Of course, you probably knew that already, but what you most likely did not know is that the hit show is loosely based on a true story! When we say it’s “true,” the story comes from the “crackpot conspiracy theory about time-traveling battleships, recovered memories, and personalities being transferred between bodies.” The inspiration behind the Duffer brothers’ Stranger Things was a real-life experiment conducted by the government known as the “Montauk Project.
