Partially hidden by this overgrown slope is a disused warehouse which, rumour has it, was used by the Ministry as a storage site for various esoteric artefacts and occult technologies, and which that sinister and secretive department of the British government had either unearthed or developed as part of its covert programme of praeternaturally-oriented research throughout the period of the Cold War. Notably, the building was, prior to its compulsory purchase by the Ministry, part of the Boreham family’s holdings.
Although the site remains sealed off and out-of-bounds to the casual visitor, one can still feel a sudden drop in temperature - even on the warmest of days - within 50 yards or so of the building’s perimeter. During his all-too brief sojourn in the region during the mid-1960s, the noted occultist and parapsychologist Roland Franklyn undertook an investigation into the paranormal phenomena which had purportedly been occuring in the area around the warehouse; whilst his fndings were inconclusive, Franklyn nonetheless remarked that the extremes of cold he experienced in the vicnity of the building were ‘akin to those frigid, etheric star-winds which sweep down from the frozen interstellar gulfs of space - or the cognate of that forlorn and unnatural chill which emanates from those hideous and invisible abyssal realms which grind ceaselessly against the ever-thinning walls of our world.’
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