The Montauk Project: The Chilling Story That Inspired STRANGER THINGS

About this episode

The episode explores the Montauk Project and its connection to the story behind STRANGER THINGS.

New York, 1982: Venture inside the story that inspired stranger STRANGER THINGS as a desperate father searches for his missing son and uncovers a supernatural conspiracy buried under an abandoned military base. Sightings is a REVERB and QCODE Original. Find us on instagram @sightingspod⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Topics covered

• supernatural conspiracy
• missing person
• military base
• 1980s
• inspiration
• true crime
• fiction

Keywords

• Montauk Project
• STRANGER THINGS
• supernatural
• military
• conspiracy
• 1982
• New York
• missing son

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: REVERB, Daylight Media

Books & works: STRANGER THINGS

Places: New York

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