The Montauk Project: The Government Project that Inspired Stranger Things

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  • @Andy-te1mw
    @Andy-te1mw Před rokem +1023

    I think one of the biggest mysteries is how one man can have so many CZcams channels. Thank you Simon.

    • @The_Gnome_Chomskee
      @The_Gnome_Chomskee Před rokem +50

      He’s not a flesh and blood person. He’s an AI.

    • @hohoho13
      @hohoho13 Před rokem +21

      @@The_Gnome_Chomskee The beard gave it away...

    • @rishabraina4301
      @rishabraina4301 Před rokem +6

      Exactly

    • @MF-R
      @MF-R Před rokem +23

      I've been saying it for years; they're either robots or clones. Each Simon has been programmed and built by the Top 10s Simon, and are custom purposed to the channel. He also regularly updates their appearance to help keep up appearances. Although, I think he's started using one for both this channel and "Into the Shadows".

    • @jamiehoneycutt4865
      @jamiehoneycutt4865 Před rokem +29

      He doesn’t write this stuff. He’s just the narrator, that’s how. A fantastic one.

  • @audreymuzingo933
    @audreymuzingo933 Před rokem +15

    "McUltra". Oh Simon, this is why I love you.

  • @robbsclassics
    @robbsclassics Před rokem +10

    You mentioned Lyme disease. That comes from Lyme, Connecticut. The government was doing research on diseases that were in paracites, like ticks, at Plumb Island at the same time. Plumb Island is 1 mile from Lyme.

  • @Kitty-oe2sd
    @Kitty-oe2sd Před rokem +259

    I lived in Long Island right by Montauk for a few years, I've been to the facility as well with a few friends when we were teens and poked around in the few bunker-like rooms that we were able to find and get in to. Had to go over a fence and all that good stuff. There was no guards as we were told there would be. In fact, there was nobody there at all. The place was mostly abandoned, there were lots military-style furniture pieces lying around and damaged papers strewn through the rooms in the bunkers. The place was weird and it gave us the creeps, mostly the layout was strange. Watching areas off of empty rooms etc. I don't know if the radar still stands.

    • @Davidrcobb
      @Davidrcobb Před rokem +12

      Happen to read or snap pics of any of the papers?

    • @wisteela
      @wisteela Před rokem +12

      The radar still stands.

    • @battyforcats4668
      @battyforcats4668 Před rokem +18

      *On Long Island.

    • @matthewtitmus1272
      @matthewtitmus1272 Před rokem +26

      It's "on Long Island". You never lived here.

    • @Kitty-oe2sd
      @Kitty-oe2sd Před rokem +35

      Sure, should I post up my adress on here? Because I have such a desperate need for validation from a troll.

  • @andrewricchiuti1056
    @andrewricchiuti1056 Před 10 měsíci +28

    I actually have a copy of this book. My grandmother picked it up YEARS ago since it had Montauk in the name and she knew I was interested in conspiracy theory (for laughs). It is weirdly written, and at least tries to be logical until about 2/3 of the way thru where it doesn't just go off the rails, it launches into orbit.

  • @LithiumProductions
    @LithiumProductions Před rokem +19

    Lyme disease killed my dog. He apparently had it 2-3 years without us knowing. By the time we found out, he only had 2 days left. R.I.P. Splinter.

  • @Im-Not-a-Dog
    @Im-Not-a-Dog Před rokem +25

    "Initiate Procedure-110-Montauk."
    - Some SCP Boi, probably.

  • @rebeccawhitney206
    @rebeccawhitney206 Před rokem +85

    That statement from the CIA begs the question: "Is this the first time you did it, or the first time you got caught?"

  • @JeeVeeHaych
    @JeeVeeHaych Před rokem +323

    A good old mystery I'd like Katy or the other writers to take a crack at, is the dissapearance of The Righteous Judges of the Ghent Altarpiece. It's a centuries old painting made out of different parts. One part went missing/was stolen 90 years ago and still hasn't been found. Every so many years someone has a theory about where it could be and starts looking, could be a nice treasure hunt.

    • @Luna_elliot
      @Luna_elliot Před rokem +3

      P

    • @ella17734
      @ella17734 Před rokem +2

      Sounds interesting.

    • @tzvikrasner6073
      @tzvikrasner6073 Před rokem

      The entire thing has been stolen more than a dozen times, including by Napoleon and Hitler. The piece you refer to was taken in April, 1934. The thief was actually caught, though the panel was never recovered and a replica was commissioned.

    • @sonofnone116
      @sonofnone116 Před rokem +4

      I feel like FactBoy has already done a video on this... 🤔

    • @JeeVeeHaych
      @JeeVeeHaych Před rokem +2

      @@sonofnone116 Maybe on one of his other channels? Knowing Factboi, he probably long forgot 😂

  • @trudat1498
    @trudat1498 Před rokem +40

    Seriously, Simon’s innocent sanctimony is completely endearing. Love you dude 😂❤.

  • @asa-punkatsouthvinland7145

    Being able to conjure things with your mind would certainly give apple juice from concentrate a new meaning 😂

  • @LIEgabrag
    @LIEgabrag Před rokem +25

    From Long Island, NY, got Lyme Disease, can confirm it REALLY can mess you up!! Didn't know what it was for 6months and caused a bunch of weird issues and took 6months of medication to "get over it".

