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Draco something. I can't remember the other name. >> And he was about 6' 7 foot tall, had sort of like scaly skin, humanoid. He walked erect like we do. Had two arms, two legs. He had a tail, but it really didn't show most of the time. >> Mhm. >> He had somewhat of a humanoid face, strange eyes, a big mouth, and, you know, looked like what you would expect if you're going to put together a lizard man. Mhm.
>> So, before Stranger Things ever existed, a man named Preston Nichols, who you're going to want to remember, claimed he lived it. Kind of secret mind control experiments, psychic kids, time traveling, demon manifestation, government labs hidden beneath a radar tower. You're probably thinking, "This is crazy, and I'm not going to waste my time watching this fiction.
" Well, I'm here to tell you most of these accounts are full-blown lies. Be very transparent. But but but there are some kernels of truth and those kernels of truth will still shock you. And this is exactly how these intel agencies operate. They have a huge lie, but there's a kernel of truth within there. So, not to bury the lead with that crazy clip we just watched of the guy Preston Nichols claiming he came into contact with a reptilian being. Crazy.
But we really need to start at the beginning to understand why this guy claims he was around a reptilian and the beginning. It all happened right here at Camp Hero Long Island. And if you think Hawkins Labs from Stranger Things was terrifying, wait till you hear about the real thing allegedly. Real quick, if you haven't already, please like, comment, subscribe, and let's get into this one.
So, at the far edge of Long Island, surrounded by cliffs and fog, the surfing fishing town of Monta, New York, a place where I still want to go surf. And what stands in the rural isolated port of this tip of Long Island lays a forgotten fortress, a place known as Camp Hero State Park today. The Monta Air Force Station began during World War II.
Built in 1942 to defend the East Coast from the Axis powers, the Nazis, it was designed as a coastal artillery base complete with two massive 16-in naval gun batteries capable of firing shells 25 mi out to sea. But here's the strange part, no pun intended. The entire facility was disguised as a quaint fishing village. If you look at the images from then, you can see fake shingled rooftops, dummy chimneys, painted windows, all camouflage to fool Nazi Ubot patrolling offshore.
And here's where the conspiracy theorists stake their claim. Because beneath the ground, they built a network of underground bunkers used to house ammunition and sensitive equipment. Some locals today swear those tunnels go far deeper into areas not found on any public blueprint. So by 1951, we have our first evolution of the base.
The age of artillery was over. The age of detection had begun. Mont was transformed into a radar surveillance station, part of the US air defense system. It was used as an early warning network and it became the frontline outpost for identifying Soviet bombers because at its peak, Monta operated 12 radar towers, constantly scanning the Atlantic skies.
Only one survives today, but that one is analogous to the Stranger Things radar tower you see in the show. Not to get too technical, but that radar tower, just for you fans, is the ANFPS-35, a 120ft tall steel behemoth capable of detecting aircraft more than 200 m away. That radar became the iconic symbol of the Monta Air Force Station.
But as the 1960s rolled in, we reached our second evolution of the base since the threat changed once again. The Soviet Union now began deploying intercontinental ballistic missiles, weapons that could cross oceans in minutes. Suddenly, long range radar detections were useless. So those massive radar towers were pretty much obsolete within the decade.
By the late 1960s, the base was practically abandoned and its previous utilities useless. Witnesses say the base was kept alive only by a handful of Air Force staff for training or other purposes. And then finally, in 1981, the US government officially decommissioned Monttoa Air Force Station. The documents said it was close.
Almost zero military personnel, vehicles had left, moss was growing on the radars, and nature was slowly taking back its lost land. But as the locals tell it, the base never really died. Before we dive into the Monta experiment, which I know you all here for, we need to also look into the experiment that actually inspired what we know as the Montalk experiments.
One that supposedly tore a hole in the fabric of reality. It was 1943, the height of World War II. Nazi hubot haunted the Atlantic and the US Navy was desperate for an edge. Like many DARPA scientists today, haven't watched that video, go watch it. Scientists were encouraged to think of crazy big ideas on experiments that could give us the advantage.
Things that almost sounded mythical. One of those ideas to make a ship completely invisible to enemy radarand even to the naked eye. And the ship they chose was the USS Eldridge, a Navy destroyer escort, and outfitted with a network of highpowered electromagnetic generators, coils designed to bend light, distort magnetic fields, and mass radar signatures.
Allegedly, the program was allegedly based on the secret theories from Albert Einstein's unified field research, the idea that magnetism and gravity could merge under certain conditions. If true, it would be the most advanced technology on Earth. Again, these are all just alleged theories and hypothesises. Then came the tests.
