never emerged from surf

Single-panel intelligence archive illustration showing three armed men with lanterns and clubs watching from Coney Island beach as a hairy human-proportioned figure with waist-length head hair and long yellow body hair stands knee-deep in the Atlantic surf preparing to submerge on a dark November 1885 night while additional watchers are visible in the distant background on the darkened off-season boardwalk

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New York Sightings

1885: Coney Island Merman Sighting

Published: August 28, 2016 | Updated: May 21, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1885: Coney Island Merman Sighting For approximately ten days in November and early December 1885, something was living on...

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1885: Coney Island Merman Sighting

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