In Stranger Things , there are many references to things from other fictional worlds, specifically the land of Dungeons & Dragons . But, when the series began to expand the backstory of Eleven (aka Jane), her mother Terry, and the experiments at Hawkins Laboratory, the Duffer Brothers tapped into a disturbing era of real-life history. The story behind how Eleven got her powers revealed that Terry was a part of Project MKUltra, an experiment by the CIA using psychedelic drugs, mental abuse, and physical torture to try to develop mind control techniques. And, that’s close to what happened in real life with the MKUltra program, which now has a limited series called Project: MKUltra in development at HBO.

This real covert operation took place during the 1950s and 1960s with some volunt

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