Real History of Stranger Things (It Wasn't Fiction) | MKUltra, Montauk & The 80s Panic

The true story behind Stranger Things is more terrifying than the show itself.
From MKUltra to the 80s Hysteria, from CIA psychic experiments to the Montauk conspiracy theory, this is the real history that Netflix brought to life.

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In 1953, the CIA began administering experimental drugs to unwitting American citizens. They experimented on prisoners, mental patients, and children. They tried to shatter human personalities and rebuild them as weapons. When the program was finally exposed, most of the evidence had already been destroyed. But enough survived to prove that the laboratory horrors depicted in Stranger Things were based on documented fact.

This documentary traces the verified history that the Duffer Brothers wove into their Netflix phenomenon. We explore MKUltra's two decades of human experimentation, Project Stargate's attempt to weaponize psychic abilities, and the Montauk conspiracy theory that served as the show's original title. We examine the Panic that turned Dungeons & Dragons into a moral threat, and the nuclear terror that made every child in 1983 believe the world might end before they grew up.

The line between fiction and reality is thinner than you think. The government laboratories were real. The experiments were real. And the fear that something terrible happens in places the public never sees and that fear was entirely justified.