Is Stranger Things based on true stories? Secret CIA experiments and real-life horrors that inspired Hawkins

Is Stranger Things purely fiction, or do Hawkins’ horrors echo real-life darkness? From secret CIA Cold War experiments and mysterious child research to sinister family homes and the 1980s satanic panic, Season 5 promises to unveil the origins of Vecna and the Upside Down. As the final chapter unfolds, the boundary between supernatural terror and historical reality blurs like never before.