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

Garrett Graff: Journalist Extraordinaire 

Garret Graff was a political writer that tackled a lot of major issues within the internal intelligence department of the U.S. government. He was the man who collected the majority of the field reports in the 2008 War on Terror, he reported on the end of George Bush Jr.’s time in office into the Obama administration, and he even published the first oral history collection of the events leading up to 9/11. However, one of the most significant reports that he filed didn’t come from the oval office. It began with a lost ID card that one of his friends found in a parking lot...

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