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I remember when this all aired, and being really, really confused. Cause on the one hand, it was Animal Planet, and Animal Planet only talked about FACTUAL animal stuff. But on the other... the subject was MERMAIDS. Which... would certainly be causing more of a fuss if what Animal Planet was talking about was TRUE. So I just sat there, watching. Fascinated, and INCREDIBLY confused. Didn't help that I'd caught it like, partway through, so I doubt I ever saw the 'disclaimer'. Forgot about it pretty quickly afterwards, but I remember being quite frustrated when I recalled it years later and found out it had all been fiction. Which I'd figured out pretty quickly on my own after remembering it, don't get me wrong, but... Still. I used to love watching animal planet, so looking back and knowing they'd just lied for profit upset me. Looking back, what they did WAS well done, and very cool and interesting - but they shouldn't have put it on channels like Animal Planet, cause it just made it seem like they were trying to sell it as Fact rather than speculative evolution fiction.
I was 13 when this came out and so willing to believe in mermaids. I wasn't scared at all, just excited, so I was heart broken when I later realized it was fictional. Very good mockumentary imo!
I remember this! It was such a kick in the teeth when they aired this! Animal planet was known for being a channel for learning and for them to show something fictional like this, especially when it was shown and advertised as "real", was a huge spit in the face!
This program really put the fear of mermaids in me as a child. Despite this fear, and perhaps in part because of it, I remain utterly fascinated by the idea of them and what they represent as a myth and symbol. The stories that we tell ourselves and the folklore that we create are so important to knowing who we are.
When this came out, my husband and I were just married and on a road trip/honeymoon on our move across the country to California. We were staying in this hotel in Utah for a night that seemed to be run by two children, in a town that consisted of a gas station, a bbq restaurant, a handful of mobile homes, and just scrub desert for hours in each direction without civilization. No cell reception, very spotty wifi at the place. So all we had was the TV. And amidst this horror movie setup, this was on. It feels like a fever dream 😂😂
(TLDR: We invent gods and monsters to explain unknowns) For engagement: As an “old Salt”, from my seat, people invent creatures and deities to answer for their unknowns. I live along the ring of fire and almost from birth I was told we were going to have “the big one” someday. Referring to an earthquake in the 9-10 range. When that happens, it is felt hundreds of miles away, in all directions (125,000+ sq miles). In that area, the ground is shaking and rolling for everyone. Not that long ago, 1960’s, geologist hypothesized about rafts of earth crusts floating, slipping past, and colliding with other rafts of earth crusts. Prior to the 60’s it was a terrifying unknown why, and millennia before that, the gods must be upset about something and a sacrifice was in order to appease the gods. Today it’s plate tectonics. What other events happen today that were feared mysteries ages ago. Hurricanes? For sailors, why did the winds stop blowing for weeks on end and the ocean turn glass calm (I’ve seen it)? Whatever it is (thermal heat distribution), it is the source of myth and folklore out on the high seas. Rogue Waves (I remember mine). On a show on blood red clay, they found a skull with a central opening mid-face. Without finding the other bones to mammoths and mastodons, one might create the myth of a large man with one eye (cyclops), and the clay speaks of the battles that must have taken place there.
Something you didnt touch on: This wasnt the first time they did this. A friend of mine and i watched the same exact styled "documentary" on the animal planet channel about dragons. It cane out in 2004 and NEVER said it wasnt real. We watched the special and were in awe of what we saw. Then...it ended.....and the next thing shown on the channel was how they made the special. Inferring that it wasnt real.
I like this, it reminds me of your older content from before you started covering UA-camr scandals and making tea content about problematic creators from disociadid, to huge beauty influencers. Things were a lot more relaxing and intriguing when the topics were aliens, conspiracies, cryptids and the occasional vlog. I hope you make more of these frfr. Take care! Much love 💕
God, I remember watching this while making my minecraft creeper halloween costume as a kid and being afraid mermaid blood was gonna come out of the bathroom faucet for weeks.
i remember catching this mockymentary very late at night with my dad. he was very drawn in by things like ghost videos and even facebook misinformation, while i'm the opposite. it was actually kind of fun to sit and watch it with him, because we HAD actually missed the disclaimers at the start and were both discussing the 'evidence' presented. we even ended up looking up the alleged scientists at the end to see if it was real or not. ofc it wasnt, which left my dad very disappointed, but he always kept the idea that maybe something sentient could be living in the ocean ever since then.
I remember watching "Dragons, a fantasy made real," and it really blew my mind. I loved it and its one of my fav shows ever. i remember the mermaid one vaguely, but they were really realle well made shows.
