10 Conspiracy Theories That People Are No Longer Believing

You have to give it to the folks in Montauk. They've endured living in an aptly named place; a bizarre name for a bizarre little burgh of East Hampton. Over the years, Montauk was not only used as a dumping ground for a horrifying looking creature rumoured to be the result of experiments on Plum Island (it was a racoon with a touch of mange washed ashore), it's awkward name was the source of Jim Carrey's seeming daze at the start of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Much of the stories and rumours from Montauk stem from another old movie standby: the mysterious military base doing experiments they won't talk about down the road. Even Ed Wood toyed with that one. Camp Hero was originally commissioned in 1942 as an Air Force base intended to be disguised as a fishing village during the war. So initially, the base was indeed set up for duplicity, however it was during a war when no option wasn't on the table.

The Montauk Project began as a series of books by Preston Nichols and Peter Moon that, despite being written as a kind of literary found-footage equivalent, were clearly labelled as science fiction.

The theory's central belief is that the Montauk Project was set up to develop psychological warfare, mind control and time travelling to control the narrative. In reality, we've met aliens, faked the moon landing and kept on work that began with the successful Philadelphia Experiment in 1943.