After reading a news article about a mermaid being sighted on the beach near his home, John started visiting the beach quite often, including in severe weather conditions, to be the first man to see a live mermaid.

There are numerous debates on the possibility of mermaids being real, and still existing, taking rounds all over the world: some ridicule their existence as they do with the UFOs but some are very seriously trying to gather scientific evidence to support their belief that mermaids are real.

Stories and films with mermaids as lead characters do very well at the box-office, and there have been a number of such stories and films showing mermaids accidentally coming on to the land as beautiful women, with normal legs and then going back to the sea when threatened by humans!