Gurney's to Host World Premiere of Montauk Chronicles

Gurney’s will host the world premiere of the highly anticipated docudrama, Montauk Chronicles, on Friday, May 25, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. The film features the story of three men – Alfred Bielek, Stewart Swerdlow and Preston Nichols – who claim that they were subjected to secret experiments by a dark organization in the 1970s deep beneath the surface of now decommissioned Camp Hero Air Force Base in Montauk It is said that everything from mind control, to time travel to extraterrestrial contact occurred within the hidden levels beneath Camp Hero.

In Montauk Chronicles, Director/Producer Christopher P. Garetano illustrates the bizarre stories that have become international legends for decades and challenges the ideas behind them. After spending countless hours with the men who are the subject of his film, Garetano said he didn’t always believe their stories. “At first, I didn’t. But these men have not benefited financially – they didn’t gain anything from this. And they’ve endured ridicule as they maintain their story,” Garetano said. Viewers will have to decide for themselves whether this urban legend is fact or fiction.

Three years in the making, Garetano shot most of Montauk Chronicles on the actual site of U.S. Air Force Base, which was opened to the public as Camp Hero State Park in September 2002. “When you walk through the area now, you see this giant, imposing radar tower that still stands,” he told AOL Weird News. “The park currently has strange regulations: You’re not supposed to use any radio equipment there and you are cautioned about unexploded ordnance.” In addition to the giant abandoned radar tower, there are huge doors, or bunkers, cemented and sealed into the side of several hills in the forest area. There also are numerous things that appear to be above-ground manhole covers throughout the wooded park. “These are entrances that obviously go down to something,” Garetano described. “There are claims from people that these are entrances to underground tunnel systems that ran beneath the military base that allegedly would take you to the true entrance to the facility.”

Gurney's is pleased to host the world premiere of this Area 51-type docudrama. The Montauk Chronicles’ viewing will be followed by a Q & A and meet and greet with Garetano as well as with several of the film’s actors. Complimentary hors d’oeurves will be served with a cash bar. The premiere begins at 7:30 p.m., and the ticket price is $25.00.