The Montauk Project: The Truth is Darker Than You Can Possibly Imagine

in 1943 the uss eldridge was made. invisible and teleported from. philadelphia to virginia and this event. was known as the philadelphia experiment. when the eldridge reappeared some crew. materialized in walls and bulk heads and. they died in agony but two sailors. didn't reappear at all the two men who. happen to be brothers were presumed dead. or lost. they weren't dead they traveled 40 years. into the future into a secret military. base on the east end of long island they.

became unwitting participants of the. montauk project. [Music]. in the early 70s preston nichols an. engineer who specialized in. electromagnetism worked for a defense. contractor on long island and during. this time he was working with a group of. psychics studying telepathy and getting. good results he discovered that. telepathy behaves exactly like a radio. wave for some reason at the same time.

every day his subject's minds would be. blocked and he had no idea why after. three years of the strange phenomenon. nichols brought in radio equipment to. monitor the signals during the psychic. blackout. he learned that whenever 410 to 420. megahertz was detected his subjects were. jammed and after 20 minutes the signal. would dissipate and the psychics would. open back up nichols built a mobile. transceiver and tracked the origin of. the signal to montauk point on the east. end of long island new york more.

specifically he traced the signal to a. large radar tower on montauk air force. base so there was nothing he could do. about it the radio interference. continued for a few years and eventually. stopped nichols didn't give it much. thought until he received a call from a. friend who said the air force base was. now abandoned and he should go check it. out and the base was deserted but for. some reason it was a mess you would. expect the military to decommission a. base in a clean and orderly way but not. montauk it was as if whoever was working.

here cleared out in a hurry. and after exploring nichols came across. a young homeless man who was living in. one of the abandoned buildings the young. man acted nervous he said he was a. military technician who worked there but. he deserted when a large beast appeared. and tore through the facility forcing. the project to shut down. nichols asked the man what he meant by a. beast and a project the young man seemed. confused he said you don't remember. you're preston nichols you ran the.

montauk project. [Music]. in 1984 nichols began working with a. gifted psychic named duncan cameron who. he brought to the deserted base. immediately duncan knew his way around. he recognized the buildings and knew. specific details like where the mess. hall was the more they explored the more. information duncan was able to provide. a number of disturbing experiments.

happened on the property for years. duncan started to realize he was part of. them when they entered the large. transmitter building duncan went into a. trance while in this trance duncan said. he was programmed to find nickels. befriend him and then kill him and once. that objective was achieved duncan was. programmed to destroy nichols lab and. all his research. and because duncan was now aware of his. programming he was able to resist it and. back at his lab nichols used a.

deprogramming technique to give duncan. back full control of his consciousness. after working with duncan for a while. preston nichols started to realize he. had been involved with the montauk. project also he just didn't know how or. why over time more of duncan cameron's. memories surfaced duncan realized he had. served aboard the uss eldridge with his. brother edward they were the two sailors. who were lost during the philadelphia. experiment wait wait hold on hold on. that experiment took place in the 40s.

that's right. duncan cameron and his brother edward. had been transported from 1943 to 1983. 40 years into the future. [Music]. preston nichols started to notice. strange things when he was at work. people he didn't know seemed to. recognize him he was copied on mail and. included in meetings that didn't apply. to his position in the company one day. nichols was sitting at his desk when he.

felt an ache in his hand he looked down. at the back of his hand and he had a. band-aid covering a fresh wound a wound. he didn't have 15 minutes earlier. this happened more than a few times on. one occasion nichols even confronted the. company nurse and asked her if he'd been. there for a band-aid she said he hadn't. and had no idea what he was talking. about as time went on preston nichols. began to realize that he was living two. separate lives one day he had what he. calls an intuitive urge to visit the.

basement this was a high security area. only maybe 10 people in the company had. the clearance to be there and he wasn't. one of them he reluctantly took the. elevator down he gathered himself to try. to appear natural and walked right up to. the security guard and even though he. had never been in this area and had no. idea what happened here the guard gave. him a badge with his name on it and. waved him through. whether by muscle memory or just by. using his gut nichols seemed to know. where he was going he finally arrived at.

a plush office much nicer than his own. and on the large desk was a name plate. preston b nichols assistant project. director preston nichols now had real. physical evidence that he was living two. lives. one as an engineer the other as a senior. member of a top secret government. program called the montauk project by. early 1990 all of nichols memories of. the project had come back. and it was worse than he could have. imagined.

