WATCH: Real Mermaid? Found In London Beach General Santos

An alleged mermaid was spotted in London Beach Resort in General Santos City or Gensan by a Facebook user . The video is making rounds on Facebook now.

The video of this alleged mermaid sightings was uploaded on Facebook yesterday, April 28, 2015. As of writing this article, it already gained more than 14 thousand shares and almost half a million views.

In it, voices of kids can be overheard saying "dako nga isda" which means a big fish.

In the comment section of this thread however, the uploader, Jovelyn Balinas insisted that it was not a fish.

Watch the video below

#omg isang serina sa lond0n beach.tgnan ninyo.
Posted by Jovelyn Balinas on Monday, 27 April 2015

According to Wikipedia, A mermaid is a legendary aquatic creature with the upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish.Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide, including the Near East, Europe, Africa and Asia. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria, in which the goddess Atargatis transformed herself into a mermaid out of shame for accidentally killing her human lover. Mermaids are sometimes associated with perilous events such as floods, storms, shipwrecks and drownings. In other folk traditions (or sometimes within the same tradition), they can be benevolent or beneficent, bestowing boons or falling in love with humans.

Mermaids are associated with the mythological Greek sirens as well as with sirenia, a biological order comprising dugongs and manatees. Some of the historical sightings by sailors may have been misunderstood encounters with these aquatic mammals.Christopher Columbus reported seeing mermaids while exploring the Caribbean, and supposed sightings have been reported in the 20th and 21st centuries in Canada, Israel, and Zimbabwe.