didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to go into all of the different countries. So
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  Speaker 1: while it's easy to brush all of this off as
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  Speaker 1: just simple folklore, is it really Back when most of
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: these stories were written or told, travel was a lot
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  Speaker 1: harder and information was even harder to get from town
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  Speaker 1: to town, let alone from country to country. So how
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  Speaker 1: does the whole world seem to agree for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: on what a mermaid is? Because while they could be
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  Speaker 1: golden like in the Southeast Asian stories of fish with
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  Speaker 1: a human head, or just your basic half human fish creature,
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  Speaker 1: they all share similar stories and looks, whether it's luring
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  Speaker 1: men to their death, being a bad omen, having magical powers,
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  Speaker 1: or even marrying a man against their will or on
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  Speaker 1: their own terms. We all seem to have a fascination
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  Speaker 1: with these underwater entities, So with us all for the
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  Speaker 1: most part, having a similar image of what a mermaid is,
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  Speaker 1: would it be that unbelievable to think they could be real?
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  Speaker 1: Even to this day, people claim to have seen a
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  Speaker 1: mermaid in freshwater and in the ocean. People that make
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  Speaker 1: their living on the ocean have said they've seen one.
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  Speaker 1: So are these people just seeing things or could they
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  Speaker 1: have really saw a mermaid? Why don't we hear from
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  Speaker 1: some people that do believe they have seen a mermaid?
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  Speaker 1: I found these stories on Reddit because I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: read some stories that aren't just folklore or stories that
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  Speaker 1: were from a hundred years ago. I wanted stories from
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  Speaker 1: this century. So why don't we start with believe it
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  Speaker 1: or not? But my aunt swears she has seen a
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  Speaker 1: mermaid when she was young. She always tells a story
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  Speaker 1: and I would like to share it with you. Judging
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  Speaker 1: by the way she tells it, it seems like it
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  Speaker 1: really happened and she really believes it was not a hallucination.
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  Speaker 1: She was on a boat with a friend when she
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  Speaker 1: was like twenty five years old. She was looking at
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  Speaker 1: the sea when she saw a woman swimming. She was
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  Speaker 1: pale white with a long, straight black hair, and my
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  Speaker 1: aunt knows it was impossible for someone to swim there
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  Speaker 1: because it was very deep water. At some point that
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  Speaker 1: woman looked at her and smiled. Her eyes were black
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  Speaker 1: and her teeth were pointy, like those of a shark.
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  Speaker 1: My aunt was obviously frozen. All right. While I think
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  Speaker 1: it's not that unbelievable for someone to be swimming in
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  Speaker 1: very deep water, I'd assume you'd see a boat in
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  Speaker 1: nearby or something, because that would be very dangerous to
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  Speaker 1: be out that far without someone nearby on a boat,
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  Speaker 1: just in case. Her looks. On the other hand, pew
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  Speaker 1: white and black hair isn't really that weird. But her
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  Speaker 1: eyes and teeth, How close was your aunt to be
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  Speaker 1: able to see that her eyes were black and that
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  Speaker 1: she had pointy teeth. At least she's seen friendly despite
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: having sharp teeth. Could have been words. She could have
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  Speaker 1: wanted to eat your aunt's face off, which does once
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  Speaker 1: again make me wonder do mermaids and sirens just target
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  Speaker 1: men or did that mermaid just realize your aunt was chilled,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: so she wanted to be nice to ease your aunt's mine.
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  Speaker 1: Not that that were clearly all right. She was with friends,
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  Speaker 1: did they see the mermaid too? Or did she even
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  Speaker 1: ask them if they did? Because I could see her
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  Speaker 1: being worried to say anything. So this next story was
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  Speaker 1: in a subreddit called People's Sailors of Reddit, who have
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  Speaker 1: seen a mermaid or are just convinced they exist, can
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  Speaker 1: you please tell us what they look like or why
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  Speaker 1: you are sure they exist. This might not be the
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  Speaker 1: kind of story you expect, but hear me out. I
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  Speaker 1: believe mermaids exist as members of the fay or fairy world. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of how European folklore saw them. Well maybe
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  Speaker 1: not exactly, because they didn't see them as fae, but
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  Speaker 1: they are said to have the same kind of powers
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  Speaker 1: as a faith, so kind of the same. I believe
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  Speaker 1: they can connect with people and, like in my case,
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  Speaker 1: even become their guides. I believe I have a mermaid
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  Speaker 1: guide who gives me interesting information and helps me make decisions.
