Perhaps you scoffed upon glancing over the word “mermaid” or “mermen”, thinking surely something such as this doesn’t at all exist? Like really, an underwater humanoid with a big fishy tail… swimming out in the sea? Surely not… that is something confined to silly fairytales and Disney movies! But nope, there are some out there who believe they exist and argue that the ocean is so deep and vast and so undiscovered that they could easily exist out there and stay almost entirely hidden, considering that they are also believed to be as intelligent as us, then they would be even more clever at hiding themselves, knowing the possible consequences if they were to ever reveal themselves.
Mermaids and mermen were also a big part of sailor and fisherman folklore back in the early days, out in the dangerous seas, leading to many stories and tales of encounters with them, many of them could easily just be made up as a way to pass the time and ended up being believed as it past from telling to telling, while others may simply just been mis-identification, for example many skeptics have said that things such as seals and manatees can fool sailors and fisherman, specially back in the older days when those animals were lesser known.
Personally, I don’t believe in mermaids or mermen, but to be fair, if you have never seen one or really thought into it, then it can be quite silly. But if you continue thinking on it, surely it isn’t out of the realm of possibility that perhaps some humans evolved to live out under the sea? I mean, all life originated from the sea at the beginning… didn’t it? So, if you think of it in that way, you could reason that there is some kind of chance. But it is still hard to fully accept without solid evidence. Extra-terrestrials can be more believable as you reason, “well we are here, so there must be something out in the vast, vast universe” or even ghosts as you think “when somebody dies, where does the energy go, they surely can’t just vanish into nothingness?”
That being said, there have been a number of mermaid and mermen sightings over the years, and since the topic itself is so obscure, with more people choosing to follow other paranormal and cryptid entities and creatures, it makes pretty much all the sightings themselves obscure. So, here I will feature one of these sightings.
The Encounter
One interesting incident happened during WW2 during the 1940s, witnessed by Japanese soldiers on the island of Kei in Indonesia. The local villagers on the island believed in a cryptid creature known as the orang ikan, which meant “man fish”. The creatures were said to be quite short, around about 150cm or just under 5ft tall, along with spikes along their spines, on their shoulders and neck with pink salmon-coloured skin and carp-like mouth. They also had long arms and frog-like legs with talons, rather than the traditional mermaid/merman fish tail.
Up until the big incident, a number of Japanese soldiers had already reported sightings of these strange creatures, that appeared to also be able to walk on land, but preferred the water, seemingly making them amphibious creatures.
In the incident in question, a squadron of Japanese soldiers were exploring a natural lagoon on the island, nothing was out of the ordinary until suddenly there was a lot of splashing and disturbance in the water, until which the soldiers claimed an orang ikan suddenly jumped out of the lagoon water on to a nearby rock, it then looked out the soldiers and made a seemingly aggressive “gurgling and burping” noise at them and the soldiers also claimed another of the orang ikan was making its way swimming through the lagoon water towards the soldiers, with the Japanese soldiers afraid and not knowing what the creatures might do, they decided to fire warning shots at surrounding rocks and into the water, of which caused the orang ikan’s to vanish from the area.
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