about 50 years after the philadelphia. experiment a man named al bilik would. start to have glimpses visions and then. entire memories of the life of edward. cameron a young naval officer serving. aboard the eldridge with his brother. duncan cameron well wait isn't duncan. cameron the psychic working with the the. preston guy yup 40 years in the future. that's right i love it please continue.

bilic wrote books spoke at conferences. and gave many interviews describing his. time on the uss eldridge while living in. the body of edward cameron aboard the. eldridge when what was called a magnetic. bottle was engaged the ship began to. slip through time in a panic albilic aka. edward cameron along with his brother. duncan jumped ship and when they landed. it was the year 2137. edward woke up in a hospital and was. being treated for radiation injuries.

duncan was nowhere to be seen when his. health improved edward learned more. about the world he was now in in 2137. the geography of the united states is. vastly different florida and most of the. eastern seaboard is underwater. california is a series of islands and. the great lakes have combined into one. giant lake after a devastating nuclear. war fought between the west and russia. and china the world's population has. been reduced to 300 million people the. united states canada and most.

governments were gone areas were under. local martial law and just when edward. was becoming overwhelmed he was. transported hundreds of years in the. future and arrived in the year. 2749 he would spend two years living in. this time and life in the 28th century. was much different than life in the 22nd. the most obvious change was anti-gravity. technology this allowed people to live. in floating cities more than two miles. above the earth and these cities were. run by an advanced ai all interconnected.

with one another and human life was easy. as long as you contributed to society. all your needs were met the ai operating. robotic equipment on the ground handled. all farming and food production hippie. communist paradise pretty much and. edward felt like people lost their. identities sure their lives were easier. but they were now mindless drones. welcome to paradise comrade then. suddenly edward felt the world shifting. again now he and his brother duncan. appeared in 1983.

when they arrived they were briefed by. government officials and told to never. discuss what happened now edward would. be going on his most important mission. of all but he would be going as albilic. [Music]. in 1990 albilic's brother duncan cameron. now had full recollection of the. philadelphia experiment and the montauk. project as did preston nichols and their. memories were terrifying back in 1967.

their story of time travel and. teleportation intrigued researchers at. brookhaven national labs technicians at. brookhaven had made an interesting. discovery the men serving aboard the uss. eldridge were susceptible to mind. control this breakthrough obviously had. military applications the united states. could use this technology to tell an. enemy's army to not fight wars could be. won without losing a single life and. america could take over the planet by. controlling everybody's mind that's a.

scary thought um hello they already do. it what do you mean oh come on the. government uses the news media big tech. in hollywood to turn you people into. sheep. okay look having a point of view is not. really mind control people can still. think for themselves. brookhaven scientists were excited to. get started the montauk air force. station was the perfect place it was. deserted remote and had all the. equipment they needed it even had the. largest radar antenna in the world an.

antenna powerful enough to broadcast. high-powered signals for hundreds of. miles or more the goal was to broadcast. on the right frequency that could alter. and control the human mind the montauk. experiment had now begun. duncan cameron having superior psychic. abilities was key to the project he was. able to withstand a tremendous amount of.

electromagnetic energy and this was. necessary to survive the montauk chair. the montauk chair was essentially a. mind-reading device it was a large metal. chair covered in coils and sensors and. also connected to the chair were three. receivers six channels and a cray. supercomputer if you sat in the montauk. chair your psychic abilities could be. tremendously amplified whatever image. was in your mind was displayed on the. computer screen the first tests were to. see what would happen when cameron was. electrocuted with different amounts and.

frequencies of energy they learned that. different frequencies could elicit. different emotions and specific. frequencies could make him sleep that. could be useful animals in the area were. also affected by transmissions there. were reports of deer running out of the. woods into town and throwing themselves. against the glass windows of the stores. on main street soon they were able to. perform what researchers called the. seeing eye if cameron had a lock of. someone's hair or some personal object.

he could see through that person's eyes. hear through their ears and feel. whatever that person's body felt he. could do this with anyone on the planet. very similar to what remote viewers can. do using duncan cameron's psychic. abilities and the technology at montauk. scientists were finally able to control. people's thoughts then they learned how. to load information commands and entire. programs onto an individual's mind and. this technique could be adjusted to make. people do things they wouldn't normally. do assassination sabotage even.

