The Montauk Project: The Truth is Darker Than You Think In 1943, the USS Eldridge was made invisible and teleported from Philadelphia to Virginia. This event was known as the Philadelphia Experiment. When the Eldridge reappeared, some crew materialized in walls and bulkheads. They died in agony. But two sailors didn’t reappear at all. The two men, who happened to be brothers, were presumed dead or lost. They weren’t dead. They traveled 40 years into the future; in a secret military base on the East end of Long Island. They became unwitting participants of The Montauk Project. #Mystery #Conspiracy #Unsolved
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0:01in 1943 the uss eldridge was made invisible and teleported from
0:06philadelphia to virginia and this event was known as the philadelphia experiment when the eldridge reappeared some crew
0:13materialized in walls and bulk heads and they died in agony but two sailors
0:18didn’t reappear at all the two men who happen to be brothers were presumed dead or lost
0:24they weren’t dead they traveled 40 years into the future into a secret military
0:29base on the east end of long island they became unwitting participants of the
0:34montauk project [Music]
0:41in the early 70s preston nichols an engineer who specialized in electromagnetism worked for a defense
0:47contractor on long island and during this time he was working with a group of psychics studying telepathy and getting
0:53good results he discovered that telepathy behaves exactly like a radio wave for some reason at the same time
1:00every day his subject’s minds would be blocked and he had no idea why after three years of the strange phenomenon
1:07nichols brought in radio equipment to monitor the signals during the psychic blackout he learned that whenever 410 to 420
1:15megahertz was detected his subjects were jammed and after 20 minutes the signal
1:20would dissipate and the psychics would open back up nichols built a mobile transceiver and tracked the origin of
1:26the signal to montauk point on the east end of long island new york more specifically he traced the signal to a
1:33large radar tower on montauk air force base so there was nothing he could do about it the radio interference
1:39continued for a few years and eventually stopped nichols didn’t give it much thought until he received a call from a
1:45friend who said the air force base was now abandoned and he should go check it out and the base was deserted but for
1:51some reason it was a mess you would expect the military to decommission a base in a clean and orderly way but not
1:59montauk it was as if whoever was working here cleared out in a hurry
2:04and after exploring nichols came across a young homeless man who was living in one of the abandoned buildings the young
2:10man acted nervous he said he was a military technician who worked there but he deserted when a large beast appeared
2:17and tore through the facility forcing the project to shut down nichols asked the man what he meant by a
2:23beast and a project the young man seemed confused he said you don’t remember
2:29you’re preston nichols you ran the montauk project
2:36[Music] in 1984 nichols began working with a
2:42gifted psychic named duncan cameron who he brought to the deserted base immediately duncan knew his way around
2:49he recognized the buildings and knew specific details like where the mess hall was the more they explored the more
2:56information duncan was able to provide a number of disturbing experiments happened on the property for years
3:03duncan started to realize he was part of them when they entered the large transmitter building duncan went into a
3:09trance while in this trance duncan said he was programmed to find nickels
3:15befriend him and then kill him and once that objective was achieved duncan was programmed to destroy nichols lab and
3:22all his research and because duncan was now aware of his programming he was able to resist it and
3:28back at his lab nichols used a deprogramming technique to give duncan back full control of his consciousness
3:34after working with duncan for a while preston nichols started to realize he had been involved with the montauk
3:40project also he just didn’t know how or why over time more of duncan cameron’s
3:46memories surfaced duncan realized he had served aboard the uss eldridge with his
3:51brother edward they were the two sailors who were lost during the philadelphia experiment wait wait hold on hold on
3:58that experiment took place in the 40s that’s right duncan cameron and his brother edward
4:03had been transported from 1943 to 1983 40 years into the future
4:11[Music]
4:16preston nichols started to notice strange things when he was at work people he didn’t know seemed to
4:22recognize him he was copied on mail and included in meetings that didn’t apply to his position in the company one day
4:29nichols 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
4:35band-aid covering a fresh wound a wound he didn’t have 15 minutes earlier
4:40this happened more than a few times on one occasion nichols even confronted the company nurse and asked her if he’d been
4:47there for a band-aid she said he hadn’t and had no idea what he was talking about as time went on preston nichols
4:54began to realize that he was living two separate lives one day he had what he calls an intuitive urge to visit the
5:01basement this was a high security area only maybe 10 people in the company had the clearance to be there and he wasn’t
