Hairy giant Mantiw attack night shift workers at Mermaid Sighting Creek after seeing Ball of fire

From the oral account of Noel Villanueva, Ibajay, Minuro Akean, Philippines.

We have a construction project at the small island of Li Mura at Sibuyan Sea. We are building a mini- hydro-power dam on the creek. Villagers said the creek is a habitat of mermaids but we did not believe at them.

One rainy night our two generators went all dead and darkness enveloped the area. We went out of the bunk house and went to the generators. We started it and it run again. But after few minutes it all stop.

We wondered why it happened. The machines were all new. Then from the creek we saw a  dark shadow of a human sitting on a rock. We though he is our companion. We counted all the workers and all of us 9 persons were all around the area. We surmised that the shadow might be the mermaid they are telling us.

One of us, who never believed in superstitious thing, threw a rock on the stranger and  hitting it.We heard a loud splash on the water. Seconds later a ball of fire erupted from the water and floated in the air. We ran fast to our bunkhouse and closed the door out of fear.

Later we heard a growl of strange creature nearing us and then our bunk house was shaken and it trembled.

Then we saw a hairy hand the size of a banana trunk smashed the wooden window and  ripped all the walling of our bunk house. We all dropped to the ground as the big hand pushed all the cabinets to fall. Luckily nobody was not hit by the falling wooden cabinet.

Seconds later the hand was withdrawn and we heard the growl of the creature, walking away from our place.