Mermaid · Isle of Man, England · 1961
Why it's on Wait… what now?: A military officer reporting two red-haired mermaids swimming fast five miles offshore.
- Creature
- Mermaid
- When
- Mar 6, 1961to the day
- Where
- Isle of Man, Englandto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Wing Comdr. Roy Macdonald reports seeing two red-haired mermaids swimming five miles offshore at high speed.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Mermaid
- Where
- Isle of Man, Crathorne, North Yorkshire, York and North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Mar 6, 1961
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-9963490d3d
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Source trail (1)
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- Image 1 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), March 6, 1961
Newspaper · 1961-03-06
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Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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