In the 1990’s a man named Preston Nichols went public and started saying the strangest
things. He said he’d been involved with a series of military projects, and after uncovering
repressed memories he said he now remembered working on things such as mind control, teleportation,
telepathy and even time travel. This was all top secret, of course. The experiments he
said had taken place at a U.S. military black site in a place called Montauk in New York
State. Other people have also come out and said the U.S. government has conducted similar
experiments that sound like science fiction, but just how credible are these people and
how does this tie in to Stranger Things? Before we get back to Mr. Nichols we first
need to tell you about something called the Philadelphia Experiment. You see, Nichols
said that the experiments that he took part in were a kind of follow on from this alleged
experiment. We’ve done a full show on this, so we will just give you a recap now.
As the story goes, while the USA was fighting in world war two it was developing a ship,
but this was no ordinary ship. Called the USS Eldridge, the destroyer was by some accounts
out of this world in many respects. It’s said in 1943 an experiment took place and
the ship just disappeared from the eyes of those who stood by. This was apparently teleportation
and the technology was created by Nikola Tesla. One man said the ship was surrounded by a
blue light and then poof, it was gone. That’s not a bad thing to have in a war.
How do we know any of this? Well, a man who claimed to be a whistleblower
told a writer and the writer relayed the tale. It was even written that when the ship remerged
things hadn’t gone so well as men were mangled on the ship, some of them actually fused to
the thing. Conspiracy theorists have written that some of those men ended up in mental
asylums, while others died. The problem is, can we believe this happened on the account
of one man, a man who would change his story over his lifetime?
Well, now we must talk about another man and his name was Al Bielek. He claimed that after
watching the movie The Philadelphia Experiment once-repressed memories came back to him and
he too now realized he had worked on these secret projects and he said he had also seen
a ship teleport. He went further, though, saying after that
experiment he became part of the “The Montauk Project”. He claimed the USA was working
on time travel and indeed he had been sent into the future himself. He claimed to have
been onboard one ship and after it disappeared he awoke in a hospital covered in radiation
burns in the year 2137. But that wasn’t all, he also said he’d visited the 28th
century and gone as far forward on one journey as 6037. The question again is, do we believe
the words of this one man? It’s not as if he has ever come forward with any kind of
substantial proof, we just have to take his word for it.
We should mention a man named Jacques F. Vallee. He wrote a piece called “Anatomy of a Hoax:
The Philadelphia Experiment Fifty Years Later” in an attempt to better understand why some
people were saying such things had happened. His conclusion in some part was that indeed
the USA was trying to develop technologies that would make ships difficult to be hit
by magnetic weapons, but there was nothing otherworldly about this. The technology wasn’t
that great at all. He said perhaps this might have planted seeds in people’s minds and
that’s why folk started talking about disappearing ships.
After the war, say conspiracy theorists, the USA started doing things in tune with the
TV Show Stranger Things. We should say that the original title of the series was actually
Montauk, but the Duffer brothers changed their minds on that one. One of those things was
seeking out children with psychic sensitivities and basically taking them from the streets
and conducting experiments on them. Now this is not so over the top, because the
CIA had had a mind control program that definitely did exist and this was called MKUltra. The
CIA wanted to try and figure out how to control someone’s mind, and to do this they did
things such as give people the powerful drug LSD. They also tried hypnosis, sleep deprivation,
isolation and forms of torture. It was secret, and as it turned out, very unethical.
This is a far cry from experimenting on children who might have the power of telekinesis, though.
That’s being able to move things with your mind, such as “Eleven” can do in Stranger
Things. It’s also very different from telepathy, being able to read someone’s mind. There
is no evidence that either is possible, but it makes interesting TV.
The men who have talked about such things, Bielek and Nichols, both say like Eleven young
children were strapped into chairs where they would have their psychic abilities tested.
This chair in the project was called the Montauk Chair.
It gets stranger, though, because in the 1940s a man called Jose Silva did create something
called “Silva Mind Control.” This was supposed to better a child’s IQ score, but
Silva also thought it might bring out a child’s psychic abilities. This man and his tests
did exist. One man named Duncan Cameron claims to have
taken part in one of those tests, but then said he was recruited by “Men in Black.”
Cameron claims to have experienced psychic abilities first as a 12-year old and later
he was made part of the MKUltra program. He said he was abducted and forced to take part
in the Montauk Project, and in that Montauk Chair some crazy things happened. We’ve
seen him on YouTube talking about his mind-bending experiences.
We should say now that Bielek claims that when his memories came back to him he remembered
that his real name was Ed Cameron, and he was in fact the brother of Duncan Cameron.
In one interview, Duncan Cameron said, “I was involved in a number of research projects
back in the 70s and 80s that actually created a fixed time loop back into the 40s.”