self-sacrifice if that was the mission. over time the experiments became even. more advanced cameron was now able to. manifest physical objects with his mind. if he thought of an apple or a baseball. the object would appear first on the. computer screen then holographically and. then finally as an actual solid object. in the real world this breakthrough. would lead the researchers of the. montauk project to their main experiment. using a huge new antenna and multiple.

transmitters they could create a vortex. a vortex that someone could step through. and into another time. [Music]. dr john van neumann was one of the great. mathematicians of his time he also made. contributions to physics computer. science economics quantum mechanics and. lots more naturally the united states. put him to work on the manhattan project. as well as many other top-secret.

government programs dr van neumann died. young of cancer in 1958 but that turned. out to be a lie he was actually placed. in a program similar to witness. protection to hide his identity and. preston nichols was able to find him and. talk to him about the experiments in. montauk and how they connected to the. philadelphia experiment van neumann now. an old man had been waiting 40 years for. this very moment he said when the uss. eldridge reappeared after the experiment. it was fatal to most of the crew van.

neumann knew how to fix this. one of the ship's power generators had. malfunctioned during the experiment this. is why so many men died but if someone. could go back and disable the faulty. generator the ship would come back. properly and no lives would be lost. albilic and duncan cameron were selected. to go but they were nervous about it dr. van neumann told them not to worry he. knew this would work according to the. ship's records they had already. succeeded back in montauk duncan sat in. the chair and created a portal to the.

uss eldridge in 1943 duncan and his. brother jumped back onto the ship and. disabled the generator edward decided to. stay in 1943 and when duncan returned. back to montauk something had happened. as many jumps through time and caused. him to age very rapidly and he was now. dying of old age now this could be a. disaster because duncan is linked to so. many events in the past that paradoxes. could form to prevent these disasters. the montauk technology was used to send. a message through time to duncan's.

father duncan cameron senior at that. point duncan senior only had one child a. daughter but he was instructed to get. busy and make baby boys because a lot. depended on it when duncan jr was born. in 1951 the montauk scientists used the. boy as a vessel for duncan's current. electromagnetic signature this would. ensure continuity of the timeline. without paradoxes and using a similar. technique called age regression edward. cameron's consciousness was installed. into the body of young albilic now if.

you're finding this hard to follow. you're not the only one all these. paradoxes and time travel missions were. weighing on preston nichols he started. to feel like he was doing more harm than. good to the people in the program to the. planet and to space time itself he. decided it was time to shut down the. program and for just the scenario the. montauk project had a contingency. protocol someone quietly walked up to. duncan while he was in the chair and. whispered the time is now. the phrase worked and a nightmare.

followed. upon hearing the words the time is now. duncan cameron unleashed a monster from. his subconscious but it wasn't in the. lab it was somewhere on the base preston. nichols describes it as at least 10 feet. tall hairy and vicious it was tearing. through the base attacking everything in. its path nickel supervisor ordered the. power generators shut down but that had. no effect the creature was still.

wreaking havoc building after building. the montauk transmitter was shut down. that didn't work the main power coming. from the utility company was cut that. didn't work power was still on being. generated from somewhere and worst of. all the creature was still on the loose. nichols grabbed an acetylene torch and. went to the building that housed the. transmitter control unit he yanked out. every wire he could reach the building. lights went out but the transmitter. continued to work and he could hear.

distant screams coming from somewhere on. the base nichols then took the torch to. the transmitter itself. he cut wires conduits even large chunks. of equipment he destroyed everything he. could he says the burn marks can still. be seen to this day finally the portal. duncan cameron created closed and the. creature vanished and for preston. nichols this would be the end of the. montauk project but for many of the. victims this was only the beginning. [Music].

since the late 1940s and early 50s. the government has had the capacity to. what i call bend time. the montauk project ran from the early. 70s until 1983 and the story does sound. far-fetched but there are many people. who say preston nichols is telling the. truth while the montauk project was. operating it needed a constant supply of. people for its experiments unfortunately. most of these were children usually boys.

between 10 and 15 years old these. children became known as the montauk. boys montauk boys were usually runaways. were taken from troubled homes like. families suffering alcoholism drug. addiction or abuse one of the montauk. boys is named stuart swerdlow and as a. boy swerdlow recalls having dreams of. waking up in a dark room strapped to a. hospital bed surrounded by strangers and. the room was dark and damp and the walls. were made of rock and preston nichols.

