"Stranger Things is obviously science fiction, but Eleven's backstory-in which she was born with psychokinetic and telepathic abilities because her mom participated in MKUltra, a covert CIA operation to develop mind-control techniques during the Cold War-was partly inspired by actual covert CIA operations from the 20th century, one of which was literally called MKUltra. Eleven has other numbered "siblings," including Eight, who has the powers of illusion and reveals in Episode 5 that she was recapturedby the government and extracted for her "special blood.""
"Between 1945 and 1949, hundreds of pregnant women who sought free care at a prenatal clinic at Vanderbilt University were given what they were told were vitamin drinks when, in reality, the drinks were iron solutions laced with radioactive isotopes. Researchers wanted to study iron absorption during pregnancy, and the radioactive iron would allow them to track the chemical el"
Stranger Things concluded a nearly decade-long saga that raises questions about characters and unresolved plotlines. Eleven's origin ties to MKUltra-style experiments, portraying a mother subjected to covert CIA mind-control research whose child gained psychokinetic and telepathic powers. Numbered "siblings" such as Eight reveal government recapture and extraction for "special blood" later injected into pregnant women, implying a revived MKUltra program. The U.S. has a documented history of exploiting marginalized women's bodies in the name of science. Between 1945 and 1949, hundreds of pregnant women at a Vanderbilt prenatal clinic received purported vitamin drinks that were actually radioactive iron solutions used to study iron absorption.
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