5:08one of them he reluctantly took the elevator down he gathered himself to try to appear natural and walked right up to
5:15the security guard and even though he had never been in this area and had no idea what happened here the guard gave
5:21him 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
5:28where he was going he finally arrived at a plush office much nicer than his own
5:34and on the large desk was a name plate preston b nichols assistant project director preston nichols now had real
5:41physical evidence that he was living two lives one as an engineer the other as a senior
5:47member of a top secret government program called the montauk project by early 1990 all of nichols memories of
5:54the project had come back and it was worse than he could have imagined
6:06about 50 years after the philadelphia experiment a man named al bilik would start to have glimpses visions and then
6:14entire memories of the life of edward cameron a young naval officer serving aboard the eldridge with his brother
6:20duncan cameron well wait isn’t duncan cameron the psychic working with the the preston guy yup 40 years in the future
6:28that’s right i love it please continue bilic wrote books spoke at conferences
6:34and gave many interviews describing his time on the uss eldridge while living in the body of edward cameron aboard the
6:41eldridge when what was called a magnetic bottle was engaged the ship began to slip through time in a panic albilic aka
6:50edward cameron along with his brother duncan jumped ship and when they landed it was the year 2137
6:56edward woke up in a hospital and was being treated for radiation injuries duncan was nowhere to be seen when his
7:03health improved edward learned more about the world he was now in in 2137
7:08the geography of the united states is vastly different florida and most of the eastern seaboard is underwater
7:15california is a series of islands and the great lakes have combined into one giant lake after a devastating nuclear
7:21war fought between the west and russia and china the world’s population has been reduced to 300 million people the
7:28united states canada and most governments were gone areas were under local martial law and just when edward
7:35was becoming overwhelmed he was transported hundreds of years in the future and arrived in the year
7:422749 he would spend two years living in this time and life in the 28th century
7:47was much different than life in the 22nd the most obvious change was anti-gravity technology this allowed people to live
7:55in floating cities more than two miles above the earth and these cities were run by an advanced ai all interconnected
8:02with one another and human life was easy as long as you contributed to society
8:07all your needs were met the ai operating robotic equipment on the ground handled
8:12all farming and food production hippie communist paradise pretty much and edward felt like people lost their
8:18identities sure their lives were easier but they were now mindless drones welcome to paradise comrade then
8:25suddenly edward felt the world shifting again now he and his brother duncan appeared in 1983.
8:31when they arrived they were briefed by government officials and told to never discuss what happened now edward would
8:37be going on his most important mission of all but he would be going as albilic
8:46[Music] in 1990 albilic’s brother duncan cameron
8:53now had full recollection of the philadelphia experiment and the montauk project as did preston nichols and their
8:59memories were terrifying back in 1967 their story of time travel and
9:05teleportation intrigued researchers at brookhaven national labs technicians at brookhaven had made an interesting
9:11discovery the men serving aboard the uss eldridge were susceptible to mind control this breakthrough obviously had
9:19military applications the united states could use this technology to tell an enemy’s army to not fight wars could be
9:26won without losing a single life and america could take over the planet by controlling everybody’s mind that’s a
9:31scary thought um hello they already do it what do you mean oh come on the government uses the news media big tech
9:37in hollywood to turn you people into sheep okay look having a point of view is not really mind control people can still
9:44think for themselves brookhaven scientists were excited to
9:49get started the montauk air force station was the perfect place it was deserted remote and had all the
9:55equipment they needed it even had the largest radar antenna in the world an antenna powerful enough to broadcast
10:02high-powered signals for hundreds of miles or more the goal was to broadcast on the right frequency that could alter
10:09and control the human mind the montauk experiment had now begun
10:22duncan cameron having superior psychic abilities was key to the project he was
10:27able to withstand a tremendous amount of electromagnetic energy and this was necessary to survive the montauk chair
10:34the montauk chair was essentially a mind-reading device it was a large metal chair covered in coils and sensors and
10:41also connected to the chair were three receivers six channels and a cray supercomputer if you sat in the montauk
10:48chair your psychic abilities could be tremendously amplified whatever image was in your mind was displayed on the
10:55computer screen the first tests were to see what would happen when cameron was electrocuted with different amounts and