did say that the experiments took place. deep underneath the montauk air force. base one disturbing goal of the montauk. project was to create an army of. children whose minds could be programmed. and controlled then they could be. activated at any time they would carry. out any mission no matter how horrible. and not remember any of it montauk boys. have been linked to events like. columbine and the oklahoma city bombing. in order to prepare the children for. programming their minds had to be broken. down this included starvation and.

torture they received electric shocks. they were submerged in cold water to the. point of almost drowning this was done. day after day until the child's mind was. ready to accept new programming and many. other men have come forward claiming to. be one of the montauk boys one said he. was forced to take lsd in what became. known as the acid house another said his. body was used as a sort of generator to. feed psychics sitting in the montauk. chair usually dunking cameron as you. would expect many children did not.

survive this phase of the experiment and. they're said to be buried somewhere deep. under the base still presumed missing. after 40 years. [Music]. they wanted. a large number of program boys to be. used. for mind control operations. the experiments at montauk affected. everything in the area television and.

radio signals were disrupted animals. behaved strangely in 2008 this. animal washed up on the beach at montauk. it's been called the montauk monster. what is this. now i should also point out that. directly across the long island sound is. plum island the location of the animal. disease center rumors say this island. has been used for animal experiments. biological weapons and even testing. human animal hybrids could this animal. have come from plum island what's.

interesting is the cdc center for. disease control is part of america's. health and human services department. plum island allegedly a scientific. research facility is part of homeland. security. maybe we need to do an episode on this. back to montauk christopher garritano. was eight years old in 1983. and playing on montauk beach he found. strange metal objects in the sand he dug. them out and was walking back to his. family to ask what they were then out of. nowhere someone in a military uniform.

appeared and chased them off the beach. this started a lifelong obsession for. garritano and he would visit the base. many times and during these visits he. would find problems with the. government's official story the montauk. air force base is not supposed to have. underground levels garritano notes that. there are manhole covers all over the. property now sure those could be used. for drainage but on one trip garatano. brought a geophysicist along and using. imaging equipment they proved that a.

large concrete building was buried 20. feet down and many people have explored. the buildings over the years and a few. have video video that shows evidence of. an underground complex that was buried. and filled by concrete during one visit. urban explorer brian minnick found. receipts from the late 1980s that showed. over 80 thousand dollars per week was. spent on food that's a lot of food for a. base that was supposedly shut down in. 1981 preston nicholls stewart swerdlow.

al bilik chris garritano bryan minik the. names go on and on there are dozens of. people maybe more all claiming to be. part of the same experiment the us. government denies all of it who do you. believe. i'm standing today. to think of those who did not survive. and whose families will forever live. with the. knowledge that their death. and suffering.

was preventable i was the subject in. radiation as well as mind control and. drug experiments performed by a man i. knew as dr green what the united states. government did was shameful. dr greene was using me mostly as a mind. control subject from 1966 to 1973. what was done. cannot be undone. his objective was to gain control of my. mind and train me to be a spy assassin i.

am. sorry the next year i was sent to a. lodge in maryland called deep creek. cabins to learn how to sexually please. men. i was taught how to coerce them into. talking about themselves only you have. the power. to forgive. the montauk project has probably been my. favorite conspiracy since preston. nichols book first came out in 1992 i. spent a lot of my life on long island so.

a conspiracy that takes place in your. backyard is hard to resist i've been to. the air force base which is now called. camp hero and this story has affected a. lot of people the original title of the. show stranger things was called montauk. and a lot of stories are taken from. nichols writing this episode was. difficult to research and write because. the more i learned about my favorite. conspiracy theory the less i liked the. people involved first albeelic. he's the man who said he served on the.

uss eldridge in 1943 in the body of. edward cameron there is no record of any. belik edward or duncan cameron serving. aboard the eldridge or brothers with. that name serving on any ship in the. navy now supporters of the theory say. their names were erased or changed by. the government. that's fair in belich's writings he used. pictures of his family edward and duncan. cameron and others they were all proved. to be untrue most suspicious of all. belichick had no memories of the.

philadelphia experiment until he saw the. movie in 1984 he said the movie brought. his memories back but his story is. surprisingly similar to the movie he. also struggled with paranoia and other. psychological problems he made a meager. but sufficient living off selling cds. and merchandise and talking at ufo. conventions he died in 2007. many people. still believe his story and they claim. that the government has sponsored a. disinformation campaign to discredit him.

