14 DAY TRIAL // In 2012 and 2013, Discovery Channel’s Animal Planet aired two “documentaries” on how mermaids were real, prompting a huge wave of comments and conspiracy theories on how the governments of the world and particularly that in the US were trying to keep their existence a secret. Demi Lovato also believes they exist.
However, the mermaids she believes in have nothing in common with Ariel from Disney’s animated film because they’re aliens. So yes, Demi believes in mermaids and aliens, to the point where she’s convinced one is the other.
To promote her upcoming tour, Demi stopped by Seth Meyers to talk about her album and tour dates and to perform, but she also discussed about her belief that we’re not alone in the universe. You will find this segment of the interview embedded below.
“I know that [aliens are] real … How self-centered would we be as humans to believe that we are the only living things in the universe?” Demi tells Meyers, who admits he’s a cynic who’s “self-centered” enough to believe in neither mythological creature.
“I’m also a huge fan of conspiracy theories. Okay, I can explain. So you know Atlantis? There was that [underwater] city. I believe that there could possibly be mermaids, which is actually an alien species that lives in parts of the Indian Ocean that we have never explored before. And Christopher Columbus had actually seen three mermaids on the way to America. I just really think it’s possible,” Demi continues.
Meyers, staying true to the cynic in him, is laughing as she’s saying all these things, so Demi utters the one thing that could have possibly ruined her argument for the existence of extraterrestrial life: “There’s this, like, really extremely convincing documentary that came out. It was on, like, National Geographic — no, the Discovery Channel. And then the next day they had to say it was fake. I mean, they’re aliens. You can laugh all you want.”
Demi is referring to “Mermaids: The Body Found” (2012) and “Mermaids: The New Evidence” (2013), which got the entire world crazy with the inclusion of “found footage” and real experts who went on the record attesting the existence of mermaids.
Useless to say, both shows were ratings hits, but it was “The New Evidence” that actually set a new record for the network. What no one expected was Discovery to make a fauxmentary like TLC or some other network that creates fictionalized accounts of certain events that present themselves like documentaries but are actually fake.
So people assumed that, if these two aired on Discovery, they must be true. To their huge surprise, they weren’t.
Both shows included disclaimers that few viewers actually saw so, as the furor grew, Charlie Foley, “Mermaids” creator, writer, and executive producer and SVP of development for Animal Planet, was forced to issue an apology / explanation.
Mermaids might exist but they had no evidence of it, Foley said, adding that, in the creation of the faux documentary, they strove to deliver solid entertainment, not actual facts. Apparently, Demi didn’t get the memo on this, because she still believes she watched a documentary.
