1762: Mermaid found on Noirmontier Island, France

THINK ABOUTIT SIGHTING REPORT

Date: 1762

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Day/Night: morning

Location: Noirmoutier Island, France

Urban or Rural: -rural

Entity Type: “an animal of a human form, leaning on its hands,”

Entity Description: with the white skin of a drowned person and “the breast of a full chested woman” a flat nose, a large nose, a large mouth; the chin adorned with a kind of beard, formed of fine shells, and over the whole body, tufts of similar white shells. It had the tail of a fish, and at the extremity of it a kind of feet.

Hynek Classification: CE-III (Close Encounter III) Close observation with animate beings associated with the object.

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Size of Object(s): as big as the largest man

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Number of Witnesses: 3

Source: Jerome Clark, Unexplained!

Summary/Description: Two girls on the island while searching for shells in rock crevices, encountered “an animal of a human form, leaning on its hands,” One girl promptly stabbed it with a knife. It moaned and died.

Afterwards a physician went to the site and examined the body, finding it “as big as the largest man” with the white skin of a drowned person and “the breast of a full chested woman” a flat large nose, a large mouth; the chin adorned with a kind of beard, formed of fine shells, and over the whole body, tufts of similar white shells. It had the tail of a fish, and at the extremity of it a kind of feet.

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