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The government project code name Montauk was created to develop Technologies and methods in mind
control as well as the exploration of other outer Fringe subjects such as teleportation by opening
portals to parallel worlds and experiments on time travel and telekinesis the Project's details were
brought to the attention of the public the 1990s by a supposed experiment candidate and book author
Preston Nichols claimed to have recovered details of the experiments through his repressed memories
but how reliable are Preston nichols's claims and is there any proof that what he says is true and
what happened to the unfortunate people that were supposedly experimented on let's try and find out
hello I'm Mike droberg Marine Corps veteran and filmmaker and
we will try to answer these questions on today's episode of Forgotten history
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project Montauk is the name given to a top secret project in which a series of inhumane experiments
were conducted on children by the US government the secret underground Laboratories at Camp hero
Park in New York from the late 1950s to 1981. Camp hero was founded in 1942 and commissioned
by the U.S Army in the coastal defense station to prevent a possible invasion of New York from
the sea during World War II batteries 112 and 113 consisting of two 16-inch guns officially
named battery Dawn were built as well as battery 216 consisting of two six-inch guns all batteries
were sheltered by Earth and covered concrete bunkers and had ammunition storage and Fire
Control equipment the whole base was disguised as a fishing Village after the end of World War
II at the beginning of the Cold War the base was used as an early detection radar base to
defend against attacks from the USSR the base had 12 Radars of which only one the an FPS 35
has survived whose image is widely circulated the image has become the unspoken symbol of
the Montauk project amongst conspiracy theorists and the mass culture alike the Montauk project
became known to the public after the 1992 book publication the Montauk project experiments In
Time by Preston Nichols the book became an instant bestseller Preston Nichols claimed that the book
was written from his suppressed memories which had finally resurfaced and which had been previously
suppressed by intelligence agencies using secret psychotechnics and other mind-altering equipment
simply put he was brainwashed to forget everything but something triggered a wave of memories of the
horrors he endured and this is when he decided that they should become known to the world as can
be read from the events described in this book the experiments of project Montauk aimed to develop
Technologies and methods of mind control as well as the possibility of teleportation opening
portals to parallel worlds time travel telekinesis allegedly project Montauk was also linked to many
secret government programs and experiments the most famous of which was the Philadelphia
Experiment which studied the invisibility cloaking and teleportation of a warship
we have an episode on that as well so please check it out after Preston nichols's book
became a bestseller he began attending conferences giving interviews and participating in talk shows
where he spoke about the inhumane experiments that took place in the underground Laboratories
of Camp hero Preston Nichols activities were widely received his story became more known
as more people spoke out claiming to have also been victims of the Montauk experiments when
they were children but their suppressed memories had only returned to them after the revelations of
Preston Nichols most of the victims if not all of them claimed that as children they were mentally
and physically abused in the underground Laboratories where they were kept in cages
there is also information about homeless people who were used as test subjects psychics who went
to the experiments voluntarily and cooperated with the scientists of the project the government
purportedly used torture and starvation methods on children to gain complete control over them the
participants of the Montauk project who regained their memory claimed that the experiments used the
methods and techniques of Austrian psychologists and scientists William Reich who was a student
of Sigmund Freud himself in 1939 Wilhelm Reich after moving to the United States began work on
a project related to the study of energy which he called Oregon or organic energy Reich claimed that
Oregon surrounds us everywhere and in the human body it is no less than Life Energy and with the
proper concentration it is possible to cure deadly diseases such as cancer to concentrate this energy
Wright created the Oregon accumulator which was a wooden box lined with metal
this device supposedly cured diseases through the accumulation of organ energy strangely enough
reich's dubious theories had gained a large number of followers however Reich was eventually banned
from Distributing or selling the Oregon battery due to the strong public outcry it caused however
Wright disobeyed the injunction and was imprisoned in the federal jail in Lewisburg Pennsylvania
on November 3rd 1957 he was found dead in his prison bunk an autopsy revealed mitochondrial and
sufficiency with heart failure reich's remaining divisions and books were destroyed and the Oregon
Doctrine itself was debunked by a large number of prominent scientists including Freud but among
conspiracy theorists Reich is still considered a martyr for his discoveries and knowledge
Rustin Nichols claimed that the anfps 35 radar was transmitting signals in the same frequency
range that Reich used to accumulate the Oregon energy legendly Oregon and the psychic abilities
are related and inseparable Preston Nichols described the experiments in which thanks to
techniques developed by wilhelm-like subjects went into a trance and in this state we're
completely controlled by the scientists the so-called Montauk chair is described as a
chair similar to a dentist's chair is located in a small chamber with many different devices
chair reads a person's Aura with the help of Oregon could give the subject superhuman-like
Powers such as Telekinesis the ability to open portals to other dimensions or even time travel
an important part of the experiment was the materialization of physical objects by the
psychic as well as the transfer of objects and other biological forms from a parallel reality
according to Nicholas's claims while being in the Montauk chair during experiments
psyche was able to materialize objects in different corners of the underground complex
moreover an entire house was materialized detailed with all its finishings and furniture
this house was purportedly materialized right outside of the base
while the materialization of the house was one of the Project's major successes not everything went
so smoothly one of the experiments almost turned out to be a disaster when a psychic
penetrated into another dimension found himself in a hostile world full of demonic-like creatures
luckily he managed to close the portal without letting the creatures back into our world
Montauk residents claimed that in mid-august it could snow
or a hurricane would come from nowhere even though the local weather stations did not
predict any strange weather incidents provided any warning to the residents about it domesticated
animals living in the area would suddenly become frenzied often breaking into the houses of local
residents crashing through doors and windows smashing everything that blocked their way
also strange creatures with tags on their limbs were often found washed ashore
these events were blamed on the base and in particular the radar complex the radar
supposedly emitted the strange waves that caused the unusual weather activity caused the local
animals to behave in an abnormal manner it is said it was also used by scientists who
are tempted to break through the border with parallel worlds the Montauk project was the
Catalyst that spawned hundreds of investigative journalism articles documentaries and books
hundreds perhaps thousands of people claimed to have been participants in the experiment
the internet overflows with testimonies of people who purportedly took part in the experiment
authors of dozens of books exploit the theme of Montauk weaving into their stories experiments on
children and include a variety of new topics ranging from UFOs to Atlantis conspiracy
proponents believe that the project Montauk was not only conducted by the government but is still
being conducted today one could easily ignore the Montauk project is just another conspiracy theory
but there are circumstances that make one look at Preston nichols's story with some credence
such as the hundreds of people who also claim to have been part of the Montauk experiments and as
the number of people convinced they were victims of the Montauk project they began to seek out help
and of course one man claimed to be able to help all these unfortunate people Preston Nichols
according to Nichols he had a unique ability to feel and see what was embedded inside a person by
the experiment and was able to deprogram them and in fact even save them from their anguish but in
order to deprogram a person it was necessary to bring the person back into the state they
were programmed Preston would sit people down in a medical chair similar to the ones used during
the experiments then he would start scanning them with his hands across their naked bodies
he convinced them that this was the only way to recovery and was necessary
yeah sounds like a creeper to me so what was the Montauk project creepy government
experiment conducted to gain access to the minds of millions of ordinary citizens or
just the rantings of a pervo with an equally creepy fantasy who was a fan of reich's writings
but if Preston made all this up where did all the other experimentation victims come from
are they all nut jobs too this is the great mystery
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