    • @hadleymanmusic
      @hadleymanmusic Před rokem

      They thought my buddy had it and for four years he suffered but it turned out to be rheumatoid arthritis and humera helped fix it

    • @auntbee6993
      @auntbee6993 Před rokem

      I was diagnosed with lyme less than a year after contracting it and the doctor told me I'm lucky because it usually takes 10 years for a diagnosis😭 I can't even imagine

    • @Davidrcobb
      @Davidrcobb Před rokem +2

      My wife contracted Lyme 5 years ago while camping in north Georgia. She's tried everything not limited to more holistic attempts like stinging herself with honey bees every other day.
      It's completely changed our life, lifestyle, our marriage, her health and even her looks to an extent.
      This disease is terrible and I hope none of you have to experience it from either side.

    • @CyndiOyea
      @CyndiOyea Před rokem +3

      Although I didn’t get Lyme disease after a tick bite I was severely ill with a fever for 8 weeks 😮. Yes. Went to 3 doctors and not one would/could help. Did my own research and found I had contracted another nearly deadly tick borne illness (there are several). I never knew about Montauk. As a kid we used to go all the time. Fascinating! Thanks 🙏

    • @TXpatriate
      @TXpatriate Před rokem

      I know a woman who was infected with Lyme disease decades ago and it wasn't caught. Her personality was changed radically. Permanent change apparently

  • @aetherial87
    @aetherial87 Před rokem +4

    Ah yes, the McUltra, stacked with 6 all-beef 1/4 pound patties, 7 buns, and a 20% off coupon for a coffin.

  • @NYmomAdrienne3915
    @NYmomAdrienne3915 Před rokem +13

    Yay, I requested this! I live on Long Island..the cliffs are actually a beautiful site for weddings, been to a few

    • @Sniperboy5551
      @Sniperboy5551 Před rokem

      LI is nice, but you guys suck at driving 😂

  • @robertalpy
    @robertalpy Před rokem +13

    Mountak was the site where homless kids and street kids were subjected to EST and LSD when project MK Ultra was trying to determine if a perfectly reliable truth serum could be concocted or a perfect sleeper agent made through the combination of using electro shock therapy and drugs to wipe a mind and create multiple personalities. Especialy one that could be buried in someones subconscious and activated using words or a sequence of words and actions that would cause the buried created personality to activate and carry out a trained behavior up to and including assassination. They were espicially interested in learning if a person could be made through programed behavior or muscle memory buried in the subconscious, to engage in activity that goes against that persons own moral code or actions that would risk the persons life and be contrary to self preservation.
    The truth about what happened at Mountack is far stranger than the fiction.

    • @garygillett440
      @garygillett440 Před 8 měsíci +3

      Thank you. That pretty much covers about 3/4 of the activities performed, therein. I'm sure Simon slogs through that with his usual sophomoric blather, but you saved me from watching the vid. ;)

    • @shy404usernotfound
      @shy404usernotfound Před 8 měsíci

      Sweet Mary and Joseph, children on LSD during Eastern Standard Time...... my God the government must be stopped! ***slams tiny fists on table***

  • @myrlyn1250
    @myrlyn1250 Před rokem +24

    Simon suddenly got uncomfortable when it was compared to Stargate. 😆
    Guess he's a bigger fan than I thought!

    • @marktracy1721
      @marktracy1721 Před rokem

      I think he ment Remote Viewing
      I think
      not stargate project

  • @oldman0995
    @oldman0995 Před rokem +16

    Love it that Simon would summon a Coke with ice. Epic

    • @samn6498
      @samn6498 Před rokem +2

      I'm sure simon would prefer actual coke rather than Coca-Cola

    • @katiekane5247
      @katiekane5247 Před rokem

      Why our species is doomed. Conjuring up a beverage without redeemable characteristics ? Fool move! Not even getting product placement fee would be the only thing worse.

    • @garystinten9339
      @garystinten9339 Před rokem

      You seriously didn't watch the same video.. I saw him do it (summon a cokecola and a glass of ice)

  • @adelaide3274
    @adelaide3274 Před rokem +94

    I'm surprised there was no mention of the "Montauk Monster" which was a hairless, decomposing raccoon that washed up on shore near the base, but people were convinced it was some sort of alien creature created by the scientists.

    • @QBCPerdition
      @QBCPerdition Před rokem +10

      Exactly. When Katy was writing about the manifested monster, I thought she was going to say that the body of this monster had even been supposedly found, before debunking it and explaining what it really was...but no mention of it at all surprised me. I live in WI, and even I've heard of the Montauk Monster, so it just feels incomplete.

    • @rynfornow3411
      @rynfornow3411 Před rokem +1

      @@QBCPerdition what was it, really? It also had a beak.

    • @jothew1274
      @jothew1274 Před rokem +5

      @@rynfornow3411 probably something done doctor put together like the German guy that was putting a dog head onto another dog body giving the dog two heads he even was able to make it stay alive somehow there's some sick people out there n the shit they can do is insane

    • @dictatorofthecheese
      @dictatorofthecheese Před rokem

      I remember reading about the Montauk monster when I was younger! First read about it when I was probably 11 or 12. Found the picture really disturbing but fascinating.

    • @NuLiForm
      @NuLiForm Před rokem

      Yep..and a second such critter was found a few yards away, a few decades away.....people wonder how those poor things died, drowned..i would say it was probably in effort to get rid of the ticks...Weaponized ticks..that did come from Montauk. Lyme disease is man made, the Nazi's created it first..& they made it right there on Montauk.