11:01frequencies of energy they learned that different frequencies could elicit different emotions and specific
11:08frequencies could make him sleep that could be useful animals in the area were also affected by transmissions there
11:14were reports of deer running out of the woods into town and throwing themselves against the glass windows of the stores
11:21on main street soon they were able to perform what researchers called the seeing eye if cameron had a lock of
11:28someone’s hair or some personal object he could see through that person’s eyes hear through their ears and feel
11:34whatever that person’s body felt he could do this with anyone on the planet very similar to what remote viewers can
11:41do using duncan cameron’s psychic abilities and the technology at montauk
11:46scientists were finally able to control people’s thoughts then they learned how to load information commands and entire
11:53programs onto an individual’s mind and this technique could be adjusted to make people do things they wouldn’t normally
11:59do assassination sabotage even self-sacrifice if that was the mission
12:05over time the experiments became even more advanced cameron was now able to manifest physical objects with his mind
12:12if he thought of an apple or a baseball the object would appear first on the computer screen then holographically and
12:19then finally as an actual solid object in the real world this breakthrough would lead the researchers of the
12:26montauk project to their main experiment using a huge new antenna and multiple transmitters they could create a vortex
12:33a vortex that someone could step through and into another time
12:39[Music] dr john van neumann was one of the great
12:46mathematicians of his time he also made contributions to physics computer science economics quantum mechanics and
12:53lots more naturally the united states put him to work on the manhattan project as well as many other top-secret
13:00government programs dr van neumann died young of cancer in 1958 but that turned
13:05out to be a lie he was actually placed in a program similar to witness protection to hide his identity and
13:12preston nichols was able to find him and talk to him about the experiments in montauk and how they connected to the
13:18philadelphia experiment van neumann now an old man had been waiting 40 years for
13:23this very moment he said when the uss eldridge reappeared after the experiment
13:28it was fatal to most of the crew van neumann knew how to fix this one of the ship’s power generators had
13:34malfunctioned during the experiment this is why so many men died but if someone could go back and disable the faulty
13:41generator the ship would come back properly and no lives would be lost albilic and duncan cameron were selected
13:47to go but they were nervous about it dr van neumann told them not to worry he knew this would work according to the
13:54ship’s records they had already succeeded back in montauk duncan sat in the chair and created a portal to the
14:00uss eldridge in 1943 duncan and his brother jumped back onto the ship and disabled the generator edward decided to
14:07stay in 1943 and when duncan returned back to montauk something had happened
14:12as many jumps through time and caused him to age very rapidly and he was now dying of old age now this could be a
14:19disaster because duncan is linked to so many events in the past that paradoxes
14:24could form to prevent these disasters the montauk technology was used to send a message through time to duncan’s
14:30father duncan cameron senior at that point duncan senior only had one child a daughter but he was instructed to get
14:37busy and make baby boys because a lot depended on it when duncan jr was born in 1951 the montauk scientists used the
14:45boy as a vessel for duncan’s current electromagnetic signature this would ensure continuity of the timeline
14:51without paradoxes and using a similar technique called age regression edward cameron’s consciousness was installed
14:58into the body of young albilic now if you’re finding this hard to follow you’re not the only one all these
15:04paradoxes and time travel missions were weighing on preston nichols he started to feel like he was doing more harm than
15:11good to the people in the program to the planet and to space time itself he decided it was time to shut down the
15:17program and for just the scenario the montauk project had a contingency protocol someone quietly walked up to
15:24duncan while he was in the chair and whispered the time is now the phrase worked and a nightmare
15:31followed
15:38upon hearing the words the time is now duncan cameron unleashed a monster from his subconscious but it wasn’t in the
15:45lab it was somewhere on the base preston nichols describes it as at least 10 feet tall hairy and vicious it was tearing
15:52through the base attacking everything in its path nickel supervisor ordered the power generators shut down but that had
15:59no effect the creature was still wreaking havoc building after building the montauk transmitter was shut down
16:06that didn’t work the main power coming from the utility company was cut that didn’t work power was still on being
16:13generated from somewhere and worst of all the creature was still on the loose
16:18nichols grabbed an acetylene torch and went to the building that housed the transmitter control unit he yanked out
