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!

With everyone fixated on the new season of Stranger Things

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

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

project that involved the kidnapping of young children.

Matt and Ross Duffer, the genius and possibly slightly unhinged

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

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

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