Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Business Insider tabloid confirms black mermaid caught on beach Shore in South Africa is fake.
Various clips claiming to show a “real mermaid” on a beach have gone viral across TikTok and YouTube, causing widespread speculation about how the footage came to be, and leading local authorities to debunk the claims.
On April 6, a user called Aamir Cali uploaded a TikTok captioned “Real Mermaid Caught in Muizenberg South Africa.” The clip shows a group of people crowding around a human-like figure with a long moving tail attached to its lower body. It went viral with 9.6 million views and is one of several on the user’s account that claim to show a “real mermaid” caught on film. The user did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there is no evidence that mermaids — known in mythology as creatures that are half-human and half-fish — have ever lived on the earth.
In April 2022, a new “mermaid sighting” made waves on social media as users shared a video that supposedly showed one of these mythical creatures that had washed up onto a beach in Kenya. (In other postings of the video, people claimed that this video was actually taken on the shores of South Africa.)
Officials in both Kenya and South Africa have said that there have not been any reports of a mermaid found on the beach.
The earliest version of this video that we could find was posted on TikTok on April 6 along with the claim that a “real mermaid” had been “caught in Muizenberg, South Africa.” That video has been viewed more than 8 million times.
We reached out to the South African Police Service in Muizenberg for more information about this video. As many social media commentators wondered if this video actually showed something else — for example, a child who had been attacked by a fish — we also asked Muizenberg SAPS if there had been any reports of a child who died (or nearly died) from a fish attack.
A spokesperson said: “Please note that Muizenberg SAPS has no reports of a mermaid that was washed by the beach nor reports of a child bitten by a fish.”
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