The Inspiration for 'Stranger Things' Came from an Unsolved Government Conspiracy

A Realistic Representation

A similar helmet device was used by Eleven in Stranger Things season 1. Her mother was a participant in MK-Ultra in the show, and when she was born she was subjected to the same testing that Ed and Duncan claimed they were put up to. Just like Eleven, Ed and Duncan claimed that the experiments that they underwent caused them to develop similar psychic powers that allowed them to perform feats that were outside the realm of reality…

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