Now that Netflix has announced that there's going to be a second series, I can't get enough Stranger Things fan theories, but this one is the strangest of them all.
According to Thrillist, the nostalgic 80s horror series is all based on real events.
That's right, all of it; the experiments on children, the telekinesis, the Upside Down and most importantly, the monster Demogorgon.
Stranger Things was sold to Netflix under the working title of Montauk and it's Montauk in Long Island where these weird rumours come from. Conspiracy theorists think that the US government had been experimenting on children from the 60s to the 80s. The idea that the contact between Eleven and the Demogorgon ripped a whole in a scary parallel universe came from stories that scientists did the same - but with time travel.
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Hold onto your Eggos - this theory is far out.
There were a lot of rumours around Montauk but it all came to a head in the 80s when Preston B. Nichols wrote a book called The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time, where he recovered repressed memories of being experimented on as a child. That's right - he's one of the inspirations behind Eleven.
After reading his book, other people came forward and said they had the same memories. After all, even in Stranger Things, there must have been more children. She's called Eleven, not One.
These poor subjects say the experiments were about space, time travel and other paranormal activity and had apparently started during World War II.
It ties in with another conspiracy theory of the time - The Philadelphia Project. Apparently, in 1943, reclusive genius inventor Nikola Tesla was helping the navy make ships invisible - and they lost one! Rumour is that it went to the Upside Down - maybe Dustin, Mike and Lucas will come across a ship from the 40s in season two?
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57-year-old Al Bielek came forward in the 80s and said he had supressed memories from the 40s. Using "new age technology" to unlock these memories - unsure if that's hypnosis or LSD to be honest - he said he was really called Edward Cameron and he and his brother worked on The Philadelphia Project. He said Tesla had created a wormhole from 43 to 83 and the brothers had gone through it but had been forced to destroy all the equipment.
Then Al claimed something even freakier. In the 60s he convinced his dad to have another kid (what a weird conversation - why couldn't he have had a kid himself?) so he could put his brother's soul into the young child.
I mean... what on Earth? How would they even do that and why? WHY.
Preston got involved at this point and said he knew of something called the 'Montauk Chair', a special electromagnetic chair used to amplify psychic powers.
Sound familiar? Eleven is made to go in a strange water contraption - but it's similar enough to the Montauk Chair.
Al's unlucky brother - who apparently had psychic power, very luckily - could apparently find someone anywhere in the world just by touching something that belonged to them - which is exactly how Eleven found Will.
Preston claims that the Montauk Chair was left on and that's what caused the wormhole, not Tesla's ship.
Al and Preston couldn't agree on how the wormhole opened, but they were both pretty sure there was one. No one else seemed to notice though. Well, I suppose the Cold War was going on.
I'm not convinced by any of this, although it's true that the US government did a lot of weird paranormal experiments in the 60s - check out Men Who Stare At Goats, it's based on real life events and a load of LSD. Whether any of these experiments actually worked is another thing...
It would be pretty cool if Stranger Things' Season Two had Nikola Tesla, or a naval battle ship in it.
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Words Laura Hamilton
Topics: Stranger Things, Netflix