| ID | #1607261948 |
| Added | Sun, 06/12/2020 |
| Author | July N. |
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| Phenomena | |
| Status | Investigation
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Initial data
During the 18th century, Europeans traveled around the world and established colonies in the Indian ocean and South Pacific. Meeting new plants and animals, they drew creatures. The artist named Samuel Fallers wrote in 1718 the present drawing mermaids .
Fallour claimed that he caught the mermaid himself and brought her to his home. Then he drew a mermaid and tried to cure her. He wrote that the mermaid lived in a container of water and squeaked like a mouse. Four days later, the mermaid starved to death because she refused to eat.
Original news
1718 BY SAMUEL FALLOURS
During the 18th Century, Europeans traveled all over the world and established colonies throughout the Indian Ocean and South Pacific. As they encountered new plants and animals, they would draw the creatures. A painter named Samual Fallours included a real mermaid drawing in 1718.
Fallours claimed that he caught the mermaid himself and brought her into his house. He then drew the picture of the mermaid and tried to nurse it back to health. Fallours wrote that the mermaid lived in a container of water and squeaked like a mouse. After four days, the mermaid died of starvation because she refused to eat.
Mermaid of the type inhabiting the Dutch East Indies. Valentijn’s mermaid, after Fallours. Lee, Henry. Sea Fables Explained. 1883.
Hypotheses
Deliberate falsification
This version includes any falsifications that imitate unexplained phenomena both from the outside: practical jokes, flash mobs, fake news, witness fraud, staging, etc.
There are many ways to make something similar to a ghost or a flying saucer from improvised materials, without using video and photomontage.
Many homemade things made for the sake of a joke, a practical joke or a direct imitation of a mystical being or event can be taken as unexplained not only in photos and videos, but also in reality.
Investigation
It is known that the author greatly embellished drawing even ordinary fish.
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