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  Speaker 1: I won't be sharing any specific stories because they might
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  Speaker 1: be identifying as for what they look like. My guide
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  Speaker 1: looks like what you would expect for a merman. He's
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  Speaker 1: got sinewy human arms in a lean human chest. He's
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  Speaker 1: blonde and blue eyes with ava gelant hair. Very human
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  Speaker 1: from the waist up below that is a blue aquatic
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  Speaker 1: mammal tell. Fishtail is generally a misnomer. Fishtails swing side
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  Speaker 1: to side, but mammal tells swing up and down. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: most of the mermaids you've seen in movies and fiction
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  Speaker 1: have mammal tails. You know what, I never thought about it?
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  Speaker 1: What if mermaids aren't from our world but can travel
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  Speaker 1: to our world? Kind of like how some people believe
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  Speaker 1: Bigfoot is a being that can travel between dimensions and
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  Speaker 1: that's why they are pretty rare to come across. Mermaids
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  Speaker 1: seem to have powers of some kind, so why can't
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: they have the ability to move between worlds? Also, guides
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  Speaker 1: can be anything, so I'm not surprised you have a
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  Speaker 1: mermaid for a guide. Pretty cool you do, though, And
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  Speaker 1: it might sound weird for me to say this, but
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  Speaker 1: he seems nice. I know there isn't much info on
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  Speaker 1: him as far as his character, but I just get
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  Speaker 1: the feeling he's kind and caring. And no, not all
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  Speaker 1: guides are like that. They are there to help you
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  Speaker 1: in your life, but that doesn't mean they all have
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  Speaker 1: the same kind of personality. They're just like people. They
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  Speaker 1: all have their own ways of working with you, talking
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  Speaker 1: to you, and treating you. One of my guides like
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: to talk to me like an exhausted mom that's dealing
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: with their fair old child all the time, and honestly,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I don't blame them. I'm kind of a stubborn asshole,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: so they kind of have to treat me that way
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: because I don't listen. They're also the one that likes
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: to keep me in check a lot, but again, I
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: don't like to listen. I am, by nature rebellious. I'm
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: sorry anyways, why don't we move on to our last story,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Siren Mermaid sightings. My brother doesn't actually remember this now,
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  Speaker 1: but back when we were kids, he's three years younger
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  Speaker 1: than me, we were on a trip with our grandparents
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: at a condo timeshare in Florida. An important thing to
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: note at this point was that this was before we
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  Speaker 1: knew I needed glasses, so I could very much not
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  Speaker 1: see further than like a foot in front of my face,
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  Speaker 1: and that was normal for me. I get that I've
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: had glasses since I was six, but I hated them,
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  Speaker 1: so I fought against wearing them, and I swear I
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  Speaker 1: don't remember feeling like I needed them or that my
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: eyes were that bad. I'm near sighted and legally blind
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  Speaker 1: without my glasses, so yeah, it's not that crazy to
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  Speaker 1: me that you thought it was normal. Once you get
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: those glasses, though, that's when you go, holy shit, I'm blind.
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  Speaker 1: We were on one of those little concrete bridges over
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  Speaker 1: the tunnels with the runoff streams that flowed down to
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  Speaker 1: the beach, you know what I mean, and it had
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: actually made a pretty big deep pool right below the bridge.
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  Speaker 1: It was all murky and brown and stuff. Sounds gross,
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  Speaker 1: and yet I'm sure someone has tried to play in it.
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  Speaker 1: We were messing around on the bridge and my brother
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: leans over to look down into the runoff pool and
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  Speaker 1: he just freezes. I ask him what's wrong, and he's like,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't see her? And I was like, see what?
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  Speaker 1: And he swears to me up and down that there
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  Speaker 1: was a mermaid in the runoff pole. He described her
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  Speaker 1: as looking a couple of years older than me. I
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: was eleven to twelve, I think, so thirteen to fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: possibly fifteen with he thinks light brown here, and her
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  Speaker 1: skin looked light blue. Her tail was about the same
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  Speaker 1: length as the rest of her body, so not super
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  Speaker 1: long like a live action little mermaid, with big scales
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  Speaker 1: more like dragons than in actual fishes, like sticking out
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  Speaker 1: layered on top of each other, like chainmail, kind of
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know how to describe it. Small fins running
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  Speaker 1: down the side, very small horizontally aligned tailfins, the most
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  Speaker 1: basic sort of V shape you can see on a fish,
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  Speaker 1: with eye spots on each of the lobes, like a
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  Speaker 1: tropical fish. Maybe it's just me because I don't know
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  Speaker 1: much about fishes, but I don't understand what lobes are
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  Speaker 1: on one. I know what an ear lobe is, but
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  Speaker 1: I've never heard of a lobe on a fish. She
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  Speaker 1: does seem like she has a crazy mermaid tell though
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  Speaker 1: it would have been probably wild to see. Well, seeing
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: a hole mermaid would be wild on its own, but
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. He said. She was wearing
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: a top kind of like a sweater that looked like
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: it was woven out of kelt or whatever. The seaweed
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: with the little AirPod bobbles is, with three quarter sleeves
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  Speaker 1: with the buoyancy still dangling off of it. He said.