  • @nochannel1q2321
    @nochannel1q2321 Před rokem +3

    The simplest reason for the prohibition on excavation is that the ground is probably quite polluted and the buried and encased areas likely have the more specifically dangerous waste by-products stored there. A lot of the Superfund sites came from that period of time like the Manhattan sites, proving grounds, testing sites in Nevada and so forth were built and operated with little regard or understanding of the lasting effects of what was being studied at the time in favor of everything possible to defeat the adversaries.

  • @eddieo1530
    @eddieo1530 Před rokem +41

    You should look into Plum Island. It's actually northwest of Montauk point and east of Orient point on Long Island NY. They are said to do a bunch of research on bio weapons and very infections diseases. I think even Alex Jones even did a thing about it.

    • @katiekane5247
      @katiekane5247 Před rokem +1

      Likely where Lyme disease came from. Ft Deitrick is the current bio lab responsible for a 💩 load of leaks. None are as secure as they should be.

    • @simonzinc-trumpetharris852
      @simonzinc-trumpetharris852 Před rokem

      Alex Jones is a loony.

    • @eddieo1530
      @eddieo1530 Před rokem +4

      This is not an endorsement of Alex Jones 😒 if anything it would serve as a rebuttal to his claims.

  • @willmfrank
    @willmfrank Před rokem +4

    "ALIENS?! Are you serious?"
    "Yes...That's where they're from."
    What?"
    "He's on second."
    "Who's on second?"
    "No. Who's on first, Watt's on second."
    "And the aliens?"
    "...They're from Sirius. Yes."

  • @cynt.6348
    @cynt.6348 Před rokem +123

    I'm sure this has been a suggestion already, but I think a really fun episode could be done on the crazy conspiracies surrounding the Denver International Airport!

    • @spjr99
      @spjr99 Před rokem +6

      I don't want to be a Debbie downer but i feel like those are pretty far fetched besides the government bunker one. Like the weird murals were just commissioned to a weirdo

    • @internetstress
      @internetstress Před rokem +1

      I remember some missing airplanes that we never heard anything about since.

    • @mayanboricua
      @mayanboricua Před rokem +6

      @@spjr99 Those murals were obviously painted by believer of the occult, no different from the guys in the bunker.
      The matching symbolism is unmistakable.

    • @CrisMind
      @CrisMind Před rokem +2

      @@spjr99 but there are so many fun ones
      Like Bluecifer being cursed and there's a portal to hell underneath the airport

    • @CrisMind
      @CrisMind Před rokem

      Oh and also the cursed fully automated baggage system that's still there but never used lol

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 Před rokem +23

    1:30 - Chapter 1 - Some background
    4:55 - Chapter 2 - The story of the montauk project
    12:10 - Chapter 3 - Camp hero
    14:30 - Chapter 4 - Preston B Nichols
    29:15 - Conclusions

  • @paulherman5822
    @paulherman5822 Před rokem +7

    Long after Simon becomes the Emperor of Mankind, somehow the project that created him and his replicant army will be declassifed. Long centuries after it's forgotten that he was once CZcams's "Fact Boy Simon Whistler." Long live our eternal Emperor!

    • @cornishcat11
      @cornishcat11 Před rokem +3

      he was created in a time portal so is just covering his past debunking this... all hail Fact Boi

    • @grantfairley340
      @grantfairley340 Před dnem +1

      I heard he is AI generated by a super computer that is taking over the world.

  • @benzomanic2972
    @benzomanic2972 Před rokem +5

    Thank God, no more midterm commercials!

  • @kevinmcqueenie7420
    @kevinmcqueenie7420 Před rokem +8

    Camp Hero = Adam West's Batman.

  • @hexacarbide268
    @hexacarbide268 Před rokem +2

    Absolutely love the more open and relaxed format on these out there topics. Great hanging with u Simon

  • @dickingaroundable
    @dickingaroundable Před rokem +6

    This is my hometown! Teenagers break into the Air Force base all the time. I always pictured the Montauk Beast to look like predator.

  • @michaelblaszkiewicz7283
    @michaelblaszkiewicz7283 Před rokem +83

    I was the kid who summoned the monster. Simon overdramatized the events surrounding the destruction of "Project Montauk". In actuality, the 'Monster' was a local drunkard whom wandered in off the street and staggered around vomiting. Nobody wanted to clean up all the sick, so we all just left.

    • @Julia-uh4li
      @Julia-uh4li Před rokem +4

      Haha Excellent. Love that!!

    • @AaronLitz
      @AaronLitz Před rokem +5

      Plausible.

    • @NuLiForm
      @NuLiForm Před rokem +2

      🤣🤣

    • @maramckee2946
      @maramckee2946 Před rokem

      No you weren't...."Junior" was a real fucking monster and you shouldn't poke fun considering the victims of Montauk were tortured and sexually abused by Al and Preston....

    • @MasterShake9000
      @MasterShake9000 Před rokem +12

      Unfortunately, you betrayed your lie by using the British phrase “the sick” whereas Americans say “vomit”, as in “nobody wanted to clean up all that vomit”.

  • @karenz3853
    @karenz3853 Před rokem +22

    My brother got Lyme disease but we did realize at first because symptoms started showing up the day we landed in Colorado so we just thought it was altitude but it didn’t go away and he got diagnosed when we got home but his whole summer of cross country training was out the window so his coach had him supervise the freshman that didn’t do their summer training

    • @audreymuzingo933
      @audreymuzingo933 Před rokem +3

      Mental note: add 'altitude sickness' to the mile-long list of things I've heard of masking Lyme's disease. Ugh, the thing has to be in the top 5 most elusive correct diagnoses ever. Did your brother recover fully or does he have any of the effed up long-term symptoms?