My mom randomly put this on one night when I was a kid, and I was HORRIFIED. Couldn't even swim in a pool by myself because any time I closed my eyes underwater I imagined those webbed hands dragging me down. The most embarrassing part..up until a few years ago I believed that shit was real😭 my husband and I got into a conversation about this exact "documentary". after I rambled about all I could remember from it, he simply showed me his phone and said "yeah that was fictional, hun." Though I was relieved, I still have an extreme fear of the ocean🙃
I missed the disclaimer (was 18 when I saw it), didn't rewatch it or talk more about it for years so never heard about the controversy, and since I have always believed that it is possible for us to find mythical creatures in the future (within reason now, within less reason back then 😄), I didn't find out it was fake until years later, when I was studying Library and Information science to become a librarian 🤦 and I'm still salty about it 😂😅😑 They should learn from "Troll Hunter" how to do this in a non-scammy, non-misinformative kind of way...
I watched a Discovery Channel show about mermaids once. They used an incredibly fake "anonymous" cell phone video of someone finding a dead bad CGI mermaid & getting chased away by the government while carefully filming his own shoes for dramatic effect. I never watched Discovery Channel again. Edit: Oh, same show, I guess.
I remember watching this when it came out I was 19 at the time. I believed it and looked pretty stupid when I told my friend about the aquatic ape theory. And it sucked because I wanted it to be true because it would be so interesting from an evolutionary and anthropological standpoint
"The Bloop" still creeps me out. Not because of mermaids, but because I've read HP Lovecraft's works and finding stuff in the water typically ends poorly for the folks in those stories. #IaIaVangelinaSkovFtaghn
I think showing this to kids and then handing out other articles would be a good foray into how to critically think in like elementary or middle school. Something similar was done with dragons for my class in like fourth grade.
I remember the megalodon one being so well done that it damn near had me, though I can't say whether it holds up years later or not. But some of cgi and the final shot of this mermaid one--the webbed hand on the tank window--fully knocked me out of it. Like, "Ah, yes. This is not real at all and must be a mockumentary, why would Animal Planet lie to me like this" and I've never forgiven them for it
My brother and I was young when this aired and we were so excited to see this. Because it was animal planet. It's a channel all about animals and education. And then I was so confused and angry to realize it wasn't real.
They did a feature length House Hippo ad!! If you don't know, its a canadian ad, that was played on childrens channels that was teaching kids to question what they see on tv. Via an itty bitty hippo that lives in your closet as a household pest.
I believed this documentary for my entire teen years. I was obsessed with this doc😂. Man, those were good, anxiety-less times😅. Loved this video, thank you so much✨
Pretty sure this piece of media is part of the reason I imagine mermaids how I imagine them. Like how I play with the idea of mermaids in my stories. You know? Like are they gonna be translucent deep sea things that were cut off from land, that chatter and click at you, or are they gonna be luscious red hair-ed things speaking English and hoarding forks?? You know?
Never watched this documentary, but the ones in my writing draw a lot of inspiration from seals and typically rely heavily on sign language for communication. Most of them anyway - the "natural" mermaids at least. There's also a few varieties of "artificial" mermaids that are more chimera type beings created by unethical mages for various reasons ranging from attempts at creating aquatic espionage agents to cultists volunteering to have their bodies modified to be closer to various sea gods. Those vary wildly, some have gills or scales, some have true tails that are extensions of the spine instead of fused legs, some even lay eggs, but those tend to be short lived due to the strain having their body magically warped, and genetically unstable, with offspring not necessarily inheriting the parents' magically induced features, and many individuals turning out to be barren. Others, if they're unfortunate enough to have had a magic user actually try to integrate parts of a fish into their body often succumb to autoimmune issues because their immune system interprets the new additions as "other" (which they technically are.) So, mine run a gambit really 😂
Same! Just sounds like some gas releasing. When I learnt that all land is formed by undersea volcanoes erupting and coming out of the ocean then I've just been like eh, just earth settling something, you know? Like probably had a trapped bubble somewhere and climate change been melting ice for ages so something has got to give
I was in university when I saw this. My brother, who was still in high school, was like.... no, that doesn't sound right. And I was so convinced, like no no, it's real... we watched it again together on Amazon Prime Video, and I kept looking at him, like see???? But then during the credits, he spotted in like not remarkable font that it was a mockumentary. I was so genuinely embarrassed and mad, I cancelled my amazon prime lol.
