Off the Wall: Stranger Things Had an Even Stranger Inspiration
The Montauk Project: Deep Dive on The Real Inspiration for Stranger Things
The Montauk Project: Deep Dive on The Real Inspiration for Stranger Things
Picture yourself standing on the docks of the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on a muggy morning in July 1943. World War II is raging, and the U.S. Navy is scrambling to outsmart German submarines sinking supply ships left and right. They’ve got a wild plan called Project Rainbow, and it’s not about building better weapons or faster boats. No, they’re trying to make a ship disappear—completely invisible to radar and even to the human eye. The ship they’re testing this on? The USS Eldridge, a destroyer loaded with strange, experimental gear.
Some of the biggest brains in history are behind this.
Nikola Tesla, the guy who basically invented modern electricity, had been messing around with electromagnetic fields for years, even talking about a “death ray” that could do impossible things.
Then there’s Albert Einstein, whose ideas about bending light and gravity rewrote the rulebook of physics.
Leading the charge is Dr. John von Neumann, a math genius who’s all about turning crazy theories into…