Though the demogorgons and their fellow inhabitants of the Upside Down pose the most immediate threat to the heroes of Stranger Things, Papa's willingness to use children as his personal lab rats, as ...

With roots deep in the history of military sciences, and largely beginning after WW2, the history of mind control studies is a rich and fascinating one. The quest to conquer the human mind was ...

Discover the real Cold War experiments that inspired "Stranger Things"—from MK-ULTRA to alleged psychic Nina Kulagina.

Charles Manson was the evil behind the brutal murders of Sharon Tate and at least eight others — but a new documentary speculates that Manson and his "family" of followers may have been influenced by ...

In 1953, the United States government sanctioned MK-ULTRA, an infamous CIA program that would result in morally questionable human experimentation and the death of CIA employee Dr. Frank Olson.

Journalist Stephen Kinzer reveals how CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb worked in the 1950s and early '60s to develop mind control drugs and deadly... The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD ...

Did you know that Black men were experimented on for decades in search of a mind control drug? From 1947 to 1974, incarcerated Black men and other vulnerable inpatient groups were exploited in ...