Saturday Adventures! Fishing For Mermaids

Fishing for Mermaids

Summer had finally arrived, and Indy Anna Bones was going to Brooklyn for the largest cryptozoological festival in the nation!

The Coney island Mermaid Parade is the annual celebration of summer at the iconic New York City beach.

Like all girls, Indy Anna had a childhood interest in mermaids.

Her attention had been drawn to the Fiji variety.

The “Feejee Mermaid” was the first hoax by PT Barnum in 1842, who sewed together the torso of a monkey with the tail of a fish.

At Coney Island, every girl is a mermaid…

...or even an angler fish.

Not only mermaids are welcome to march.

Some costumes are more sensible to others.

The legend of the mermaid may have originated with manatees, or some kind of marine mammal.

Indy Anna Bones once had the pleasure of meeting Snooty, the world’s oldest manatee, who hailed from Manatee County, Florida.

Sadly, a tragic accident took Snooty’s life in 2017 at the age of 69.

Marine Mammals are amply represented at Coney Island.

Everyone approaches the subject with a sense of humor.

A fun beach day is never far from anyone’s mind.

The definition of a mermaid has grown loose in recent generations.

Jake the Alligator Man has traded a fish tail for an alligator body.

The Wallingford Beast that haunts Archie McPhee in Seattle is something else entirely.

Until more evidence came along, Indy Anna believed Barnum was right about mermaid.

Regardless of anything, Indy Anna was not expecting the discovery of a submerged kingdom any time soon.

Unless it’s the kingdom of Cthulhu.

The Mermaid Parade was fun, but there were many more mysterious metters to investigate, so Indy Anna Bones was back on the road!

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