The Mysterious Mermaids
Story Quest – Stories for Kids
Fun Kids
4.2 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In this week's classic, we join 'The Mysterious Mermaids'. They're fantastical beings living in a quiet cove face trouble when a big factory disrupts their peaceful home. The mermaids try to use their magical conch to fix things but realize they need a human to help. So, the littlest mermaid, now called Isabella, transforms into a human child and gets a job at the factory.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to StoryQuest. Today's Storymaster is... |
| 0:07.0 | Sophie. |
| 0:07.9 | And the story title they came up with... |
| 0:10.5 | The Mysterious Man, May. |
| 0:12.6 | There's a lobster in the water tank. |
| 0:15.6 | Well, what's he doing there? Looks like the backstroke. |
| 0:19.3 | That's not a bad joke, but it's something that really happens in this story, as we'll find out in a bit. |
| 0:25.3 | It all starts over a thousand years ago in a quiet cove on the Cornish coast. |
| 0:32.2 | You would find it hard to spot them, but there are mermaids in this quiet cove who lived happily in the green blue waters. |
| 0:39.7 | The peace and quiet wasn't going to last, however. |
| 0:43.0 | One day they could hear a great commotion, |
| 0:45.1 | bang and clang, and the sound of lots of men shouting and calling to one another. |
| 0:50.2 | Cautiously, they approached the shore, the better to see what was going on. |
| 0:55.1 | It looks like they're building something, said one. |
| 0:58.3 | Oh, it looks bad news to me, said another. |
| 1:00.7 | Humans have to build things. |
| 1:02.4 | They need somewhere to live. |
| 1:03.5 | It's just what they do, shrugged a third and slipped off to play with the crowds. |
| 1:08.4 | But the building that was appearing was bigger than any house. It loomed |
| 1:12.7 | larger and larger on the side of the coast. It was an enormous factory and things were about |
| 1:19.4 | to get even worse. First, there was the noise. The machinery in the factories churned and groaned |
| 1:26.3 | and hissed and spluttered every day and right through the night. |
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