Back In The Time,

where anything was possible,

there were regular sightings of Mermaids, or being PC correct, as we now know them Merpeople, and this inter active map from History Today, shows just a few of the sightings from 1610 to 1784, use the right arrows to read them in chronological order, I guess in a few hundred years time people will be looking at a map with sightings of Big Foot, and wonder why some believed in him.