The Mermaid Skin Cancer Cure In 1906 a Mrs. Merritt, suffering from breast cancer, heard the siren song of healing in a piece of mermaid skin.
A peculiar incident involving an undertaker, Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley, and a locked room mystery.
It was just a long, low human wail that seemed to contain the bitterest sorrow. A banshee in Indiana.