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Werewolf · 67 episodes · YourChannel

I Raised a Giant Mermaid

Name: I Raised a Giant Mermaid
Genre: Dark Fantasy, Sea Creature, Hidden Child, Small-Town Secrets, Supernatural Bond

In the town of Stillheim a mother hides a sea-born child the townsfolk call a demon, raising her behind the rocks where the village cannot see in.

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The story

The short version. Werewolf, 67 episodes on YourChannel. A difficult birth in Stillheim leaves the midwife calling the newborn a sea demon sent from the sea, but the mother insists the baby is her daughter and hides her away.

Episode one centers on the birth. The assistant arrives as quickly as old legs allow and urges the mother to push; the baby comes wrong, and the helper declares that is no child — a curse, a sea demon sent by the sea to drown everyone in Stillheim — and says she will tell every soul in town. The mother answers that the newborn is her daughter.

Episode eight speaks to the hidden child directly. The mother keeps her close, says no one can see in from the village or the path, and frames their arrangement as a home and a secret with one condition: never go past those rocks. The child takes that as a promise.

Episode five, after a hard storm night, brings the neighbors. A casserole arrives with the rumor that Grace at the chapel claimed Eleanor bore a tailed monster and that the baby did not survive; another neighbor explains Gretel is old and frightened and turned a witnessed stillbirth in the thunderstorm into a fairy story. The roof leaks and the mother asks to be left alone to grieve.

Series facts checked against the YourChannel listing. Notes cover the opening episodes only; nothing here reveals the ending.

Who carries it

Eleanor and Grada carry the opening arc.

Eleanor

The mother who hides her sea-born daughter

Isolated by the town's fear and the chapel gossip, Eleanor insists the newborn is her daughter rather than the demon others name, and builds a private shoreline home where the child can grow unseen.

“She's my daughter. — episode 1”

Grada

The village midwife who reads the birth as a sign from the sea

The veteran helper attends the difficult birth and speaks the town's fear outright, calling the unusual newborn a sea demon and threatening to inform every resident of Stillheim.

Scenes worth the episode

The opening arc follows the stormy birth, the chapel rumor after the tempest, and the mother's private promise behind the rocks. Three-plus picks from episodes 1, 5 and 8 — no ending spoilers.

Episode 1

That is no child

During the hard birth the midwife names the newborn a sea demon and threatens to tell the whole town, while the mother holds to the claim that it is her daughter.

Episode 5

The chapel rumor

Neighbors relay gossip that the mother bore a tailed monster that did not survive; a kinder neighbor argues the tale grew from a frightened elder's thunderstorm memory.

Episode 8

Home behind the rocks

The mother promises the hidden child this can be home, on the condition that she never crosses the rocks separating them from the village.

Frames from episode one

Captured from the opening episodes — not promotional art.

Scene from episode 1 — Ep 1 · opening-arc scene

Scene from episode 5 — Ep 5 · opening-arc scene

Scene from episode 8 — Ep 8 · opening-arc scene

Our notes

Written from the opening arc. These are editorial impressions, not audience scores.

WebShorts notes · on episode 1

"The birth scene splits the room cleanly: the helper voices the town's supernatural fear while the mother's line, 'She's my daughter,' becomes the emotional backbone of the whole arc."

WebShorts notes · on episodes 5 and 8

"The rumor and the rock boundary turn a private secret into geography: the home cannot be seen from the village, and one forbidden line keeps the child concealed."

Best for viewers who like dark folk-fantasy with a protected supernatural child, coastal isolation and town superstition; if you want a cheerful fable, the opening episodes carry real grief, storm damage and fear. Compared with most creature shorts, this one centers a mother keeping a hidden child rather than a romance hunt — that focus is both its strength and its limit.

Before you press play

What is the episode count for I Raised a Giant Mermaid?

67 in the full run, confirmed on the official player.

What is the premise of I Raised a Giant Mermaid?

In Stillheim a mother protects a sea-born daughter the townsfolk call a demon, hiding the child behind the shoreline rocks and defying chapel gossip.

What rumor spreads after the storm?

Chapel gossip claims the mother bore a tailed monster that did not survive; a neighbor argues the story comes from an old, frightened witness misreading a storm-night stillbirth.

What condition does the mother set?

She makes their shoreline home a secret and asks the child never to pass beyond the rocks that separate them from the village.

Where does I Raised a Giant Mermaid stream?

On YourChannel, through its official player — the buttons on this page open that player directly.

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