    • @mebreevee1997
      @mebreevee1997 Před rokem +4

      I got bit by over 50 ticks at once and somehow avoided getting Lymes. I do have Ehler’s Danlos though, so, still have problems, but unrelated.
      My friend wasn’t so lucky, and is now allergic to red meat.

    • @karenz3853
      @karenz3853 Před rokem +2

      @@audreymuzingo933 he’s mostly recovered but still not going as hard as he can in cross country but much better than July when he couldn’t go for a short run without being absolutely exhausted the next day

    • @annieinwonderland
      @annieinwonderland Před rokem

      @MeBreevee my drama teacher had this and Australia doesn't recognise it as a disease in Australia despite people sending off bloods to credible labs overseas. We do believe it's due to the fact if they declared that it was in Australia Medicare would have to fund it and that the live stock industry would be fundamentally changed.

    • @mebreevee1997
      @mebreevee1997 Před rokem +1

      @@annieinwonderland I don’t think its a “disease” so to speak as much as it is a genetic condition/ faulty collegen. Its all linked to genes aside from H(EDS) Or what I have, and they are still looking for the cause.
      Its pretty clear when someone has it though because, like me, they can dislocate body parts and move in weird and unconventional ways,

  • @emmabennett9536
    @emmabennett9536 Před rokem +4

    Can't read the word Montauk without thinking of SCP-231...

  • @dumasz
    @dumasz Před rokem +6

    US Govt. - "Lets open portals to other dimensions". Simon - "Mmm Coke"! Brain Blaze viewers - "Haven't I seen this episode before?" 🤣

  • @RPIdemon
    @RPIdemon Před rokem +7

    I love how you brought Stargate into the equation. Love that show! Maybe Preston Nichols was actually ascended at one point and The Others cast him back to the mortal plane with no knowledge of what happened before!

  • @JessWLStuart
    @JessWLStuart Před rokem +6

    And here I was thinking the US government couldn't get any weirder than the US Congress!

  • @Shawesome.D.Water.Cosby.

    *SCP* subs like “But have you heard about the real Project Montauk?” 👀😂

  • @jacobwiley9873
    @jacobwiley9873 Před rokem +6

    Related to the Lyme disease tangent earlier in the episode - you can actually become allergic to red meat after contracting Lyme disease

  • @AB-lr3fh
    @AB-lr3fh Před rokem +15

    I’ve been binge watching Simon today and the “rain demon” was super fun but so far this is one is my favorite… although that Philly ship experiment is up next I’m excited

    • @NuLiForm
      @NuLiForm Před rokem

      & they are connected. Maybe that's why they are your favorites.

    • @nayyarrashid4661
      @nayyarrashid4661 Před rokem +1

      @@NuLiForm I heard about the Philadelphia experiment way back in the 80s when I was less than 10 years old from my uncle. I wasn't sure what to make of those back then.

    • @NuLiForm
      @NuLiForm Před rokem

      @@nayyarrashid4661 May i suggest..Study all the infos you can find on it before making any opinions..there is a Lot of Truth, but it is wrapped in layers of sensationalism & outright lies...mainly to discredit & turn ppl away from discovering what really occurred (& still occurs)
      After a while of pulling all the threads...the pattern emerges..but it takes dogged determination & patience & a fair amount of understanding of Science & the Acceptance that what we are Told are the laws of physics...are not, they are the basest of understandings...what really is possible is virtually limitless.
      & Always Remember...'magic'..is simply Science yet Undiscovered.
      Happy Hunting!

  • @maledictionwolf
    @maledictionwolf Před rokem +6

    12:15 A minor nitpick here, but cement is a glue. Concrete is the substance that would have been used to fill an area, whether it be a driveway or a mysterious underground circus of horrors.

  • @AgathaDrinksTea
    @AgathaDrinksTea Před rokem +121

    Simon, I disagree about the “being able to see through other peoples‘s eyes” ability not being useful. Imagine all the state secrets you could be privy to, or secrets in general, if you were able to just hitchhike into a persons brain as they went through their daily routine!

    • @miketobias1821
      @miketobias1821 Před rokem +9

      Like that film Being John Malkivich.

    • @danielcomings5872
      @danielcomings5872 Před rokem +10

      Yeah, but it wouldn't get you a free Coke.

    • @AgathaDrinksTea
      @AgathaDrinksTea Před rokem +10

      @@danielcomings5872 hitchhike into the brain of coke ceo, learn all the secrets, blackmail them into getting free coke for life. Alternatively, if you’re too moral for blackmail, hitch onto one of the only two people who know the recipe, make your own coke for life.

    • @andreakies8283
      @andreakies8283 Před rokem +2

      Being John Malkovich! One of my favorite directors of all time. 😊

    • @mccleandazza4618
      @mccleandazza4618 Před rokem

      This simon tit is just that ..hes a paid shill ...he had the nerve to say " the government wouldnt spy on us why would they do that "?
      Seriously Simon...SERIOUSLY

  • @onejerlo
    @onejerlo Před rokem +2

    Simon: "Can I buy it on ebay?"
    - me realising this has just revealed both of our ages

  • @johnnychico7052
    @johnnychico7052 Před rokem +6

    Man I want to see a video about that art museum robbery in Boston in like the mid 80s early 90s.

    • @susanrobinson910
      @susanrobinson910 Před rokem +2

      The Isabella Stewart Gardner one, or another one?
      Has the Gardner one ever been solved?

