The events depicted in the hit series, whose third season has just been released on Netflix, are not just fiction.
If you're one of the people who shudder in front of every episode of Stranger Things, know that some facts that inspired the series are real!
Long talked about in season 1, the MKUltra program, developed by the US Central Intelligence Agency, did exist in the 50s.
And footage showing the experiments (camped by actress Millie Bobby Brown) was not created at random, as confirmed by the Duffer brothers, creators of the series, in an interview, when theu started talking about the idea, they talked about a plot of a missing a child with paranormal gifts, and then we talked about some of the mysterious government experiments that were the end of the Cold War, at a time when [projects] like MKUltra were starting to resurface. "
These experiments included testing to create the ultimate "truth serum" through LSD, or researching "amnesia pills to create CIA super agents that would be immune to control of the enemy, "
"A secret CIA program began in the 1950s, its field of research extended widely from mind control to telepathy through the sixth sense, psychological warfare and 'remote viewing.'" adds an article published in the Guardian. But fortunately, this project was abandoned in 1973. And the mysteries surrounding it have since been at the origin of many fantasies ...