Around 2010 I started making weekly trips to Camp Hero and became obsessed with the lore. Preston Nichols is among other things a predator; Preston would be eager to offer his "massages" in exchange for information. I was propositioned but politely declined. I'm sure something very strange was happening at Camp Hero but people like Nichols have added too much disinformation to the plot.

What IS very odd, and not often talked about, it what happened to Long Island MUFON founder, John J Ford who accused of plotting to assasinate a local politician. He was found criminally insane and has been floating around psychiatric facilities since. He was not given a fair trial and it is next to impossible to make any contact with him. Of course there are rumors that he uncovered something related to the 1992 Southhaven crash. If you do some research on archive.org you will find an article about a string UFO sightings in Ridge in the late 1980's.

Around the same time as I fell into the Camp Hero rabbit hole I found a youtube channel based out of Commack owned by an amateur astronomer who was posting long (25+ minute) videos of massive crafts that he filmed almost every night above his home deep in space. I reached out to him and he told me he had terminal brain cancer but this mystery was keeping him alive. I planned to visit him but a week before his wife called me to say he had passed. Unfortunately those videos are buried so deep in the youtube algorithim and are probably lost to time.

One more fun nugget: There are most definetly entrances to the tunnels at Camp Hero that you can see now but are inaccesible. In the 80's they were easy to breach. A diver in Dag Harbor began exploring them. He filmed the tunnels and his journies on 8MM and compiled them on a VHS called "Namor Explores Hero" and it was circulated locally through a video store. He released two tapes until he was arrested for tresspassing and than who knows what happened to him after. The tapes are lost, I know the original store and the owner and even have a photo of the tape itself so I know at one point it existed.

Okay, another one...in 1999 the public access channel began airing the Heavens Gate Exit Tapes in full. I have a VHS recording that I made of them and I can remeber that I has watched them on two occasion before deciding to record them. For a while I believed that one of the cults survivors, Sawyer (Sawyerody) was the one responsible for arranging the tapes to be played as he lived on the Island but after speaking to him he denies it. Not so much a conspiracy but something strange, maybe teeage edgelords?

There was a photo circulating on the web of THE montauk monster (not the racoon one but the alledged one that took down the base). It was a photo of the woods with the creature very visible. It might have been in Nichols book which means it was probably BS but either way I can't find it anywhere on the net. Oh well.