Blog Post 2: Hoax Videos

On my previous blog, I talked about the "said" habits, look and sightings of mermaids. I also said on my first blog that mermaids are real, and they are just under the ocean hiding from us. Today, I find it wrong because of the fake videos about mermaids that I watched. The videos were entitled: "Mermaids: The Body Found" and its sequel, "Mermaids: The New Evidence" by the Animal Planet. When I didn't know that these videos are fake, I really believed that mermaids are real. Honestly the videos are really convincing.

MERMAIDS: THE BODY FOUND 


I found an article about the the video "Mermaid: The Body Found", in this article entitled, "One More Reason to Fear the Beach‘Mermaids: The Body Found,’ on Animal Planet" from the site nytimes.com, Neil Genzlinger says the content of the video. The film, created and written by Charlie Foley, begins with the real, actual fact that the Navy’s use of sonar systems is suspected by some scientists of contributing to whale beachings. And it takes note of an odd underwater sound known as the Bloop that was recorded in the Pacific Ocean in 1997.  There's also a particular scene, another evidence, there were two boys in Washington State caught something else on cellphone camera, at the side of the seashore, on top of a rock there's like a mammal resting on it. It has long tailed fish and its body looks like a humanoid body.  The video also shows the origin of the mermaids, The Aquatic Ape Theory, it says that some apes went to ocean to find food and they remain there forever until they evolved into a half human, half fish formation. There's also a scene which they found a mermaid-like inside the body of a shark, and then they reconstruct it.  But the public never got to meet this model mermaid because the whole project was confiscated.

When you watch the film, it will really convince you that mermaids actually exist because of the theories, sightings, evidences, stories that they showed in the film. Many people were fooled by this film. It is said that, this film gained a lot viewers on Youtube and it is the top 1 most searched on the internet. According to NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), there were no evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found. In short, it's fake.

For me, I think this film is just giving us some new ideas about mermaids, since people are actually curious about it. 

MERMAIDS: THE NEW EVIDENCE

     Well, it's the sequel of the "Mermaids: The body found". In the article entitled, "Are mermaids real?
A new Animal Planet special claims to have surprising evidence.", by Gerri Miller, from the site mnn.com, the article says the interview on Charley Foley, “Mermaids” creator, writer, and executive producer and senior vice president of development for Animal Planet. He gave some insights about the film. In the film, there were two "scientists" that were interviewed. They show different evidences, such as pictures, video footage of mermaids under the ocean to tell us that mermaids are real.  Real public figures appear in “Mermaids: The New Evidence” including actual government agents, who speak to the possibility that mermaids are real, and the mayor of a coastal town in Israel that has had so many mermaid sightings, there's actually a million-dollar bounty for video evidence of one.

     Again, there are so many people who really think that mermaids are real because of this film. The film is only 34 minutes and it's in a documentary format film, where several interviews to some professionals were done. Several interviews, just to persuade that mermaids are real. But the thing is, why in the end of the film, they said that it was fiction and not true at all? It's so ironic thing. You made a film to tell that mermaids are real, then in the credits part you will say that the content of the film is not real. How is that? Maybe, they made the film just for entertainment.

    "I hope and believe that the evidence we present, including historical documents, interviews with eyewitnesses and government spokespersons and new footage screened for the first time on television, will capture the imagination of viewers as much as the original film and the story of our scientists who came forward with their extraordinary findings. And I further hope people watch with a sense of wonder and with an abiding sense of possibility."  - Charley Foley

They successfully did captured the imagination of the viewers. As I'm saying a while ago, many people thought that the whole film is true. Most of them tweeted on Twitter that mermaids are true. But then, I think this is also a bad idea. Publishing fake documentary films, make people to believe unreal information. What happens when they believe to a wrong information? Of course when they believe, then they will absolutely tell to other people, then it will pass and pass and pass to different people, and now the wrong information are spread, and that's the bad thing.