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- NARRATOR: D-Day, June 1944.

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of the deadliest conflict
in human history.

Before the war,
the American military

is ranked the 17th largest
in the world.

By the time it ends...

it's number one.

Yet in its quest to remain

the newly minted pre-eminent
global superpower,

the United States
government engages

in a pattern of covert behavior

that sees it experiment
on its own citizens.

Its purpose, increasing
America's military might.

- The CIA does not deny that the
experiments took place.

- NARRATOR: The depth
and breadth of these

government programs is beyond
our wildest imagination.

- Many Americans would prefer
not to remember

the syphilis study
at Tuskegee.

- NARRATOR: And leave many
to wonder what other

government secrets
remain undiscovered?

In today's climate,

where everything is
viewed with skepticism,

the truly evil is easily hidden.

To penetrate this
sinister world,

a trio of inspired citizens
is ready to find out,

to look beyond the surface,

imagining the unimaginable.

With a hope to
uncovering the truth

of America's dark files.

Montauk Point,

the eastern most
tip of Long Island.

Just three hours from the
big city and bright lights

of Manhattan.

Yet a world unto itself.

Home to a one of a
kind radar tower,

a sprawling park
called Camp Hero

and an endless collection
of unnerving rumors.

Christopher Garetano
grew up on the Island.

- I started hearing
all these strange

and bizarre stories
about Montauk.

A multitude of things
that were anomalous

and not normal.

Every 12 seconds the
radar tower'd rotate

and there would be
animals freaking out

and people getting headaches
and bad dreams.

And you know people's
electronic equipment

would go haywire.

There would be you know,
covert military vans,

helicopters have been
around the perimeter.

And of course the
Montauk monster.

- NARRATOR: The government
states this site

is a shuttered military base
that once protected Americans.

But there are also claims

that within Camp Hero's
concrete fortresses,

lie the remains of a deep
government conspiracy.

- When I was a kid,

my summers would be
spent in Montauk.

- NARRATOR: Garetano's
history with Camp Hero

goes back to 1983.

Exactly two years after
the base is shut down.

- I was maybe eight years old.

And I was walking down the beach
with my uncle and my father

looking for shells and I was
walking a little further

away from my uncle
and my father

and I saw these
giant iron, round,

kind of spherical things with
spikes sticking out of them.

And that's when this
military personnel came out

and he told us to
go the other way,

can't go any further.

- NARRATOR: A decommissioned
base that still

secures its perimeter,

Garetano and his father find
the contradiction puzzling.

- That moment was
extremely important

because that's when
my curiosity began.

I thought if the
base is closed down,

why is it so tightly guarded?

What are they hiding?

- NARRATOR: He makes
over 100 trips here

in the ensuing
years to find out.

And he isn't alone
in his curiosity.

Over the years,

swarms of people breach the
tower's gated perimeter.

Hoping to get below ground
and search for answers

to Montauk's bizarre mysteries

before being chased away
by its tight security.

In 1992, years of rumors,
speculation, and innuendo

find a common voice when a
book is published called,

The Montauk Project .

- The Montauk Project
at its core

is a collection of everything
you could possibly think of

in the world of paranormal
and conspiratorial ideas.

Children being
kidnapped in a secret

government mind control project.

Then there's aspects of the
alien thing and time travel

and all of these different
ideas that are integrated

with this idea of mind control.

- NARRATOR: Preston Nichols
is the author and architect

ofThe Montauk Project .

And according to people
who knew him in the 1980s,

a brilliant scientist
with a wide following.

His book provides a
suite of explanations

to Montauk's many legends.

And further feeds
the rumor mill.

Were children pulled
off the streets

of surrounding communities

and used in mind
control experiments

at Camp Hero?

Did this base and its
purported underground

once serve as a venue
for time travel?

Why did the military
depart this place

with such abandon?

And why is it's
former nerve center

still off limits?

What is the American
government hiding?

And is Camp Hero the site

of yet another official
government cover up?

As Garetano tries to
answer these questions

over the years,

he immerses himself in Montauk,

a personal investigation

that becomes a decade
long obsession.

And he documents it all on film.

- It was after I learned
about MKUltra

and it was after
I learned about

government programs
that actually happened

that I became obsessed.

It was like everything you
learned in science fiction

is now real.

I actually started to believe
what was being told to me.

- NARRATOR: Garetano compiles
his years of footage

into a 2015 documentary called
theMontauk Chronicles .

Allowing Nichols
and his supporters

to tell their story in detail.

But Garetano believes
the Montauk mystery

goes much deeper than that.

And he thinks there's
evidence to be found

that will either prove
or disprove this story

once and for all.

- What keeps me up
at night regarding

this whole thing
is that I believe

at least some of it is true.

And that I'd like to prove it.

I think it's really important
that I either put it to rest

or we prove that it-
it happened.

- NARRATOR: A fresh
active investigation

into the incredible
allegations at Montauk.

To assist him,
Garetano is bringing

in two men who offer a
wide array of experiences

from opposite ends
of the spectrum.

- My name is Barry Eisler,

I spent three years
in a covert position

with the CIA.

These days I write
novels full time,

political thrillers.

- NARRATOR: Eisler's
time at the Agency

afforded him a
unique look inside

the belly of the
American government.

- Based on my own
experiences in the CIA,

and based on the public record,

you can see the sort of group
think that would take hold

and allow people to suspend
what they would otherwise

consider to be their
ethical base,

their own morality in the
name of say national security

and wind up doing
some terrible things.

- NARRATOR: To counter Eisler,

Garetano finds a
well-known skeptic.

- My name's Steve Volk.

I'm a contributing editor
at Discover Magazine,

a writer at large at
Philadelphia Magazine,

and a contributor to
the Washington Post.

- NARRATOR: Respected in Philly

as a hard hitting
crime reporter,

a skeptical Volk
is known nationally

as the author ofFringe-ology

a critically acclaimed
work of non-fiction

that attempts to explain
away the paranormal.

- Usually people stay
away from something

this fringe-y.

But you've gotta
leave the door open

to a story like this.

When there's so many
people who believe it

who are orienting
their lives around it,

it's up to the rest of
us I think to engage.

- NARRATOR: Garetano
knows both men

have at least one
thing in common.

A deep knowledge of the
American government's

pattern of questionable behavior

in the name of
geopolitical superiority.

- The reason that Americans
are so interested

in conspiracy theories is
that conspiracies happen.

- Look at real
historical incidents

like the Tuskegee
syphilis experiments.

- It's one of the
most shameful episodes

in American history.

- NARRATOR: The Tuskegee
syphilis study

ran from 1932 to 1972.

It's purpose?

Observe the natural progression of untreated syphilis

in 600 African-American men
in Alabama.

Under the guise that these men
would receive free healthcare

from the U.S. government.

- They were just allowed
to suffer and die

from the disease so that the
scientists could just observe

what happens if you
have untreated syphilis.

- What the United States
government did

was shameful and I am sorry.

- Sounds like something
out of a movie

but it's real.

- NARRATOR: Real...
only because it was

proven so by whistleblowers
40 years after it began.

Tuskegee is one example of
many in American history.

- What we've seen ever
since World War II

is not any kind of downsizing
of these programs

but their continued growth.

- In the councils of government,

we must guard against

the military industrial complex.

- The phrase the military
industrial complex,

the idea is this,

it's a synergistic relationship

between the military
on the one hand

and the private
corporations that supply

the military with its
hardware on the other.

- The potential for
the disastrous rise

of misplaced power
exists and will persist.

- The more we learn
about history,

I am forced to conclude

that the U.S. government
is perfectly capable

of doing barbarous stuff

in the name of science,

in the name of
national security.

So, if we're going to
dispassionately, logically,

and as objectively
as possible evaluate

allegations of human
experimentation

at Camp Hero in Montauk,

we can't do that in
an historical vacuum.

- NARRATOR: Yet the
question remains:

Is there any hard proof to show that unspeakable behavior

occurred at Camp Hero
in Montauk?

Is yet another
government conspiracy

ready to be uncovered?

Day one of the investigation.

Arrival at Camp Hero

and Eisler and Volk's
first times seeing

the radar tower in person.

- From here it looks
like some alien thing.

- Yeah, it look
ominous from here.