16:24every wire he could reach the building lights went out but the transmitter continued to work and he could hear
16:30distant screams coming from somewhere on the base nichols then took the torch to the transmitter itself
16:36he cut wires conduits even large chunks of equipment he destroyed everything he
16:41could he says the burn marks can still be seen to this day finally the portal duncan cameron created closed and the
16:48creature vanished and for preston nichols this would be the end of the montauk project but for many of the
16:54victims this was only the beginning [Music]
17:00since the late 1940s and early 50s the government has had the capacity to
17:07what i call bend time
17:12the montauk project ran from the early 70s until 1983 and the story does sound
17:18far-fetched but there are many people who say preston nichols is telling the truth while the montauk project was
17:24operating it needed a constant supply of people for its experiments unfortunately
17:29most of these were children usually boys between 10 and 15 years old these children became known as the montauk
17:36boys montauk boys were usually runaways were taken from troubled homes like families suffering alcoholism drug
17:43addiction or abuse one of the montauk boys is named stuart swerdlow and as a
17:48boy swerdlow recalls having dreams of waking up in a dark room strapped to a hospital bed surrounded by strangers and
17:56the room was dark and damp and the walls were made of rock and preston nichols did say that the experiments took place
18:03deep underneath the montauk air force base one disturbing goal of the montauk project was to create an army of
18:09children whose minds could be programmed and controlled then they could be activated at any time they would carry
18:16out any mission no matter how horrible and not remember any of it montauk boys have been linked to events like
18:22columbine and the oklahoma city bombing in order to prepare the children for programming their minds had to be broken
18:29down this included starvation and torture they received electric shocks
18:34they were submerged in cold water to the point of almost drowning this was done day after day until the child’s mind was
18:40ready to accept new programming and many other men have come forward claiming to be one of the montauk boys one said he
18:47was forced to take lsd in what became known as the acid house another said his body was used as a sort of generator to
18:55feed psychics sitting in the montauk chair usually dunking cameron as you would expect many children did not
19:02survive this phase of the experiment and they’re said to be buried somewhere deep under the base still presumed missing
19:08after 40 years [Music]
19:14they wanted a large number of program boys to be used
19:19for mind control operations
19:25the experiments at montauk affected everything in the area television and radio signals were disrupted animals
19:32behaved strangely in 2008 this animal washed up on the beach at montauk
19:38it’s been called the montauk monster what is this now i should also point out that
19:44directly across the long island sound is plum island the location of the animal disease center rumors say this island
19:51has been used for animal experiments biological weapons and even testing human animal hybrids could this animal
19:58have come from plum island what’s interesting is the cdc center for disease control is part of america’s
20:05health and human services department plum island allegedly a scientific research facility is part of homeland
20:12security maybe we need to do an episode on this back to montauk christopher garritano
20:18was eight years old in 1983 and playing on montauk beach he found strange metal objects in the sand he dug
20:25them out and was walking back to his family to ask what they were then out of nowhere someone in a military uniform
20:32appeared and chased them off the beach this started a lifelong obsession for garritano and he would visit the base
20:38many times and during these visits he would find problems with the government’s official story the montauk
20:45air force base is not supposed to have underground levels garritano notes that there are manhole covers all over the
20:51property now sure those could be used for drainage but on one trip garatano
20:56brought a geophysicist along and using imaging equipment they proved that a large concrete building was buried 20
21:03feet down and many people have explored the buildings over the years and a few have video video that shows evidence of
21:10an underground complex that was buried and filled by concrete during one visit urban explorer brian minnick found
21:17receipts from the late 1980s that showed over 80 thousand dollars per week was spent on food that’s a lot of food for a
21:25base that was supposedly shut down in 1981 preston nicholls stewart swerdlow
21:30al bilik chris garritano bryan minik the names go on and on there are dozens of
21:36people maybe more all claiming to be part of the same experiment the us government denies all of it who do you
21:43believe i’m standing today
21:49to think of those who did not survive and whose families will forever live
21:56with the knowledge that their death and suffering was preventable i was the subject in
22:03radiation as well as mind control and drug experiments performed by a man i
22:08knew as dr green what the united states government did was shameful
22:14dr greene was using me mostly as a mind control subject from 1966 to 1973.
