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MKultra

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CIA mind control program that originally inspired Stranger Things before the show moved away from this grounded conspiracy theory premise

Mentions (8)
"Spent 2 months reading these books and went down other 'schizo' rabbitholes of the brabant killers, dutroux, operation GLADIO, all the hippy era MKultra shit and I literally feel sick to my stomach now. It's such an evil world we live in, I can see why just immersing yourself in conspiracies(???) li"
"9/11 was calculated. cia killed kennedy. obama is fake. nsa can watch anything you do and where you go. cia did mkultra and put crack money in neighborhoods, there's so much more for some reason i'm blanking right now"
What even is real anymore?!? · u/SidMan1000 · ↑87 · 2022-03-01
"I hear it like 5 times a day at work and every time I get irrationally angry and nauseous. Its gotten to where I leave the office to avoid it. It's the most vile song I've ever heard."
I think that "Fancy Like" song is my mkultra trigger · u/Ardbert14 · ↑72 · 2021-12-01
"His meow just hits the spot, like an mk ultra activation sound, I'm compelled to give him all the food he wants."
Stray cat I'm feeding is now getting fat · u/YIFY-X265 · ↑50 · 2025-03-19
"MKUltra (scary af)"
Favorite conspiracy theories? · u/[deleted] · ↑44 · 2020-06-23
"The things that this AI bullshit will lead stupid people to do is gonna make MKUltra look like fucking nothing when all is said and done, I fear."
"The idea of 11s mom unwittingly involving herself in an MKultra experiment and providing the lab with exactly what they had been looking for the whole time, just because she wasn't aware of her pregnancy made sm sense, obviously Eleven is framed as being the first successful subject of her kind desp"
My least fave thing about all the ret-conning that's done in Stranger Things · u/Complex_Benefit_7311 · ↑199 · 2025-12-31
"Yes, MKUltra and CIA meddling with LSD definitely caused a downstream effect when it came to the creation of the counterculture of the 1960s"
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