2012 scared me, traumatized me actually, this just made me EVEN MORE curious with deep sea stuff. Like, I don’t know if I believed it or just thought it was a story ab mermaids…I think I might have been old enough to realize it was fake. Or to instantly disregard ‘mermaids are real’ propaganda. Cos when I think about it, I remember the sound, the washed up ‘body,’ the bones, and the mermaid animation (which was really cool to my child, mermaid-interested brain) But not in. I don’t think I took it in the way they meant it to be taken. I thought it was a documentary, but…more like, hey this could mean this and this (and thinking yeah no, but still enjoying it bc it was fun and interesting??).
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This is also a misconception. We have explored and mapped much more than 5/20% with sonar, satellites etc. Scientists interact with the ocean every day, however don't with planets such as Mars ❤️
I’m so happy this came up in my recommended! I’m always talking about this specific episode and everybody I have talked to about this doesn’t know what I’m talking about! I’m glad to know I’m not alone lol :)
Fantastic video! I remember watching this when I was so much younger and I was so pulled in!!! I was so fascinated and so enthralled by the whole thing I didn't believe that it was real at the time, but I did really love it! Funny enough, I never saw the disclaimers either. It wasn't until I got much older that I realized that it was a mock version of a documentary and that the disclaimers weren't very visible. Thank God I wasn't a gullible kid! I'm not going to fault people for falling for this because you know what a cool idea if mermaids really did exist! I as a full-grown 46 year old adult was absolutely be thrilled to know they existed and also is fair play to understand that the US government in particular is extremely shady and lies to us all the time! They keep secrets from us all the time, the experiments on us and they destabilize other governments all the time and keep everything under wraps! So if anything governments have themselves to blame if people freak out and believe what it can be later proven to be proven to be nonsense.
i watched this program when i was a kid, about 11 or 12. i could tell it was fake, as my parents had specifically taught me the difference between real and fake so i saw the cgi and stuff everywhere. but as an autistic kid who loved mermaids i loved it. i honestly didn’t even know anyone really believed it was real until now, but it totally makes sense why people would.
Engagement, engagement, bought the Kickstarter, engagement, remember seeing this and being surprised like others because "Discovery". Back in the day, Discovery started as the lay-persons scientific journal... before the cable channel and ultimately the reality TV empire... This was kind of the beginning of the end.
I never heard about this documentary, I do find it funny that they used the University of Cape Town. In South Africa we have mermaid cryptids, and most people just assume it's the normal ocean kind but ours are actually in the desert. They're the Karoo Mermaids and I assume they're responsible for people seeing an oasis in the heat and then eat the people who get lost in the Karoo
speaking of how much we don't know about the oceans, I only recently found out that humans have never witnessed a great white shark being born, that's so crazy to me! it seemed like one marine animal we know a lot about, but never seen a baby coming into the world!
I totally watched it when it came out, and they did a second thing later where they were talking to one of the scientists and he was talking about how his peers no longer respected him. I don't if that was another fake thing, or if he had been a scientist and they were mad that he did the show? Too long ago to remember. I know I missed the disclaimer, but somehow I knew it wasn't real, but I was really finding myself believing it. I guess I figured it would be a bigger deal if it was real 🤷♀️
Seeeee no 😂 I was totally believing the mockumentaries were real UNTIL the mermaid one. I saw the "mermaid" on the beach and was like oh. That's fake. 😂
I remember watching this as a teen. I don't remember if I caught the disclaimer, but I do remember thinking it was fake. It just didn't make sense a lot of the time and seemed too sensational
Would prefer you stick to drama as this was quite boring to me but I liked that it linked with your book. I've never seen this mockumentary or heard of it, also don't think that not know stuff is super scary so this didn't appeal to me at all. I am a Biologist so I know my stuff but know people that get wrapped up and hear what they think is being said rather than what is actually being said (like on the History channel. Someone saying this may have happened and then present the evidence, people hear this happened and here's the evidence). Scientists usually get excited to learn that something we knew was wrong because it means we're closer to the truth because you can't know what you don't know and there's so much science doesn't know. We say this makes sense with this information and keeps happening when repeated so it's highly likely but we could always be proven otherwise with new info. So yeah, the things humans don't know (yet) is just another thing that exists to me. Just gotta use tried and tested safety methods, meh
I was a kid when this came out and i genuinely bought into it, because i was a child. I knew animal planet to be very factual so i trusted what they were airing was true.
I watched it when I was a kid and fully believed it, iirc. Then promptly forgot about it. But the documentary made me want to become a deep sea biologist, just so I could go down and and be able to see one of them.
