Everyone and their mother knows the show Stranger Things, but not many people understand that it’s based on a real conspiracy theory. I’m not necessarily talking about the Demogorgon, or the “Upside Down” (although we could get into all that).

No, I’m talking about telepathy, telekinesis, psychic abilities, and non-verbal autistic kids. It might be a tough pill to swallow, but mind reading is real, and certain gifted members of our society can innately communicate that way. Papers and podcasts about these special telekinetic communicators are hitting the mainstream. 

While scientists and journalists are just catching onto this, though, our government has been aware of and experimenting with this phenomenon for decades. It sounds like a Steven King novel. But sometimes, the truth is stranger than fiction. 

The Montauk Project

Obscured within a U.S. Air Force base at Montauk Point, New York, a branch of MK-Ultra was secretly delving into extremely “exotic research” using specially selected recruits. Children with psychic, psionic, and telepathic abilities were vacuumed up across the country. They were brought to Montauk Air Force Base, to an eleven-story underground laboratory where they were subjected to parapsychological training, and sci-fi experiments involving time travel, teleportation, mind control, and even contact with extraterrestrial life. 

Allegedly, under the Montauk Project, homeless people were abducted and experimented on with electromagnetic radiation. Runaway kids were collected and subjected to excruciating physical and mental torture, to break their minds and reprogram them. The Aids virus was engineered there. Recovered UFOs were reverse-engineered. Participants honed psychic abilities to materialize objects from thin air. And most incredibly, Nicola Tesla, whose 1943 death was faked by the government, was the director of this entire enterprise…

Did I lose you on that last one? Well, those are the allegations — or should I say, “The Story.”

The Whistleblowers’ Story

In 1992 Preston Nichols and Al Bielek co-published a book recounting their own repressed childhood memories. The two claimed to have gone through the Montauk Project, realizing as adults that they’d been child victims of the US government’s mind-control experiments. 

To this day, both men maintain that their story is true. Many believe them. And if you’re wearing enough tin foil, you might see some truth in their story, too. 

Science Fiction Reality

Let’s start with the facts: 1) Our government ran mind-control experiments on people throughout the ‘50s and ‘60s. 2) Our government has recruited special, talented individuals into secret programs (like the Manhattan Project) since at least the ‘40s. 3) Non-verbal autistic kids can read minds. 

You might have paused after reading #3. But trust me when I tell you: This is true. Telepathy is real — mind reading, remote viewing, and telekinesis are all things our government has spent big bucks researching. Mainstream science is starting to pursue this as well. A popular (and controversial) podcast called The Telepathy Tapes recently broke the topic open publicly. 

The reason I bring that up isn’t to suggest the Montauk Project was (or is) full of non-verbal autistic mind readers but to point out that “telepathy” and “mind-reading” are not as woo-woo as many people believe. These skills are real. Our government was seriously exploring that field for a reason. 

The Truth?

While the Montauk Project books, which provided the basis for Stranger Things, are probably mostly fiction, we’ll never know how much was made up. All records documenting MK-Ultra’s many different programs, branches, and experiments were incinerated after the program was “ended” — except for one box, discovered many years later. Everything we know about MK-Ultra comes from that single box of files. The true extent of that program will never be known…

So if the Montauk Project didn’t exist, something like it almost certainly did — and likely still does to this very day. And maybe, just maybe, Nicola Tesla is out there running
the show.