{"id":96895,"date":"2020-10-24T21:38:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T18:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/inside-the-camp-hero-montauk-project-conspiracy\/"},"modified":"2020-10-24T21:38:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T18:38:35","slug":"inside-the-camp-hero-montauk-project-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/inside-the-camp-hero-montauk-project-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"#Inside the Camp Hero &#8216;Montauk Project&#8217; conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2ed14ab8c37\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2ed14ab8c37\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/inside-the-camp-hero-montauk-project-conspiracy\/#The_abandoned_WWII_radar_tower_and_surrounding_Camp_Hero\" >The abandoned WWII radar tower and surrounding Camp Hero<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/inside-the-camp-hero-montauk-project-conspiracy\/#The_Montauk_Lighthouse_near_Camp_Hero\" >The Montauk Lighthouse near Camp Hero<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Inside the Camp Hero &#8216;Montauk Project&#8217; conspiracy<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        Joe Loffreno has worked at the wild, craggy Eastern tip of Long Island now called <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/parks.ny.gov\/parks\/camphero\/maps.aspx\">Camp Hero State Park<\/a> for 18 years. He knows the spooky, abandoned military base \u2014 which supposedly inspired the Netflix \u00ad<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> \u201cStranger Things\u201d \u2014 better than most.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a place that\u2019s dominated my life and my nightmares,\u2019 he told The Post.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_abandoned_WWII_radar_tower_and_surrounding_Camp_Hero\"><\/span>The abandoned WWII radar tower and surrounding Camp Hero<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><!--If the slideshow is embedded in another post type add the inline wrapper --><\/p>\n<p>Many locals in Montauk mock the tales about Camp Hero being the site of secret government experiments involving mind control, time <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>, wormholes, teleportation and kids hooked up to wires in hidden underground labs.<\/p>\n<p>The rumors took hold in 1992, 11 years after the military base at Camp Hero was shut down. A (now widely debunked) book called <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Montauk-Project-Experiments-Time\/dp\/0963188909?tag=nypost-20\">\u201cThe Montauk Project: Experiments in Time,\u201d<\/a> by Preston Nichols, told of sinister, Nazi-style experiments that meddled \u2014 \u00adgenetically and psychologically \u2014 with kidn<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed local boys.<\/p>\n<p>Historian Henry Osmers laments how the conspiracy theories have brought in gawkers who ignore the official military history of the area, one that dates to the Revolutionary War, in favor of hunting down aliens.<\/p>\n<p>Another local, Paul Fagan, spent 14 years exploring Camp Hero and painstakingly researching government documents at the National Archives in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>He told The Post there may be a nuclear reactor secretly buried at the site, installed around 1958 as part of the Cold War-era Army \u00adNuclear Power Program. Fagan suspects that the conspiracy theories about Camp Hero may have been planted to deflect from the possible reactor.<\/p>\n<p>And then there\u2019s Loffreno. The 53-year-old grew up in Montauk and now works as a parks employee at Camp Hero. He also sincerely believes he\u2019s one of the lost and tortured \u201cMontauk Boys\u201d popularized in Nichols\u2019 book.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16507073\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"size-nypost-large-desktop-uncropped wp-image-16507073 lazyload\" alt=\"Joe Loffreno works at what is now Camp Hero State Park. He believes that he was abducted as a boy and taken through one of the old gunnery tunnels (left) to an underground lab where experiments were conducted on him.\" width=\"661\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/military-base-8-copy-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/military-base-8-copy-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/military-base-8-copy-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/military-base-8-copy-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=661 661w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/military-base-8-copy-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1322 1322w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 661px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>Joe Loffreno works at what is now Camp Hero State Park. He believes that he was abducted as a boy and taken through one of the old gunnery tunnels (left) to an underground lab where experiments were conducted on him.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t believe it until two years ago,\u201d Loffreno told The Post. \u201cI was hypnotized [by a certified hypnotist] for about 40 minutes and all these memories flooded back. They did a very bad thing to us out there. We were just little kids. They had no right to experiment on us. It was a very dark, very evil thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He believes he was abducted and abused during the summer of 1980 and possibly during the summer of 1981, when he was 12 or 13. He recalled under hypnosis that a local boy whom no one knew very well invited him to bike to the base.<\/p>\n<p>The first time, Loffreno said, there were two men waiting. Dressed in civilian clothes, they ushered the boys into a sunken house on the base. Later, he said, he and other boys were brought underground through Battery 113, one of the sealed gunneries left from World War II.<\/p>\n<p>He remembers lying on a table with wires coming out of him like electrodes: \u201cThey analyzed us like animals.\u201d He said there were up to 50 other kids there. He believes some of them were later killed.<\/p>\n<p>It would be easy to write him off as a kook, but he is gainfully employed at the park, has a steady girlfriend and appears to have a solid relationship with his kids. \u00adLocals call him a friend.<\/p>\n<p>He said that, while under hypnosis, he went to the location he remembered with another parks employee, Charlie, who was also interviewed by The Post. There, they found remnants of the sunken house from his visions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16507082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"size-nypost-large-desktop-uncropped wp-image-16507082 lazyload\" alt=\"A Demogorgon and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown, right) from &quot;Stranger Things&quot;.\" width=\"661\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/stranger-things-1-copy.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/stranger-things-1-copy.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/stranger-things-1-copy.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/stranger-things-1-copy.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=661 661w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/stranger-things-1-copy.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1322 1322w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 661px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>A Demogorgon and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown, right) from \u201cStranger Things\u201d.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(Park superintendent Tom Dess did not return calls for comment.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we had a backhoe and my boss let me dig in that spot, which I know he won\u2019t, I can guarantee we\u2019d find some cement structures down there,\u201d Loffreno said.