I watched it when it originally aired on animal planet. I remember it was like a whole ass event. They advertised the hell out of this show. They commercials saying turn in to know the truth. They had commercials stating something along the lines of this show could get the broadcast removed during the airing of it. So even the advertisers surrounding the show made it seem real. Me personally I never truly bought into what it was saying but I have a lot of knowledge about humans, animals , and the sea. Most of the people I knew bought into this narrative though. It was crazy. People were mad when that article was released.
I remember a dragon one. I think the same channel but I'm not sure. It convinced all three of my roommates that drogons didnt only exist but coexisted with people. They fought me on this until i pulled up the info and it said "fantasy."
I think i saw this when i was around 8-10 years old? At the time I was completely willing to believe in mermaids and fully believed this mockumentary was true 😭 It had me convinced
I tuned in for the beginning statement that said it is fictional, but my mom joined me in the beginning like 15-20 minutes and missed the fake statement and she swore mermaids were real. 😂
Tell my why they showed us this movie in science class, and I also remember one about "crystal skulls" placed around the world, that held ancient powers, and one was on the moon as well, but NASA is covering it up. sounded like some kind of video game lore
I remember watching this in my early 20s...I caught that the credits said it's all hypothetical lol. I was so confused that everyone took it as a factual documentary
Well there's a blast from the past. it was kinda fun. They could have been better about the disclaimers. I recall reading some stuff about folks being upset about if it was true or not. Honest, it looked a little to well done for me to actually suspend my belief, even for fun speculation. But being as I love the ocean and legends, i got some joy out of the fiction.
While I have a bit of a soft spot for this and the other mermaid documentary because I love how it feels kinda real now and its pretty well done, but they couldn't have put this anywhere else that isn't Animal Planet? Could they not have advertised it as just fictional?
I pose the question to close people a lot of times. Especially after the whole submersible fiasco. If given the opportunity, 100% safety guaranteed - proven, free trip, time off sorted, all that, would you go? My answer is f*CK yeah. I would have gone in that soup can. Survey says: I'm batshit.
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When I was in journalism the first thing my teacher said was "documentary is a style of film, not a promise of truth"
I remember when this all aired, and being really, really confused. Cause on the one hand, it was Animal Planet, and Animal Planet only talked about FACTUAL animal stuff. But on the other... the subject was MERMAIDS. Which... would certainly be causing more of a fuss if what Animal Planet was talking about was TRUE. So I just sat there, watching. Fascinated, and INCREDIBLY confused. Didn't help that I'd caught it like, partway through, so I doubt I ever saw the 'disclaimer'.
Forgot about it pretty quickly afterwards, but I remember being quite frustrated when I recalled it years later and found out it had all been fiction. Which I'd figured out pretty quickly on my own after remembering it, don't get me wrong, but... Still. I used to love watching animal planet, so looking back and knowing they'd just lied for profit upset me.
Looking back, what they did WAS well done, and very cool and interesting - but they shouldn't have put it on channels like Animal Planet, cause it just made it seem like they were trying to sell it as Fact rather than speculative evolution fiction.
Learning networks learned that there's more money in fantasy than reality.
And propping up fundy PDF files. Don't sell them short.
History channel is probably the best known example
Ancient Aliens be like: Cats are aliens because New Age groups said so! 😺👽
I was 13 when this came out and so willing to believe in mermaids. I wasn't scared at all, just excited, so I was heart broken when I later realized it was fictional. Very good mockumentary imo!
Oh no I would’ve been too 😭
I definitely thought it was real too! Those bastards hahaha 😆
I remember this! It was such a kick in the teeth when they aired this! Animal planet was known for being a channel for learning and for them to show something fictional like this, especially when it was shown and advertised as "real", was a huge spit in the face!
This program really put the fear of mermaids in me as a child. Despite this fear, and perhaps in part because of it, I remain utterly fascinated by the idea of them and what they represent as a myth and symbol. The stories that we tell ourselves and the folklore that we create are so important to knowing who we are.
My aunt will still ruin a christmas with this one. Mermaids are a banned topic😂
Oh no, now I'm showing up to your house on Christmas and bringing mermaids up. Don't worry, I'll bring cookies. 😂
When this came out, my husband and I were just married and on a road trip/honeymoon on our move across the country to California. We were staying in this hotel in Utah for a night that seemed to be run by two children, in a town that consisted of a gas station, a bbq restaurant, a handful of mobile homes, and just scrub desert for hours in each direction without civilization. No cell reception, very spotty wifi at the place. So all we had was the TV. And amidst this horror movie setup, this was on. It feels like a fever dream 😂😂
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(TLDR: We invent gods and monsters to explain unknowns)
For engagement: As an “old Salt”, from my seat, people invent creatures and deities to answer for their unknowns.