October 28th, 1943, a strange green mist began to rise around the USS Eldridge. The air shimmerred. The water around the hole rippled like glass, and then the ship was gone. Minutes later, the USS Eldridge appeared not in Philadelphia, but 200 m away in Norfolk, Virginia. Crewman said it materialized out of thin air.
Engines silent, deck glowing, and then it transported back to the Philadelphia port. When the Navy opened the hatches, they found horror. Some sailors were dead. Others had literally been fused into the steel hole in the ship. Their bodies melded with metal. A few were still alive, half-conscious and mentally never the same, babbling about voices, colors, and seen through time.
And then others vanished completely. The world might have never heard of this if not for one man, Carlos Alende, or also known as Carl Allen, a drifter who claimed to have witnessed the events from the nearby merchant ship. He is our only witness to such an event, and for that it must be true. So Carl Allen years later sent a series of rambling letters that we have displayed here on the screen to UFO researcher Morris Jessup describing what he saw.
The letters were manic, full of misspellings, underlined words, references to secret Navy programs that probably didn't exist and teleportation fields. To give you an idea, here's one of his letters that you can examine on screen. The official story, the Navy said the experiment never happened. Of course, they would deny no matter what.
No records, no witnesses, no classified project by that name. They even had to release an official statement years later because so many people reached out about the Philadelphia experiment. And here's the statement right here. Again, the government denies almost anything. the government denied Area 51 until President Obama actually had to state they needed more security there and actually said Area 51 existed.
So that doesn't actually dismiss it, but believers insist there was a cover up and that the experiment's results were too dangerous to ever admit. So remember in the beginning the guy talking about seeing a reptilian creature? Well, we finally reached the part of the story where Preston Nichols comes in. It happened decades after the Philadelphia experiment, 1943.
Preston Nichols would claim the Philadelphia experiments technology was resurrected on Long Island, buried beneath the radar towers of Montalk Air Force Station. According to Preston Nichols, the silence was only on the surface, beneath those dunes, behind sealed concrete doors. The base was secretly reactivated under a classified initiative called Project Phoenix, supposedly a continuation of the old Philadelphia experiment.
So, who was Preston B. Nichols? Well, he was just a radio engineer. He worked on Long Island in the 1970s fixing transmitters and studying electromagnetic frequencies for private telecommunications firms. A quiet technical guy, not a storyteller, not a conspiracy theorist, but everything changed.
He said, "When the memories came back." The memories? What memories? Nicholls suddenly claimed that in the early 1980s amidst this very mundane life, he started noticing gaps, missing hours, days that felt erased. He'd walk into work and co-workers would act strange. Then came the flashes, vivid cinematic visions that didn't belong in his life.
He'd seen underground tunnels, metal corridors, a massive radar dish pulsing with light, and kids, specifically boys in military uniforms being tested with machines that read their minds. At first, he thought it was stress. But then through meditation, some therapy, and reverse hypnosis, Nicholls claimed he began to unlock what he called repressed memories.
He said they had been deliberately buried or erased by government handlers using mindwiping techniques. Those memories told a different story of who Preston Nichols really was. He wasn't just a radio engineer. Apparently, he was part of a secret cold war research group operating at a camp hero on the eastern tip of Long Island.
So, Nicholls claimed his job was to integrate radar frequencies with human consciousness to learn how thought could be transmitted as a signal. In his recovered memories, he wasn't a victim. He was one of the engineers, a scientist helping to weaponize the human mind. So, he began recording everything in journals, cassettes, diagrams, trying to makesense of what he remembered.
His YouTube channel, which is out there, not sure if it's run by him, has a lot of videos in regards to this, and he's grown a cult following. And then in 1992, he put it all together in a book that would change the world of conspiracy forever. The book is known as the Montalk Project, Experiments in Time.
This book took off in conspiracy circles, and many people even invited him on book tours to speak of his repressed memories. He'd said he'd spent 12 years from the time 1971 to 1983 before the project imploded and his memories were wiped. So you might say the base decommissioned in 1981. Well, there was some air force around in ' 83, so I guess there's a truth to that.
He said he didn't remember working there because he was never supposed to. But once those memories returned, he couldn't unsee them. And that's when the legend of Montalk began. So Nicholls claimed that during the early 1970s, some of the brightest minds of the century, physicists, engineers, intelligence officers, psychics, remote viewers were brought here under contracts with shadowy defense programs.
Their goal wasn't to track Soviet aircraft anymore. It was to study the human mind and access its true psychic abilities. Again, we're gain another kernel of truth. But this was MK Ultra's electronic twin. Instead of LSD and hypnosis, they used electromagnetic frequencies and radar pulses, massive beams of energy capable of influencing mood, emotion, even thought.
