Gabon: Libreville mermaid hoax (via St. Petersburg, Florida) · Global Voices
Jennifer Brea

Association des gabonais d'Amiens dispels a mermaid hoax [Fr].   Photographs of a mermaid supposedly discovered dead on a beach in Libreville were actually downloaded from an eBay auction for a mermaid sighting in St. Petersburg, Florida.  The St. Petersburg photographs sold for US$1500 to a French natural history museum.