okay now stewart's wordlo he's a. character he's still around and claims. to be a montauk boy he also claims to. speak 10 languages that no one's ever. heard him speak his dna has been spliced. with aliens he's been imprisoned by the. illuminati he can see auric fields he. can travel hyperspace he's a descendant. of atlantis i can go on he's basically. been at the center of every conspiracy. theory that exists. moon bases hollow earth. people. yep even lizard people oh i create such.

a wacky story well you can hire stuart. to deprogram you for a fee ah that's why. now i'm not saying the guy's a fraud but. i am saying a judge said he was and if. you google him it's not pretty who knows. maybe all his potions and vitamins and. dog treats will help you reach. enlightenment but i don't recommend. buying his products did you just say dog. treats oh yeah he sells all kinds of. stuff no speaking of selling did you. know that you could buy wi-fi's. merchandise right now what's this it's a.

sponsor read be quiet we've got heckle. fish t-shirts mouse pads and hoodies we. got this this is not a good time for. this link's below i've saved preston. nichols for last there were rumors. circulating about montauk for a long. time before nichols came along but. preston nichols is the main man behind. the current theory and he's the only man. behind it he actually opens his first. book like this. this word is being presented as. non-fiction as it contains no falsehoods. to the best knowledge of the authors. however it can also be read as pure.

science fiction. if that is more suitable to the reader. there are a lot of things that don't add. up nichols says the montauk experiment. took place 10 stories below ground maybe. lower and that there are tunnels deep. underground that connect to other secret. locations in the united states now that. might work in some parts of the u.s but. it won't work in montauk when glaciers. move they pick up all kinds of sand dirt. and debris kind of like a push broom and. when the glaciers recede the debris. remains and this is called a glacial.

moraine long island is essentially a. pile of glacier debris mostly sand you. just can't dig very deep there this is. why the only skyscrapers in the area are. downtown manhattan that's where the. bedrock is nothing else can support deep. digging but there's one final conspiracy. about preston nichols we need to discuss. and if you have little ones watching. please send them away for a few minutes. really.

[Music]. okay. you might remember preston nichols used. a deep programming technique on duncan. cameron well nichols describes this. technique in his books though it rarely. makes it into the fun youtube videos. about the montauk project. to be deprogrammed preston nichols has. to touch you while you're in. an aroused state now i won't give the. specifics here but i think you. understand what i mean. and nichols deprogrammed a lot of young.

men all the time preston nichols had. built a replica of the montauk chair and. the research room an eyewitnesses said. nichols would go into the room with a. man usually in his early 20s there'd be. some noise about 20 or 30 minutes later. the young man would come out disheveled. often with an uneasy look on his face. and nickels would be covered in sweat at. one point nichols was deprogramming as. many as 25 montauk boys a few times a.

week who he unfortunately called. disciples and they all shared a house. not far from nichols and nobody knows. exactly how many men or deep programming. sessions were involved but it was a lot. now in the books about the montauk. project preston nichols is a man caught. up in a conspiracy greater than he could. imagine he lives a double life he meets. famous scientists he makes breakthroughs. in technology that exist only in science. fiction in these stories he's a hero. but the truth is preston nichols is a.

villain because of the proliferation of. the montauk project theory dozens of men. most of whom had a mental illness. addiction issues suffered child abuse or. all the above believed they were part of. this conspiracy this delusion gave their. lives meaning. and it gave them someone to blame that. wasn't themselves or their families. and being a montauk boy gave them a. place to belong a new family of people. who understood the pain of what they. were going through and here was preston. nicholls to the rescue.

able to deprogram them of all the. negative experiences they suffered from. the experiment preston nichols took. advantage of these young men for years. while other liars and frauds helped him. weave a rich complex narrative a. narrative that still continues and this. conspiracy is believable because the. government has done most of the awful. things nichols claims drugging people. against their will kidnapping torture. they've done all of this and worse the. government also spent a lot of resources.

exploring psychic phenomena the montauk. project is a conspiracy grounded in a. whole lot of facts but when preston. nichols al bilik and stuart swerdlow. added their own details like time travel. aliens and conjuring monsters out of. thin air they built a house of cards. none of their stories can exist without. the other if we're able to debunk just. one small detail of any one of their. stories. the house of cards made of fraud and. abuse collapses and then all that's left.

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