I live along the ring of fire and almost from birth I was told we were going to have “the big one” someday. Referring to an earthquake in the 9-10 range. When that happens, it is felt hundreds of miles away, in all directions (125,000+ sq miles). In that area, the ground is shaking and rolling for everyone. Not that long ago, 1960’s, geologist hypothesized about rafts of earth crusts floating, slipping past, and colliding with other rafts of earth crusts. Prior to the 60’s it was a terrifying unknown why, and millennia before that, the gods must be upset about something and a sacrifice was in order to appease the gods. Today it’s plate tectonics.
What other events happen today that were feared mysteries ages ago. Hurricanes?
For sailors, why did the winds stop blowing for weeks on end and the ocean turn glass calm (I’ve seen it)? Whatever it is (thermal heat distribution), it is the source of myth and folklore out on the high seas. Rogue Waves (I remember mine).
On a show on blood red clay, they found a skull with a central opening mid-face. Without finding the other bones to mammoths and mastodons, one might create the myth of a large man with one eye (cyclops), and the clay speaks of the battles that must have taken place there.
Something you didnt touch on:
This wasnt the first time they did this. A friend of mine and i watched the same exact styled "documentary" on the animal planet channel about dragons. It cane out in 2004 and NEVER said it wasnt real. We watched the special and were in awe of what we saw. Then...it ended.....and the next thing shown on the channel was how they made the special. Inferring that it wasnt real.
The dragons one was so good, I bought every bit of it 😂
@@InvadrFae same here. We were so mad that we didn't watch Animal Planet for at least a year.
I remember that one! I really enjoyed it 😆
I like this, it reminds me of your older content from before you started covering UA-camr scandals and making tea content about problematic creators from disociadid, to huge beauty influencers.
Things were a lot more relaxing and intriguing when the topics were aliens, conspiracies, cryptids and the occasional vlog. I hope you make more of these frfr.
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God, I remember watching this while making my minecraft creeper halloween costume as a kid and being afraid mermaid blood was gonna come out of the bathroom faucet for weeks.
That's such a good costume idea though.
i remember catching this mockymentary very late at night with my dad. he was very drawn in by things like ghost videos and even facebook misinformation, while i'm the opposite. it was actually kind of fun to sit and watch it with him, because we HAD actually missed the disclaimers at the start and were both discussing the 'evidence' presented. we even ended up looking up the alleged scientists at the end to see if it was real or not. ofc it wasnt, which left my dad very disappointed, but he always kept the idea that maybe something sentient could be living in the ocean ever since then.
I remember watching "Dragons, a fantasy made real," and it really blew my mind. I loved it and its one of my fav shows ever. i remember the mermaid one vaguely, but they were really realle well made shows.
🍿 I am soooo hyped that you’re covering this! Was looking at your kickstarter today! Wine poured, snacks ready. Let’s go!
Just wished it was I hour and 15, not just 15 mins, could listen to you all day xx
Ahhh yay I’m glad 😁
My mom randomly put this on one night when I was a kid, and I was HORRIFIED. Couldn't even swim in a pool by myself because any time I closed my eyes underwater I imagined those webbed hands dragging me down.
The most embarrassing part..up until a few years ago I believed that shit was real😭 my husband and I got into a conversation about this exact "documentary". after I rambled about all I could remember from it, he simply showed me his phone and said "yeah that was fictional, hun."
Though I was relieved, I still have an extreme fear of the ocean🙃
I missed the disclaimer (was 18 when I saw it), didn't rewatch it or talk more about it for years so never heard about the controversy, and since I have always believed that it is possible for us to find mythical creatures in the future (within reason now, within less reason back then 😄), I didn't find out it was fake until years later, when I was studying Library and Information science to become a librarian 🤦 and I'm still salty about it 😂😅😑
They should learn from "Troll Hunter" how to do this in a non-scammy, non-misinformative kind of way...
I watched a Discovery Channel show about mermaids once. They used an incredibly fake "anonymous" cell phone video of someone finding a dead bad CGI mermaid & getting chased away by the government while carefully filming his own shoes for dramatic effect. I never watched Discovery Channel again.
Edit: Oh, same show, I guess.
I remember watching this when it came out I was 19 at the time. I believed it and looked pretty stupid when I told my friend about the aquatic ape theory. And it sucked because I wanted it to be true because it would be so interesting from an evolutionary and anthropological standpoint
i thought they learned that the bloop was just an iceberg scraping stuff??
They did. It was an ice quake.
"The Bloop" still creeps me out. Not because of mermaids, but because I've read HP Lovecraft's works and finding stuff in the water typically ends poorly for the folks in those stories.
