The Culverts

Whew, this thing has taken up a lot more time and effort than I thought it would! What started out as a short fact-checked suddenly evolved into a full-blown investigation, and I’m still not at the bottom of it.

It actually started literally underground. There is a local culvert complex not too far from where I live, a large mass of really old, tunnels and pipes carrying water out under a hill, preventing the nearby town from being constantly flooded. Ever since I was a child, I’ve heard stories about how “Satanists” (the most evil people children know) lived there, and how going there at night or day (it’s always pitch black) was a death sentence that would see you become the sacrifice in a horrible ritual.

The complex was never the home of devil worshippers, but I recently discovered that there was some truth to the stories. The culvert actually used to be the gathering place of some sort of cult, but it was broken up in the 80s. Of course, stories like that take a long time to fade.

With the only thing to go on being a newspaper clipping I recently found, I recently went to have a look with my girlfriend, April. No-one ever goes to the complex nowadays, but we were surprised to actually find things there. It’s difficult to explain what sort of things we found, but suffice to say, I thought it was some sort of prank, just stuff left around by someone who had heard the stories.

As it turns out, the stuff we found actually seems to be legitimate, and has taken a lot of looking into. The more I keep digging, the more I feel like an archaeologist or cult historian specialising in the late 80s, but there is so much interesting stuff here I can’t turn the opportunity down.

There will be some very exciting updates coming over the next few weeks, I’ll tell you guys that much! Thanks for being patient.