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

Traveling Through Time and Space

Stewart Swerdlow claimed that he and the other members of the Montauk Project projected themselves to the surface of Mars. Swerdlow believed this so strongly that he could describe what it felt like to be on the surface of the Red Planet. On top of that, he claimed that he and the other Montauk Boys traveled back to Biblical times. Allegedly, they even met Jesus. 

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The More You Know

  • T-shirts were originally made for unmarried men who didn't know how to sew buttons on collared shirts.
  • Scorpions are incredibly resilient: scientists have frozen scorpions overnight, left them in the sun the following day, and when thawed, the arthropod walked away unscathed.
  • The first pair of Nike running shoes was made in a waffle iron.
  • A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
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