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''Mermaids: The Body Found'' was a 2012 [[Found Footage Films|Found Footage]] [[Mockumentary]] by Animal Planet about a [[Government Conspiracy]] to not only hide their research into an underwater sonic weapon, but to cover up the discovery of real mermaids.

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* [[Cat Scare]]:  {{spoiler|The cell phone video near the end features the seemingly-dead mermaid sitting up and screeching at one of the kids checking its "corpse".}}
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* [[Our Mermaids Are Different]]: The show carefully makes the evolution of hominids into aquatic creatures a plausible concept, using biological possibilities to pose an evolutionary "what if?" scenario.
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* [[Stealth Mentor]]: Even more subtlely than ''[[Lost Tapes]]''. For examples, the documentary notes that Navy sonar tests have been directly implicated in whale beachings, and "The Bloop" is a real phenomenon, though no one knows what it is.

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