This partially-hidden building on MoD land was, apparently, once the analytical hub for various listening stations during the Cold War, where military cryptolinguists sought to decipher those signals and coded messages, each a potential harbinger of a moment of pure, existential horror wherein the commencement of a world-ending nuclear conflagration might have been terminally announced. Fortunately, that scenario did not and still has not come to pass - at least not yet. Even so, it is rumoured that the pressure and trauma of this work caused a number of analysts to take their own lives during prolonged postings at the site.
Although now abandoned, the installation remains an alluring challenge for urban explorers, some of who have reported seeing silent, spectral figures staring awestruck or with a look of profound horror on their pale, dead faces, out of a window from the building’s upper floor - perhaps viewing an indescribable future which even the act of self-immolation could not prevent them from witnessing.
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