When Fiction Fooled the World: Animal Planet’s Mermaid Documentaries
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When Fiction Fooled the World: Animal Planet’s Mermaid Documentaries
In 2012 and 2013, Animal Planet aired Mermaids: The Body Found and Mermaids: The New Evidence, presenting fabricated "evidence" of mermaid existence. These mockumentaries, styled as authentic investigations, misled many viewers into believing mermaids were real. The widespread belief prompted the U.S. government to issue a rare official ...
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Mermaids: The Body Found was a mockumentary that unfortunately aired on Animal Planet and Discovery Channel, despite it being a fake, dramatized fictional production, with a documentary style structure that fooled many people.
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