The video has been viewed more than 84,000 times since it was published on September 20, 2022, on a TikTok account named “The AfroFuturist”.
“South Africa Mermaid mystery of the Mother Land Part 1,” the caption reads.
The account posted two other videos sharing the same content, but without providing any further context or background.
The video features an extract from the Expresso Morning show produced by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).
“These findings will truly blow your mind,” says the presenter as he introduces an Animal Planet documentary titled “Mermaids: The New Evidence.”
The excerpt contains various clips purporting to show actual mermaids. According to a narrator, this was “footage shot in 2013 … of the first sighting of what looks like an aquatic humanoid”.
The SABC presenter later tells viewers that archaeologists in South Africa excavated fossils that “quite literally defy scientific reason” and appear “to be the first concrete evidence of the existence of aquatic humanoids”.
“That is as real as it gets....
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