    • @TXpatriate
      @TXpatriate Před rokem

      @@susanrobinson910 nope.

  • @joshuahadams
    @joshuahadams Před rokem +18

    Wait, are weirdos thinking it’s Cerebro? Sure Xavier’s School for Gifted Children is in New York, but I don’t think it’s anywhere near there.

    • @Lokiswrathchild
      @Lokiswrathchild Před rokem +5

      Nah the X Mansion is in Westchester.

    • @Taintedgod771
      @Taintedgod771 Před rokem +3

      ​@@Lokiswrathchild I mean it's still across the Hudson, but it's definitely not on the LIE.

    • @justincovert6943
      @justincovert6943 Před rokem

      Maybe like 2 hour drive depending on traffic.

    • @Taintedgod771
      @Taintedgod771 Před rokem

      @@justincovert6943 once sat in traffic going to Montauk for like 8.5 hours

    • @justincovert6943
      @justincovert6943 Před rokem

      @@Taintedgod771 oh ya, you definitely can. Especially on labor day weekend.

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před rokem

    Great topic, great writing, such a fascinating story!
    There is a lot of mystery to that story.
    I understand how a series could be based off that, it is really intriguing and stimulates the imagination with all the possibilities of what could be happening there.
    I could only imagine what types of hypnosis, drug experimentation, and scientific experiments could be possibly done there (though not likely done in reality).

  • @austinh7539
    @austinh7539 Před rokem +2

    This was great! Thank you, Katie.

  • @clarisd
    @clarisd Před rokem +8

    Mixing in fact and fiction well enough to make this a good read for escaping. Yet many of what we may call fiction has come to pass as being truth, so say the comspiracies minded. I enjoyed both this take on the various factual projects and who's to say that all alone they all were actually looking to time travel!?!! So thanks for the video, very funny and entertaining to say the least!!

  • @richardcutler6254
    @richardcutler6254 Před rokem +3

    I've been to Fort Hero, it's about a hundred miles east of me on the South fork of Long Island.... it's a big tourist attraction now, and although technically not open to the public, people walk all around the grounds ignoring the signs and knee high chains around the property. It's not very heavily guarded, if at all, and legends abound. Most of the stories behind it were taken from Preston Nichols questionable "non-fiction" science fiction drama novel, the Montauk Project. It's fascinating reading, but it's about as factual and accurate as Charles Berlitz's similar story, the Bermuda Triangle.
    What lost it for me was when he tries to make claims that parts of the movie Total Recall were true also. If you ask anybody who grew up in the area, nothing he claims in the book is either true or verifiable.
    It was simply a massive radar station built early in the days of America's involvement in World War II as an early warning defense system against invasion when a group of German spies who came upon land from a submarine stationed just a few miles offshore were discovered and quickly captured.
    It was operational until 1980ish (I've heard as early as 1967), when it was decommissioned. It was then quickly emptied out and became a derelict and as long ago as the early 90s, it was "open" to, or at the very least, accessible to, curious onlookers (and apparently lots of teenage vandals judging by the graffiti which you can see on the Google maps photos).
    The building is IMMENSE, a perfect cube about 300 to 400 feet per side and height, and the antenna is even bigger, about 500 ft across. A friend of mine and I went on a fishing boat and we were able to see it about 5 mi away!!
    We wanted to go in and check it out, since the building is open, but a third friend of ours chickened out crying about what they said in the book!! 🤣🤣🤣
    In fact, the movie of the same name, the Montauk Project, starring Bobby DeCicco and Michael Paré, is an adaptation of the book. Right down to the recreation of the vortex in the late 80s 😆😆😆
    NEVER HAPPENED!!
    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Montauk_Project:_Experiments_in_Time

    • @justin8006
      @justin8006 Před 11 měsíci +1

      The whole thing is on discovery and people and victims claim that they were literally under mind control.

  • @eskandare1968
    @eskandare1968 Před měsícem

    I did research on the NORAD radar stations. This would be a great MegaProjects episode. There was one near where I live. If there were any underground buildings they would be offices, RADAR scope stations and cooling systems because RADAR gets very hot. When I mean hot, I mean hot. RADAR as powerful as the 85.5-ton AN/FPS-24 has a normal operation of 5 megawatts and can be boosted to 7 megawatts during DefCon 3 or higher scenarios. The microwave in a microwave oven is typically 250 watts.

  • @ClellBiggs
    @ClellBiggs Před rokem +2

    Simon: Starts choking...
    Also Simon: The show must go on!

  • @vaclavholek4497
    @vaclavholek4497 Před rokem +2

    At the beginning of the movie "The Hunt for Red October" the disclaimer reads "According to repeated statements by Soviet and American governments, nothing of what you are about to see... ever happened."
    This is probably the greatest disclaimer for a piece of fiction, as it leaves you wondering, is it fiction or still classified.

  • @TrineDaely
    @TrineDaely Před rokem +9

    Yes, the CIA who can't even control bugs in their own kitchens and have suspended staff because of food fights (based on de-classified documents). They might *try* a lot of weird stuff, but succeeding seems to be another matter.

    • @dsxa918
      @dsxa918 Před 9 měsíci

      You believe they were food fights?

    • @TrineDaely
      @TrineDaely Před 9 měsíci

      @@dsxa918 What else do you throw in a cafeteria other than food and chairs?

  • @youtube2snoopy820
    @youtube2snoopy820 Před rokem +5

    Inouye = In-O-Way
    The man is worth a video on his own. Check out his history.

