During the 1980s and early 1990s I lived in Fairfield, CT and kept a boat at Milford, CT. On weekends, I'd often cross Long Island Sound to Montauk, then head offshore from there for a day of fishing. Plum Island is about halfway between Milford and Montauk and the sand shoal off the southern end of the island provides some excellent fishing for those who don't mind fighting the rip current that runs hard there.

I'd heard the stories about foot and mouth research done there, but there was a persistent rumor that the island was also used as part of our ICBM missile shield system - and that the silos were dug very deeply into the rocky island. Later, there were rumors that the airliner that went down over Long Island was hit by a missile launched from Plum Island. I found the missile rumor so interesting that I once began circling the island at a very close range with my binoculars trained on shore to see what might be revealed. There was an area that I found interesting, so I moved to beach the bow of the boat for a better and more stable look. When I again trained the glasses on the area, I saw folks with automatic weapons approaching.... not exactly a friendly-looking greeting party. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" />

I reversed off the area and continued on to Montauk - never to have the desire to try that again. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/zombie.gif" alt="" />

Whatever goes on there, it's an evil place. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/evil.gif" alt="" />

Frank