They discovered or claimed to that specific radio frequencies could trigger rage, panic, or calm. It sounds like science fiction, but during that same era, real CIA and military programs were testing whether electromagnetic waves could influence the human mind. There are actual document studies on this. So when Preston Nichols talked about radar towers that could alter thought, it wasn't completely out of thin air.
So Stranger Things had Dr. Brener, Monta had the same scientists armed with radar dishes instead of needles. And the place where it all took place was the Monta chair. So this chair, to give you an idea, is like a dentist chair. It would be a psychic amplifier designed to turn thought into reality.
We're manifesting things here. The subject would sit the chair wearing a strange metallic helmet while radar signals read and amplified their brain waves. Nichols said the chair was based on Tesla's hidden frequency research. So from the images of the chair you can see on screen, you have three delta t coils to get a little technical that are in a triangular formation.
And what happens is the subject sits right there in the seat. And the process is simple at least in theory. You think a thought, your thoughts are weak. You send an electrical signal which then equals amplified frequency with this helmet thing. Stay with me here. The final step was supposedly physical manifestation. And after some testing with some of these psychic level abilities, Nichols believed the team had accidentally opened a tear in space and time, a kind of time vortex, as he puts it in his book. People sitting in the chair
describe visions of other worlds in other times and in some cases other dimensions. This all sounds familiar? It's because Stranger Things borrowed directly from that. The Duffer brothers original pilot script wasn't even called Stranger Things. It was literally titled Montalk.
So eventually Nichols says they needed children. Dozens of boys between the ages of 10 to 16 were allegedly taken from the Monta area and this became known as the Monta Boys. Preston Nichols claimed that the younger the mind, the easier it was to program and the more naturally gifted in their psychic abilities. However, in order to get these abilities out of them, scientists, scientists and military were told to starve, isolate, and torture the boys because this made them better and helped train their psychic projection, remote viewing, telekinesis, and even
time travel. After they were done with the child, Preston says they would wipe their memories of the experiments, and then they were sent home to return to their normal lives and live like nothing ever happened. Sound familiar? Again, it's like 11 story decades before Netflix made this. So, we keep talking about electromagnetic energy and these particles, which I have no business trying to explain, but I'll try my best.
The science tells us that energy is constant and cannot be created nor destroyed. We all learn this. So, these ideas of transferring energy come way before Preston Nichols was ever wired to the Montalk radar. There was another man who he claimed had already discovered how to use the energy of life itself. This is a real guy. His name was Dr.
Villim Reich, a student of Freud, who turned into a scientific outcast. In the 1930s, Reich said he found a new type of energy that pulsed through every living thing the force of creation desire. He called it Orgon energy. To him, this wasn't mystical. It was physical,measurable, radiant. The same current that made storms form and galaxies spin, he believed could heal the body and cleanse the mind and even control the weather.
He built devices, the Orgon accumulators, which were wooden boxes lined with layers of metal and organic material. It's like a modified Faraday cage. People would sit inside for hours claiming they could feel waves of energy, heat, and peace. Kind of like a electromagnetic sauna. Rice said it could cure cancer. Again, there are facilities today that talk about energy and some people have had miraculous recovery.
So, not totally out of the box. The FDA called it quackery. His books were banned. his devices burned in public bonfires quite literally. And then 1957, Reich died in a Pennsylvania prison cell. He had been convicted of contempt of court after defying court orders to stop his experiments. That's kind of strange.
He was buried quietly, but his ideas refused to die. So, fast forward 20 years, we have Preston Nichols claiming the Montalk project had resurrected forbidden research. He said the massive radar dish at Camp Hero operated in the same frequency range as Orgon Energy. All right, so we're gathering it all together here.
So, we know about the Philadelphia experiment that inspired the Montalk legend. But here's where things for all of Preston Nichols wild claims about psychic portals, alien creatures, and government time travel. There were zero witnesses from that era who could back him up. Supposedly, zero, except one. Now, his name was Duncan Cameron.
He was the only alleged witness who said he remembered being there at the Philadelphia experiment. Not as a scientist, but as a subject. Preston called him the most powerful psychic the government ever experimented on. So, he wasn't just any subject. He was the most powerful who came forward. And here's what's kind of eerie is Duncan's relatives and old friends have actually gone on record saying that he was a part of these experiments in Montalk that it was real. It wasn't a story.
It wasn't a book pitch. It was something that actually defined his entire life. So just watch this video right here and I'll let you guys decide what you think about it. But kind of interesting. Is it a money grab? Is it real? You guys decide. >> So this is what he has to say. As you can imagine, the Monta project took a toll on Duncan.
