27th March 2024
I don't quite know how to write this.
After nearly nine years of searching, we think we've found Site 42.
I need to be very clear.
We haven't confirmed anything.
But we have a location that matches several pieces of information we've collected.
It started with an old planning document Peter found.
There was a reference to a facility that had changed ownership several times. The names of owners matched some of the records we'd been looking at.
Then Sarah noticed a symbol similar to the shape of the one in the photograph we received in 2018.
We've spent the last few months comparing maps and photographs.
A former employee of a nearby business has also confirmed that the site was once used for work that wasn't publicly advertised and has been abandoned for around 9 years.
He couldn't tell us what that work involved, just that it was very busy one day and empty the next.
There are still things that don't make sense.
Some records suggest the building was being demolished.
Others suggest it was an archaeological dig.
The building is now registered to a company called Urbesc Endeavours. We haven't established whether it's connected to Urbesc Construction, but the name is difficult to ignore.
We are more confident than ever that Urbesc Construction and Site 42 hold the answers to our questions.
A few people in the group wanted to go straight there.
We've asked them not to.
We don't know whether the buildings are occupied, structurally sound or even safe.
We're not going to encourage anybody to trespass or put themselves at risk.
We've passed the information to the appropriate authorities and requested clarification about the site.
I wish I could say I feel excited.
I don't.
I feel sick.
For years, Site 42 has been a name on a piece of paper.
Something distant that might not even exist.
Now there might be an actual building.
An actual place where Josh could have been.
I don't know what that means.
And I'm frightened of finding out.
