10 mysterious facts you should know about mermaids!

Mermaids are fascinating creatures of mythology that always were an interesting species that made scientists question what happens in the bottom of the ocean!

A lot of videos on Youtube show us different people claiming that they have seeing mermaids and some of them also say that they have caught one, but how true can that be!

In the movie ”The Shape of Water”, we are found to see a mermaid or actually a mer-man, at least we think that’s what it is!

Mermaids a magical creatures that always had a good side when it came to storytelling and they were always an inspiration for writers and of course movie making.

In some dark stories you ill find some mermaids that were evil but a lot of them are not known!

Did you know these facts about mermaids?

1.Mermaids where mythical creatures that had an upper body of a woman and the tail of a fish!

2.Mermen where mythical creatures that had an upper body of a man and the tail of a fish!

3.Mermaids where creatures that are found in alot of cultures!

4.The first story of mermaids appeared in ancient Assyria, in which the goddess Atargatis transformed herself into a mermaid out of shame for accidentally killing her human lover.

5.A lot of hoaxes on the internet are about mermaids

6.There is a human disorder that is called ”mermaid syndrome”, and the human is born with their legs attached!

7.In the Irish mythology, mermen are described as really ugly creatures that have green teeth and skin!

8.Human divers are often called mermaids

9.In the movie ”the Shape of Water” you can see a creature that can be a mermen but nobody refers to it with that name!

10.Some stories say that Christopher Columbus got help from mermaids when he was exploring the Caribbean!