Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mummified "mermaid" was caught in a fishing net in the 1700s and kept as a sacred object in Japan. Researchers discovered the ...

The head and torso of the mummy, which likely belonged to a small monkey. A centuries-old mummified "mermaid" that scientists recently revealed to be a gruesome doll of animal parts is even weirder ...

The mummified "mermaid," worshipped for the last 40 years, was found to have been a man-made creation from the late 1800s. A creature resembling a mummified mermaid, which has been worshipped by ...

KURASHIKI, Okayama Prefecture—Researchers using high-tech equipment have reached a conclusion concerning a mysterious and creepy “mermaid mummy” long kept at a temple here: It is mostly fake. Their ...

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For those who saw the news that 'the mermaid mummy was a fake' and couldn't understand why people in the Edo period would make such a thing, or why a temple would cherish it to this day. This article ...

KURASHIKI, Okayama Prefecture—A “mermaid mummy” kept at a temple has been an object of worship, the stuff of nightmares and a source of mystery for hundreds of years. Now, for the first time, a ...

After eluding scientists for almost 300 years, the mystery of Japan’s mummified “mermaid” was solved — and it turns out it’s man-made. Researchers concluded that the creature, worshiped by locals and ...

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