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Antony Verney looked forward with excitement to his retirement. Together with his wife Doreen, he had bought an idyllic woodcutter’s cottage in rural Kent, England. But things did not work out as planned for the Verney’s - the elderly couple had not counted on being guinea pigs for a horrifying experiment in microwave weaponry courtesy of the British Government. In the summer of 1983, the couple retired to their Hansel and Gretel home. Dargle Cottage dated back to the battle of Waterloo and was et in isolated and dense woodlands, not far fro the village of Biddenden. Within a few months of moving in permanently, strange sounds began permeating the building. By October, the volume increased and, according to Verney, ‘sounded as if it was coming up through the ground.’ For the next four days and nights, the couple barely slept. Within three weeks, the bombardment had greatly increased and seemed to cocoon the cottage. The humming sounds were now accompanied by powerful vibrations. The woods surrounding the property were lit up at night with strange pink and yellow lights, casting eerie shadows among the woodland trees. Police Denials. Deciding to locate the source of the humming, the Verney’s set out late at night on 24th November. It proved to be a futile exercise, as the sound seemed to move around. However, during their foray, they ran into a police patrol not far from their cottage. It was 1am, and the policeman clearly heard the sounds. But when Verney made an official complaint at the police station the following day, he was told it was ‘not a matter for the police’ and to contact the Environmental Health Department. Despite repeated attempts to place the matter before the council, Verney received no response. Frustrated and debilitated, he next contacted an acoustics engineer from a local firm in Maidstone. Arriving at the cottage that same evening, the engineer obtained a very strong reading of the vibrations. Concerned, he alerted the Environmental Health Department to the problem, but they again refused to get involved. At this point Verney reported that ‘life was becoming intolerable inside the house’. A neighbour, meanwhile, had told the Verney’s about an odd building that had been erected close by, two or three years previously. The two-storey building, surrounded by high hedges, had no windows above the first floor, and reminded Verney of German Army bunkers built during World War II. Most oddly, the ground floor windows were protected by think net curtains typical of those used to protect special government buildings from bomb blasts. Verney also discovered that the telephone number of the building was ‘classified’. This building was, Verney felt, the origin of the disturbances. Suspicions Aroused. With no-one in authority to turn to, Verney travelled to London to hire his own recording equipment. Explaining the situation to the owners of a shop specializing in electronic appliances, Verney was told by the two shop assistants, ‘It sounds as though your having trouble with the Ministry of Defence.’ After a short conversation, Verney was put in contact with a leading electronics scientist and a date was set for the technician to visit the cottage. As arranged, the electronics scientist, who I will call ‘Mr D’, arrived at the cottage on 18th January 1984. Ten minutes after Mr. D set up his equipment, Verney was astonished by the arrival of a local Environmental Health officer. Appearing agitated, the officer remarked to the scientist, ‘So you’re Mr. D?’ and proceeded to cross-examine the scientist on his equipment. He left shortly afterwards. Following his departure, Mr. D and the Verney’s began a vigil, hoping to capture necessary data to prove what was going on. Most unusually, it was a quiet evening, with no humming noises or ground vibrations. By 10pm, Mr. D decided to return home, and packed up his equipment. Antony Verney then drove him back to London. Shortly after they left, the noise and vibrations began in earnest, and Doreen Verney suffered a night of ‘bombardment’. After seven months of suffering, the Verney’s reluctantly decided to sell their home. Sale of the property was set for completion on 24th May 1984. In his diary for 20th May, Verney recounted the night was hell, with the noise at its highest level ever, and vibrations tearing through the ground at frightening velocity. The cottage was literally shaking in its foundations, and did so until 7am. Pitifully debilitated, the Verney’s moved to Sussex, where they devoted the rest of their lives trying to uncover who was responsible for their cruel treatment. Prime Ministers Thatcher and Major, and a host of other Ministers and government departments, were extensively questioned. When he was quizzed, the Deputy Chief Constable of Kent Police stated that the issues raised by the Verney’s ‘did not fall within the jurisdiction of Kent Police.’ Privately, however, the Verney’s were told that this was an ‘MoD intelligence matter’. The MoD continue to deny it, and the Verney’s went to their graves in 1996 with the matter unresolved. It would be very easy to dismiss the Verney’s claims as fantasy were it not for the fact that much of their story has been authenticated. A 90-minute tape recording of the noises recorded in January 1984 was analysed by Fred Holroyd, a former Army intelligence officer. Holroyd stated that the sounds corresponded to ‘white noise’ in the audible spectrum of microwaves. |
Sources: The X factor |