The Cemetery of Clocks (Part One)

Sitting around a bonfire, on a dark night where the light of fire reflects the faces of those who meet, a centenary old man with a signature voice, despite his years, tells a story to those present.

They are all hacienda workers from the surrounding area, of different ages but something in common, their passion for what they do.

A few meters ghostly figures cast dark shadows in the light of the stars, are houses abandoned from what was once a village.

The man's story has caught everyone's attention and they listen attentively:

"-The Yagual more than a village was a hamlet lost in the immensity of the plains in the lands of Alexis Moreno, a landowner whose properties were lost sight of and had belonged to his family for centuries.

The majority of the inhabitants had some employment in the man's hacienda, while the rest had already done so and survived as merchants or by attending to small lots of land bought or given in payment, which were farms that hardly produced for the subsistence of their owners.

Since the place was not on the way to some important town or city, there were no visitors and there were few who for some reason had done it, but that year things would change.

The strong winters caused on several occasions the displacement of the village dozens of meters from the banks of the river because the flooding had caused flooding and damage that left marks on the inhabitants, which is why they were safe from the devastation that occurred in that rainy season.

And everything would have been forgotten as on other occasions but a journalist from the capital in his eagerness to be taken into account by his bosses moved to the vicinity and recorded something that impacted the viewers.

Not only the force of the waters that swallowed the earth but also the appearance of strange objects in a terrain far away from it, one kilometer from the village, caused deep strangeness..

Caryatids that emerged coming from other centuries, oxidized clepsidras, astrolabes that evoked the audacity of old sailors that faced the sea, millenary hourglasses.

Images in daguerreotype of strange people for the settlers of the site and a number of clocks of all kinds and years.

The newspaper in letters of title published "Cemetery of clocks was discovered in El Yagual" and in the article explained the details of the finding and accompanied it with photographs of the objects." The newspaper in letters of title published "Cemetery of clocks was discovered in El Yagual" and in the article explained the details of the finding and accompanied it with photographs of the objects.

A sigh and a few murmurs of strangeness broke the story, but then everyone kept quiet and the old man continued..

-“The worst was about to happen, as the ownership of what was found and the interest of a group of scientists in digging deeper into the terrain stumbled upon the power of Alexis who by law owned everything since those lands belonged to him..