22:20what was done cannot be undone his objective was to gain control of my
22:26mind and train me to be a spy assassin i am
22:31sorry the next year i was sent to a lodge in maryland called deep creek cabins to learn how to sexually please
22:38men i was taught how to coerce them into talking about themselves only you have the power
22:45to forgive
22:51the montauk project has probably been my favorite conspiracy since preston nichols book first came out in 1992 i
22:58spent 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
23:05the air force base which is now called camp hero and this story has affected a lot of people the original title of the
23:12show stranger things was called montauk and a lot of stories are taken from nichols writing this episode was
23:18difficult to research and write because the more i learned about my favorite conspiracy theory the less i liked the
23:25people involved first albeelic he’s the man who said he served on the
23:30uss eldridge in 1943 in the body of edward cameron there is no record of any
23:36belik edward or duncan cameron serving aboard the eldridge or brothers with that name serving on any ship in the
23:42navy now supporters of the theory say their names were erased or changed by the government
23:48that’s fair in belich’s writings he used pictures of his family edward and duncan cameron and others they were all proved
23:55to be untrue most suspicious of all belichick had no memories of the philadelphia experiment until he saw the
24:02movie in 1984 he said the movie brought his memories back but his story is
24:08surprisingly similar to the movie he also struggled with paranoia and other psychological problems he made a meager
24:15but sufficient living off selling cds and merchandise and talking at ufo conventions he died in 2007. many people
24:23still believe his story and they claim that the government has sponsored a disinformation campaign to discredit him
24:30okay now stewart’s wordlo he’s a character he’s still around and claims
24:35to be a montauk boy he also claims to speak 10 languages that no one’s ever heard him speak his dna has been spliced
24:42with aliens he’s been imprisoned by the illuminati he can see auric fields he can travel hyperspace he’s a descendant
24:49of atlantis i can go on he’s basically been at the center of every conspiracy theory that exists
24:55moon bases hollow earth people yep even lizard people oh i create such
25:01a wacky story well you can hire stuart to deprogram you for a fee ah that’s why
25:07now 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
25:14maybe all his potions and vitamins and dog treats will help you reach enlightenment but i don’t recommend
25:20buying his products did you just say dog treats oh yeah he sells all kinds of stuff no speaking of selling did you
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25:38nichols for last there were rumors circulating about montauk for a long time before nichols came along but
25:44preston nichols is the main man behind the current theory and he’s the only man behind it he actually opens his first
25:51book like this this word is being presented as non-fiction as it contains no falsehoods
25:57to the best knowledge of the authors however it can also be read as pure science fiction
26:03if that is more suitable to the reader there are a lot of things that don’t add up nichols says the montauk experiment
26:09took place 10 stories below ground maybe lower and that there are tunnels deep underground that connect to other secret
26:16locations in the united states now that might work in some parts of the u.s but it won’t work in montauk when glaciers
26:22move they pick up all kinds of sand dirt and debris kind of like a push broom and when the glaciers recede the debris
26:29remains and this is called a glacial moraine long island is essentially a pile of glacier debris mostly sand you
26:36just can’t dig very deep there this is why the only skyscrapers in the area are downtown manhattan that’s where the
26:42bedrock is nothing else can support deep digging but there’s one final conspiracy about preston nichols we need to discuss
26:50and if you have little ones watching please send them away for a few minutes really
27:01[Music] okay
27:07you might remember preston nichols used a deep programming technique on duncan cameron well nichols describes this
27:13technique in his books though it rarely makes it into the fun youtube videos about the montauk project
27:19to be deprogrammed preston nichols has to touch you while you’re in an aroused state now i won’t give the
27:26specifics here but i think you understand what i mean and nichols deprogrammed a lot of young
27:32men all the time preston nichols had built a replica of the montauk chair and
27:37the research room an eyewitnesses said nichols would go into the room with a man usually in his early 20s there’d be
27:44some noise about 20 or 30 minutes later the young man would come out disheveled often with an uneasy look on his face
27:52and nickels would be covered in sweat at one point nichols was deprogramming as
27:57many as 25 montauk boys a few times a week who he unfortunately called
28:02disciples and they all shared a house not far from nichols and nobody knows exactly how many men or deep programming
28:09sessions were involved but it was a lot now in the books about the montauk project preston nichols is a man caught
28:15up in a conspiracy greater than he could imagine he lives a double life he meets famous scientists he makes breakthroughs
28:23in technology that exist only in science fiction in these stories he’s a hero
28:28but the truth is preston nichols is a villain because of the proliferation of the montauk project theory dozens of men
28:36most of whom had a mental illness addiction issues suffered child abuse or all the above believed they were part of
28:43this conspiracy this delusion gave their lives meaning and it gave them someone to blame that
28:49wasn’t themselves or their families and being a montauk boy gave them a place to belong a new family of people
28:56who understood the pain of what they were going through and here was preston nicholls to the rescue
29:01able to deprogram them of all the negative experiences they suffered from the experiment preston nichols took
29:07advantage of these young men for years while other liars and frauds helped him
29:13weave a rich complex narrative a narrative that still continues and this conspiracy is believable because the
29:19government has done most of the awful things nichols claims drugging people against their will kidnapping torture
29:26they’ve done all of this and worse the government also spent a lot of resources exploring psychic phenomena the montauk
29:33project is a conspiracy grounded in a whole lot of facts but when preston nichols al bilik and stuart swerdlow
29:40added their own details like time travel aliens and conjuring monsters out of
29:45thin air they built a house of cards none of their stories can exist without the other if we’re able to debunk just
29:52one small detail of any one of their stories the house of cards made of fraud and
29:58abuse collapses and then all that’s left are the victims
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