- NARRATOR: Once a
military base,

the site today consists
of over 400 acres

of wooded parkland.

The radar tower is situated
almost dead center

within the park.

- There's that big old beast.

It's a ghost of World War II
you know.

A total relic.

- NARRATOR: And is ground zero for the conspiracy theory.

- CHRIS: This is where they
say allegedly underneath

the ground everything
was happening.

And again, you know,

if you listen to all the
people that tell this story

that say they were part of it,

they're not saying it
happened above ground.

I mean, very few
things did in regard

to the Montauk Project.

They're saying it happened
beneath the ground,

deep beneath the ground.

- NARRATOR: Beneath the
ground at Camp Hero,

if the rumors are true,
buried under the radar tower,

exists the most
complex and powerful

secret laboratory
in U.S. history.

And it's purpose
is mind bending.

Using the radars powerful
radio frequencies,

scientists get inside
the human mind.

Tapping into consciousness

and reading people's thoughts.

Then applying
technology supposedly

given to them by aliens,

these scientists create
what becomes known

as the Montauk chair

which projects these thoughts

to a remote location.

But this chair proves
eminently functional.

It also is said to have opened
up a vortex for time travel.

- The official word is there's
nothing underground.

But I really think there's
something to hide there.

I think it's really
important that

we try and break
through the cement.

That we look deep
inside the base.

If we can look
underground 60, 70 feet,

it's a way we can prove
or disprove the project.

If we can find
something the country

would have a whole new
perspective on our history.

- NARRATOR: Is the truth
buried below Camp Hero?

According to locals
and others who

snuck inside before the
park service secured

its exposed entrances,

there exists a complex system

of interconnected,
multi-level tunnels.

Yet the blueprints of the base

made available to the public

show no interconnectivity
at all.

- So much of this story hinges
on the idea that there's

tunnels and secret rooms,

this vast underground
network underneath Montauk.

So, as part of
our investigation,

we applied for a
permit from Camp Hero

to go underground.

- Why is this separate
from the rest of it?

- And they denied that request.

- I've seen a lot
of different shows

where people go into
abandoned buildings

or hazardous places

and as long as there's
safety measures taken,

people do it.

Why can't we go into Camp Hero?

There's something they
don't want us to know.

a scenic hamlet in Long Island's luxurious Hamptons.

To others, the sight of an
deep government conspiracy.

- Most locals will
automatically dismiss this

as a joke or as a hoax.

But it's like you living
next door to John Wayne Gassy

for 30 years thinking
he's this wonderful,

jovial man who couldn't
possibly hurt anybody.

But under your nose for 30 years
he's been killing people

and burying them
underneath the crawlspace

and that's right next door.

- NARRATOR: Filmmaker
Christopher Garetano

has spent a decade
investing Camp Hero

and has invited former
Central Intelligence Agency

operative Barry Eisler,
a diligent truth seeker

and journalist and
author Steve Volk,

a healthy skeptic to
join him in looking into

the Montauk Project's claims.

- Rumors and allegations
about what went on at Montauk

range from the easy
to believe I think

to the much more
difficult to believe.

- The Montauk Conspiracy
includes everything from

aliens, time travel,
mind control, to Nazis,

brainwashing, implanted
memories and erased memories.

Gonna be fun to dig into it.

- NARRATOR: Yet according
to the official record,

Camp Hero is something
else entirely.

Originally commissioned
by the United States Army

during World War II,
this remote ocean side camp

is disguised as a fishing
village with two behemoth

16 inch, 66 foot guns
protecting New York

from German U-boats.

In 1958 during the Cold War,
Camp Hero becomes

an integral part of
America's semi-automatic

ground environment system,
aka, Sage Radar.

The base is transferred to
the United States Air Force.

Montauk's tower is
the mother station

to a series of
smaller manned radars

sitting on platforms in the
ocean along the East Coast.

This iron shield
provides U.S. forces

with an extra 30 minutes
of warning time

in the event of an incoming
Soviet nuclear attack.

Only 12 of these massive
tower systems were installed

across the United States.

Today, the tower at Montauk
is the only one left standing

and is a national
historic monument.

But it has also become
a monument to possibly

the darkest alleged government
conspiracy in U.S. history.

One of the earliest
spokesman of this legend

was a man named Al Bielek.

Garetano meets Bielek in 2006

while working on
his documentary.

In the late 80s, Bielek
comes forward with

recovered memories of
working as a scientist

on the Philadelphia Experiment.

A forerunner to the
Montauk Project.

- The Philadelphia Experiment
is an incident in which

the U.S. government
is alleged to have tried

to deploy a new radar
cloaking technology

on a Navy ship
called the Eldridge,

inadvertently having
sent this ship

in some sort of time travel.

- NARRATOR: While the story
states that the Eldridge

traveled only a few seconds
through time

Bielek claims that
he was on the ship

and it actually traveled
40 years into the future,

ending up in Montauk.

- We could go across galaxies
to the other side of the galaxy

which was longer than
25,000 light years

in two or three seconds.

[dramatic music]

- NARRATOR: As the men wind
their way through Camp Hero

to an area Bielek
claims is a hot spot,

they come across a
man who appears to be

some kind of park worker.

- CHRIS: We have a question,
you're working with

the Army Corps of Engineers sir?

- WORKER: Well that's
our client.

- CHRIS: So what exactly are
they doing today?

- They just you know
'cause this used to be

a former military base.

We just do surveys
to see if there's

any other hazardous
materials still out there.

- Are you aware
of the conspiracy

surrounding this base.

- Actually I got more
on my team that's

actually working up there
at the radar tower right now

and that's supposed to
be the main room where,

there's supposed to
be a bunker beneath

where they had all the
time travel experiments

and that kind of weird stuff.

So I'm not really sure,
I'm not positive.

I'm really low on
the totem pole here.

I'm just out, I'm just
a field botanist.

I don't know the exact details.

- NARRATOR: The trio wrap up
their spontaneous interview.

- CHRIS: You guys you hearing
all the drilling

and everything to our left?

See over there, that's where
they're working right there.

Yeah.

According to Steve the botanist.

- NARRATOR: An interview
raises more questions

than it answers.

After the botanist brings
up a supposed underground

that allegedly once
served as a venue

for time travel experimentation.

- Not that I'm a
conspiracy theorist,

it's just, we filed for a
permit several months ago,

they knew we were gonna be here.

I'm mean it could
be a coincidence,

but it's just kind a weird
that three months ago

give or take these guys knew
we were gonna be out here

doing some kind
of investigation.

And at the same time we arrive,
they've got the Army

Corps of Engineers out here.
- Right.

[dramatic music]

- BARRY: Oh man,
that's beautiful.

- STEVE: Yeah, it's gorgeous.

It's very hard for me
to have dark thoughts

looking out at this.

- NARRATOR: The men
arrive at a bluff

on the park's eastern most edge,

about a mile away
from the radar tower

and some 75 feet above
the Atlantic Ocean.

This is the location
Al Bielek claims

is linked by Montauk's
underground tunnel system.

[suspenseful music]

- You walk into the entrance
of this thing in the,

opening in the wall
when it's operating.

You get sucked in, you come
out the other end,

get dumped on the
ground sort of.

And uh...

125,000 light years and you're
on another planetary system

on the opposite
side of the galaxy.

- He said that these
strange energetic devices

that generated power for
a time travel device.

It was partially buried
deep in the soil.

It's right out here
where you're looking

is where Al Bielek
said the USS Eldridge

appeared briefly in 1983 and
then disappeared right here.

- Chris's position seems
to be that is where

the time travel aspect
of the Montauk Experiment

would have taken place.

Somewhere underground by
some unknown technology.

I know that it's a
theoretical scientific

possibility for sure,

but I also know that
as a practical matter

we don't really know that we'll
ever actually be able to do it

and send people backward
or forward in time.

- NARRATOR: If the skeptic
Volk agrees that time travel

is a theoretical scientific
possibility,

couldn't it also be
possible that Al Bielek

and others in the
Montauk Project

found a scientific answer?

- Okay, let's talk about
the time travel thing.

If you rewind back 100 years,
we thought we knew everything.

All of the technology and
things we've discovered

between now and then we
once science fiction.

So why is it so
unbelievable or unfathomable

to consider all
of the other more

elaborate aspects
of this whole story?