  • @davidg8943
    @davidg8943 Před rokem

    I love a lot of your videos Simon, and I also am a huge Stargate fan I've watched the entire series of sg1 and Atlantis multiple times and will continue to watch them even more

  • @Zyo117
    @Zyo117 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville NL was an American air base in WWII, and that definitely had tunnels and various bunkers dotted around. Most of them are long abandoned now, but college students love to hunt for them. I remember finding several doors to get into bunkers, but they were welded shut.

  • @pHpTjMoney
    @pHpTjMoney Před rokem +9

    I think StarGate was inspired by the German grifter Erich von Daniken's book Chariot of the Gods. The same goes for Ancient Aliens. It's all great fiction, though Ancient Aliens would have been fine with just one season.

    • @Sniperboy5551
      @Sniperboy5551 Před rokem +3

      Ancient Aliens can be entertaining, plus it’s given us some pretty funny memes. It’s only entertaining because of how outlandish it is though, crazy to think that some idiots believe it.

    • @katywatson4940
      @katywatson4940 Před rokem +1

      There’s a video about that on this channel somewhere

    • @blackstone777
      @blackstone777 Před 5 měsíci

      Fiction. You poor sod...keep believing that.

  • @resileaf9501
    @resileaf9501 Před rokem +4

    Wait, Darkseid is pronounced dark side?
    Sheesh, the name sounds so much cooler the other way.

    • @samn6498
      @samn6498 Před rokem +2

      Want to taste my dark seed?

  • @KnightlyChaotic
    @KnightlyChaotic Před rokem +1

    First time watching this channel. It's nice to see the more relaxed side of Simon. I had a good time and laughed a lot.

  • @Jaster_Mereel
    @Jaster_Mereel Před rokem +1

    Truly the testament to Whistler's CZcams Empire is that he survived the "McKultra" and "Darkseed" scandals.

  • @streather
    @streather Před rokem +27

    I remember stumbling across this on a wikipedia binge one night, at the time the Wikipedia page was roughly what was mentioned in this.
    I remember there being references to Nikola Tesla as well.
    Then a while later I decided to go back for a reread and there was a shit ton of new stuff added that went into stuff that allegedly happened, wormholes to other planets, monsters trying to invade through them, friendly aliens we traded technology with...
    Pretty sure these are just episodes of Stargate SG-1.
    Then Wikipedias editors cleaned it up and removed everything.
    Or was it the men in black 👀

  • @jeremiahealy3657
    @jeremiahealy3657 Před rokem +6

    I seen the name and immediately assumed torture experiments but came in looking for a hopeful bedtime story.

  • @saragrimbaum6428
    @saragrimbaum6428 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Years before Stranger Things, I remember watching a sci-fi channel anthology about this. It was driving me crazy watching Stranger Things and trying to remember what the anthology series was.

  • @robertwalker-smith2739
    @robertwalker-smith2739 Před rokem +2

    That golden horse resembles the Demon Horse of Denver International Airport.
    Coincidence? I think *not*!

  • @MCsCreations
    @MCsCreations Před rokem +4

    Nah... All you really need is to try to learn to speak Latin. I did and summoned 4 demons in half a hour... So I gave up. 😐

  • @kristinelsenbeck3288
    @kristinelsenbeck3288 Před rokem +11

    As someone who’s had both Rocky Mt Spotted Fever and Lyme, they do NOT have to be attached for you to become infected! I didn’t have a bite when I caught either, but 2 weeks before testing positive for RMSF I’d picked a crawler off my leg. I squashed it with my fingernail and went on about my day. Moral of the story, don’t squish them and wash your hands after handling any tick!!!

    • @auntbee6993
      @auntbee6993 Před rokem +1

      I didn't know I got bit either, it was January in Chicagoland and the ticks were supposed to be freezing in hell where they belong. My best guess was that I got bit while cleaning out my grandma's yard after she passed

    • @carolinawestern3875
      @carolinawestern3875 Před 4 měsíci

      I got that around 11-12yrs old and it was horrible! Staring as what looked like nothing but a minor skin rash. On my lower stomach. But within days, I was covered in large, red, patches. From my neck to legs. I'd wake up itching all over and scratching 'till I nearly bled.

  • @sentineloffreedomforever1381

    The thing that gets me the most is that Simon is always flabbergasted and bewildered about truly common knowledge stuff I mean it's like he makes himself out to be the most sheltered person on the planet I bet he's got dead bodies hanging in his closet or buried house

  • @siobhanrikan6428
    @siobhanrikan6428 Před rokem +10

    My sister is one of the earliest cases of Lyme disease from before it was known about. It was diagnosed as so many other things first. She still has long term effects, so I feel sorry for Simon’s friend. trivia: Lyme disease is named after Lyme, Connecticut (CT), where it was first actually diagnosed. CT is across the Long Island Sound from where we grew up on Long Island. It’s so close that you can see CT from the bluffs of Long Island and birds fly back and forth. On more Long Island trivia, troops coming back from the Spanish American War were quarantined at a hastily built field hospital at Montauk. There were so many troops that they couldn’t be in the base so we’re in tents.

