Mermaid · 対馬, 長崎県 · 1891
XX-1891ID case-caf8c469abAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Mermaid
- When
- Sep 1891to the month
- Where
- 対馬, 長崎県to approximate level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Fishermen in the sea of Tsushima reportedly killed and ate a creature with a girl's head and human appendages on its pectoral fins, which they identified as a mermaid.
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Details
- Creature
- Mermaid
- Where
- 対馬, 長崎県, 日本
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Sep 1891
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-caf8c469ab
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Source trail (2)
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- Image 4 of Waterbury evening Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.), September 29, 1891
Newspaper · 1891-09-29
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 2 of Daily independent (Elko, Nev.), October 15, 1891
Newspaper · 1891-10-15
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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