The Evil Mermaids of Africa.
Mermaids. .. .
In Africa???????
Now That's Peculiar.
Lets Discuss on today's Peculiar Occurrences
Do you believe in Mermaids? Here in the western world and to many people it may seem a little silly to believe in mermaids. Yet in some parts of the world not only are they believed in they are thought to terrorize hole villages.
History has shown all types of different sorts of Merfolk. There are the beautiful maidens of legend with their flowing hair and fishtails, the more ape-like fish beasts of other traditions, Ones with monstrous faces an whom are more fish . seductive sirens, to benevolent protectors of the sea, to shy and reclusive things only rarely seen, to vicious, savage monsters that can only be described as sinister and evil. Of the many places from which merbeings are reported, one place you wouldn't normally think of when thinking of Merfolk is the continent of Africa. Here on the Dark Continent, “mermaids” are considered to be far from mere legend, and are known to Terrorize the people.
Many regions of Africa have a rich tradition of mermaids, particularly in the southern portion of the continent. In the country of Zimbabwe mermaids have long featured prominently in various myths and legends, where they are often called the Mondao and are portrayed as malicious creatures that enjoy pulling bathers or swimmers under the waves to their death. Although many see such tales as just spooky lore, there are apparently quite a few Zimbabweans who believe that they actually exist, and incidents or sightings involving mermaids often crop up there.
In 2012, work being carried out at the Gokwe dam in Midlands and the Osborne dam, was suspended because workers refused to go to work because they claimed to have been terrorized by the mermaids lurking there, which were said to look like pale-skinned humans with black hair and fish tails. The workers were originally supposed to do repairs and install water pumps there, but became frightened when some people in the area mysteriously vanished and others reported being attacked or chased by these merbeings. Things with the stalled project got so bad that the Zimbabwe Water Resources Minister, appeared before a parliamentary committee to explain the situation. He said that white workers had been brought in because they were not as steeped in such lore, but even they claimed to have spotted the creatures and also refused to go back to work. The Rural and Urban Development Minister also made arrangements to have tribal chiefs of the area perform rites and rituals to appease the creatures, if only to put the workers’ minds at ease.
According to the tribal leaders who were consulted, many lakes and reservoirs of the region are inhabited by mermaids, and dams seem to be a favorite place for them to congregate, When faced with the question of whether they thought these creatures really exist, they were unanimous and adamant in their assertion that they do exist. When asked if the mermaids of Zimbabwe’s lakes were real, one chief said “As a custodian of the traditional I have no doubt. For anyone to dispute this is also disputing him or herself.”
Not that long ago in Zimbabwe three boys were herding cattle near a dam when they saw what they thought was a huge fish. So 2 of the boys jumped into the dam hopping to catch it with their bare hands. But this wasn’t a big fish it was a mermaid or a water spirit according to the other boy. He claimed to have seen a mermaid come out of the water, grab the boys, pull them underwater then it bring them back to the bank of the river. And this boy who was watching all this was really scared by what he had just seen so he ran to go get help.
And when the parents got there the 2 boys where still alive but very badly injured. Then the mermaid returned, grabbed the boys again and pulled them back under the water until they drowned. This time when the mermaid returned the the parents and many other adult witnesses claimed to have seen it. Which is very interesting. And there is also another report that happened shortly before this when 2 young boys told their parents that they had seen a women who had the body of a fish in the water close to this same dam. And the next day one of the boys went back to this location and he was later found dead.
Then a 45-year-old teacher named Rose was walking home from work when she decided to take a shortcut. And most people within that area don’t like to take this shortcut because it involves crossing the river. But this women decided to risk it as she wanted to get home fast. And as she was crossing the water she was attacked by a mermaid and a merman but luckily she was able to escape and she survived. But on her way home blood started oozing out her mouth and her leg and arm was badly injured. And later on she told the authorities and the press about her encounter and she also stated they were extremely beautiful.
And then a couple of days after this there was also another identical attack that happened to a 32-year-old. And even most of the police believe that these mermaids and mermen are real and they are scared to investigate these cases as they believe that if they get to close to the water they to will end up getting attacked.
Another African nation in the same general region which has long experienced mermaid phenomena is South Africa. Such tales and lore go back for centuries here, and ancient rock paintings of humanoids with fish tails have been found in one of the most arid areas of the country, in a vast barren, semi-desert wasteland known as the Karoo. Just why this desert dwelling people would have mermaids as part of their lore remains a mystery, but the region did once lie underwater, and there have been sightings of such creatures reported from the greener and more fertile village of Klein Karoo to the south, where mountain spring water creates pools and even water filled caverns where the creatures are said to live. These mountain dwelling mermaids are in no way friendly, and have long been said to lure travelers to the water in order to drown them. These creatures are typically not seen as flesh and blood creatures, but rather as powerful spirits or demons, and are greatly revered and feared by tribes of the area.
