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  • The Deerness Mermaid: Our Best Attested Nineteenth-Century Cryptid May 6, 2025

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
    The Deerness Mermaid: Our Best Attested Nineteenth-Century Cryptid

    Dear friends, this month’s podcast is on the Deerness Mermaid: the Best Attested Nineteenth-Century Cryptid Background. What is the DM? Between 1887 and 1899, something strange haunted the waters off Deerness, Orkney. Locals called it a mermaid; newspapers across Britain ran breathless headlines. It had a black head, long white neck, and a white body […]