Investigation HILL 62 Museum - Sanctuary Wood, Belgium - Explained equipment failure.

This strange event occurred on a visit to Hill 62 in Belgium, a private musem about the area during the first world war. The hill was a first world war fortified bunker position on the British lines and used for the Third Battle of Ypres (known as the Battle of Passchendaele). Thousands of soldiers from both sides died here. When we first arrived in the area the weather was very warm and my cousin and myself were wearing just t shirts. When we first stepped into the area known as Sanctuary Wood, we both felt freezing cold, it was a strange place, but both of us knew the history of this preserved site which may explain our unease. Also noted, there were no birds and nothing grew in this area, it was just soil, nothing else. It felt like walking into another time.

After a few minutes we were both ready to look around the site when my cousin said his camera and mobile phone had failed and would not function correctly. This was not an issue so I took my camera over. Problem was, that also failed and would not even turn on and despite numerous attempts we could not get any of the equipment to function with the exception of my own small digital camera. With no equipment working it was job stopped as far as filming and photographing the area, so we returned to the car, and the moment we left the wooded area ALL the equipment started to work again. We both felt very uneasy with the whole place so we left to visit elsewhere. Throughout the rest of the week we never once had equipment problems again. With so many devices failing to work was unusual and it remains unexplained.

On reviewing the experience later, we both remembered a strange event in the morning. We arrived at the museum at 11.30am and sat outside in the cafe area and duly ordered our coffee. We noticed in the far corner two tables with considerable broken glass on the floor, and the area looking untidy. We asked the waitdress, who brought our coffee, what had happened. She said 'it was 6 or 7 Dutch guys fighting, the Police were called to remove them'. My obvious question was 'why would people be fighting at a museum in the morning?'. Her answer was 'no idea, but it happens a lot'. It turns out groups of people after visiting the museum would break out in arguments and fighting, at least once every few months. So the obvious questions is why?

Is it possible that visitors to the museum were subject to some form of character change? In 1914, would a British soldier know the difference between Dutch and German langauges? Could this explain why the museum experiences more than normally expected problems with aggression due to people acting so indifferent?