For example, after the end of the project, Duncan's body was repeatedly shocked to death in order to shatter the protective insulating layers of the mind to lose recognition of self and project memories. >> So, who was he? Duncan wasn't a soldier or some top secret physicist. He was also an electronics technician from Long Island.
A regular guy who worked for defense contractors apparently in the 1970s. So, all right, maybe a red flag there. Testing radar and signal systems. Again, pretty mundane work. But that's exactly what makes what comes next so strange. No pun intended. Because decades later, Duncan started having flashbacks. Dreams, sterile rooms, men in lab coats, the smell of ozone and electricity in the air, people shouting his name.
Under hypnosis and regression therapy, Duncan said those memories weren't dreams, they were repressed. So when Duncan met Preston Nichols in the 1980s, everything clicked. Preston remembered running the equipment. Duncan remembered being inside it. Two men, two sides of the same nightmare. August 12th, 1983 was apparently the day when everything went wrong.
According to both Nicholls and Duncan, the experiment that day was supposed to be simple. Duncan sat in the Montalk chair, the hybrid dentist chair. At first, small objects appeared like they claimed, shapes, lights, distortions. But then the power spiked. Soldiers reported seeing a vortex, a tunnel of light forming in midair.
But then something else came through. Something alive. Preston called it the beast of Monttok. A hybrid creature, part biological, part electromagnetic. It tore through the base, smashing walls and cables, feeding off the energy that created it. Just like Stranger Things with the demogorgan, same concept. Some might say it was even a demon.
Duncan said he could feel in his mind that it was his subconscious given form. Apparently, it's still unclear whether it was an accident or on purpose. To stop it, Nichols said he grabbed an axe and destroyed the transmitters, all this expensive million-dollar equipment. The lights went out. He had to destroy all of it.
Apparently, none of it could stay because Duncan could not stop manifesting this demon and would cost millions to replace. And then the creature or the demon that appeared then vanished once it all was destroyed. And the project after decades of silence was finally dead. Then came Al Belch, another engineer who years later claimed he too had been part of Montalk.
So now we have three people. But his story took it to another level. He wasn't just Al Beleck. He was actually Edward Cameron.He was Duncan's brother, apparently. According to Al, they first served together in 1943 aboard the USS Eldridge during the original Philadelphia experiment. When the ship turned invisible, the two men apparently had no choice but to jump overboard, hopefully into the water, but instead they jumped through the vortex of space and time, and they landed in 2137.
He described a future ruled by artificial intelligence where floating cities drifted above a flooded Earth and money no longer existed. Kind of a direction we're headed right now. And after 2 years there he said they were sent even further to 2749 to a society controlled by neural implants neurolink and hovering metropolises.
Future authorities bec claimed sent them back to finish the loop but the jump misfired and they landed in 1983 right inside Ma sealing a time lock between the two experiments. No Navy records back up his existence as Edward Cameron but in the mythology of Montalk his story completed the circle.
1943 1983 two experiments 40 years apart the beginning and the end of the same machine. Preston Nichols and Peter Moon released the Montalk project experiments in time. More sequels followed and yes they got wilder and this is where we introduced reptilians, dimensional rifts, psychic cleansing rituals. Nicholls even claimed he could help the victims of the Montalk experiments through his deprogramming abilities. He was like a therapist.
The victims he said would be healed of the trauma. He just asked that these victims come to his home and be naked, lay naked and he would scan their bodies and locate the psychic scars. Could be true or he could just be a freaking creep. Camp Hero became the East Coast Area 51. Tad to my claims in the beginning that most of this is completely farce in conspiracy.
Like I said, there are some kernels of truth throughout it and I hope I've laid that clearly. If not, go back and rewatch it. and one of them being that the location is actually situated in a place somewhere where it's believable that certain experimentations took place. You're near New York City. There's also 50 mi west, there's the Brook Haven Lab, which is the birthplace of America's first particle accelerator.
This had real government contracts in nuclear electromagnetic research. So, conspiracy theorists say Brook Haven fed technology and scientists directly into Monttok. Think of it as the DOE from Stranger Things, except this one actually exists. So maybe Preston Nichols was delusional. Maybe Camp Hero was just concrete and radar.
Or maybe somewhere beneath those cliffs, the machines are still humming. So thanks for watching this fun one. Merry Christmas to you guys. I like to mix it up and not always do super serious and intense topics that actually have a lot of truth to it. So this was a fun one for me. So thanks again. My name is Allessie.
Please like, comment, subscribe, and I will see you in the next one. Merry Christmas, guys. God bless.