He was apparently traumatized by this as any kid would be, and it took some time to adjust
back to normal life. He said he was abducted in total 13 times, groomed by the military
to do exactly what they asked of him. On his website it’s written about his time
in the chair, saying things such as this: “His focused awareness became one with the
greater field of consciousness and his awareness became one with his surroundings. The linear
sequence of time changed. Space enfolded and events happened synchronously.”
This is what Nichols wrote about this talented child:
“The first experiment was called ‘The Seeing Eye.’ With a lock of person's hair
or other appropriate object in his hand, Duncan could concentrate on the person and be able
to see as if he was seeing through their eyes, hearing through their ears, and feeling through
their body. He could actually see through other people anywhere on the planet.”
You can watch interviews with both Nichols and Cameron, and the two discuss these secret
projects. Talking about the teleporting ships under the Rainbow Project, aka, the Philadelphia
Project. They also talk about The Phoenix Project, which was essentially a mind control
program which also started in WW2. If you read the comments below one video on
YouTube you’ll find many people believe them and some people claim to know others
that were part of these projects. Here’s an example comment:
“These experiments are still going on in sub basements beneath the east end of Long
Island and I intend to prove it. These experiments never stopped - they just hid them beneath
the ground! Long Island is a test lab for the shadow government's projects!”
In one of his books, Nichols went as far to say that during one experiment on the young
Cameron a kind of monster was created by his subconscious, and that monster caused havoc
on the base. According to that story, the monster wouldn’t quit causing trouble until
the chair was destroyed and the experiments stopped.
This is how Nichols described the creation of the monster:
“Duncan let loose a monster from his subconscious. And the transmitter actually portrayed a hairy
monster. It was big, hairy and nasty . . . it showed up somewhere on the base. It would
eat everything it could find. And it smashed everything in sight.”
Now you are really seeing how these stories acted as inspiration for the TV series, but
let’s not forget that these men are all deadly serious.
Nichols wrote that there were other subjects, all young people, and he called them the,
“Montauk Boys.” Others have investigated the stories of these
men and some are not convinced they are making it up. One writer said he had visited the
creepy base and indeed there were underground tunnels and bunkers. He told The Huffington
Post, “At first I didn’t believe their stories. These men have not benefited financially
— they didn’t gain anything from this, and they’ve endured ridicule as they maintained
their story.” Thanks to that story we found another man
who claimed he was one of the Montauk Boys and his name is Stewart Swerdlow. This is
something he has said about his time at the base and in the chair:
“Beatings, a lot of torture, electrical shock, burials, near-drownings — they’d
bring you to the point of death and then they would save you, and the person doing this
would be your rescuer and would say, ‘I’m the one that saved you and remember that.’
And that became your handler.” He said the experiments didn’t just involve
gifted kids, but sometimes kids who were orphans or addicted to drugs would be snatched from
the streets. He said a lot more kids could have been involved. In interviews he has said
things such as this: “The aim was to fracture your mind so they
could program you . . . they would change the temperature from very hot to very
cold, starve you then over-feed you. And they loved to hold your head underwater until you
nearly drowned. That was effective — it makes a person likely to listen to and obey
their ‘rescuer’.” We went to his Facebook page where he calls
himself a “gifted Hyperspace Intuitive” and says he can also move his consciousness
beyond time and space. He claims to be a clairvoyant (he sees into the future) and can even, in
his own words, “see auric fields and personal archetypes as well as read DNA sequences and
mind-patterns.” He has claimed that during the experiments he once visited Mars and on
another occasion he was sent back to biblical times.
We should tell you that Cameron passed away in 2019. Nichols and Bielek are also dead.
Swerdlow is alive and well. Many of you after hearing this will no doubt
question the veracity of these stories. You might ask if clairvoyance or other special
psychic abilities exist. We had a look around for some proof that they could exist, but
it seems most experts believe anyone who claims to have these abilities likely only has some
mental issues such as schizophrenia. In some forms this could not be as bad as to make
life difficult for that person, and at times they may just have a feeling that they have
psychic abilities and just carry on living a normal life. To date, there is no peer reviewed
scientific evidence published anywhere that proves people can have these abilities. But
the claims have happened throughout history, and you might even say people who claim to
have spoken to a higher power are not too much different from the people we have discussed
today. People and groups with a bit of cash behind them have even said they give quite
a lot of money to anyone who could prove their psychic abilities when being observed formally.
One American magician even said he’d lay down one million bucks if anyone could do
that, and you know what, he’d never paid out any cash.
We know some secrets experiments were conducted, but without evidence do you believe anything
as crazy as these men claim have ever taken place or was it something else? Tell us your
theories in the comments. Now go watch “Evidence That Aliens Have Made Contact”. Thanks for
watching, and as always, don’t forget to like, share and subscribe. See you next time.