Netflix's Stranger Things is based on a terrifying real-life CIA experiment

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Netflix's smash-hit series Stranger Things may seem stranger than fiction – but it was actually based on a real-life CIA experiment.

The final two episodes of season 4 have been released on the streaming service today (July 1), causing the entire site to crash just minutes later.READ MORE: Stranger Things Season 5: Will there be another season of Netflix series?The series, set in the 1980s in the fictional US town of Hawkins, centres around numerous supernatural events occurring around the area, specifically around their connection to a hostile alternate reality called "The Upside Down".But while much of it may seem out of the ordinary, the origins of main character Eleven has some basis in reality.The show's writers actually based the experiments seen throughout the show on an American Cold War CIA programme called MK Ultra, which ran from 1953 to 1973.The experiments were intended to develop procedures and identify drugs such as LSD that could be used in interrogations to weaken individuals and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture.The aim was to create a second personality the victim’s mind which could be triggered and programmed by the handlers.The Duffer Brothers, who created the dimension-hopping Stranger Things, previously told Rolling Stone magazine: "We wanted the supernatural element to be grounded in science in some way.”They used the Cold War mind control experiment as an origin story for Eleven - the the show’s most mysterious character.Eleven's mother is, in the show’s world, one of the MK Ultra test subjects and while she was pregnant, was subjected to LSD and sensory deprivation experiments.As far as we know, none of the real subjects of MK Ultra developed psychic powers, but.