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Wait until everyone finds out about Plum Island, NYPlum Island, off the coast of Long Island, New York, is a creepy little spot that’s been shrouded in secrecy for decades. Officially, it’s home to the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, a government-run lab since the 1950s that studies dangerous livestock diseases like foot-and-mouth.But let’s be real—you know that’s not true. The place is a level-3 biolab, handling some of the deadliest pathogens known, and its history screams cover-up. Back in the day, it was tied to biowarfare research, and Nixon supposedly shut that down in ’69. It’s believed that this never happened. It’s also believed that this lab is where Lyme disease was cooked up, with ticks weaponized to spread it, given how close the island is to Lyme, Connecticut. There’s even talk of weird creatures washing up on Montauk beaches. The island’s isolated, only accessible by government ferry, and boaters are told to steer clear. Leaks have happened—foot-and-mouth got out in ’78 and twice in ’04, raising all kinds of red flags. Now, the lab’s supposedly closing, with operations moving to Kansas, and the island was almost sold off in 2013, but environmentalists and senators like Schumer blocked it, pushing for it to become a “wildlife refuge”.That sounds nice, but why the push to keep it locked down? What’s really buried there? Is it actually closed? Could be they’re hiding evidence of experiments—maybe on more than just animals?