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"If we're looking through the perspective of this government program that wanted human subjects during the 1970s - where it wasn't as easy to trace runaways and missing people - they saw them as easy human subjects.
"People go missing in astronomical amounts every year - people don't realize.
Around a hundred thousand children, maybe more, were experimented on - that's a lot of people.
Chris Garetano, Filmmaker
"Maybe they offered them a stipend. Maybe in some cases they were just kidnapped off the street and disposed of.
"Over the course of 13 years at Montauk, one of the survivors named Al Brielek said around a hundred thousand children, maybe more, were experimented on - that's a lot of people.
MISSING KIDS
"All of them said very few survived because the experiments were still brutal.
"If you look at the research, of how many missing children there are a year - the numbers are huge. If we go back in stats that were reported from 1971 to let's say just in 1980, it will astonish you.
"The numbers are just insane, especially around the New York and suburban areas where they claim they found these kids.
"And again, this is what I've found over the years. I can't confirm that this is true of course, but personally I wouldn't doubt it at this point. I believe something happened there."
'FREAKED OUT' OFFICIALS
He said officials used to "freak out" every time he showed up at the disused base - and wouldn't allow him near certain areas.
"Whenever we brought equipment that could see underneath the ground, they were freaking out," Garetano said.
"They would, they wouldn't want us near certain areas.
"We brought in geophysical equipment, which specifically is called electric resistivity or electronic resistivity imagery, which gave us the best reading we got.
There was an enormous man-made structure underground, that's not supposed to be there.
Chris Garetano, Filmmaker
"It gave us a vertical slice of information that proved there was an enormous man-made structure underground, that's not supposed to be there.
"Every single government official denies that there are any man-made structures there except for a couple of access tunnels that were filled in.
"Well, this wasn't an access tunnel. This was something much larger that was being described by the men who claim they were part of the experiment."
MOB LINKS
Garetano said he also spoke to a man - who used the alias James Bruce - who claimed that he was taken into the secret underground facility, injected and subjected to mind control experiments.
Bruce also alluded to murder and the disposal of bodies - which he claimed had links to organised crime.
"He seemed so real to me," Garetano said.
"He wasn't putting on a show. He was somebody that got in a lot of trouble as a kid and his story didn't seem rehearsed and it didn't seem like he was trying to make any money from it at all. In fact he's never tried to profit off of it.
"He claimed that there was some kind of organized crime, linked to this and there was some kind of body disposal system that perhaps someone in his family was involved in."
MONSTERS AND TIME TRAVEL
It was Garetano's spine-chilling stories about the base that inspired the creators of sci-fi series Stranger Things, which was originally titled Montauk.
One alleged survivor Preston Nichols described operating the Montauk Chair - a mind-reading device - and said once the computer accidentally summoned up a monster from a subject's imagination, which then went on a rampage through the air base.
Nichols also said there were time-travel portals that sucked people to a different place and time.
As the new season of Stranger Things returns this week, Garetano said while some of the claims may seem far-fetched, they should not be dismissed.
"I'm not saying, 'Yes something happened there a hundred percent,' but I'm leaning towards that after all these years," he said.
There's so many facts to support this was yet another government programme.
Filmmaker Christopher Garetano
"I always like to come to this from a very sober perspective because I'm a filmmaker, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.
"My research wasn't from Wikipedia, I personally went to these people's homes and spent time with them.
"I went to the base. We really did bring geophysicists to the ground and we did find evidence of a facility underneath the ground. So there's so many facts to support this was yet another government programme.
"Were there alien experiments under the ground and time travel? At this time, in 2022, after everything that's happened in the last couple of years, I just don't know.
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