I was ‘abducted and held captive in secret base as a guinea pig for mind-altering experiments as a kid’
A NEW YORK man bizarrely claims to have been abducted as a teen and held captive as part of an alleged secret government experiment focusing on mind control and psychological warfare known as "The Montauk Project."
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, the man, who asked to remain anonymous, claims he was abducted in 1980 and 1981 and taken to an underground lab beneath Camp Hero where he was subjected to a series of disturbing and grueling tests against his will.
Between 12 and 13 at the time, the source, now 54, who has lived in Montauk for most of his life and now works at Camp Hero State Park, said he only recovered the memories of his alleged abduction in 2018 under hypnosis.
"We were riding around Montauk on bikes, we had a little BMX gang," he said. "This kid I'd seen around before, who was a bit of a loner, he talked me into riding my bike with him to the Montauk base."
When the pair arrived, they traveled through the security gates and were greeted by two men in dark suits, he said.
"The kids introduced me to these two guys, telling me they were his friends. They told me there was really cool stuff inside the base and that I should go in and check it out."
The source said he was eventually led down a path to a dark entryway. He continued down the tunnel in almost complete darkness where he claims he eventually reached a sunken home with a collapsed roof.
"I don't know how deep it went," he said, "but I remember going down to the second level and then just blacking out. I don't remember ever leaving."
'EVIL EXPERIMENTS'
Under hypnosis, the man says he was able to recover scattered memories of being in different rooms inside the underground bunker, including being naked and stapped down to a table in darkness with wires attached to his head and body.
"I don't know how many times that happened. But then I have also memories of standing actually in front of Preston Nichols.
"We were being held in a concrete room beneath the Camp's radar tower. There were around 70 other children in the room. We were all dressed in the same clothing.
"I don't remember leaving that room either," he said. "So I think that they were either drugging us or using gas on is of some type to, to make us not remember and pass out."
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The source said that he was unsure what the point of the alleged experiments was.
"They were using our energy and trying to figure out something that was going on with us," he claimed. "The group that I was with was all boys and we were taken against our will.
"There's no telling exactly what we're involved in," he continued.
"I think that they had machines that were manipulating time. It was either time or dimensions. It wasn't normal stuff that they were doing. It wasn't like they were testing us with drugs to see if we got tuberculosis or something like that."
In a more disturbing anecdote, he claimed to have recalled under hypnosis that he and a group of other boys had been handed a gun inside the bunker, with a row of what appeared to be the heads of live humans in front of them, facing the other way.
"They gave us the command to you shoot them to kill these people and I remember shooting all these people in the backs of the heads but we never looked at their faces.
"I think the point of that test was to see if we had the capabilities to actually kill a living human.
"But there was no blood anywhere. I realized under hypnosis that they were actually mannequins."
'HORRIBLE CREATURES'
The man, a father-of-three, called the alleged government experiments on Long Island "evil", insisting he continues to have nightmares about the contents of his so-called rediscovered memories.
"The people who were in control of that experiment were horrible people, if you can even call them that. In fact, they were horrible creatures.
"They did a very bad thing to us out there. We were just kids. They had no right to experiment on us. It was a very evil thing.”
The existence of The Montauk Project has never been proven, but conspiracy theorists claim the experiments took place on Long Island between 1971 and 1983.
The alleged tests, rumors of which first spread in the early 1980s, were said to have focused on psychological-warfare techniques as well as mind control, time travel, and teleportation.
The subjects of the Nazi-style experiments are claimed to have been young boys, in their early teens, who had been abducted and later drugged to erase their memories of it.
Preston B. Nichols sought to legitimize the existence of the project in his 1992 book, The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time, in which he claimed to have recovered repressed memories during his time as a subject in the mysterious experiment.
In the wake of the book's release, numerous others came forward to corroborate Nichols' rather outlandish claims.
The rumors surrounding the Montauk Project were born out of an earlier supposed US Government experiment known as the "Philadelphia Experiment", which was reportedly carried out in October 1942.
