The Inspiration for 'Stranger Things' Came from an Unsolved Government Conspiracy

Seeking Out the Source

Graff, being the curious man that he is, tried to find the address that was on the back of the ID card on google maps. To his surprise, the address didn’t exist. The coordinates led to a mountain peak that’s roughly 70 miles outside of Washington D.C. On the map, the road leading up to the site just ended at the face of the cliff. But, Graff knew that there was something else up there. He knew because he had taken that trip recently, and he saw a concrete bunker up there, just before the road ended…

Diving Back In

Strangely, he didn’t really think about the area on top of the mountain when he took his initial trip out there. Now that he knew that something was amiss, he had to get to the bottom of it. Graff drove back up the mountain to find that the concrete bunker was blocked off by chainlink fences topped with barbed wire. Signs warning trespassers that they were risking their lives by entering the facility. Graff had no idea what he stumbled upon initially, but as he dug into the construction records from the site, he learned some shocking information...

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.