Bonus Episode- Selkies, Spectacles, and Satire
Our Fake History
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🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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In this Bonus Episode Sebastian takes questions about his recent exploration of mermaid mythology. He gets into the difference between Selkies and Mermaids, and wades into the murky waters of Scottish oral tradition. There is also some discussion of the 2012 hoax documentary Mermaids: The Body Found. Tune in and find out how aquatic apes, near sighted sailors, and good looking seals all play a role in the story.
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| 1:02.5 | Scottish Selkees, speculative documentaries, and sailors in need of spectacles. All that and more on today's bonus episode of Our Fake History. |
| 1:08.8 | Hit the bonus theme! |
| 1:35.7 | Music of our fake history. Hit the bonus theme. Hello and welcome to this bonus episode of Our Fake History. |
| 1:45.0 | My name is Sebastian Major, and normally this is the podcast where we look at historical myths and try to determine what's fact, what's fiction, and what is such a good story that it simply must be told. |
| 1:49.0 | But on these bonus episodes, I like to respond to questions that have come in from the Patreon |
| 1:56.7 | community and really anyone else who has sent me an email. |
| 2:02.8 | I've just started putting out these bonus episodes in between larger series to get you some more Our Fake History goodness and to |
| 2:09.7 | connect more with the listeners. I love hearing from you folks. Recently on episode number 229 of this podcast, Real Mermaids, we looked at Mermaid |
| 2:21.4 | mythology. I was particularly interested in that moment in the 17th and the 18th centuries |
| 2:27.8 | when the European scientific community took the question of mermaid's existence quite seriously. |
| 2:36.3 | But many of you listening were particularly interested in the story that I opened that episode with. |
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