August 29, 2008, 2:45 pm : Montauk Weirdness – Part 2

Picking up where I left off after a long hiatus (or wandering around Europe with no internet access), this installment of Montauk mayhem recounts one of the major conspiracy theories surrounding Camp Hero. As mentioned in my previous post, Camp Hero is a large tract of land fronting the Atlantic Ocean just west of the Montauk Lighthouse that has served various strategic (and possibly nefarious) purposes for the US Military.

The first claim that circulated out of the military operations dates back to 1943, and an experiment referred to as The Philadelphia Experiment (“official” US Military report here). This experiment was believed to use electromagnetic radiation and gravity to render US Naval ship USS Eldridge, including crew, invisible, then teleported from Philadelphia to Norfolk, VA.

The Montauk Project claims to have continued the efforts of the Philadelphia Experiment in the early 1950′s. It wasn’t until 1968 that equipment supposedly used in the experiments, including a SAGE radar installation, was moved to Camp Hero and installed.

Camp Hero Sage Radar Installation

The US Government declared Camp Hero closed in 1969, dedicating the land as a wildlife refuge/park, seemingly to avert the idea that the NSA and the Office of Naval Intelligence had developed a deep underground miltary base. Despite this, Camp Hero remained completely closed to the public until 1987. To this day the buildings that housed the radar and underground space remain closed.

The two staunchest supporters of the Montauk Project, Al Bielek and Duncan Cameron, claim to have jumped from the deck of the USS Eldridge as it traveled through hyperspace in 1943 and ended up at Camp Hero in 1983.

Stay tuned for Montauk Weirdness – Part 3, coming tomorrow, where I will detail my (somewhat illegal) wanderings through Camp Hero back in the ’90′s, chronicle the tales of Bielek and Cameron and bring you more weirdness from mystical Montauk.

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