Last updated on February 20th, 2024 at 03:11 am
This most interesting photo popped up several years ago. Not an unknown exhibit of doubtful merit. No, this was a genuine mermaid skeleton on display at the National Museum of Denmark at Copenhagen.
This is stunning good news for cryptid hunters. Forget those fake mermaid specials from Animal Planet .We have the physical proof that we have wanting and waiting for so very long. This should be on every news program, every science magazine cover. People should be coming from all over the world to see this wonderful find. Why haven’t they??
This confusion ties indirectly to this statue. The Little Mermaid . Den Lille Havfrue. Created from a story by Hans Christian Anderson.
Hans Christian Anderson is the beloved writer of stories from The Ugly Duckling to the Emperor’s New Clothes. Born in 1805 , he wrote plays, poems, novels and travel logs. He is known for his fairy tales which made him famous around the world .
The little bronze statue of one of his best fairy tales has perched on her rock overlooking the Helsingoer Harbor since 1913.
Only two inches over four feet ,she seems bigger in photos. But people love her. Den Lille Havfrue attracts a million visitors per year and has become a national symbol of Denmark.
She has paid dearly for her fame. Twice she has been decapitated. Doused with red paint to protest whale killing. She was blown off her rock with dynamite and found in the harbor. Muslim visitors were offended at her nudity and dressed her in a burkha and head scarf.
But in March 2010, when visitors came to see her, she was gone. She was on a trip to China. She was sent to the Shanghai EXPO. She was a symbol and ambassador of Denmark. She stayed in China until she returned on October 31 to a welcome home celebration.
In her place was a mermaid skeleton. People thought it was funny and still posed for photos and after a couple of days she was moved into the Museum.
But the pranksters were not done . April 1rst, 2010 came the unbelievable news of another mermaid dug up by a farmer in his field. She has also been taken to the Museum. Missing a hand, she was still well received and labeled the Heraldskaer mermaid after their Heraldskaer bog lady.(If you want creepy photos, look up bog people.)
But this fake as well. Not a hoax but was created as an April’s Fools Prank by a local artist. She stayed in the Museum on view for tourists until The Little Mermaid statue came home for good.
We had this photo since the first post on We Love Mermaids-. But not enough info at that time .If any doubt exists about a hoax, it is not posted on this blog. We do not doubt the existence of any cryptids. It is Photographic Evidence paraded about as genuine proof that we question.
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https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2010-03/26/content_9647752.htm