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

The 'Montauk Boys'

According to Nichols, the people that were involved in the Montauk Project were exclusively young men. He referred to them as the “Montauk Boys” and claimed that they lived terrible lives while being tested. Nichols detailed that the Montauk Boys were starved, dosed with research chemicals, and put through jarring fluctuations in temperature to test their physical limits. 

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