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Weeki Wachee's mermaids
1947
Weeki Wachee, Florida
Leonard J. DeFrancisci · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A former Navy frogman taught women to breathe from hidden air hoses and perform in a spring, in an underwater theatre cut into the limestone. Elvis came to watch. It is now a state park and the mermaids are still on the payroll.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: documented spot
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