Dawn dawned and very few of the guests went home, because they preferred to wait in the daylight, for fear of finding one of the crocodiles or the fatal horseman, the boardwalk was now crowded with onlookers, and some local news reporters who They had found out what happened, due to confusing reports from both police corporations., and the arrival of some wounded to the hospitals, who had been injured during the figth and one or another who presented injuries from animal attacks, which although serious were not reported, nor Some of them reported having seen someone being eaten, the possibility of missing was not ruled out, ruling out the possibility that it had all been a collective hallucination due to the use of drugs and narcotics.
- Something very strange happened last night, Saturday, March 6, in the Veracruz-Boca del Río metropolitan area! When hundreds of crocodiles stormed the streets during a blackout, blackouts are very common at this time of year in the port of Veracruz, but this blackout was different, because witnesses claim that besides to turning off the lights of the cars, the engines and Even the boats that can be seen commonly on the coast ran out of lights, our reporters' cameras did not work, nor did the digital clocks, experts relate them to some type of electromagnetic pulse, caused by some atomic explosion or experiment by the Russians in some part of the world, but different reports assure.
-That so far no one has detonated something like this, at least in the area near the port, the news that we have for you this morning on your Veracruz television newscast is that the countess of Malibrán has returned, the old popular legend that speaks of a woman who murdered young sailors in her luxurious mansion, back in the early part of the last century, It has once again frightened the inhabitants of this city, but judge yourself, here are some images which were taken with an instant camera by our social reporter in Veracruz; Leticia Correa, who was in that area covering the news for our shows section of a disco music show, that had managed to gather thousands of young people, who tried to film evidence with her video camera, that did not work at the time either.
Says the host of the newscast Televisa Veracruz, which was broadcast on XEW, in its Sunday morning edition, and they began to show a series of photographs on the screen, where dozens of crocodiles could be seen surrounding an elegant stagecoach carriage, but because of the angle of the shot, locked in her car, the reporter could not take the woman when she got out of the carriage, but a scene from the Román mansion
Where many people were vaguely appreciated on her terrace.
-We have saved one last photo to warn you that if there are children watching television, please take your precautions because the image could be traumatizing, we will show them as soon as the commercial messages from our kind sponsors finish.
Says the host of the newscast while in the Roman mansion; Adelina watched him attentively, along with some of her friends and interns in the living room of the house, until the commercials ended and the transmission continued.
-Our photo experts affirm that this, and the others we have shown them, are authentic and there is no way that special effects were used to take it, but you have the best opinion.
Says the driver and the photograph of the fatal horseman with sword in hand appeared on the screen, as he ran past the reporter looking at her, his eyes shone sinisterly from the flash light of the instant camera or from his own glare, it was never really known.
But that brightness gave the photograph that diabolical touch, putting it immediately in classification "C", the news program ended its transmission with the XEW logo, and Adelina organized with the neighbors to take in the Volkswagen Combi from the pension, of red color.
With which it transported its tenants, along with other vehicles from the neighbors and the Volkswagen Caribe (Rabbit) of Romaia, all its inmates, some of the boys and girls, and even the Circus Electronic disc jockeys, who had participated in the party, to the main church of the port, where hundreds of people were already waiting for them who had learned through the news, or by voice-to-voice effect, of what happened during the macabre gig by the Countess of Malibrán, as already mentioned. He had begun to name the event, with some difficulties due to the large number of people and with the help of the local police, the tenants and guests of the Roman mansion were able to attend Sunday mass, returning to the boarding house shortly after noon with the parish priest of the church, and other parish priests who personally offered to bless the house, and to protect it so that no curse could pass through its doors.
The house phone rang constantly throughout the day, and Adelina ordered the maids to only follow up on calls from the parents of the pensioners, which she answered herself, explaining the situation, ensuring that all the girls were fine, and that the situation was controlled, without denying or accepting the fact that something supernatural had happened, managing to reassure the parents when they spoke with their daughters.
The news was that of the moment in Veracruz, on that morning of Sunday, March 7, 1982, the images of the photographs that had already been broadcast on all the country's newscasts, being the main news of the day, which transcended to the national newscasts of the night, not only from the XEW, but from the rest of the country, to that of the Telemundo network that broadcast from beyond its borders, with the photograph of the count of Malibrán with bright eyes, the one that caused the most expectation.
- Isn't that where the girl you sent our photograph to lives, brother?
Timothy Verch says to Nathan, the second in the photo of the 4 brothers.
-Yes, I think so, I hope that the one who wrote me the letter lives very far from there. Nathan answers.
Also from the fraternity where René Villalobos Román lived, the son of Doña Adelina Román Widow of Villalobos, the Román mansion received a long distance call, and after a few minutes of talking to him in broad strokes about what had happened, he managed to convince him that he was not advance his trip, to the boy who already had it scheduled for the April holidays, promising that as soon as something arose that he could not control he would call him; René was a cheerful boy, 179 centimeters tall, slim, dark skinned with Chinese hair, with thick lips and big green eyes, extremely outgoing and friendly, one of those people that everyone liked, and he had gone to study in Houston Texas the career of civil engineering, practically forced by his mother, since he was very fond of the Salty Dog discotheque.
And the other seedy dens in the area, and that was the best way to get away from the bad neighborhood influences.