Stranger Things has been the talk of the town for the longest time with its amazing star cast and storyline. The storyline, though highly fabricated, does seem to come from a real place. Otherwise, why would anyone ever want to dig around for a sweaty and scary real-life Demogorgon? Though the monsters aren’t the main concern for mystery story enthusiasts, they are more intrigued by the less fictional parts of the series, which is now back with its third season.

The story is set up in Hawkins, Indiana which doesn’t actually exist, but the Stranger Things actor Gaten Matarazzo confirmed to Wired this show is based on some true incidents. He further explains that the show is based on a place in Montauk, New York called Camp Hero. There are rumors of secret government spies doing human experiments to fight the Cold War.

The series was also firstly named ‘Montauk’ after which it was changed to Stranger Things. Camp Hero is a former Military Base which has been notoriously rumored to be the field for kidnapping, mind control and time travel, under the not at all creepy moniker the ‘Montauk Project’. This topic has been a hot one for quite some time as a movie was also made on Camp Hero by the filmmaker Christopher Garetano, named the Montauk Chronicles.

The storyline revolves around a group of men who were allegedly forced to be part of secret experiments that occurred in Montauk in the 1970s. The movie also included a local man Brian Minnick’s shared footage of underground chambers. Not only this, he also revealed that he had found evidence people were based way past the date of the official closure.

The Army reportedly deactivated the base in 1947 and in 1951 it was transferred to the Air Force, who remained active at the site until 1982. The land was donated to the National Park Service in 1984 but the buildings used by the military still stand in Camp Hero State Park. One of the most famous structures is the Cold War-era SAGE radar tower, which acted as a mother station to a series of smaller radar towers working to warn officials in the event of an incoming Soviet nuclear attack.

However, one theory linked to Camp Hero is that officials at the site used the radar tower in an attempt to alter people’s thoughts and control their moods by changing the frequency and pulse duration of the radar system. If this wasn’t enough the tower also mysteriously changed positions over a series of days in 2011, nearly 30 years since the Air Force is supposed to have left the site. The military tower also has underground tunnels which are thought to be the site for all the creepy stuff and is eerily similar to the maze in Stranger Things.

While we may never know the truth about what really went on at Camp Hero, it’s safe to say the Duffer brothers have done a great job of spinning a story out of the conspiracy theories. And also, as said in Stranger Things, ‘Evil doesn’t end, it evolves’.

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