Mermaid · 1608

XX-1608ID case-95861f3681Added to map Oct 9, 2026

Creature: Mermaid
When: Jun 15, 1608to the day
Where: Place unknownno dependable place
Reports: 3 documents1 independent

The account

Witnesses on Henry Hudson's ship in 1608 report sighting a mermaid with white skin, black hair, and a porpoise-like tail that was overturned by a wave.

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Details

Creature: Mermaid
Where: No dependable place
The account doesn't say where in words we can place, so it isn't drawn on the map; the map lists it under Cases with no resolvable place. Other Mermaid reports with no place (6)
When: Jun 15, 1608
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 9, 2026
Case id: case-95861f3681

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Source trail (2)

Down the rabbit hole → 3 documents, and how they connect

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Image 6 of Peninsula enterprise (Accomac, Va.), March 21, 1936
Newspaper · 1936-03-21
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Image 2 of The Key West citizen (Key West, Fla.), April 16, 1936
Newspaper · 1936-04-16

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