A CENTURIES-old mystery surrounding a mummified “mermaid” has finally been solved after baffling scientists for nearly 300 years. The 12-inch creature was allegedly caught in the Pacifi… ...

KURASHIKI, Okayama Prefecture—Researchers using high-tech equipment have reached a conclusion concerning a mysterious and creepy “mermaid mummy” long kept at a temple here: It is mostly fake.

He expects the mermaid to be the big-ticket item. “I’ll say ridiculous things to try to up the bidding, but it’s all in good fun,” he said. People frequently gravitate to creepy dolls, he ...

“Japanese mermaids have a legend of immortality,” he said. “It is said that if you eat the flesh of a mermaid, you will never die. “There is a legend in many parts of Japan that a woman ...

Mermaid, alien or a shiphead Speculations soon took off, with some calling it an alien head, and others suggesting it could be a figurehead from a ship, a flotsam, or an art installation.

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