  • @Bass.sick.b1tch
    @Bass.sick.b1tch Před rokem +18

    I remember reading that Montauk Project in the mid 90’s and it was fun and fascinating with eerie grainy photos of the filled in bunkers … it was a fun read but it read like a VERY self-published work including some grammatical errors and such … - *note to editors Simon do not read lol*. I would love to hear Simon read about the conspiracy theorist Bill Cooper, author of Behold a Pale Horse and frequent contributor to US AM radio show Coast to Coast with Art Bell … his conspiracies are fun, but his actual life reads like a spy novel lol

  • @willmfrank
    @willmfrank Před rokem +37

    It's always fascinating to see different hosts covering the same subjects from different points of view. AJ and HeckleFish have already done a Why Files episode about the Montauk Project. Now I want to see what Answers with Joe has to say about it, or Wendigoon or Mr. Ballen. And if Arran Lomas hasn't already done a Thoughty2 video about it I'll give him a few minutes...😉

    • @dimadobrik4516
      @dimadobrik4516 Před rokem +1

      Thoughty2 went to the drain soooo hard

    • @al5harpton105
      @al5harpton105 Před rokem +7

      HeckleFISH!

    • @AlistairGale
      @AlistairGale Před rokem +5

      @@al5harpton105 That’s Lord Hecklefish to you

    • @tylerromero
      @tylerromero Před rokem +1

      Fear the crab cat!

    • @carlosbarton763
      @carlosbarton763 Před 11 měsíci +1

      Simon covered the DB Cooper case on DTU, much as Lemmino had done the same on his channel

  • @Devadas44
    @Devadas44 Před rokem +1

    My dad told me stories of when he was in the military in the 70's-80's. They were a mobile unit setting up, and packing down defencive sites. They had this radar to detect enemy planes. You could cook sausages with its waves.

  • @BullScrapPracEff
    @BullScrapPracEff Před rokem +1

    Ticks can transmit Lyme, Rocky Mountain, babesiosis, and ehrlichiosis in under an hour after attachment.
    It's fun to have all of these at the same time. Lyme and RMSF work together and do some interesting things to your neurology. Lyme gives you arthritis. RMSF gives you muscle fatigue.
    Yes, it's as fun as you imagine.

  • @ricardosantee3511
    @ricardosantee3511 Před rokem +35

    Simon seems like he would be cool to have a beer with. Also the writer, Katy, seems like she would be cool to have a beer with. I hope she writes more for Casual Criminalist. That would be cool!

    • @starrywizdom
      @starrywizdom Před rokem +2

      Katy & Ilsa are the bomb!

    • @Xiphos0311
      @Xiphos0311 Před rokem

      cool

    • @eliyahfeld
      @eliyahfeld Před 9 měsíci

      he sounds like he's had a few already before he recorded this one

  • @oracleofdelphi4533
    @oracleofdelphi4533 Před rokem +9

    Sprinkle some mk ultra and viola, a hit tv show.

  • @CornPop2
    @CornPop2 Před rokem +2

    Everyone knows the chocolate bar story was the guy who discovered microwaves...... sheesh

  • @shereemcardell3352
    @shereemcardell3352 Před měsícem +2

    Why do you have such a detailed, great story, knowing the Pat Nichols story, not to mention that this is well known by many people. Why tell the whole story if you're sneering and remarking you don't believe it? I watched a video of some people who were there, the guinea pigs, and they go back to Montauk base. The one filming the various rooms there would narrate what each room was used for and it was very similar to what a few ex Super Soldiers (who had memories resurface) have told about. They were part of the Secret Space Program. I think it started in the 1970s.

  • @marcbeebee6969
    @marcbeebee6969 Před rokem +3

    5:45 a I love brain blaze, a wait he means a can of Coca Cola, wrong channel, lol

  • @tommiefunk2099
    @tommiefunk2099 Před rokem +13

    I know I'm not the only fan of the SCP Foundation that got caught off guard by the name.

  • @Aarkwrite
    @Aarkwrite Před rokem +2

    The Time Portals part of this Montauk story remind me of End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov

  • @starrywizdom
    @starrywizdom Před rokem +2

    ...maybe they're just trying to make enough MONEY to GET BACK ON their MEDS, since US Healthcare is sooooo darn expensive? I'm living for Simon yelling "Get back on your meds!"

  • @anthonyC214
    @anthonyC214 Před rokem +2

    During World War II the United States Navy bought most of the east end, including Montauk Manor, to turn it into a military base. Fort Pond Bay became a seaplane base. The U.S. Army established Camp Hero with 16-inch (410 mm) guns to protect New York shipping lanes. Several concrete bunker observation posts were built along the coast, including one immediately to the east of the Montauk Lighthouse. Base buildings were disguised so they would appear from above as a New England fishing village.

  • @Jeffrey_Tyler
    @Jeffrey_Tyler Před rokem +4

    How come Decoding The Unknown isn't on the "channels" list of any of the other channels? It's such a good channel. Surely it can replace XPLRD can't it? Ya know, since nothing has been posted there in over a year? Idk, I don't run the Fact Boy Empire, I guess there's a reason.

  • @johnmurkwater1064
    @johnmurkwater1064 Před rokem +2

    That Nazi gold train story has been around a long time, there's a movie about it made back in 1964 called, The Train. It's actually a pretty decent movie.
    There's also several documentary type films about it... Although most historians think it's just an urban legend.
    Fun, but not factual.

  • @asoncsm101
    @asoncsm101 Před rokem

    Love Simon… he keeps me company when I’m up in my workshop 👍

  • @spugintrntl
    @spugintrntl Před rokem +5

    Petition to change the pronunciation of MKultra to "McUltra".

  • @KristopherBel
    @KristopherBel Před rokem +3

    I am excited just starting to listen to this but I ha e spent lots of time hiking around the state park there in Montauk, the park is called Camp Hero and its pretty awesome, you can see the radar tower still great backdrop for photos.

