How Mermaids Are Real

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There also has been a video that came out about how mermaids are real, there is a step by step on the aquatic ape theory and how it fits into the mermaids expanding onto different territory and becoming the way they are now. Animal planet is the channel that aired this video, according to the article, “4 Signs That Educational TV is Totally Dead” Bell said, “Unfortunately, 79 percent of viewers assumed this was a real documentary. But the worst part is that the idea of faking educational documentaries isn't anything new. It happened just last year when Animal Planet ran another fake show about the existence of mermaids”. It’s channels like Animal Planet, where one thinks that what is being aired is true due to the fact that this type of channel …show more content…
It catches their attention and makes them question what it may be, on a different day soon after there was a boy and his brother who seem to find a mermaid washed up on the beach but the coast guard took over. They used a submarine and tried to trace where the recordings once came from, they were filming as they were searching underwater, that’s when it happened all of a sudden a mermaid hits the front of the submarine and swims off. They were all shocked like how could it be that a mermaid appeared. The government told them not to say a word about what happened that day down in the sea. Later after the scientists decided to let the world know what they experienced and saw and how it had been hidden from us for years. According to the website Snopes, “There was a disclaimer that the program is science fiction, but you have to look for it in the show’s closing credits”. Most people don’t pay much attention to the credits and sometimes they run by fast that people did not realize that what they had just watched was

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