- NARRATOR: If what Bielek
claims is true,

then underneath
this remote bluff

exists time travel capabilities.

Could there be a way to peer
into the rock and soil

and see evidence
of such structures

without breaking the terms
of the park permit?

If such a capability exists,
would there be proof

of a network of
interconnected tunnels

to and from the radar tower?

To find a potential
link between the two,

the men return to the beating
heart of the conspiracy.

- We check with the
people in charge

and they say absolutely no way
and we're not allowed to go.

They're up our asses
the whole time.

Not letting us go anywhere.

Alright, so let's hop the fence.

- It's such a temptation...

so appealing.

- NARRATOR: Each of the men know that just a brief glimpse

beyond these secure gates
may provide the answer

to this mystery,

but if they're caught,
a permit revocation

and possible arrest.

- CHRIS: So many times I've
been over this fence.

We get so used to it that
we don't even care anymore,

it's like Eric look,
anyone coming.

Nope, jump the fence, go,
run, grab our gear.

I have footage of us hopping
this fence many times.

You just step on
this chain over here.

[fence creaking]

- BARRY: It's moving around
a lot, are you sure?

- PARK WORKER: Excuse me,

you guys gotta come outta there.

The Montauk Project,

An alleged government
conspiracy,

that claims below this
former military base

at the tip of New York,

a covert government
program was housed

that saw experiments in time
travel and mind control.

If proven true, this tale
speaks to the worst of man,

and the darkest depths of
the American government.

The men know that getting
into the radar tower,

an enclosed area where no
one is permitted access,

is key to their investigation.

- PARK WORKER: Excuse me.

You guys gotta
come out of there.

- NARRATOR: But the park service has only granted the group

a restricted permit for filming.

They aren't allowed to
dig into the ground,

or breach the tower's
gated perimeter.

- Why couldn't we have
certain regulations

just to go past the gates,
film around,

stay on the grass,
stay on the path?

We're not even
allowed to do that.

So he's taking photos of us?

You're not at all
suspicious of these guys,

you think they're just
normal maintenance dudes?

- NARRATOR: Tight security
or simply maintenance workers

going about their business?

Since Garetano made his
documentary in 2015,

he's cataloged a variety
of strange occurrences,

and met a number of characters

who have led him deeper
into this incredible story.

- A lot of people have been
coming forward

in the past two years,

claiming they were part
of the Montauk Project.

- NARRATOR: Many of those
speaking out claim to be

subjects of the most obscene
part of the legend,

that thousands of
at-risk children

were pulled off the streets
of neighboring cities,

taken below ground at Camp Hero, beaten and abused,

and then programmed
into super soldiers.

That the government,

through abduction and
then mind control,

created an army of super
secret sleeper cells,

to be called into
action on command.

This group is now collectively
called the Montauk Boys.

- There's a gentleman,
his name is James Bruce.

It's an alias,
you'll soon meet him.

- NARRATOR: James Bruce, a
subject in Garetano's film

on the alleged conspiracy,

and a self-proclaimed
Montauk Boy,

one of the super soldiers.

- He said that house back there,
he was brought into

and given a large
amount of hallucinogens,

and he even suggested
that Timothy Leary

was here at one point.

- Timothy Leary?

- Yeah.

Timothy Leary was designing
and administering LSD

in that house over there,
which he dubbed the acid house.

- NARRATOR: Could the
noted psychologist,

writer and psychedelic
advocate Timothy Leary,

have been in Montauk
during the Project?

If so, it's the first time
Volk is hearing about it.

- Does that make any
sense to you?

- Does it make sense that
Leary was part of this?

Why not?

I mean, he was a big
advocate for LSD,

he knew a lot about it, why not?

- I don't know he was
into forcibly

administering it to
children, however.

- Again, if you know about
all of these other programs,

this stuff isn't far-fetched.

I'm referring to MKUltra.

- I would treat MKUltra as
one example of how far

the U.S. government is
willing to go in secret,

and how far it's
able to go in secret,

in the name of
national security.

- NARRATOR: Revealed to the
public in the mid-1970s

by a congressional committee
called the Church Commission,

MKUltra is a CIA program
that runs for 20 years,

starting in 1953.

Its purpose?

The CIA conducts experiments
on human subjects,

intended to test and
develop drugs to be used

in interrogations and torture,

in order to weaken individuals,

to force confessions
using mind control.

- MKUltra consisted of more
than 130 research programs

which took place in
prisons, hospitals,

and universities all
over the United States.

- Now Alfred Bielek and
Preston Nichols both claim

that there's a direct connection
between MKUltra and Montauk.

There's even a connection,
they say,

between the
Paperclip Scientists,

even far back as
the Third Reich.

- NARRATOR: Also known
as Operation Paperclip,

this program is officially
sanctioned by America

after World War II, and includes more than 1,600 Germans.

- Project Paperclip, a secret
U.S. government program

to recruit Nazi scientists
and other Nazi party members,

many of whom were engaged
in the worst atrocities,

to bring them to
the United States,

to whitewash their war crimes,
give them new identities,

then exploit them
for their scientific

and intelligence value.

- NARRATOR: Paperclip, MKUltra, Tuskegee,

once the unthinkable,

now proven facts in
the historical record.

And some say, a clear
pattern showing possible

direct links back to Montauk.

- Even though we've
been able to prove

all of these other projects,
we've not been able to prove

that it's happened at Montauk.

- You'd have to say
like okay, okay,

the government did all these
mind control experiments,

but they would never do
them in Montauk, New Work.

That would be crazy.

- NARRATOR: Still, for
the journalist Volk,

hard proof connecting
Leary to Montauk,

and tying Montauk to
past government programs,

will require
corroborating evidence,

not just a knowledge
of American history.

- [on phone] Public Information
Office, this is Maureen,

Can I help you?

- Hey, this is Steve Volk
and I'm a writer

working on a project
I was hoping

you might be able
to help me with.

- NARRATOR: To authenticate
claims of time travel,

child abduction, mind control,
acid testing,

and the rest of the
Montauk Project's legend,

the men cast a
wide research net.

- CHRIS: So Mike, what year did
you start working there?

- I arrived at Montauk Air Force
Station in February of 1978

and I completed my tour
there in June of 1980.

- I'm wondering if I
could just sort of get

a raw total number of kids
reported missing, by year,

dating back to from 19, this
is a big request, I know.

From 1960 to about 1990.

- My name is James Bruce.

It's an alias, obviously.

Not that the powers that
be don't know who I am.

- I was 13, I think I was,
when we moved here.

- You had a parent in
the Air Force?

- Yeah, I had a step-dad that
was in the Air Force.

- STEVE: There are people
now who say, look,

this base has always
had this sort of secret

clandestine history, 'cause
it was made to look like

a fishing village, and the
implication is that even,

even the people who lived here

didn't know it was
really a military site.

You're saying that's
just not true.

- Well, we know there were
16-inch cannons in the bluffs.

So, unless you're gonna kill
the fish with a 16-inch shell.

- Was it like a
high security there?

What was it like
the day you arrived?

- It was real dark.

There was no security
at the gate.

Anybody could've drove on.

- So there was no security,
he drove right up onto the base

where supposedly this top
secret [bleep] is happening.

- I will say the first time
that I drove up to Camp Perry,

the farm in
Williamsburg, Virginia,

for CIA paramilitary training,

your first impression is
guard post, armed guards.

- It was incredibly secure,
right?

- Yeah.

- I did hear rumors of it.

- Even when you were
living here?

- When I was living here, yeah.

You heard rumors of it,

but you never really
saw anything happening.

- Back between '78 and '80,
you heard rumors

that there were time travel
experiments going on?

- Yes, I did hear
about that, yeah.

- That was long before
any books were written.

- DARIN: Yeah.

- STEVE: You know, the darkest
part of this whole story

that people tell
is that it involved

kidnapping kids around the area.

- I mean, if it was happening,
I didn't know about.

I did never heard about it.

- It was also experiments to
mind squash because they had

specific types of acid to where

you could read each
other's thoughts.

And then you would say it
back to you and you would say,

holy [bleeps], how
did you know that?

'Cause you could actually
be on the same wavelength.

- What do you think they
were using you for?

What was the purpose
of this experiment?

- They wanted me to calm down
to teleport in this chair,

'cause it's a
teleportation device.