<\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker Christopher Garetano, who grew up near Montauk, made the 2014 documentary <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Montauk-Chronicles\/dp\/B00ISGZ65W?tag=nypost-20\">\u201cMontauk Chronicles\u201d<\/a> that detailed the allegations of three men \u2014 Nichols, Al Bie\u00adlek and Stewart Swerdlow \u2014 who say they were brainwashed and forced against their will to take part in experiments at Camp Hero between 1971 and 1983.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s and \u201980s, Nichols led something called the \u201cpsychotronic movement\u201d that claimed government agents used electromagnetic waves to plant thoughts in people\u2019s heads. Nichols, who died two years ago, claimed he was part of the so-called Montauk Project but recovered his memories only after the fact.<\/p>\n<p>Garetano told The Post he felt that Nichols and the others were not believable. But he went on to explore Camp Hero so doggedly that he employed a geophysicist to analyze the ground beneath the<br \/>old base. He said they found evidence of large structures not seen on any official maps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForget all the alien and MK \u00adUltra [a CIA mind-control experiment from the 1950s and \u201960s] crap,\u201d he said. \u201cI think there was some type of experimentation out there using kids or teenagers, maybe runaways from New York.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16507103\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img class=\"size-nypost-large-desktop-uncropped wp-image-16507103 lazyload\" alt=\"Archival image of the radar tower when it was in use.\" width=\"294\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/montauk-project-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/montauk-project-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/montauk-project-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/montauk-project-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=294 294w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/montauk-project-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=588 588w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 294px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>Archival image of the radar tower when it was in use.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">ZUMAPRESS.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>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. It sits on 755 acres of thick forests and desolate wetlands with spectacular, 360-degree views of the Atlantic Ocean and Block Island Sound.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Nichols\u2019 series of books \u2014 and the success of \u201cStranger Things\u201d \u2014 Camp Hero has become Long Island\u2019s Area 51: an eerie site straight out of the \u201cTwilight Zone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Looming high above it all is the last of the super-powered, Cold-War-era SAGE radar towers constructed in the event of a Soviet nuclear attack \u2014 with the intention of giving the US a 30-minute warning. The antennae emitted up to 425MHz, which is also the frequency allegedly needed to enter human consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Even locals who decry the \u00ad\u201csecret underground base\u201d stories admit that when the tower was up and running, it interfered with television sets and other electronics, and that many people reported suffering from headaches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to add fuel to the fire because I don\u2019t believe all the zombie stuff,\u201d said one resident of 40 years. \u201cBut the impact that tower had on the town was real. I don\u2019t know if it affected our thoughts like some people say, but it was a force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The now-rusting 90-foot tower and 40-foot-wide dish is a draw for tourists who come to explore the WWII gunner outposts and spooky, boarded-up buildings.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Montauk_Lighthouse_near_Camp_Hero\"><\/span>The Montauk Lighthouse near Camp Hero<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><!--If the slideshow is embedded in another post type add the inline wrapper --><\/p>\n<p>The Army designed the base to look like a fishing village \u2014 even though soldiers actually lived there \u2014 to fool the Nazis. A \u201cchurch\u201d that was actually a gym for officers remains, but a series of Cape Cod-style houses have been torn down. After the war, the Air Force took over the site, shutting it down in 1981. At that point, according to Nichols\u2019 books and a host of other researchers, bizarre things started happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe it\u2019s entirely possible that [the human experiment stories are] true,\u201d said Peter Bov\u00e9, a former Manhattan advertising executive and author of the novel <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Montauk-Time-Peter-Dominic-Bov%C3%A9\/dp\/165662284X\/ref=sr_1_1?tag=nypost-20\">\u201cMontauk Time.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cScientifically, physiologically, it\u2019s all conceivably real. I believe there were Army experiments out there that involved interdimensional travel and the fallout from that still exists, like a tear in the space-time continuum,\u201d said Bove, who has spent summers in the area since childhood and knows just about everyone in town. \u201cHaving said that, there\u2019s no hard evidence that I\u2019ve seen to prove it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nichols\u2019 co-writer Vincent Barbarick (who used the pen name Peter Moon), told The Post: \u201cWe\u2019re dealing with phenomena that is not just 3D. If you research sacred geometry, Montauk is known for being a power vortex. Geologically, it\u2019s an underground mountain that comes up. It\u2019s its own separate island in a way. Something happened out there, that I\u2019m sure of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even Fagan, who avoided researching the conspiracy theories at Camp Hero, said the place draws people in and takes a toll.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many people, including me, who spent any time looking into Camp Hero ended up completely different people afterwards,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a strange coincidence but I\u2019ve seen it happen to multiple people. I got so squirrely, I had to leave town for a while. All I can say is the imagination is one hell of a machine that can affect you to the point where you no longer know what\u2019s true and what isn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" name=\"6456b2666c39c89a98fbf42446f596b6\">  <iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"wpcom-iframe-6456b2666c39c89a98fbf42446f596b6\" width=\"\" height=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.nypost.com\/protected-iframe\/6456b2666c39c89a98fbf42446f596b6\" scrolling=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"wpcom-protected-iframe\"><br \/>\n    <\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/article\/camp-hero-montauk-project-conspiracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Inside the Camp Hero &#8216;Montauk Project&#8217; conspiracy&#8221; Joe Loffreno has worked at the wild, craggy Eastern tip of Long Island now called Camp Hero State Park for 18 years. He knows the spooky, abandoned military base \u2014 which supposedly inspired the Netflix \u00adseries \u201cStranger Things\u201d \u2014 better than most. \u201cIt\u2019s a place that\u2019s dominated my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/eleven-stranger-things.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[73418,77066,73008,24970],"class_list":["post-96895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-montauk","tag-montauk-project","tag-psychology","tag-stranger-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}