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3 Shellycoat

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The Mighty Boosh’s Old Gregg is basically a humanoid trickster that creeps around in northern British waters. It’s mostly just a jerk.

Some legends claim that the shellycoat is humanoid enough to portray itself as a drowning human until someone comes to save it. Then it laughs in the Good Samaritan’s face before it swims away.

Unlike most of these monsters, a shellycoat isn’t a violent or wild beast. As a monster, it’s more like an anthropomorphic imp whose skin is covered in shells.

These creatures definitely aren’t representations of a natural phenomenon. Shellycoats may have evolved as the bro version of mermaids for Scots who preferred a good laugh from their water nymphs rather than titillation.