It pulls, rips your soul
right out of your body,

sends it through the wire
and then you could fly

through space as your
body's laying in the chair.

- Good to see you, man.

- NARRATOR: The men conduct
25 plus interviews

with people
connected to Montauk,

and receive a range of denials, innuendo, and speculation.

But it isn't until they meet
a local, named Brian Minnick,

that they may have finally found what they've been searching for.

- Me and my friends we'd
explore, that's all we did.

Collecting anything
I could find.

- Did you bring some stuff
for us to look at?

- BRIAN: This is actually
an entrance to the basement.

You'd walk along this
trench down steps,

and there's a door over
there that you'd go

into the basement with.

- I was honestly blown
away by that footage.

Every single thing that
Brian brought to us,

challenges the public statement.

- Now here is something
that really did surprise me.

- NARRATOR: Hamptons local,
Brian Minnick

has spent 30 years
traversing the grounds

at Camp Hero in New York.

Filming his trips
and collecting photos

and other documentation
related to this

mysterious former military base.

A base that some people assert,

served as a cover for a
clandestine government program

of mind control and time travel experimentation.

- I went there when I was
probably like,

11 years old in 1987
with some family friends

and we made our way
into one of the bunkers.

I didn't start exploring
it until I found out

about the book.

Then, at that point we were
just trying to get underground.

- What was the most
compelling piece of evidence

or the most compelling
that you've experienced

in all the years of you
observing Camp Hero.

- There was a lot
of strange things

and the sum total of all those
strange things is compelling.

But I'd say, we've
found records of

food being ordered to the
base in like the late 80s

and some of this, it was like
80,000 a month on this one

and there was huge
amounts of food

being ordered to the base.

- NARRATOR: The base
closed down in 1981

and was turned over to
the park service in '84.

Minnick found receipts for
the food in the late 80s.

- So, 80,000 bucks in a month.

- Yeah, that seems like it,
enough to feed like a town.

- Cater a couple of weddings.

- Do you have those records?

- No, we actually took
them out and then,

we got chased and kind of
threw them up in the air.

But I really regret that,
throwing them, I really do.

- I regret it too.

- NARRATOR: Captured from
1993 through 1995,

a decade after the base
had been shut down.

Brian's rare footage
shows Camp Hero

before its buildings
and openings were

sealed shut by
the park service.

- The idea of you exploring
with your friends,

a lot of these things
that aren't there anymore,

the footage is really unique,
it's great stuff.

- Yeah, thank you,
appreciate it.

I mean, I've been sitting
on this stuff forever,

so I'm glad to share it.

- Yeah, do you have more?

- Yeah.

Alright, here is the
colored room.

Here, I'll lay these out.

And I got the black and
white room right here.

- Okay, interesting.

So out of nowhere,
after all these years

of hearing about acid rooms,

Brian just breaks out the
pictures and the footage.

- The LSD rooms, if you
look at them,

I have good pictures of them.

- Okay, interesting.

This is kinda curious.

For what reason -- why would a
room be painted this way?.

- Check out like the ceiling,
not a spot of paint,

not a spot on the floor.

- And then the
paisley wallpaper

and another which has
an odd pattern.

- This is a great moment
in the whole investigation

because here was something
that really did surprise me.

- But if you look at the
light sockets, they're all,

they're not painted over,
the trim is not painted over,

it's all taped off and
it's a professional job.

- I don't know why the
government would do this

to any living quarters.

It wasn't kids who did this,
it's not vandalism

It was too well done.

- Those pictures raise
up the ghost of what

James Bruce talked about.

The acid houses, Timothy Leary,

the Montauk Boys, all of that.

- There's also experiments to
mind squash because they had

specific types of acid
where you could

read each other's thoughts
and then he would say it

back to you and you would say,

"Holy [bleep], how did
you know that?"

because you could actually
be on the same wavelength.

- So, you have to ask,
what was it for?

Why did it happen?

And I think the best
speculation I've heard,

is that, yeah, they
were giving people acid.

I know the U.S. government
has carried out

all sorts of unwitting
human experimentations

involving LSD and
other hallucinogens,

so I don't find it
all that farfetched

to suggest that the experiments
we know have happened elsewhere,

also happened at Camp Hero.

- As a journalist, those
pictures give me an avenue

to approach the
people who knew Leary,

people who worked
with him, what would

psychedelics researchers
say about those images.

Are they psychedelic?

Is there any record of any
experiments being performed

with patterns like these
involved in the research

decades ago, it gives me
something to go look at.

- NARRATOR: Fueled by
the acid room findings,

Minnick increases his
frequency to Camp Hero.

And State Parks Servicemen
begin to take notice.

[intense music]

- When you were chased,
do you have any idea

who that was,
who was coming?

- They seemed to be SUVs,
white or black SUVs.

[intense music]

There's aerial
surveillance there too,

like there's a
helicopter and actually,

we got so used to it
popping out of nowhere

and kind of hovering over us.

- How many times
did the helicopter

show up when you were there?

- Like five, six times at least.

- The helicopter
have any markings?

- All black, we have a strange
video of the helicopter

on the point, like
harassing boats,

I guess is the
best way to put it,

almost landing on
top of the boat.

- There is another one!

The same, exact thing.

- NARRATOR: Footage of base
security chasing the teenagers

a decade after the base
was officially shuttered,

begs the obvious question.

When taken together,
does this footage

prove that the
government's official

position maybe disingenuous?

What reason would
it have to admit

this underground tunnel
system from its blueprints?

Unless it was hiding something

they didn't want
anyone to know about.

- Did you ever get into
the proverbial tunnels?

Because I keep talking
to people over the years

and they say they
were down there.

- I've been in several like,
underground...

Well, there's a basement,
there is you know,

bunkers that are
inside of a hill.

- Did you ever find anything
that would indicate

and anything that may
have been sealed up

that you just couldn't
get through or open,

that may indicate that there
was something else,

like another level beneath that.

Did you ever find
anything like that?

- Yeah, absolutely.

You can feel it, it's like
if you touch the walls,

there's like there's
machinery running somewhere.

This is us going
into the SAGE radar,

so last time we came, this
door was completely open.

- [on tape] We never had
that last time.

- Now, this is only
like a month later

and oh, this is important here,

this is actually an
entrance to the basement.

You'd walk along this
trench down the steps

and there's a door
over there that

you would go into
the basement with.

[suspenseful music]

♪

- So, now this is really
interesting because again,

the official word is,
there's nothing underground.

Brian shows us this footage and

there's clearly
something underground.

- So at the very end of one,
there is a heavy door

that's been, I guess it's
padlocked at the time

but it also looks like it has a,

like, a wheel to open the door.

- Like a bank vault?

- Yeah, like a
bank vault almost.

So, that was supposedly
supposed to go

underneath to the
basement of that tunnel.

- It is definitely gonna
throw fuel on the fire

of people who claim all sorts of

crazy stuff went on down there.

- What I got from
Brian's footage is

a suggestion of a vast
underground tunnel system.

What we didn't get to see was,

a full mapping of what
might be down there.

But certainly from his footage,

from what I saw, I expect
that there is something

much more extensive
than what Brian

and his friends were able
to directly access.

- NARRATOR: Either way,

it's clear there's more below
Camp Hero than the government

would have us believe.

So what truly is behind
these locked doors?

Could it be a tunnel system
that housed a government

mind control program?

A deep, dark program
that also somehow

unlocks the riddle
of time travel.

an, how could you not at
least consider that something

happened there with
everything from

the helicopters chasing the kids

to the acid house
to clearly there's

something being underground.

Okay, interesting.

- NARRATOR: Garetano,
Eisler and Volk

are looking into claims
surrounding Camp Hero,

a former military installation

that some say housed a clandestine government operation

of acid testing, mind
control, child abduction

and time travel.

The local's home video
footage seems to be the

first big break in the
investigation.

- This is important here,
this is actually

an entrance to the basement.

- NARRATOR: As it appears
to reveal an underground

tunnel system that flies in
the face of the government

blueprints which shows
nothing is below ground.

[epic music]

But how extensive
is this underground

and what else may be down there?

There's only one
way to find out,

they need to look
below the ground.

To do so, the men have
called in a team of

geophysicists to
peer below ground

and help search for evidence
of this covert program

called the Montauk Project.

