People are convinced mermaids are real after mystery corpse washed up on beach
Shocking mermaid-like remains have left locals stumped after washing up on an Aussie beach.
Bobbi-Lee Oates thought she might have found a dead body - or even a new species - when she spotted the creature in Keppel Sands, Queensland.
She said: "We were driving along the beach looking for a campsite, and we couldn't help but notice how much the skull looked to be in the shape of a human's.
"So we instantly stopped from the confusion as to what the hell could this be, and why does this look like a human skull?"
Photos taken by Bobbi-Lee reveal a long body with its ribcage showing, but no discernible limbs, eyes, or ears.
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The 34-year-old estimated it was over six feet long.
She said: "It had a human-shaped skull with an elongated jawline, and hair similar to the colour of a cow or kangaroo, but with hair missing in many places due to decomposition.
"It was exactly like a mermaid shape, but hairy, because it seemed to have a tail or limb of some sort."
People say the remains look like a mermaid (Credit: Bobbi-Lee Oates/Pen News)She added: "We were shocked because it looked human to start with.
"Then we were excited because I thought we had discovered a miracle new species - we were overwhelmed and surprised."
Posting her photos on a Facebook group specialising in marine biology, the Rockhampton local found everybody just as bemused as she was.
"You just caught a mermaid," said one person. "That's a mermaid," another agreed.
Others were disturbed by just how human the remains looked.
One comment suggested: "Contact local police man, that looks human." "That's human mate," another person affirmed.
Some suggested that it was a decomposing dugong, but then others shut them down. One man replied: "That is not a dugong. That is a one-legged kangaroo carcass."
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A UK-based expert examined the photos, and was able to narrow it down to a group of mammals that includes whales, orcas, dolphins and porpoises.
Rob Deaville, Project Manager for the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme at the Zoological Society of London, said: "Definitely looks like a small cetacean to me.
"I'm not familiar with the area nor which species are normally found there, so can't really take it any further than that."
For Bobbi-Lee, it remains a mystery.
She said: "I still have not found out what it was.
"I was hoping someone would comment saying what it was, but the comments were all so different.
"And I wasn't really sold on any of them - especially considering some they said are not even in our waters."
She added: "I have never seen anything in my life like this.
"It just didn't look like anything realistic to me."
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