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While don’t have thalassophla but I’m spooked what’s down there in the deep blue Sea. what dark mysteries it holds
I think showing this to kids and then handing out other articles would be a good foray into how to critically think in like elementary or middle school. Something similar was done with dragons for my class in like fourth grade.
I remember the megalodon one being so well done that it damn near had me, though I can't say whether it holds up years later or not. But some of cgi and the final shot of this mermaid one--the webbed hand on the tank window--fully knocked me out of it. Like, "Ah, yes. This is not real at all and must be a mockumentary, why would Animal Planet lie to me like this" and I've never forgiven them for it
I NEEDED SOMEONE TO TALK ABOUT THIS OMG i was fully convinced and wanted to write a SCHOOL ESSAY on this as if it were fact
My brother and I was young when this aired and we were so excited to see this. Because it was animal planet. It's a channel all about animals and education. And then I was so confused and angry to realize it wasn't real.
They did a feature length House Hippo ad!!
If you don't know, its a canadian ad, that was played on childrens channels that was teaching kids to question what they see on tv.
Via an itty bitty hippo that lives in your closet as a household pest.
That's some Canadian lore I absolutely love. But it didn't work. As a kid, I totally wanted a house hippo as a pet. Lol
Canadian TV sounds awesome.
It's still a thing to some people in Canada. I now want a house hippo!
I believed this documentary for my entire teen years. I was obsessed with this doc😂. Man, those were good, anxiety-less times😅.
Loved this video, thank you so much✨
I'm always keen for cryptic and folklore stories.
If you have more, I'll be keen to listen.
Thank you. Good luck with the Kickstarter.
This reminds me a bit of Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction that aired on Fox in the mid 90s. It also fooled a lot of people.
Pretty sure this piece of media is part of the reason I imagine mermaids how I imagine them. Like how I play with the idea of mermaids in my stories. You know? Like are they gonna be translucent deep sea things that were cut off from land, that chatter and click at you, or are they gonna be luscious red hair-ed things speaking English and hoarding forks?? You know?
Never watched this documentary, but the ones in my writing draw a lot of inspiration from seals and typically rely heavily on sign language for communication. Most of them anyway - the "natural" mermaids at least. There's also a few varieties of "artificial" mermaids that are more chimera type beings created by unethical mages for various reasons ranging from attempts at creating aquatic espionage agents to cultists volunteering to have their bodies modified to be closer to various sea gods. Those vary wildly, some have gills or scales, some have true tails that are extensions of the spine instead of fused legs, some even lay eggs, but those tend to be short lived due to the strain having their body magically warped, and genetically unstable, with offspring not necessarily inheriting the parents' magically induced features, and many individuals turning out to be barren. Others, if they're unfortunate enough to have had a magic user actually try to integrate parts of a fish into their body often succumb to autoimmune issues because their immune system interprets the new additions as "other" (which they technically are.) So, mine run a gambit really 😂
Omg I knew this mockumentary existed. It instilled so much fear of them in me. Especially the clip of the boys finding out.
The bloop just sounds like bubbles to me lol
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Same! Just sounds like some gas releasing. When I learnt that all land is formed by undersea volcanoes erupting and coming out of the ocean then I've just been like eh, just earth settling something, you know? Like probably had a trapped bubble somewhere and climate change been melting ice for ages so something has got to give
I feel sorry for the people who were fooled by this mockumentary
I was in university when I saw this. My brother, who was still in high school, was like.... no, that doesn't sound right. And I was so convinced, like no no, it's real... we watched it again together on Amazon Prime Video, and I kept looking at him, like see???? But then during the credits, he spotted in like not remarkable font that it was a mockumentary.
I was so genuinely embarrassed and mad, I cancelled my amazon prime lol.
I’m so fascinated by the idea of mermaids and the ocean! I’m excited for your book! Congratulations 🎉
My dad thought this was real and I had to explain to him it wasn’t and show him the disclaimer
One of many!!
2012 scared me, traumatized me actually, this just made me EVEN MORE curious with deep sea stuff.
Like, I don’t know if I believed it or just thought it was a story ab mermaids…I think I might have been old enough to realize it was fake. Or to instantly disregard ‘mermaids are real’ propaganda. Cos when I think about it, I remember the sound, the washed up ‘body,’ the bones, and the mermaid animation (which was really cool to my child, mermaid-interested brain) But not in. I don’t think I took it in the way they meant it to be taken. I thought it was a documentary, but…more like, hey this could mean this and this (and thinking yeah no, but still enjoying it bc it was fun and interesting??).
This was so convincing that even a Jewish rabbi in Israel was convinced by this and it made the news in the Israel press.
