Driver Jatt

ALIENS ARE HERE!!!111 (And Other Discoveries in Woking).

I’m at Horsell Common in Woking. Let’s be honest, it wasn’t the call of nature that brought me here. It was the free car park that lured me. A quick browse of Google Maps between jobs showed there’s a sandpit. In the forest. A proper sandpit. This I’ve got to see.

The sand. Well, it’s just that. Like you have at the seaside but without the sea, the chips, or the seagulls trying to steal your chips. Just like that, a full-on sandpit in a forest in Surrey. It was so bizarre it was brilliant.

My brain, never one to leave a mystery alone, started firing questions. How did all that sand get there? What is its purpose? How deep is it? What’s underneath? Why? So many questions.

The Clues in the Landscape

I then noticed something about the trees. Many of them have exposed roots. I’m not talking about the odd root tenting through the ground. I’m talking about the soil around the trees just eroding away, oddly, towards the sand pit. Like the ground was pulled from under them. I was actually particularly mesmerised by these exposed roots, skeletal and strange.

I went for a walk to clear my head and came across an eerie-looking pond. The water was an iodine colour. Do note, this is the first time I’ve used the word ‘iodine’ since leaving school. Which was last year 😁. It’s probably the first time you’ve read the word since school, too. How many years has it been? Feel old, do ya? 😜

The War of the Worlds Connection

Then, I met a local walking his dog. He saw me peering at the weird pond and said, “You know this place is famous, don’t you?” He told me this forest has a direct link to the novel and film ‘War of the Worlds’. My inner geek ignited. A quick Google on the spot, and I came across this gem: https://www.gorsehillsurrey.com/explore/blog/war-of-the-worlds.

Wow 🤩. This sandy pit? This is reportedly the very spot H.G. Wells imagined the first Martian cylinder crashing to Earth. What a claim to fame for a quiet common. The exposed roots, the eerie pond, the alien sand… it all started to make a terrifying kind of sense.

A Spooky Exit

It started getting dark, the kind of deep dark only a forest manages, so I made my way back to my van. That’s when I heard them. All these squeaky, rustling noises. Then, two big black creatures darted across the path in the distance. Moving quicker than anything has any right to in a silent forest. In the half-light, I believe they were reindeer. Or whatever alien beast lurks inside that sandy hole.

So, the purpose of the sandpit? Obviously, it’s where the aliens landed. Case closed.

The Courier’s Postscript

So, do you need a geeky, weird, semi-exploration type courier? Naaa, I wouldn’t either, lol. But you might need a courier whose job takes him to unexpected places, who has a knack for finding the free car park and the interesting story, and who will reliably get your package from Birmingham to a business in Woking (or anywhere else) without getting completely abducted.

I handle the deliveries. The alien landing sites are just a bonus.

Enjoy the pics. They’re 100% real, and about 30% spooky.

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