“The head was covered with hair of the colour above mentioned [light brown], and shaded on the crown, the forehead round, the face plump, the cheeks ruddy, the eyes blue, the mouth and lips of a natural form resembling those of a man, the teeth I could not discover as the mouth was shut; the breasts and abdomen, the arms and fingers of the size of a full grown body of the human species; the fingers, from the action in which the hands were employed, did not appear to be webbed

Aquatic Ape Theory. In this theory, it’s believed that early hominids lived in the water at least half of the time..

mermaid sightings have been most common among fishermen in northern locales, and these men live close to thousands of seals.