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| Español: | Gabón: El engaño de la sirena de Libreville (vía San Petersburgo, Florida)... |
Association des gabonais d'Amiens dispels a mermaid hoax [Fr]. Photographs of a mermaid supposedly discovered dead on a beach in Libreville were actually downloaded from an eBay auction for a mermaid sighting in St. Petersburg, Florida. The St. Petersburg photographs sold for US$1500 to a French natural history museum.
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Wow. In today’s world of photoshop and similar devices, you wouldn’t think it would be such an easy sell…