Joe Loffreno has worked in the wild, rugged Eastern (Eastern Cape) of Long Island, now known as Camp Hero State Park (Camp Hero) for 18 years. He knows the spooky, abandoned military base — which is said to have inspired the Netflix series “Stranger Things” — better than anyone.
“It’s a place that has dominated my life and my nightmares,” he told The Post.
Many Montauk locals claim that the stories of Camp Heroes were the site of secret government experiments involving mind control, time travel, wormholes, teleportation, and more. .
Rumors arose in 1992, 11 years after the military base at Camp Heroes was closed. Accordingly, there has been an entire book (now widely available) called “Project Montauk: Trials in Time” by Preston Nichols, about special experiments genetically and psychologically – with local children being kidnapped is taking place here.
Historian Henry Osmers says the book is full of myths, because the conspiracy theories in the book have led people to ignore the region’s official military history.
Another local, Paul Fagan, spent 14 years exploring Camp Heroes and poring over government documents at the National Archives in Manhattan.
He told The Post there may be a nuclear reactor secretly buried at the site, possibly installed around 1958 as part of the Army’s Wartime Nuclear Power Program. Cold. Fagan suspects that Camp Heroes conspiracy theories may have been planted to deflect public attention away from the nuclear reactor.
And then there’s Loffreno, the 53-year-old who grew up in Montauk and now works as a park officer at Camp Heroes. He also sincerely believes that he is one of the “Montauk Boys” who went missing and tortured as is popularized in Nichols’ book.
Joe Loffreno – He believes himself to have been kidnapped as a young boy and taken through one of the gunyard’s old tunnels (left) to an underground laboratory where experiments are conducted. proceed towards him.
“I didn’t believe it until two years ago,” Loffreno told The Post. “I was hypnotized by a certified hypnotherapist for about 40 minutes and all these memories came flooding back. They did a very bad thing to us out there. We were just kids. They don’t have the right to experiment with us. It’s a very dark, very evil thing.”
He believes he was kidnapped and abused during the summer of 1980 and possibly the summer of 1981, when he was 12 or 13 years old.
The first time, Loffreno said, there were two men waiting. Dressed in civilian clothes, they led the boys into a sunken house in the base. Then, he said, he and the other boys were brought underground through Bureau 113, one of the sealed gunyards left from the Second World War.
He remembers lying on a table with wires attached to him like electrodes: “They analyzed us like animals.” He said there were up to 50 other kids there. He believes that some of them were later killed.
He said that, while under hypnosis, he arrived at the location he remembers with another park employee, Charlie, who was also interviewed by The Post. There, they find the ruins of the house steeped in his memories.
A Demogorgon and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown, right) in “Stranger Things”.
Filmmaker Christopher Garetano, who grew up near Montauk, made the 2014 documentary “The Chronicles of Montauk” detailing the allegations made by three men – Nichols, Al Bielek and Stewart Swerdlow – who said that they were brainwashed and forced to participate in experiments at Camp Heroes from 1971 to 1983.
During the 1970s and 80s, Nichols led what was called the “electronics movement” which claimed that government agents used electromagnetic waves to seed thoughts in people’s heads. Nichols, who died two years ago, claims he was part of the so-called Montauk Project.
Garetano told The Post he felt Nichols and the others were untrustworthy. But as he continues to explore Camp Heroes in earnest – he hires a geophysicist to analyze the ground beneath the old base – Garetano said they have found evidence of large structures yet. found on any official map.
“Forget all the alien crap and MK Ultra -a CIA mind control experiment from the 1950s and 60s,” he said. “I think there’s been some kind of experimentation using children or teenagers, possibly runaways from New York.”
Archived image of the radar tower when it is in use.
Once home to an Army base during World War II and an Air Force post during the Cold War, Camp Heroes was decommissioned in 1981 and is now owned by the state park system. It sits on 755 acres of jungle and desolate marshland with breathtaking – 360-degree views of the Atlantic Ocean and Block Island Sound.
Thanks to Nichols’ book series — and the success of “Stranger Things” — Camp Heroes has become Area 51 of Long Island.
Looming overhead is the super-powered SAGE radar tower from the Cold War era, built with the purpose in case of a nuclear attack by the Soviet Union, it can give the US 30 minutes of pre-collision warning. The antenna emits up to 425MHz, which is also the frequency believed to be necessary to enter human consciousness.
Even the locals believe in the stories of the “secret underground base”, adding that they admit that when the tower was in operation, it caused interference to television sets and electrical equipment. In other deaths, many people reported that they also had headaches.
“But the impact of the tower on the town is real. I don’t know if it affects our thinking like some people say,” a longtime local resident shared.
Montauk Lighthouse near Heroes Camp.
In fact, history shows that the military designed the base to look like a fishing village – even though soldiers actually lived there – to fool the Nazis. After the war, the Air Force took over the site and closed it in 1981. At that point, according to books by Nichols and a host of other researchers, strange things began to happen.
Peter Bove, former Manhattan advertising executive and author of the novel “Montauk Time”, said: “I believe that the stories of human experiments that took place here are quite possibly true.” .
“Scientifically, physiologically, it’s all real. I believe there have been Army experiments out there that involved space travel and the fallout from that persisted, like, like a tear in the space-time continuum,” Bove said.
Even Fagan, who avoided researching conspiracy theories at Camp Heroes, said: “A lot of people, myself included, who took the time to learn about Camp Heroes eventually became heroes. completely different person after that”. “It’s a strange coincidence but I’ve seen it happen to a lot of people. I’m so nervous, I have to leave town for a while. All I can say is imagination is a ‘dump’. devil machine’ can affect you, it will even make you no longer know what is real and what is fake.”
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