- You might have heard
about the legends

of what happened here,
structures being buried

under the ground here.

- You walk under the entrance
of this thing in the,

opening in the wall
when it's operating.

And you get sucked in,
you come out the other end,

get dumped on the
ground sort of.

And uh...

125,000 light years
and you're on another

planetary system on the
opposite side of the galaxy.

- So we figure something's
under the ground,

we don't know what.

- Well we brought
several different pieces

of geophysical equipment.

First was the ground
penetrating radar.

That's gonna be
able to go through

and provide to us the highest

resolution conditions
underground.

The other tools
that we're bringing,

one is a magnetometer
and what that's gonna be

looking for is any kind of
buried, iron bearing object.

Then the next method is gonna be
electrical resistivity imaging.

That is a way that we
can provide literally

like a slice, a
vertical cross section.

We're gonna be
looking for changes

in the electrical properties
of the soils or rock.

- Alright, let's do what you do.

- NARRATOR: Two distinct areas
will be put under

a geophysical microscope.

The first, underneath this bluff

to look for some kind
of anomaly below ground.

The second, less
than a mile inland

to search for proof of an
underground tunnel system

not listed in the
public records.

- I am very much looking
forward to interacting

with the geo guys because
they're not invested

one way or another in anything
having to do with Montauk

or even in conspiracies
generally as far as I can tell.

- CHRIS: We use 250 megahertz
in that one?

- MIKE: Yeah, let's go with the
low frequency in that one.

- They do science,
they have instruments

that can measure things
scientifically, reliably,

and determine whether
something is underground

and with a fairly high
degree of reliability

what that thing is.

- He using the low
frequency system

where we're trying to
get that maximum depth

of penetration, I'm using
the higher frequency one

and I'm getting probably
around six to eight feet.

So in terms of radar,
this sight is really-

- BARRY: Pretty amendable.
- Yeah, pretty amenable.

It's gonna help us out.

[dramatic building music]

- NARRATOR: With testing
completed along the bluff,

the team make their way
to site number two,

ground zero for the conspiracy.

- Honestly every one that
talks about this legend

that knows anything about it,

the underground base is
supposed to be underneath

this entire series of
structures of the tower,

these buildings here.

So if we can get as close
as possible to these

I think that's where we
need to be right now.

Can we bring that
a little closer?

- NARRATOR: Garetano has
obsessed over the claims

surrounding Montauk
for more than a decade

and knows that the geophysicists

and their potential
underground findings

are his best shot at proving
the Montauk Conspiracy.

- It's really important
for me personally

that we find something factual
about this at this point.

We've entertained these
gentlemen for quite a long time,

allowed them to
tell their stories.

- NARRATOR: But any possible
corroborating evidence

of a underground
will have to wait.

The scientific results
will take time.

As the men await hard data,
they kick into phase two

of their investigation.

[epic music]

They've been granted rare access and a unique opportunity

to record the testimony
of the last living legend

of the Montauk Project,
Preston Nichols.

And the most prominent
Montauk Boy in the country,

the controversial
Steward Swerdlow.

The Montauk Boys,

a collection of
individuals who alleged

to have been abducted
in the 1970s and 80s,

taking under the
bowels of Camp Hero's

supposed tunnel system, and
undergone the unspeakable.

One such boy is
Stewart Swerdlow,

the most high
profile of them all.

Swerdlow and his wife, Janet,

have invited filmmaker,
Christopher Garetano,

former CIA operative,
Barry Eisler

and hard hitting journalist,
Steve Volk

into their Michigan home for
an on camera interview.

[clap]

- If we could start
at the beginning,

how did you get involved
in the Montauk Project.

- 1970, when the
Montauk Project began,

I was taken into use there
for 13 years until 1983.

- What was the method that
you were first taken into

one of these programs,
how did they get you?

- They used derelicts,
they used foster children,

orphans, the drug addicts
and then ultimately,

they decided that people
with certain genetics,

people with certain backgrounds

would be more conducive to
the more advanced experiments,

and that's where I was taken in.

With all of these children,
their memories were wiped,

their genetics were altered
and they couldn't

always remember what happened,

it would be in a form of
nightmares or flashbacks.

But with me, they could
not erase my memory,

I became an anomaly for them.

- So, he was already really
special because

he's put in this program
and even among the

special people in the program,

he was the most special,
he was unique.

- Underneath is where
everything happened.

I know from my experience,
that there were

at least nine levels and
maybe there were more,

I only knew of nine levels.

I did witness children
being beaten, murdered,

injured in horrible ways.

Unfortunately, I was also
the subject of some of these

horrible things that were
administered to the people.

- So what was the application?

Why were they doing
this to these kids,

like for what reason?

- It was a continuation
of the experiments

done by the Nazis in
the concentration camps.

- NARRATOR: Swerdlow is
drawing a known tangible

forensic evidence and first
hand survival accounts.

Nazis did indeed
experiment on humans

in concentration camps in
Europe, during World War II.

What's more, under the leadership of Dr. Josef Mengele,

thousands of children were
the unfortunate test subjects

and incredibly, in what is
known as, Operation Paperclip,

hundreds of Nazi
scientists were brought

to the United States
during the war.

Given new identities
and then exploited

for their scientific
and intelligence value.

Some of these Nazi
scientists are rumored

to have been the creative force behind the Montauk Project.

- What were they
preparing them for?

What was the experiment,
why would they trigger them?

- The ultimate goal is
for global mind control

and programming, to create
a mind control system

and have a robotical
Borg-type population

that does whatever
you want them to.

- So is the Montauk
Project successful?

- I can tell you that
every single story

out there is 100% true, I can
tell you that aliens do exist,

I can tell you that time
travel has been accomplished,

that technology has
been around since

before humans were on the Earth.

Humans are not the original
inhabitants of this planet.

- Stewart is making
extraordinary claims.

You have interviewed
a number of people

who have had
extraordinary claims,

people who've seen
UFOs for example.

I understand a certain
baseline level of nervousness,

you're about to say
something that you know

people are going to
think you're crazy

and of course, that'll make
you nervous and reticent.

Does Stewart seem
like that to you?

Does he seem different?

- He seems different,
he's too sure of himself,

comparing him to the other
people I've interviewed.

They sort of struggle
to process this,

integrate it, understand it,
he claims to have this

complete overarching view
of how everything works,

from the illuminati to aliens
from other star systems.

[dark ominous music]

Show time.

- Good job.
- Thanks.

- Fun times, you got a lot
on the table.

- What questions would
you have for Stewart,

I really think
it's important that

you k every
single one of them.

- Steve's got a whole
laundry list.

- Okay.
- Yeah.

Stewart, Steve Volk,
good to meet you,

been really looking
forward to this.

Um...

I wrote a book
several years ago,

called Fringe-ology: How
I Tried To Explain Away

the Un-Explainable- And Couldn't

and so I come at this
from a perspective

of being really open
to paranormal claims

and thinking they should
be taken seriously.

So, one of the interesting
things to me about this is that,

normally the program involving
kids, nobody would miss.

You were different so,
whenever you were working

in the Montauk Project, your
parents knew where you were?

- I can't say that they did.

I can only tell you that there
were times when they said

they came into my room
and I wasn't there.

- And so, if they came into
your room and you weren't there,

that must have
thrown them into a,

you know, and they didn't
expect you to be gone.

It must have thrown
them into a panic.

- Very interesting
question because

I feel that there was some
kind of dampening field

or control system
put on the people

who were in the
house at the time,

so that they didn't question
whatever they observed,

it just wasn't a matter of
normal occurrence to them.

- They just noticed
you were gone

and not think anymore about it.

- Not pay any attention to it.

- Stewart Swerdlow and
the dampening field,

there's some pretty
way out stuff that

the CIA wiz kids can do,
but I've never heard about

anything like a dampening field.

- Your website reads that
you're a gifted hyperspace

intuitive, able to move
your consciousness beyond

time and space, to
determine a person's

foundational mind
pattern upon which

all our life experiences
are based, right?

- Look at the blinking.

That is a classic
sign of nervousness,

blinking, rapid blinking.

Steve starts reading
stuff from his website

and the feeling is, "God, this
guy's checked me out.

"I'm on the record
saying this stuff,

"what kind of questions
am I gonna get,

they're gonna be
hard questions."