Congratulations on the Kickstarter.
I'm here for any type of content you'd like to create.
Thalassophobia almost killed me about 20 meters from shore.
Fine. I'll watch it!
I remember watching this and it freaked me out so much to the point I had a fear of the ocean lol
Dude I saw a tumblr post about this literally yesterday what a coincidence
Finally! A Video from VangelinaSkov that isn't Drama and is something Different and Fascinating!
Not to Mention how Esoteric the Mystery is, I Love Mysteries!
0:22 i think this is a misspeak ? you said 95% was explored which means we’ve only seen 5% of the ocean
I did in fact misspeak
This is also a misconception. We have explored and mapped much more than 5/20% with sonar, satellites etc.
Scientists interact with the ocean every day, however don't with planets such as Mars ❤️
It had a good score.
I liked this. ❤
I’m so happy this came up in my recommended! I’m always talking about this specific episode and everybody I have talked to about this doesn’t know what I’m talking about! I’m glad to know I’m not alone lol :)
Fantastic video! I remember watching this when I was so much younger and I was so pulled in!!! I was so fascinated and so enthralled by the whole thing I didn't believe that it was real at the time, but I did really love it! Funny enough, I never saw the disclaimers either. It wasn't until I got much older that I realized that it was a mock version of a documentary and that the disclaimers weren't very visible. Thank God I wasn't a gullible kid!
I'm not going to fault people for falling for this because you know what a cool idea if mermaids really did exist! I as a full-grown 46 year old adult was absolutely be thrilled to know they existed and also is fair play to understand that the US government in particular is extremely shady and lies to us all the time! They keep secrets from us all the time, the experiments on us and they destabilize other governments all the time and keep everything under wraps! So if anything governments have themselves to blame if people freak out and believe what it can be later proven to be proven to be nonsense.
i watched this program when i was a kid, about 11 or 12. i could tell it was fake, as my parents had specifically taught me the difference between real and fake so i saw the cgi and stuff everywhere. but as an autistic kid who loved mermaids i loved it. i honestly didn’t even know anyone really believed it was real until now, but it totally makes sense why people would.
Do they have Manatees in Ireland? I think that's what they believe sailors saw when they thought the sailors saw Mermaids.
Nope sadly no manatees
I remember watching this when it originally aired. It was fun and really well done.
Engagement, engagement, bought the Kickstarter, engagement, remember seeing this and being surprised like others because "Discovery". Back in the day, Discovery started as the lay-persons scientific journal... before the cable channel and ultimately the reality TV empire... This was kind of the beginning of the end.
I like these style of videos. And the Game Grumps reference was perfect. I love them too.
I never heard about this documentary, I do find it funny that they used the University of Cape Town. In South Africa we have mermaid cryptids, and most people just assume it's the normal ocean kind but ours are actually in the desert. They're the Karoo Mermaids and I assume they're responsible for people seeing an oasis in the heat and then eat the people who get lost in the Karoo
speaking of how much we don't know about the oceans, I only recently found out that humans have never witnessed a great white shark being born, that's so crazy to me! it seemed like one marine animal we know a lot about, but never seen a baby coming into the world!
i have issues with deep water. Im not scared of it per se, but knowing that basically everything down there wants to eat me in some way scares me
I totally watched it when it came out, and they did a second thing later where they were talking to one of the scientists and he was talking about how his peers no longer respected him. I don't if that was another fake thing, or if he had been a scientist and they were mad that he did the show? Too long ago to remember.
I know I missed the disclaimer, but somehow I knew it wasn't real, but I was really finding myself believing it. I guess I figured it would be a bigger deal if it was real 🤷♀️
Seeeee no 😂 I was totally believing the mockumentaries were real UNTIL the mermaid one. I saw the "mermaid" on the beach and was like oh. That's fake. 😂
I remember watching this as a teen. I don't remember if I caught the disclaimer, but I do remember thinking it was fake. It just didn't make sense a lot of the time and seemed too sensational
Every time you mention Game Grumps, it makes me so happy. 😂❤
I still see clips from it on the "10 scariest/ unexplained" YT videos
I loved this
I was completely aware it was fake from the first ad i saw for it. The disclaimers and advertising was obvious enough. Idk how other people missed it
Would prefer you stick to drama as this was quite boring to me but I liked that it linked with your book. I've never seen this mockumentary or heard of it, also don't think that not know stuff is super scary so this didn't appeal to me at all.
I am a Biologist so I know my stuff but know people that get wrapped up and hear what they think is being said rather than what is actually being said (like on the History channel. Someone saying this may have happened and then present the evidence, people hear this happened and here's the evidence).
