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 gravel driveway, leading to a 20,000 gallon water tank that ...

Children who wear mermaid tails and single-fin pool toys are at greater risk of drowning, a new study has found. The popular aquatic products binds a child's legs together and acts as a flipper so ...

Back in the day, I mostly associated swimming pools with playing Marco Polo, doing handstands, and, most importantly, pretending to be a mermaid. Nowadays, I mostly associate them with lap swim, which ...

For those who think mermaids are lost to centuries-old sailors' tales, think again. Thanks to Eric Ducharme, mermaids are no longer a myth, and anyone can get their one-of-a-kind tail. Ducharme’s love ...

Disney’s live action remake of “The Little Mermaid” may have relied heavily on CGI and other technology to turn people into merfolk, but there is a rapidly growing industry to make people’s mermaid ...

Special effects company designs working mermaid tail for double-amputee. March 12, 2009— -- When a 4-year-old boy approached her at the beach to ask why she had no legs, Nadya Vessey, a ...

A recent summer day found Nicole Oliva sitting at the edge of her swimming pool in Holbrook, not dangling her feet over the water’s edge but wriggling, twisting and willing her legs — slathered in ...

Mermaid tails should not be called children's toys, but "an accessory, such as a pair of flippers, a snorkel or a mask." That's according to Vancouver's Lori Papajohn, one of several people who ...

A woman swimming in a mermaid costume had a narrow escape from drowning after her tail became stuck at the bottom of a massive aquarium tank in a shopping mall, with the terrifying moment captured on ...