And he starts blinking.

- First, can you define what it

means to be a
hyperspace intuitive?

- It means that you
can move outside of

physical reality
and see the energies

associated with the existence
of a person, place and thing.

- Okay, so I think the big
opportunity for me here is if,

you know, these things are real
and there are people capable of

doing this stuff, to see them
do it and have that validation.

- You want me to do a
reading for you?

- However brief, however long,

if you could just give me
something, it would be terrific.

- Well, I could tell you about
some of your health issues.

- Go for it.

- To look at you right now,
straight on,

I can tell you that
you have an issue

with the hormonal system,
testosterone level is a bit low.

You've also issue
with your blood cells,

are a very low count
in red blood cells.

- Now you're also able to tell
people when they're programmed.

- Mhmm.

Everyone's programmed.

- Everyone's programmed?

- Everyone on this planet.

- So, I'm programmed?

- Of course, you are.

- We're all programmed?

How would we get out of it?

What's the de-programming
technique.

- You want me to repeat
volumes of books,

to tell you how to de-program.

It involves a lot of things.

- It's interesting,
because you have

such a wide base of
knowledge in terms of,

how people are programmed, how
to remove that programming.

The relationship of various
alien races to all this

and yet, we can't get evidence,

for instance of Montauk
and the project itself.

- The reason you can't
get physical proof,

is because if the
government admits this,

they have to take responsibility

on all the people
they've damaged and hurt.

So they're not going to
admit any of this ever.

- It just-- In past
government conspiracies,

it just seems like
some sort of denial,

some sort of effort would
come to stop you now,

when you're at a level before
everybody believes you.

- They've put me in prison,
they've threatened me,

they harass me on
a weekly basis.

Yes, I'm harassed all the time.

- Let's talk about
the prison thing then,

when did they put you in prison.

- They put me in prison in 19...

92 to 93 maybe.

- For?

- One count of bank fraud.

- You plead guilty
in the case right?

- I was forced to because
they threatened my family.

- There is a long
running non-profit,

called, the Cult Education
Institute run by Rick Ross

and they have a
public forum where

people have concerns
about groups,

can post there possibly-

- I'm going to interrupt,
I'm sorry...

- Here we go.
- But that...

- I don't think I like
the line of questioning.

- I don't either and that man,
I'll tell you,

I know exactly who it is,
who has written those things

and they lie and they
have had problems with us

and they have attacked us and,
I don't want him addressing it.

I even myself, have
wrote to Rick Ross,

to say, "Please take this down."

- I think he is a fraud.

- JANET: I don't want
to go there.

This was supposed
to be about Montauk,

not to interrogate

and try and make this into
something it's not.

- What is your agenda?

What is your agenda because
your line of questioning

is quite disturbing.

ine

of questioning is
quite disturbing.

- My agenda is to
ask the questions

that I think any
reporter would ask.

- NARRATOR: Steve Volk's
interview

with a self-professed central
player in the Montauk Project,

Stewart Swerdlow,
devolves into chaos.

- JANET: I am so angry.

Christopher, I want you
out of my house.

[tense music]

- BARRY: So, that
was different.

- I've never been kicked out
of anybody's house before.

In a 20-year career I've never

been kicked out of
anybody's office,

I've never been kicked
out of an interview.

- BARRY: Why do you think
it was different today?

- I'm convinced that he was
never approached this way before

by a standard issue journalist
doing standard journalism,

pulling documents,
asking these questions,

and he did not know
how to handle it.

- Okay, so my question
for you two is

is the Montauk Project
not true because of that?

- See, that's a great question.

Just because we may
have uncovered someone

who was glomming onto
the Montauk allegations

and finding a way
to grift off that.

That doesn't mean that
the underlying allegations

aren't true, this is
just an opportunist

who's taking advantage,
possibly, right?

The fact that one person's
taking advantage

isn't proof that the thing
itself didn't happen.

So that's part of the challenge
of what we're doing here.

It's gonna be hard to
find definitive proof,

positive proof of the
underlying claims.

- NARRATOR: The underlying
claims of the Montauk Project.

Abduction of children for
human experimentation,

a vast mind control program,

LSD testing,

and the successful application
of a time-travel device.

The allegations lead directly
to one Preston Nichols.

Author of theMontauk Project ,

Nichols is the lead
protagonist of the legend

and the most active spokesperson of this enduring mystery.

The men have secured
a meeting with him.

Yet before they make
their way to his compound

in Upstate New York,

they stop by an old
friend and follower

whom they hope can
lay the groundwork

for their most important
interview to date.

- We're on our way to see a
woman named Doreen Buckman.

She was at the early
meetings with Preston Nichols

and Al Bielek at the
psychotronic meetings.

This happened in the mid 80s.

- CHRIS: Hi Doreen.

- How are you?
- Nice to meet you,

I'm Christopher.

We're here today to
really talk to you

about your experiences and
the early psychotronic group

with Preston Nichols.

- Preston was a brilliant man.

You know, his posse of guys
would think he was an avatar.

He was a genius, he was
very concise when he talked

and he could take these very
very complex scientific topics

and really bring them down.

- I'm gonna show you
the two receivers

as featured in the Montauk Book

- NARRATOR: In the
1970s and 80s,

Nichols was at the forefront
of a mind control movement

called psychotronics,
a branch of parapsychology

that claims that
government agents

use electromagnetic
radiation to transmit

thoughts and sounds
into people's heads.

His followers, such as Doreen,

claim he could do
incredible things.

- Preston was talking
about the government

controlling the weather,
and it sounded

so off the hook to me.

I'm like, rolling my
eyes thinking really,

controlling the weather?

He had this electronic box
with dials on it

and in less than
three seconds

he changed the
weather in that room.

And if I wasn't there,
I woulda never believed it.

All of a sudden it was freezing
like you were in the Arctic.

It was less than three seconds,

I was like okay, maybe they
can control the weather.

- So that really happened,
you felt the change?

- If I wasn't there,
I would not believe it.

[dramatic music]

- CHRIS: I really don't think
there's anything

I can say to prepare you for
what you're about to see.

[tense music]

- STEVE: The Outer Limits.

- CHRIS: Yup,
The Outer Limits.

- He's got solar panels,
it looks like a junkyard.

[suspenseful music]

I've been to some really
interesting places

in my time with the CIA,
top secret places,

and I've also traveled
extensively throughout

the world.

I have never seen
anything like what I saw

at Preston's compound.

- Just a regular pot on my head.

In order to prevent microwaving
from the satellite system

over the planet,
you need a solid metal,

not just a loose metal,
but it has to be solid.

- So Preston, tell me about
where we are right now.

What is this place?

- This is my
metaphysical lab here.

The mind-amplifying
sound system,

and all this stuff here forms
a big radionics machine.

- And what does a
radionics machine do?

- It uses the quantum
energies of the sound system

to store into the vacuum tubes

and I can put my thoughts
through the sound system

into the vacuum tubes
and reach out

on a quantum level and
do things, so to speak.

- Quantum electronics.

Is that a thing, have
you ever heard of it?

- So at what point
were you recruited

for the Montauk Project?

Do you have a memory of that?

- 1968.

- CHRIS: '68?

- But I'm not too sure.

See, I have recollections
of going somewhere

through the teleporter
and ending up

in an area disassembling
this huge UFO.

And I thought it
was out at Montauk.

This board right here,

this is the Delta-T antenna
terminal interface.

You can patch the REO
in the RF from here.

- CHRIS: You worked on the
SAGE radar tower?

- Yeah, I did.

- CHRIS: They sent you out
there to do some work--

- Yeah, to do some work.

- And at that time,
did you notice

anything out of the ordinary?

- You know, what they did
is they generated

another parallel timeline
that I worked on.

Once I pulled back the memory
of that parallel timeline,

bang, it all comes in.

It all comes in as
a confused mess.

- When did you start to realize

that this was a mind
control project?

I know that they were recruiting
kinda runaways and unwanteds.

- They were taking people

and they were literally
shattering their minds.

Cairo New York,

home to the picturesque
Blackhead Mountains

and to Preston Nichols, author of the
Montauk Project ,

a book that claims a deep
government conspiracy

involving mind control,
time travel

and the abduction
of teenage boys.

