GILBOA, N.Y. -- When Dave Lewis bought his hilltop hideout 11 years ago, he planned to spend his time there in peace and quite.

He said, "I had it going good. I had it, past tense...no longer."

Since 2006 when the Oorah Catskill Retreat bought the camp that had been there for 50 years, Lewis has faced loudspeakers blasting and stadium lights shining right into his kitchen window at all hours of the day and night.

"I've taken pictures of myself in various places in the yard at two o'clock in the morning. It's like day light," he said.

Joe Kraus said, "It is a nightmare. There are 97 of those high intensity lights."

Across the street, Barbra and Joseph Kraus are having the same problem. So are Dennis and Delores Byrnes who live almost a mile away.

Kraus said, "You know when the noise is because it's so loud the siding on the house vibrates."

The owners of Oorah are no strangers to complaints. Last June, the county Health Department shut it down for two days, and in July immigration authorities arrested 31 undocumented workers.

Mrs. Kraus said, "The value of our property has been destroyed."

Lewis and his neighbors have tried going to the camp but that hasn't worked. They've tried going to the Village of Gilboa and Schoharie County, but there's not much they can do there either because there's no ordinance on the books. Now, they're filing a $10 million class action lawsuit to see if that gets any results.

Mr. Kraus said, "Gilboa still functions like it's in the 17th century. We have no laws that protect the people from anything."

Mrs. Byrnes said, "The town lawyer had said if there was zoning in the town this wouldn't have been allowed."

Lewis said the camp is trying to force him out. But he's not packing up yet. This is the place where he planned to retire, even if it that means leaving during the best months of the year.

He said, "I'm just going to disappear for that six weeks. I have plenty of family that I can go visit."

We left several messages for the owners of Oorah. None of them were returned.