Paranormal Lockdown UK 1.2 "Drakelow Tunnels" Review

Drakelow Tunnels below Kingsford County Park, north of Kidderminster, is an oft visited site by many people, paranormal groups and others and is said to be one of Britain's actively haunted sites.  Having being built here in 1941 during the Second World War for building airplane parts etc, it housed a number of people.  There were numerous deaths and as Sid, the site manager told Nick and Katrina, there were about five known deaths but if there were more, then certainly no one would have recorded them and said anything about them, especially not during the war.  There were some who were killed when the tunnels collapsed and three men were reported to have been buried alive.  As well as reported hauntings from shadow figures, various apparitions and a lady seen with a child. 

Of course having worked there for twenty years, Sid had his own sightings too, with someone he calls "Oswald" aka Harry.  Sid was pushed off his ladder and broke his leg.  The tunnels are long and span at least three and a half miles, dark, dank and dusty and if you get lost in the dark, it will take forever to get out, well not literally but the only light source being a torch.  Which is what happened to Nick on the second night when he couldn't sleep, was awoken suddenly and tried to find Katrina, who was clearly away with the pixies.  Strangely, Katrina slept in Tunnel 1 on the first night and nothing happened to her.  Nick got lost and saw the figure of a man he said was following him.  His IR light went out and he only had his torch. leaving him panicky and calling out for Katrina, who obviously wouldn't hear him.  Though when Katrina did get up, she thought she was up before him and went to seek him out.  Nick crawling through a crawl space by this time, but managed to hear her calling that way.  Nust've been a tense time being so far apart from each other.

Their photo showing the dark figure is the top one, the bottom one I took.

As they treaded the tunnels, they got a few objects thrown at them, well twice, the first one being aimed at Katrina and hitting her jacket and the second one they said was a brick, so clearly the spirits were trying to get their attention, or were being more aggressive.  Nick used the Afterlife Box app using an analogue radio, which generates phonetic words and captured quite a few voices.

As Nick was sleeping with the lasers, there was an orb/light anomaly that passed through the light from the lasers and can be seen where the blue arrow is marked.   Will try and upload a video for this and for the solid figure that Nick saw.

A voice also said, "that man" in reference to Sid most likely.  Getting Sid's name mentioned twice: "Sid sick" and "Sid sorry."  For throwing his off his ladder most likely.  As Nick later told Sid, Oswald was not a violent or dangerous spirit, but more curious and was aggressive in that the renovations took place there, where they belonged.  Sid did say he was sick on the same day they caught that voice.  Lots of doors slamming too and what both Nick and Rob described as an army of fifty men marching through the tunnels.  Which Katrina said was probably as she asked if she felt safe there in the canteen area.  It did sound like shuffling to me, but not fifty men, guess you had to be there in the moment.  Again after seeing shadow figures, they weren't able to pick any up with their equipment.  Begging the question of how so much equipment just turns out to be useless or no good where such figures are concerned. 

Earlier on on the walk through, they did manage to get a voice in response to Sid's question of whether he's liked now and the voice distinctively replied, "no!"  Setting up infra red lights in the tunnels for their experiment where Nick saw the solid man, with the LED lights on the light panel. The path was crossed and that's when the brick-like object was also thrown.  Also a voice coming through and saying "into a trap."  When the light panel lit up.  Other voices were: "killed," "appear," "computer" all captured through the Afterlife app.

Other voices were heard during the early part of the investigation where Katrina was asking questions and a voice asked, "who's that?"  Katrina introducing herself, Nick and Rob.  A voice also says "hi."  That was strange since this greeting isn't traditionally associated with the UK.  Katrina asks what country they're from and the reply is "America."  So clearly they were getting intelligent responses.  Later when Katrina asks about Oswald or Harry, a woman's voice which is shown as Inaudible on screen, actually says "sit down."  Now that was a cockney/posh accent like they used to speak back then.  If you watch any British black and white film from the 1930's/40's, you will hear the typical accent I'm referring to.  Made me think if it could have been the woman who has been spotted with the child and whether that could have been residual. 

A troublesome ep spending 72 hours in the confines of darkness without light or sunlight and extremely cold, of course without sleep, especially for Nick, he would be frustrated and a little out of his mind when he saw that figure. But an awesome catch!  Right a visit to these tunnels is called for!

Next ep we're off to a pub!!   Definitely getting into the spirit of things then!