{"id":457,"date":"2024-02-09T12:35:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T12:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/?p=457"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:16:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:16:45","slug":"birmingham-courier-war-worlds-woking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/birmingham-courier-war-worlds-woking\/","title":{"rendered":"ALIENS ARE HERE!!!111 (And Other Discoveries in Woking)."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019m at Horsell Common in Woking. Let\u2019s be honest, it wasn\u2019t 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\u2019s a sandpit. In the forest. A proper sandpit. This I\u2019ve got to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sand. Well, it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s underneath? Why? So many questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Clues in the Landscape<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I then noticed something about the trees. Many of them have exposed roots. I\u2019m not talking about the odd root tenting through the ground. I\u2019m 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019ve used the word \u2018iodine\u2019 since leaving school. Which was last year \ud83d\ude01. It\u2019s probably the first time you\u2019ve read the word since school, too. How many years has it been? Feel old, do ya? \ud83d\ude1c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The War of the Worlds Connection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, I met a local walking his dog. He saw me peering at the weird pond and said, \u201cYou know this place is famous, don\u2019t you?\u201d He told me this forest has a direct link to the novel and film \u2018War of the Worlds\u2019. 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wow \ud83e\udd29. 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\u2026 it all started to make a terrifying kind of sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Spooky Exit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It started getting dark, the kind of deep dark only a forest manages, so I made my way back to my van. That\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, the purpose of the sandpit? Obviously, it\u2019s where the aliens landed. Case closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Courier’s Postscript<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, do you need a geeky, weird, semi-exploration type courier? Naaa, I wouldn\u2019t 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<\/em> abducted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I handle the deliveries. The alien landing sites are just a bonus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enjoy the pics. They\u2019re 100% real, and about 30% spooky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I then notice something about the trees here. Many of them have exposed roots. I\u2019m not talking about the odd route tenting through the ground. I\u2019m talking about the soil around the trees just eroding away oddly towards the sand pit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,19,20,23],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventures","tag-courier","tag-heritage","tag-logistics-2","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}