Ever since the summer of 2016 when Stranger Things debuted on Netflix I’ve wanted to investigate the mystery of the “Montauk Project” carried out on the site of a decommissioned United States air force base on the south shore of New York’s Long Island, located at Montauk Point on the eastern tip.

A fair bit of controversy surrounded the TV series created by the Duffer Brothers, with film-maker Charlie Kessler filing a lawsuit against them claiming the series was based on his short movie Montauk that had debuted at the 2012 Hamptons International Film Festival.

Kessler claimed to have pitched the idea to the Duffer brothers at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2014 and later gave them "the script, ideas, story and film" to develop into a larger undertaking he’d labelled The Montauk Project, which he claimed they adapted for Stranger Things... FULL STORY