Archive Item 76 concerns the destruction of St. Cleer Police Station in 1983.

The official report claimed no survivors. That was inaccurate.

One woman, the station stenographer, Judith Hallowell walked out of Interview Room 1 moments before the entire building ignited from within. She gave a witness statement during medical observation, describing a heat event that began inside the bodies of those present and then leapt from person to person like a living force.

Three days later, Mrs Hallowell was found dead in her flat. Her body exhibited extensive burn trauma. The flat showed no signs of heat, flame, or ignition.

Her dictated statement, and a fifteen-second fragment salvaged from the fused remains of the interview tape, form the entirety of this Archive Item.

This archive item contains a single continuous field recording recovered from the crushed Zoom H6 I removed from Dr. Arlo Finch’s possession after he was found wandering the A30 in a catatonic state. What begins as a routine ambience survey at Castilly Henge quickly becomes a sequence of escalating pressure anomalies. Finch detects infrasonic pulses rising from the ditch, rhythmic fluctuations in air density, and soil movement that appears to respond as if to a buried heartbeat.

The disturbance intensifies into a layered resonance event involving RF contamination, sub-bass vibration, and a series of auditory phenomena Finch believed were the sounds of an ancient battle emerging through the mist. The recording captures distorted shouts, impacts, mass movement, and what he interpreted as the fall of a colossal figure standing up from the earth itself.

The event ends in a pressure wave powerful enough to crush the recorder’s aluminium chassis while leaving Finch physically unharmed but mentally broken. His fixation on returning giants, combined with the recurring pulse signature I have now identified in other archive items, forms the basis of my continuing analysis of this case.

Takeaways:

• The investigation into Dr. Arlo Finch's experiences at Castilly Henge reveals profound implications regarding the nature of sound and its psychological effects.
• Dr. Finch's mental state deteriorated significantly after encountering an inexplicable phenomenon that may have involved both auditory and visual hallucinations.
• The peculiar acoustic properties of Castilly Henge were intended to create a zone of absolute silence, yet instead may have exposed Finch to overwhelming pressures.
• The evidence gathered suggests that the event Dr. Finch recorded was not merely auditory but involved a physical manifestation that altered his perception of reality.
• The analysis of the audio file indicates a potential military connection, suggesting that Dr. Finch's recording inadvertently captured classified transmissions during his fieldwork.
• The psychological ramifications of the incident led Dr. Finch to a severe mental breakdown, characterised by his belief in the presence of giants lurking in shadows.

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The dictaphone in question was brought to me after being found on the coastal path, wrapped inside an old waterproof coat. Inside the coat were a few gardening tools and a pair of boots marked with dried mud and salt. The microcassette inside the recorder is labelled in a shaky hand: "Carter - Allotment Notes" and will become case #0003.

Only later did I trace the recording back to the eastern allotments, where one shed stood open and unattended. The conditions matched the tape’s contents, but there was no sign of Carter himself.

The entries on the tape suggest several mornings of routine gardening carried out in dense sea fog, gradually giving way to something more unsettling moving through the allotment rows.

Takeaways:

• The investigation into the disappearance of Edwin Carter remains unresolved, with the case classified as a misadventure by authorities.
• Fog has a profound impact on acoustics, causing sound to mimic proximity, which can be disorienting in a rural setting.
• The peculiar audio anomalies discovered on the Dictaphone suggest unexplained radio frequencies, raising questions about its origins.
• Local folklore surrounding the allotments speaks of spectral children, believed to emerge during foggy conditions, seeking warmth and entry.
• The physical state of the shed where the Dictaphone was found indicates significant water damage, suggesting a deeper connection to the coastal environment.
• The urgency for digitising and preserving these recordings is paramount, as the decay threatens to erase valuable historical evidence.

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