On This Day in Weird, April 14...
1814: The schoolmaster of Rathven, Scotland, reports that
two fishermen observed a merman off the coast of Buckie. According to the Aberdeen
Chronicle, "His countenance was swarthy, his hair short and curled, of
a colour between a green and a grey: he had small eyes, a flat nose, his mouth
was large, and his arms of an extraordinary length. Above the waist, he was
shaped like a man, but as the water was clear my informants could perceive that
from the waist downwards, his body tapered considerably or, as they expressed
it, like a large fish without scales but could not see the extremity." As
they watched, a female creature with prominent breasts and shoulder-length hair
swam up to join her mate, before both sank and vanished.
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