Inside the Montauk Project: Time Travel, Mind Control, and Conspiracy

On the eastern tip of Long Island, an abandoned base known as Camp Hero is at the center of one of America’s strangest conspiracy theories: The Montauk Project. Beginning in the 1970s, it was allegedly home to secret government experiments—mind control trials, telepathy tests, and even attempts to open portals through space and time.

Whistleblower Preston Nichols claimed to have worked on the project, describing psychic amplification devices, teleportation chambers, and the infamous Montauk Chair, said to project thoughts into physical reality. Other stories tell of time travel experiments, abducted children, and monstrous entities brought into existence from the human mind.

No official records confirm the project’s existence, yet its influence has endured—so much so that Stranger Things was originally based on the Montauk story.

Was Camp Hero just a Cold War outpost—or a doorway to another dimension? Join The Nocturnal Archives as we explore the secrets, legends, and unanswered questions surrounding the Montauk Project.