Oct 24, 2011 11:09 AM
In what Ms. Vetrano called a digitally-recorded electronic voice phenomena, or EVP, an English-accented voice can be heard saying, “Great job!,” she said during a telephone interview last week. She also reported that she heard disembodied voices in the hallway, but couldn’t make out what they were saying.
Ms. Vetrano said she’s also heard rumors of Southampton hauntings. At UA Southampton, moviegoers have reported seeing the seats go up and down, and believe it’s haunted by one of the theater’s former managers, she said. Also, Ms. Vetrano said that the windmill on Stony Brook University’s Southampton campus is supposedly guarded by a ghost Indian warrior. She hasn’t investigated either location yet, she added.
After reading “The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time” by Preston B. Nichols and Peter Moon, Ms. Vetrano was inspired to poke around the book’s setting, Camp Hero in Montauk, she said.
“The book claims there were these secret experiments supposedly in mind control and time travel,” she said. “If you ask the government, they’ll say no such thing was done and the structures there were used for wartime purposes, but according to this book, that’s not true.”
Upon entering Camp Hero, an odd feeling overcame her, Ms. Vetrano recalled. It was almost as though the ground was electrically charged, she said.
“Then we got a really weird EVP,” she said. “I asked, ‘Was mind control practiced here?’ I got a ‘yes.’ I intend to return to Camp Hero. Things were very, very strange.”
Montauk Manor is one of the next destinations on Ms. Vetrano’s list.
Belief in paranormal activity is becoming much more mainstream, she added.
“For years, studying the paranormal was believed to be done by those who were weird or were strange, and that’s not true,” Ms. Vetrano said. “Now the scientists who are studying quantum physics and string theory are telling us that there are at least 11 other dimensions that they have proved mathematically. Hopefully, we’ll be part of the answers. We’ve gotten such great stuff that we could never ever come to a conclusion that there’s nothing going on.”
