Giant eel that devoured a mermaid was caught by cave explorers trapping at the underwater cave of Lake Lambunao in Panay Island.
From the oral account of Julious Pedroso of Cabatuan, Iloilo.
I'm one of the locals who was hired by foreign cave explorers to act as porter and helper in their expedition.
Their objective was to record the existence of a giant eel species known as Anguilla Panayensis where its last sighting was recorded when the island was still an American colony. They told me that the creature was a rare specie and can only be found in the island of Panay.
It was night when the trap was set underwater. It was made of 10-meter elongated steel cages with wire mesh. It was baited with decaying meat of cattle.
The eel entered the cage and was trapped inside. Then the trapper threw inside the cage cubes of poison to paralyzed the giant fish. Then the cage was raised and to our surprise it was a giant eel indeed.
It is as big as a gasoline drum and its body could almost fill the entire length of the cage.
But the poison made the fish to vomit all its ingested matters and to our surprise - it vomited a dead mermaid.
It is as big as an infant. It has a rough black skin like that of a stingray. Its face has no semblance of human but of manatees or dugong with two hand-like fins on its body. Its tail is unmistakably that of a mermaid we saw in the movies.
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