Over the years, Nichols’ claims, and his book, have led others — all who had claimed they had recovered memories from being held captive at Montauk Air Force Station — to come forward. Joe Loffreno, a Long Island native, believes that he’s one of the Montauk Boys (via New York Post). Through the use of hypnotherapy, Loffreno claims he was able to recover long-repressed memories of the Montauk base. “I was hypnotized [by a certified hypnotist] for about 40 minutes and all these memories flooded back. They did a very bad thing to us out there. We were just little kids. They had no right to experiment on us. It was a very dark, very evil thing.” Loffreno claims to have remembered being brought underground the base, through tunnels established by the military that had been sealed off since World War II. In these underground chambers, Loffreno claims to have remembered being hooked up with electrodes, along with 50 other kids, and experimented on.

And while many others have come forward over the years with very similar experiences, most of Preston Nichols’ book has been debunked to one extent or another. He died in October 2018, still maintaining the veracity of all his claims, however.