Scientists usually get excited to learn that something we knew was wrong because it means we're closer to the truth because you can't know what you don't know and there's so much science doesn't know. We say this makes sense with this information and keeps happening when repeated so it's highly likely but we could always be proven otherwise with new info. So yeah, the things humans don't know (yet) is just another thing that exists to me. Just gotta use tried and tested safety methods, meh
This documentary was what killed Animal Planet for me. Educational Programming is completely dead in the water, and that breaks my heart.
They did this with a dragon mockumentary too
I was a kid when this came out and i genuinely bought into it, because i was a child. I knew animal planet to be very factual so i trusted what they were airing was true.
I watched it when I was a kid and fully believed it, iirc. Then promptly forgot about it. But the documentary made me want to become a deep sea biologist, just so I could go down and and be able to see one of them.
I watched it when it originally aired on animal planet. I remember it was like a whole ass event. They advertised the hell out of this show. They commercials saying turn in to know the truth. They had commercials stating something along the lines of this show could get the broadcast removed during the airing of it. So even the advertisers surrounding the show made it seem real. Me personally I never truly bought into what it was saying but I have a lot of knowledge about humans, animals , and the sea. Most of the people I knew bought into this narrative though. It was crazy. People were mad when that article was released.
I remember a dragon one. I think the same channel but I'm not sure. It convinced all three of my roommates that drogons didnt only exist but coexisted with people. They fought me on this until i pulled up the info and it said "fantasy."
I remember doing a school project on this and fully believing that mermaids were real, I’m still embarrassed 10 years later lol
I watched it when I was little on animal planet & was 100% fooled I went around telling people about mermaids for like 3 years
I think i saw this when i was around 8-10 years old? At the time I was completely willing to believe in mermaids and fully believed this mockumentary was true 😭
It had me convinced
The fact that people were convinced made me give up. Nothing surprises me now and im better for it.
Man, I was such a believing kid when this came out. I wanted mermaids to be real so bad.
They did one on dragons too, and that one did get me. I remember going to school the next day, and telling everyone dragons were real 💀
everyone has gotta read Into The Drowning Deep
I saw it when it aired. Thought it was fun, but I DID see the disclaimer so I knew it was false. Still a fun watch.
I tuned in for the beginning statement that said it is fictional, but my mom joined me in the beginning like 15-20 minutes and missed the fake statement and she swore mermaids were real. 😂
Omg i remember when they aired this! I thought it was real for like a solid hour afterwards until i started looking it up on the interwebs
I watched this multiple times after it aired, I really enjoyed it. Even knowing it was fake
I’m a backer on your Kickstarter so just wanna say congratulations again and can’t wait read your book?
When I first saw this documentary.I thought it was a mockumentary... Were they actually trying to make us believe this was real...
Tell my why they showed us this movie in science class, and I also remember one about "crystal skulls" placed around the world, that held ancient powers, and one was on the moon as well, but NASA is covering it up. sounded like some kind of video game lore
Some people think it was a social experiment.
I remember watching this in my early 20s...I caught that the credits said it's all hypothetical lol. I was so confused that everyone took it as a factual documentary
Well there's a blast from the past. it was kinda fun. They could have been better about the disclaimers. I recall reading some stuff about folks being upset about if it was true or not. Honest, it looked a little to well done for me to actually suspend my belief, even for fun speculation. But being as I love the ocean and legends, i got some joy out of the fiction.
I remember being a kid seeing that and just having my mind blown 😅 I was fully convinced for like... 3 years at least
While I have a bit of a soft spot for this and the other mermaid documentary because I love how it feels kinda real now and its pretty well done, but they couldn't have put this anywhere else that isn't Animal Planet? Could they not have advertised it as just fictional?
I think I watched this a while ago and didn't know what to make of it, just thought it was one of those conspiracy theory documentaries
But there *are* mermaids! Sure, some boring people call them "manatees", but to me, they're mermaids!
I've been watching a large amount of stupidly upsetting shii today so when this came on in my queue, it literally felt like a sigh of relief within me
Reminds me of the film The Shape of Water.
I really fell for that as a kid. Pun intended but I fell for it hook, line and sinker.
I'll believe it
I pose the question to close people a lot of times. Especially after the whole submersible fiasco. If given the opportunity, 100% safety guaranteed - proven, free trip, time off sorted, all that, would you go? My answer is f*CK yeah. I would have gone in that soup can. Survey says: I'm batshit.
Reminds me of Orson Wells
Wait you mean to tell me that Mermaids are not real...... my life and knowledge has been a lie