Episode 136: Mermaids

In this episode…

Patrice, Marleah, and Courtney drink ginger mint gin and tonics and talk ugly mermaids, ghost mermaids, spirit mermaids, and mermaids that want to eat you.

marleah hunted for southern mermaid stories this week - and found some! a potpourri of mermaids from cape fear, NC, and birmingham, al; a perverted merman from algonquin lore; water spirits that followed their people across the oceans; and a bonus brazilian badass fish girl bent on revenge.

Resources

• Mermaid Point, from North Carolina Ghosts

• cape fear mermaid sighting, from carolina’s unknown

• mermaid sightings throughout history leave us wondering if we believe it or not, from ripleys

• myths, manatees and mermaids in the age of exploration, from snopes

• the hawes murders, from true crime stories

• may hawes from bhamwiki

• 18 spooky native american monsters that will keep you awake at night, from history collection

• la sirene, from lwa and order

• rejected princesses, iara

• Mami Wata, from Medium

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