- They were taking people
and they were literally

shattering their minds.

They have this army of
probably a million people,

that are in reserve,
in the public,

in reserve ready to be
activated and called on.

- NARRATOR: Former CIA, Eisler
and journalist, Volk

are engaged, yet frustrated.

[sharp exhales]

They want to see hard
evidence of these claims.

- There isn't much time left.

Is there anything
you can demonstrate

as a form of proof
for all the people

who are going to
doubt your story.

- NARRATOR: As Volk replaces the filmmaker, Garetano

in the interview chair,
the no-nonsense

investigative reporter
jumps right in.

- Where did you get your
engineering degree from?

Where'd you actually
get the degree?

- University of Tampa.

- Okay.

University of Tampa Bay,
something I can check.

So, tell me about
the super soldiers,

are you aware of any
success stories at all

with the super soldier
part of the program?

- I heard about it
when I deprogrammed

quite a few other guys
on Long Island.

I heard of these guys
going aboard a ship,

going another planet,
fighting battles.

- How do you feel about him?

- If there's any truth
to any of this

and the government
wanted to discredit it,

you could not design
something better than that.

There's a guy outside,
wearing a cook pot on his head

and our conversation
was completely normal

but he's wearing a
cook pot on his head.

- So, the Montauk Project,
the story as a whole,

is so fantastic
and what would be

incredible is to get some kind
of evidence or proof right?

So, is there any
of that technology

that you can demonstrate
at this point.

Are you capable at this point
of building a time machine?

- Not yet.

- Not yet, but there was one
built for the Montauk Project?

- Yeah.

- You say you have a degree in
electrical engineering right?

With your background and having

helped create and
design the system,

it would seem that
you would have been

capable of drawing up the
complete schematic right?

You wouldn't have to
worry about money again,

all these years that
you had to do this.

- No, you know what I'd have
to be worried about?

Being six foot under.

The government does
not want the public

having any access to a
time device whatsoever.

As long as the Montauk Project
stays a legend,

as I say in the book,
you can believe

it is fact or you can believe
it as a science fiction.

- One thing that is
really clear to me,

leaving Preston Nichols'
place is,

if you consider the man
that Doreen described,

a kind of avatar,
almost a guru figure

that people gravitated
toward and if you look at the

guy that got captured
by Chris on film,

you can see, decay happening.

I'm sure that we
did not meet quite

the same Preston Nichols that

other people had
met years earlier.

- NARRATOR: Yet what does
Preston's deterioration

mean for the Montauk
Project at large.

Does it make the
tale less valid?

For the former spook, Eisler,
the answer is obvious.

- Preston seems to really
believe this stuff

that he's saying.

I will say this,

you don't have to believe
in the supernatural

or in science fiction
to believe that,

in fact to know, that
humans do sometimes

conduct experiments
on other humans.

- ED BRADLEY: The CIA
does not deny that

the experiments took place.

- What most excites me
about this project,

is the opportunity to
put the allegations

in historical perspective,
by examining

the actual history of human
experimentation in America.

Well, Holmesburg is one of those

actual instances of
human experimentation.

- NARRATOR: Holmesburg Prison
in Philadelphia,

like MKUltra and other sanctioned government programs,

one's a hot bed for
human experimentation,

government overreach and access.

- And the reason
that you are here,

is because of the infamous
medical experiments

that took place here
for a quarter century.

- NARRATOR: Now, the
next stop for the team

investigating Montauk,
to look for parallels

and lengths back to Camp Hero.

- This facility became the
K-Mart of human experimentation

in Cold War America.

estigation

into the Montauk Project.

While aspects of the
tale at Camp Hero sounero d

extreme and sinister,
many of its claims

mirror a pattern of
behavior proven true

at other government facilities.

- So many Americans don't know
about these darker chapters

of the country's history.

These experiments have actually
been done on prisoners,

orphans, disabled children.

The question we're
trying to answer is,

did these things
happen at Montauk?

- NARRATOR: To help answer it,
the men have arrived

in the City of Brotherly Love,
the stomping ground

of investigative
reporter Steve Volk.

- Alright, fellas, today
we are going to move beyond

the realm of conspiracy theory

and into conspiracy fact
and history.

I wanted to take Chris
and Barry to Philadelphia,

my hometown, to show
them a conspiracy

that's still outrageous,
but it's grounded,

because we know it happened.

And here are the people
that went through it.

- NARRATOR: Holmesburg today
is permanently shut down,

but this massive complex
built in the late 19th century

was once home to Al Capone,
and is infamous for hosting

a clandestine bioethics
research project gone wrong,

where inmates were
used as human lab rats.

[ominous suspenseful music]

- BARRY: This is imposing,
look at this.

Iron riveted doors
about 15 feet high.

- ALLEN: Gentlemen!

- Hello there.

- Allen Hornblum.

Welcome to Northeast Philly
and Holmesburg Prison.

- NARRATOR: Allen Hornblum,
author and lecturer,

ran an adult literacy
program at the prison

starting in 1971.

Over time, he witnesses events
that inform his seminal work

of non-fiction, and a classic
in the field of bioethics,

Acres of Skin.

- We've got a scholar
Allen Hornblum,

who's written an entire
footnoted book including

interviews with many of the
participants and the victims

of these studies.

- This facility was
built in 1895,

the end of the Victorian Era.

[suspenseful music]

And the reason that
you are here is because

of the infamous medical
experiments that took place here

for a quarter century.

[suspenseful music]

This facility became the
K-Mart of human experimentation

in Cold War America.

Regrettably, very
few Americans know

that some very, very
nasty unsavory things

took place in the name
of science in America,

not just Nazi Germany.

The worst case is that
they were applying dioxin

to the faces and backs
of prisoners here.

- This is an ingredient in
Agent Orange, is that right?

- It's the most carcinogenic

and dangerous part of
the Agent Orange.

- NARRATOR: Although the doctor behind these experiments,

Albert Kligman, destroyed
most of the records

when the program
was exposed in 1974,

we know the Holmesburg
Prison experiment to be fact.

Kligman has proudly admitted
to such experimentation.

His former employers and
the U.S. Army don't deny that

the tests were conducted
for their research purposes.

And most telling of all,
a number of patients left

the prison to tell their first
person stories to Hornblum.

- ALLEN: This was a room
converted to a laboratory area

where the doctors kept
a lot of their materials

and chicals and
things like that.

- BARRY: What other experiments
were conducted here

besides just the
dermatological experiments?

We read about LSD?

- ALLEN: The Army comes
in here in 1963.

They're looking for basically
the Manchurian Candidate.

They're trying to come up
with a chemical that they can

give an inmate, and then
they can direct him

to do certain things,
if they wish.

- So, this was real?

- Uh, this was real,
it happened here.

- CHRIS: We talk about the
Montauk Project, and when people

hear the term
Manchurian Candidate...

You know, some people
laugh at the idea.

But now we're sitting in
front of Allen Hornblum

and he says and
confirms that gentlemen

were being used at
Holmesburg Prison

to be turned into
Manchurian Candidates.

So Allen, the bottom line
is that they were conducting

mind control experiments
here for sure.

- ALLEN: Without a doubt,
the U.S. Army Chemical Corps

was performing mind
control experiments in here

from 1963 to
approximately 1971, 72.

- NARRATOR: The men are in
for more.

Two survivors from
Holmesburg have agreed

to sit for interviews,

Edward Yusef Anthony,
and Leodus Jones.

An impassioned Eisler
decides to lead the charge.

- When you locked up at night,
a guy comes down the block

pushing a hand truck,

with cups of medication on it.

- They would have you to sign,

a consent form.

- Did you ever have an
opportunity to consult

with a lawyer before
signing that form?

- No.

- They coerce you to believe
that the tests are safe.

- They told you they were safe.

- Yeah, they tell you
that in, in orientation.

It's nothing to worry about.

- They took my forearm,

and they used some scotch tape.

And what they would do is,

put the tape in this area,

and just stick it, pull it,
stick it, pull it,

stick it, pull it and
stick it, and pull it

until they pull off
the top layer of skin.

And then they would
use the dropper

to put some kind of liquid
solution in that area.

- They didn't tell you what
that liquid solution was.

- Uh, no, they didn't.

- It was cold.

And next thing you know, I
could taste it all in my mouth,

coming from my
bloodstream, you know.

