The Creepy, Real Life Inspiration Behind Stranger Things

The Creepy, Real Life Inspiration Behind Stranger Things And The Town That Started It All

A question we were never expecting to hear, that’s for sure!

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With everyone fixated on the new season of Stranger Things

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it has raised questions as to where the show got its inspirations from,

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and theories claim that it actually derived from a real life secret government

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project that involved the kidnapping of young children.

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Matt and Ross Duffer, the genius and possibly slightly unhinged

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(based on the story) creators of Stranger Things, supposedly found their inspiration for the infamous Netflix

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show from the non-fictional village of Montauk, New York, which is situated on the east end of the Long Island peninsula.

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The Duffer brothers took a specific interest in an alleged US military programme named

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