THE 'PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT'
During that alleged experiment, the US military is said to have conducted a series of secret tests at a naval shipping yard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in an effort to foil a Nazi radar so they could transport goods to allies in Europe undetected.
The US military has never confirmed the existence of the experiment, but according to conspiracy theory folklore, not only were they able to knock out the Nazi radar they also accidentally caused a battleship to travel either into a different dimension or through time.
A movie bearing the project's name was later made in 1984, telling the story of two sailors aboard the USS Eldridge during World War II who are transported 40 years into the future.
After watching the film in 1988, a 57-year-old Al Bielek experienced a severe case of Deja Vu, believing as though he'd experienced something similar himself before.
After undergoing a series of holistic therapies, Bielek claimed he was able to uncover repressed memories about working on the Montauk Project in the 70s and 80s.
He claimed that the memories have been forcibly locked away in his head to ensure the experiment was kept secret.
But as the memories came rushing back to him, he reportedly learned that his name wasn't even Al Bielek.
Instead, he claimed to have learned his name was in fact Edward Cameron, and that he'd worked on the Philadelphia experiment with his brother, Duncan Cameron.
Bielek affirmed that, sometime in the 1940s, Nikola Tesla figured out how to make the USS Eldridge invisible but, in doing so, opened up a time wormhole into the future that absorbed the ship.
Bielek claims he and his "brother" were on board. He said they jumped off the ship and landed at Montauk's Camp Hero in August 1983.
He said the pair were promptly sent back through to wormhole by the government to go back in time and destroy the equipment on the Eldrige.
While Bielek claimed he and his brother completed their mission, the government reportedly continued doing more experiments on building portals into the future.
THE 'MONTAUK PROJECT'
Bielek's tales eventually caught the attention of Preston Nichols, who included them in his 1992 book along with his own story.
In the book, Nichols writes how he and Bielek worked together on something called "The Montauk Chair", which used electromagnetics to amplify psychic powers.
A subject called Duncan was found to have psychic capabilities, Nichols claimed, and was even able to manifest objects just by thinking about them.
"The first experiment was called 'The Seeing Eye'," he wrote.
"With a lock of person's hair or other appropriate object in his hand, Duncan could concentrate on the person and be able to see as if he was seeing through their eyes, hearing through their ears, and feeling through their body. He could actually see through other people anywhere on the planet."
In his book, Nichols wrote about other young boys being brought into Camp Hero to be experimented on, who he refers to as the "Montauk Boys."
According to Nichols' book, after a number of years of experimenting on Duncan and other children, officials at Camp Hero developed a way that, with the Montauk Chair, they could travel to different times and places, claiming to have even ventured as far as Mars.
The project was discontinued in 1983, according to Nichols, shortly after officials developed a two-way wormhole to 1943 - the time of the Philadelphia Experiment.
After realizing the complexity of time travel, they reportedly decided to shut the operation down for good.
"We finally decided we'd had enough of the whole experiment. The contingency program was activated by someone approaching Duncan while he was in the chair and simply whispering 'The time is now'," Nichols wrote.
"At this moment, he let loose a monster from his subconscious. And the transmitter actually portrayed a hairy monster. It was big, hairy, hungry and nasty. But it didn't appear underground in the null point. It showed up somewhere on the base.
"It would eat anything it could find. And it smashed everything in sight. Several different people saw it, but almost everyone described a different beast."
STRANGER THINGS
Nichols said he had to smash all of the equipment that powered the Montauk Chair before the beast vanished into oblivion.
Employees were brainwashed the following year to forget the project, and the secret underground bunker was filled in with cement, Nichols claimed.
Once home to an Army base during World War II and an Air Force station during the Cold War, Camp Hero was decommissioned in 1981 and is now owned by the state parks system.
The Sun's source claims he retraced the steps of his younger self, and evidence of the secret base's existence can still be seen today if you search hard enough.
The rumored existence of The Montauk Project served as the inspiration behind the Netflix smash-hit series, Stranger Things.
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The show, created by the Duffer Brothers, was originally titled "Montauk" but was later renamed after production was moved to Indiana because of various loopholes associated with filming in New York.
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