The Truth About Stranger Things - The Montauk Project

Many locals in Montauk mock the tales about Camp Hero being the site of secret government experiments involving mind control, time travel, wormholes, teleportation and kids hooked up to wires in hidden underground labs.

The rumors took hold in 1992, 11 years after the military base at Camp Hero was shut down. A (now widely debunked) book called “The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time,” by Preston Nichols, told of sinister, Nazi-style experiments that meddled — ­genetically and psychologically — with kidnapped local boys.