And I gets to my cell.

And I stepped in the cell,
I just fell out, boom!

On the floor, and my
cell partners helped me

up on the bed.

And my back felt
like it was on fire.

So I said, "Man, take these
things off my back, man."

So, he stripped them off
and put them on the wall.

Whatever chemical was in
that thing ate the paint

off the wall.

- Oh my god!

- Ate the paint off the wall.

- What took place in here,
during that period,

was inhumane, unjust,

unconstitutional,

and disgraceful.

- NARRATOR: The personal
accounts Leodus and Yusef

share from their
time at Holmesburg

have a visceral
impact on the men.

- Can you imagine what that
would have been like?

Like you're standing there,
witnessing it.

- How do you rationalize
something like that?

How do you look in
the mirror and say,

"I'm one of the good guys,
I'm a good person.

"And that's why I injected a
child with radioactive compounds

"today, just to see what will
happen, without his consent

or any sort of informed
consent at all."

How do you rationalize
something like that?

I hope more people are
gonna know about this.

- All the elements are
tantamount

to the Montauk Project.

The human experimentation
stuff is almost identical

and so we have to take
that into consideration.

We're looking at something
that perhaps once was a thing

where the victims of
Holmesburg tried to tell people

and they were
thought to be crazy.

Maybe the Montauk Project
will be confirmed

and at some point people
will be visiting and talking

to victims and they'll
take it seriously,

much like we do the
Holmesburg Prison experiments.

- NARRATOR: For that to happen, hard proof of Montauk,

like which exists at Holmesburg,

needs to be confirmed
and uncovered.

Might it come through
the supposed acid rooms?

Or will that final piece
of definitive proof

reveal itself from below ground?

To find out, the men make
their way back to Long Island.

The scientific results
from the geophysicists

are finally ready.

- We found something
really interesting.

here they started,

there are two aspects
of this investigation

that remain outstanding
and could prove

the Montauk Project true.

- Here is the colored room.

- NARRATOR: First,
these pictures and video

that appear to show rooms
at the former military base

used for LSD testing and
human experimentation.

- It wasn't kids who did this,
it's not vandalism.

It was just, it
was too well done.

- NARRATOR: And second, the results of geophysical testing,

undertaken by a
team of scientists

to try and show some kind
of proof of an underground

not shown in the
government blueprints.

[Skype call ringing]

- Hi, Steve!

- Hey!

Thanks so much, I really
appreciate you

making some time for this.

- NARRATOR: While waiting
for those results,

the investigator
Volk spends weeks

digging into the allegations
about the LSD rooms

and potential ties to
acid guru Timothy Leary

among other things
learned along the way.

He presents his findings
in Garetano's studio.

- Preston's interesting to me,
because I looked

to see if he graduated from
the University of Tampa.

He did not graduate,
where there's no record

of him graduating from
the University of Tampa.

But, you know, I did
take his book and show

the diagrams to a couple
of electrical engineers

who said these are not
electrical engineering diagrams.

But in terms of
where that leaves us,

he's kind of a dead
circuit to us now

in terms of proving or
disproving the Montauk Project

because of the
condition he's in.

So, I went ahead
and called a number

of psychedelics researchers,
some modern ones,

David Nutt,
Robin Carhart-Harris,

Ralph Metzner, who is
80 years old,

who worked directly
with Leary.

Metzner said that he
didn't see anything

particularly psychedelic
about the patterns,

but Nutt and Carhart-Harris
said they did.

Hey! There you are.

I talked to his son Zachary,

who's begun working
with the archive,

his archivist Michael Horowitz,
Thomas Lannen,

who presides over the
archive and runs it

at the New York Public Library.

They all said that,
look, the idea

that he would
knowingly participate,

and that word's
key, right, the idea

that he would knowingly
participate in an experiment

with the military
or the government,

who would clearly be
thinking to weaponize

the very drug that he
thought should be a tool

of liberation is just a
total non-starter for them.

- As far back as I can
remember, you know,

he stood by his claims
that psychedelics

were very very powerful
tools that could empower

the individual to
think for themselves.

- NARRATOR: In sum,
it appears unlikely

that Timothy Leary
was in Montauk,

or had any role at Camp Hero.

Yet that doesn't
mean acid testing

or other human experimentation
didn't occur there.

The men make their way to the
century-old Montauk Manor,

to meet up with the ground
penetrating radar team.

The results of their
underground tests are in.

- We started out
in the bluff area.

That was an area where
we were specifically

concerned about any large
buried metallic object.

With the magnetometer survey
we really didn't find much.

But the radar was a
lot more interesting.

On that bluff area,
there was an area

of a depressed area of soils.

When we ran the radar over that,

we got a really significant
change in the response.

A lot of disruption
to the signal.

So what that typically
means is that you've had

some type of excavation activity

that has occurred
at the property.

Now, we don't know if
the excavation activity

would have been due
to somebody digging

and burying something,
or somebody digging,

excavating, taking something
out, back filling the soils.

- We've heard everything
from stories of barrels

being interred to, you know,
kids being murdered

in the experiments and perhaps
buried out there as well.

So, I'm just curious,
something was buried there

and then removed or the soil
was disturbed in other ways.

- Definitely the soil was
disturbed, without a doubt.

- We know something
happened there,

somebody dug and filled it in.

But why?

What purpose?

That we don't know.

- CHRIS: The location that
I was actually

expecting a result from,
and that we're all

waiting for the
result right now,

what exactly did you find there?

- We did electrical
resistivity imaging.

And we found something really
interesting there also.

- What was it?

- We were able to
go through an image,

down to a depth of
just about 60 feet,

so I was really happy with
the data results there.

So, we went through
and modeled it up.

We're starting at
the entrance gate

at the radar facility,
and then heading

to that main road
that's to the north.

What these colors represent
are the resistances of soils.

And so you can see most of
the area we're looking in

is in these yellows and blues.

The two areas of interest
were in this very bright

red area and then
this dark blue area.

- CHRIS: How large of an
area is this?

- The red area is in the
range of, I would say

between 20 and 30 feet
in diameter.

In terms of depth,
the top of the feature

was probably right
around 20 feet.

So we're looking at a very
significant structure.

Yeah, it's pretty deep.

That means you have soils
in there or earth materials

that have a lot
of metal in them.

And so the possible
scenario would be,

some kind of buried concrete,
reinforced structure.

- Could it be part of a tunnel?

Or are you seeing
enough here to tell you

that there is not
space on either side?

- Since we're looking at just
basically a vertical slice,

we really can't tell what's
going on to either side of it.

- So guys, based
on these anomalies

you've found here,
what's your best guess

as to what you're
seeing with this data?

- I can't think of
any kind of a natural

geological mechanism
that would be responsible

for that type of thing,
so the indication would be

possibly we've got
some kind of buried

man made structure
in that area.

- See, there's not supposed
to be anything there,

so the fact that you've
found that is amazing.

- GeoView's findings
out by the radar tower

are more interesting because
the anomaly is larger,

it's deeper under ground,

it seems to include
metal of some kind,

it has the right
conductivity for that.

The blueprints we've
seen don't show

any structures under ground.

So here is an anomaly.

The question is what is it?

Is it an underground
tunnel system?

Or is it just, I don't know,

a fuel tank or a storage room?

- NARRATOR: Proof, certainly,
that something large

exists in the
bowels of Camp Hero

that's not in the official
government record.

Yet is it definitive evidence
of the extraordinary claims

that make up the
Montauk Project?

For Garetano, it's
proof enough as to why

he's been obsessed
for over a decade.

- After all these years,
we've found evidence.

We've found something
beneath Camp Hero.

What we're witnessing
is the progression

towards really proving
this to be true.

Especially with
the stuff we found

at the end of our journey.

I think in the next
five years or so

we're gonna find out
that this thing happened.

I really do and I think we're
an integral part to that.

- NARRATOR: For Eisler and Volk,

exploring this strange,
mysterious site

has been a stepping
stone to a larger goal.

- The fact is the
government has done

lots of wonderful things.

America is the greatest nation
in the history of the earth,

but it's perpetrated
a lot of evil too.

- What happens is there's
this huge wall of secrecy

and then what leaks,
what gets past that wall

are some pretty atrocious
and horrifying programs.

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