Swishing tails, glistening waters, connecting with nature and spending quality time with friends – this is what being a mermaid is all about. Adults from around the world are getting in touch with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a shady street in the heart of Lincolnton sits a century-old brick warehouse with a small porch, a garage door left ajar and a ...

When The Little Mermaid first hit theaters in 1989, aspiring mermaids and mermen who wanted to live an Ariel-influenced lifestyle had to make do with homemade tails and make-believe. Now there are ...

Mermaiding, the artistic swimming activity in which people wear mermaid fins and tails, is growing in popularity around the world. The activity has led to the formation of mermaid swim schools, groups ...

Mermaid Elle — a.k.a. Elle Jimenez — opens up to PEOPLE about what it really takes to be a real-life mermaid Jimenez says that working as a mermaid for 10 years has been physically draining on her ...

At Florida's Weeki Wachee Springs State Park our writer signs up for mermaid camp to see what it takes to become a real ...

All in all, it was a great summer for New Jersey mermaids. The state's small cadre of professional mermaids had more people seek out their services — while some fans bought a tail themselves. Local ...

An estimated 1,000 people in the United States are “professional mermaids” — that is, they don fishtails and fins and get paid to swim in tanks, pools and open water. These mermaids swim even in ...

Merfolk, as they call themselves, have found few welcoming waters with many forced to seek out privately owned pools or head straight to the ocean. Nicola Robey – known as Mermaid Naqulaan – has ...

Haley the mermaid performs at Pirate’s Table Calabash Seafood Buffet. In addition to working as a professional performer at the restaurant and children’s events, she makes tails and other mermaid ...