About two miles away from Long Island, New York, lies a tiny island with a mysterious and terrifying reputation. Plum Island is home to an animal research center run by the U.S. government. But it's also at the center of a number of conspiracy theories as to what they are really doing there. Was Plum Island responsible for Lyme Disease? Or were they even making monsters there?

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Notes:

https://www.amazon.com/Lab-257-Disturbing-Governments-Laboratory/dp/0060011416

https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/plum-island-animal-disease-center

https://now.tufts.edu/2019/07/18/lyme-bacterium-predates-us-lab-conspiracy-theorists-say-unleashed-ticks-public

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-09-08/plum-island-why-area-51-of-the-east-coast-is-moving-to-kansas

https://www.easthamptonstar.com/villages/202073/gruesome-find-stirs-memories-montauk-monster

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2008/07/the_monster_of_montauk.html

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