In some areas of South Africa mermaids are often described as a race of malevolent creatures that drown their victims and are typically described as looking like half-fish women with black hair and glowing red eyes. One sighting report comes from 2008, at the quaint and isolated rural village of Suurbraak. Local witness Daniel Cupido claimed that he had been hanging out with some friends along the banks of the Buffeljags River on the evening of January 5 when they suddenly heard a curious sound coming from a nearby low water bridge that sounded like someone “bashing on a wall.” When they went to investigate, it is claimed that in the murky darkness under the bridge they could make out what looked like a white woman with long black hair. The woman seemed to be in trouble, as she was thrashing about in the water, and Cupido allegedly waded into the water to try and help her out, but moments later came running back in a state of panic.
When his friends asked him what had happened he told them that the woman’s eyes had a red, flickering glow to them, and that her gaze had been “hypnotic.” One of the friends, a Martin Olckers, went over to see the thing for himself, and claims that what he saw profoundly scared him. There swimming through the water around the bridge he could see the same woman who his friend had described, complete with the red shine in her eyes. He said that the figure was definitely female and that the whole time he watched her she made a sound reminiscent of crying, which he described as “the strangest sound.” The mermaid was also said to have an ethereal silver-white sheen around it. Although they say none of those present had ever believed in the stories of the Merfolk before, this bizarre encounter apparently convinced them that the creatures were real. None of them were found to have been drinking alcohol, and all of them seemed genuinely unsettled by the experience.
Other reports from South Africa showcase the creature’s more sinister tendencies. On December 31, 2015, a 12-year-old boy , reportedly went to the bank of the Sabie River to meet his friends for a swim and never returned. When authorities were brought in and the area searched, no sign of the boy was turned up despite an intensive investigation by diving teams. Although police blamed strong currents in the river at the time or a crocodile attack for his disappearance, the boy’s family explained to them that the boy had been kidnapped by mermaid, an assertion backed up by another eyewitness who claimed that he had seen the boy pulled into the water by the pale-skinned creature. The witness claimed that he had then gone to try to help the boy but that he had completely disappeared into the muddy, murky water, pulled in by something that very well could have been waiting to lash out at him as well.
Another evil mermaid is said to lurk about Marikana dam, and has been blamed for at least one death there. it is described as being half-human and half-fish, with the upper body resembling a woman. The strange merbeing has supposedly been seen prowling about the waters of the dam on numerous occasions, as well as being spotted several times basking on the banks of the lake, and is believed by the locals to not only cause drownings, but also to induce bad dreams in the villagers.
In one recent account, a 15-year-old was out by the dam with some friends in April of 2016 when they saw what they thought to be a woman swimming in the water, who beckoned them closer. As they approached, they allegedly noticed that this was no ordinary woman, and that from the waist down she had the body and tail of a fish. The frightened kids then tried to run away, and that was when the creature supposedly lurched up from the water to grab the 1 ear old boy and pull him under the surface as he screamed for help. When other alarmed villagers arrived to help out, the boy’s lifeless body was found lying a few meters from the dam, but there was no sign of the mermaid the other boys claimed to have seen. this is apparently not the only death that the mermaid has been responsible for, and a village resident named Elsie Nhlapo was quoted as saying in the wake of the attack on Shongwe:
We told the police about the mermaid but they are afraid to go there to investigate. Three people that I am aware of, two kids and an adult were killed at the dam but police have refused to go near the dam.
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Ok we are about to get really Peculiar now folks
One of the weirder accounts of a mermaid in South Africa is the totally Peculiar tale of a mermaid that was supposedly seen flying through the sky in November of 2014 in the city of Tshwane. The mermaid was allegedly sighted flying over the a Shopping Complex parking lot from the direction of a local Casino and was seen by several witnesses. The mermaid is said to be a long-time nuisance of the area, occasionally taking the form of a woman to go to the casino and complain about the noise before slinking back off to the water, but this seems to be the first time it was seen to fly. One witness said of the situation:
I heard people gasp and scream. There was a mermaid in the air. It came from the direction of the Casino. When I was a child, we were told a mermaid lived in a nearby river. I thought it was just a fairytale to scare us away from the river but I was proved wrong.
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Another Peculiar account comes from the country of Tanzania, where on May 21, 1996 a government owned ferry called the MV Bukoba capsized off the coast of Mwanza. The disaster was already notable for the fact that not only did approximately 1,000 people lose their lives, but also among the dead was at the time the second in command of al-Qaeda and the top guy in their African base of operations. Two men from the terrorist organization were even allegedly sent in to investigate the incident in order to see whether or not he had been assassinated. In addition to this was a peculiar story told by rescue divers sifting through the wreckage in the aftermath of the disaster. Some of the divers reportedly came to the surface scared out of their wits, claiming that a mermaid was patrolling the wreck and speaking to them, telling them to stop looking for dead bodies and threatening violence if they did not listen. The mermaid was also accused of actively chasing divers away.
These story's of Mermaids in Africa just go on and on and on. Why have legions of Evil merfolk spread so wide in africa? Are they just tails to scare children away from the rivers? It would seem witnesses and locals would argue no they are very real.
So What do you think about this Peculiar Occurrence? Could these African MEr folk be real or just urban legend let me know what you think in the comments below!!!!!
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