  • @scottbubb2946
    @scottbubb2946 Před rokem +1

    Simon: "I've never heard of this."
    Me: Shocked Pikachu. 😂

  • @tychodragon
    @tychodragon Před rokem +2

    New Simon channel to add to the collection!

  • @fnargler
    @fnargler Před rokem +11

    There's a local crazy guy here in Kenai Alaska who writes and self published wackadoo conspiracy books that would make wonderful topics for videos on this channel. His name is Hank Kroll. I've thumbed through some of his work before and saw things like secret Nazi bases on the moon where they work with the US government to refine gold dust into immortality elixir, or how dinosaurs aren't real but giants are and all the bones we've found have been humanoid giants. It's truly baffling bananatown bullshit and I love it.

  • @shawnnewell4541
    @shawnnewell4541 Před rokem +11

    I had no idea there's a vaccine for Lyme Disease. Thank you Simon for that information.

    • @StoneInMySandal
      @StoneInMySandal Před rokem +12

      There is no vaccine for Lyme, at least in the US. LYMERix was discontinued by the manufacturer in 2003 (maybe 2002).
      Pfizer and Valneva have a candidate (VLA15) in Phase 3 human trials, but it’s not available to the public.

    • @eeo1973
      @eeo1973 Před rokem +2

      Yeah I don’t think there is. Otherwise my whole family would’ve gotten in because we live near the woods.

    • @shawnnewell4541
      @shawnnewell4541 Před rokem +1

      I wonder if America 🇺🇸 doesn't have the vaccine and Europe does?

    • @idontknowhowtonamemychannel
      @idontknowhowtonamemychannel Před 6 měsíci +1

      Maybe he mixed up lyme with encephalytis vaccine.

  • @uncle_thulhu
    @uncle_thulhu Před rokem +1

    I sometimes feel this show should be called "Deriding the Unknown"...😂

  • @KarrierBag
    @KarrierBag Před rokem +1

    not heard about this ever? Yey pizza in the oven and a beer in hand.... here we go xxxx

  • @MidnightArticuno
    @MidnightArticuno Před rokem +2

    Simon, I have great news for you. If you take antidepressants, one beer does feel like three beers-generally why the first thing on the “DO NOT DO” list for them is “consume alcohol while taking this medication”. 😅
    There is not, however, a magic sober pill for after

  • @selinesbeau
    @selinesbeau Před rokem +14

    Also, I wouldn't be surprised if they TRIED all this stuff, like the mind reading etc, I'm just sure it didn't work.

    • @eggs8021
      @eggs8021 Před rokem

      The US government has 100% confirmed tested using psychics. The conspiracy theory is that instead of finding nothing (reality) they instead found it was real and then kept it secret (fantasy)

    • @FallenRingbearer
      @FallenRingbearer Před rokem +1

      Men Who Stare At Goats.

    • @ontos8914
      @ontos8914 Před rokem

      Oh the CIA would definitely try that

  • @matsakix1180
    @matsakix1180 Před 9 měsíci

    First video I've seen of you. Man love the way you talk to the camera, love it man. Keep it up

  • @seekcamera2638
    @seekcamera2638 Před rokem

    "...I'd like to drink a beer and take a pill..."🤣🤣🤣

  • @thelooch9546
    @thelooch9546 Před rokem +7

    Simon just increased my respect for him by a billion % when he said “ I don’t follow cartoons,I don’t like cartoons and that marvel crap sucks ass “ ( I’m paraphrasing here) !!! 🤣🤣🤣 More intelligent people who have a voice need to add to that sentiment any time they can ! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @edmcgowan1570
    @edmcgowan1570 Před rokem +4

    I hate conspiracy theories, but I love the way you folks shred them. Legend, Katy.

    • @mikew.5750
      @mikew.5750 Před 8 měsíci

      Well, ignorance is bliss they say.

  • @davidt3563
    @davidt3563 Před rokem

    I loved the summon a coke bit LMAO.

  • @aveleziii
    @aveleziii Před rokem +1

    living so close to camp hero and knowing all the stories, it's so hard to resist trying to explore places like this

  • @wendywoo7031
    @wendywoo7031 Před rokem +3

    'Drugs are real'. Yes. Yes, Simon, they are. One of the many things for which I am grateful 😎🇬🇧

  • @James-co2nb
    @James-co2nb Před rokem +3

    2:20 I know a woman who was left needing a wheelchair for 5-6 years due to some mystery illness. Spent all this time failing to be properly diagnosed in the UK. Went to the US and got diagnosed immediately with Lymes disease, got a prescription and came back home. She's perfectly fine now (stopped needing the wheelchair almost immediately) with medication but, has had to pay for it all privately due to the foreign diagnosis.
    Edit: 10:00 Simon, the pill you're after isn't a pill, it's cannabis. Cannabis increases the absorption rate of alcohol into the bloodstream. (It also works the same way with alcohol increasing THC absorption)

    • @dimadobrik4516
      @dimadobrik4516 Před rokem +1

      But alcohol and cannabis won't really counter each other

    • @James-co2nb
      @James-co2nb Před rokem +3

      @@dimadobrik4516 No, but that's not what he wanted. He wanted something that would make 1 beer feel like 3 beers.
      This would almost do that and just have the side effect of getting high.

  • @MrKaliMon
    @MrKaliMon Před rokem +1

    I been to this place as a teenager its kinda creepy.