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

The Philadelphia Experiment

The Philadelphia Experiment is a long speculated WWII era conspiracy theory in which several individuals claimed that the USS Eldridge battleship was transported to an alien dimension through a space-time portal, killing numerous members of the crew by fusing them to the hull of the ship. This story was later made into a movie, which caused another individual to recollect his repressed memories from the two experiences in the same fashion that Nichols did. That man was named Al Bielek, or, that’s who he thought he was before he had his awakening…

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