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  Speaker 1: She was maybe like a foot below the surface of
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  Speaker 1: the pool, but he only saw her for like a
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: second before she saw us, looked scared for a second,
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  Speaker 1: and sank back down, and since the water was so dirty,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: he couldn't see her anymore. Again, I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: seaweed they're talking about, because I don't know much about
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, But it is kind of crazy
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  Speaker 1: that she was wearing a sweaterlike shirt, because I feel
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: like that would drag you down when swimming. But then again,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: maybe she didn't care or just wanted to look cute,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: and that's valid. Why I believe him about this particular
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: antidote is because one, he was a very good rule
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: abiding kid back in those days and was also awkward anxious.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: In an absolutely horrible liar, he cried just imagining getting
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: in trouble or making people mad, and he seemed genuinely
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  Speaker 1: shocked and swore to me that he'd seen her until
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: he was practically in tears. And two, the mermaid he
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: described was so far out of the typical kid friendly
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: media mermaid mold, but also not like completely monstrous like
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: the Goblet of fire ones. I don't know how to
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: explain it, but it was a very grounded mermaid description
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  Speaker 1: almost boring in a way and very much not what
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  Speaker 1: I'd want to hear. I mean, if he was just
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: gonna make something up to entertain me. I was enormously
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: into mermaid melody, pitchy pitchy pitch at the time, So
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: he could have just described one of those types of
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: mermaids with a fairly tail, fin in the armband, bracelets
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: in all of that, or gone classic Ariel or Barbie
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  Speaker 1: mermaidias styled, because that's the type of mermaid he knew
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  Speaker 1: I'd have wanted to see. And believe me, at the time,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: he very much did not have the foresight whatever to
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: try and make his lives seem more grounded, to make
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: them more convincing. He wasn't dumb, at least not in
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: pure IQ since, But boy, howdye was he just the awkwardest,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: most neurotic little ellie and changeling of a kid back then.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's because I don't understand fishing ato me, but
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  Speaker 1: I thought she sounded cool. Yeah, she definitely wasn't your
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: traditional mermaid, it seemed, but I wouldn't say she was boring.
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  Speaker 1: But again, I didn't know what half of those words
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  Speaker 1: meant at least when it comes to fishes. So maybe
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: in picturing the mermaid all wrong, dragon scaled tell does
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  Speaker 1: sound awesome though, So, guys, have you seen a mermaid before?
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  Speaker 1: Do you believe they're even real? What about theories? Do
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: you have any on what mermaids are or why they're
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: rare to see? They clearly are because I couldn't find
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: too many stories of sightings or encounters. But if you
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: do find yourself face to face with one, try to
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: be respectful and maybe don't take their stuff. Don't keep
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: a mermaid hostage, because that's just not cool. Really, just
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: don't do that with anyone. Keeping people against their will
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: should just not be something you should be doing, like
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  Speaker 1: at all. Now, let's very smoothly and not at all
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  Speaker 1: awkwardly move on to the part of the episode where
• 34:06
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• 34:10
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• 34:19
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• 34:32
  Speaker 1: more of us that can come together and talk about
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: the weird and spooky, which of course is what I want,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: and I hope you want as well, especially if you've
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: stuck around this long. Also, with more of us gathering together,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: the more stories we can listen to. In speaking of stories,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: if you have a story of a mermaid's siding, let
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: me know. I'd love to hear all about them. I
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: know there are probably a lot more stories out there.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Maybe you have encountered one and have been too scared
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: to tell anyone because you don't want to sound crazy. Well,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: guess what, we don't think you're crazy and will listen
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: to your tale. So if you have a story you'd
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: like to share, send them my way and I'll read
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: them on here. And I'm sure you're wondering where you
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: can send your mermaid stories, or really any of your
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: paranormal stories right well, you can send them to our email,
• 35:36
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• 35:40
  Speaker 1: the show notes in the description below. But for now,
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