As Stranger Things nears its final episodes, fans are eagerly consuming every bit of information about the show, and revisiting the story behind the real-life inspiration for the hit Netflix series.
Business Insider reports that the series's Hawkins, Indiana, location was inspired by the story of an abandoned government Air Force station located in Montauk, New York. The original facility was reportedly a place where people were subjected to experiments throughout the '70s and '80s.
According to The Stranger Things Bible, the show's origin story takes its inspiration from the events that reportedly occurred at the location. In Season 1, viewers were introduced to the children used for scientific experiments. That same season, Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) mysteriously disappeared after supernatural entities were released during an experiment at Hawkins National Laboratory.
Stranger Things showrunners Matt and Ross Duffer told The Hollywood Reporter that while they were inspired by the events of the Montauk facility and wanted to keep the tale true to its roots, it wasn't practical to shoot on the tip of Long Island Sound in the wintertime. Matt explained, "We liked Montauk, because we liked the coastal setting, and Montauk was the basis for Amity, and Jaws is probably our favorite movie, so I thought that that would be really cool. Then it was really going to be impossible to shoot in or around Long Island in the wintertime. It was just going to be miserable and expensive." Filming was moved to Atlanta, Georgia.
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In 2016, Thrillist published a story about the alleged supernatural connections that inspired Stranger Things. They wrote, "the idea that contact between Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and the Demogorgon may have opened the portal to the Upside Down has roots in an incident that conspiracy theorists believe occurred in Montauk in 1983, and ended secret experiments that the US military had been conducting on children for four decades."
In The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time, Preston B. Nichols alleged that while he worked at the facility, there was a piece of furniture called "Montauk Chair," that reportedly used electromagnetics to amplify psychic powers. He alleged that Duncan Cameron, a child who reportedly had these powers, was regularly tested in it. Cameron's story was reportedly used by the Duffer brothers as the basis of the character of Stranger Things' Eleven.
In The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time, Nichols alleged that during an experiment with Cameron, a monster was let loose from his subconscious. This event became the origin story of Stranger Things' Demogorgon, the entity Eleven released after opening a portal at Hawkins National Laboratory.
"The transmitter actually portrayed a hairy monster. It was big, hairy, hungry and nasty. But it didn't appear underground in the null point. It showed up somewhere on the base. It would eat anything it could find. And it smashed everything in sight. Several different people saw it, but almost everyone described a different beast," the Montauk Project document read.
The Camp Hero Air Force Station was shut down in 1981 and officially decommissioned. The land was eventually transferred to the state of New York and reopened to the public as Camp Hero State Park in 2002. The buildings are off limits to visitors.
Stranger Things season 5 will be released in three parts. The first four episodes will be released on November 26, the next three on December 25 and the series finale on December 31.
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