Tag: barnum, biotech-hobbyist, circus, dismembered, feejee, fish-boobs, gremlins, hoax, hollywood, mermaid, mermaids, pt-barnum, rotten.com, sideshow
There’s One Born Every Minute
Mermaid hoaxes were perhaps popularized by P.T. Barnum and his famous circus. He advertised having the remains of a FeeJee Mermaid. FeeJee is the sucker spelling of Fiji...
Mermaid Necrophilia
An object purported to be somewhere between a mermaid and a sea monster just sold on eBay for $1,550. The seller calls the find a golden mermaid and refers to it as...
Starbucks Sinful Serpent Siren
Wait a minute. The Starbucks business books out there describe their logo chick as being a siren, but I think she is actually a melusine or nixie. Given the two tails...
