Bielek's stories circulated and gained the attention of Preston Nichols, who would befriend Bielek and tell the Cameron brothers', and his own, story. In The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time, Nichols writes of his time working at Camp Hero on the secret experiments. Specifically, during the 1970s, he claimed, he'd worked with Bielek on something called the "Montauk Chair," a piece of furniture that used electromagnetics to amplify psychic powers.

It’s safe to say that Bielek was reasonably confident in his version of the events he described. He told his story at a Mutual UFO Network Conference in 1990.telling stories. In 1992 Swerdlow was under investigation for bank fraud, in regard to a large embezzlement from his employer. Swerdlow We have heard Alfred Bielek's rendition of the Philadelphia Experiment several times, from conferences, lectures, and videos years apart; his story is Will Byers, twelve, is a sweet, sensitive kid with sexual identity issues. He only recently came to the realization that he does not fit into the 1980s definition of “normal.” His innocent choices, such as colorful clothes, prove a constant source of bullying. Like Mike, Will escapes through fantasy gaming, where he can be himself, uninhibited. He has a close relationship with his mother, Joyce. His brother, Jonathan, helps raise him in lieu of their father, who abandoned them four years ago. When Mike talks to his father in an early scene from the pilot, he is trying to watch CHiPS, which was a TV series that originally aired from September 15, 1977, to May 1, 1983. A near identical scene appears in "The Vanishing of Will Byers", though with Ted trying to watch Knight Rider instead. This change likely occurred due to the show's shift from 1980 to 1983. The various versions of the story say that the military successfully developed a technique that rendered the USS Eldridge, stationed at a naval shipyard in Philadelphia, not just invisible to radar but completely invisible to the naked eye. What’s more, the ship was supposedly then transported through a hole in space-time to Norfolk, Virginia, more than 200 miles away.

Due to the setting changes and the actor castings, some characters were changed from their original concepts. Some only received slight alterations while others were re-written entirely. There are some that believe the group is part of a government disinformation campaign team whose job it is to spread distortions, half- truths

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He believes he was abducted and abused during the summer of 1980 and possibly during the summer of 1981, when he was 12 or 13. He recalled under hypnosis that a local boy whom no one knew very well invited him to bike to the base. dream-state that was supposed to reverse, and thereby nullify, the " sexual magic" of the Montauk Chair. [...] love with Kraft 10 years ago, when she was 15. She dated him on and off for eight years, and she watched as what she calls the " Montauk crap" and ask questions. More than anything, I think he just wanted to entertain people and tell stories.

When the experiments started they’d target ‘expendable’ boys like orphans, runaways or the children of drug addicts. The kind of kids no one would really come looking for. Another local, Paul Fagan, spent 14 years exploring Camp Hero and painstakingly researching government documents at the National Archives in Manhattan. 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.Of course, if you disagreed with any of what Stewart told you, [...] the Kuiper's Belt Aliens would simply switch you off, that is, you would no The western portion is what was called the Point Woods and it's one of the only old growth areas in Montauk that Don't worry! Vecna isn't real and there's no chance of you being sent to The Upside Down...as far as we know. However, the show does take inspiration from a real-life CIA experiment. Chatting to Rolling Stone in 2016, Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer explained: "We wanted the supernatural element to be grounded in science in some way."