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Stranger Things was once called Montauk

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Because 'Montauk' just sounds like a place where rich people buy terrible sweaters, not a portal to the Upside Down. The Duffer Brothers initially based the show on the real-life conspiracy theories of the Montauk Project before relocating the 80s nostalgia trip to the fictional, much cheaper-to-film town of Hawkins.

Stranger Things was once called Montauk
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