On May 27th, 2012 Animal Planet released a documentary called "Mermaids: The Body Found" a documentary dedicated towards exposing the United States government covering up Mermaid civilizations.
Unbeknownst to the world the documentary was actually fake. However, today there is a subculture of people who swear to the documentaries authenticity, and cite the Aquatic Ape theory as evidence.
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