GEORGIA MENTAL HEALTH INSTITUTE | BRIARCLIFF CAMPUS | EST. 1965
The Real Hawkins Lab
A Documented Investigation into the Stranger Things Filming Location
Subject Overview
When Netflix selected a filming location for Hawkins National Laboratory in Stranger Things, they chose an abandoned psychiatric hospital in Georgia.
What the production may not have known: that hospital was operated by a university whose professor conducted actual CIA mind control experiments on children.
Verified Facts
- Georgia Mental Health Institute opened in 1965
- Operated by Emory University and the State of Georgia
- Dr. Carl Pfeiffer, Chair of Pharmacology at Emory, conducted MKUltra subprojects
- Pfeiffer's experiments included minors at Bordentown Reformatory
- MKUltra experiments ended in 1964 - GMHI opened 1965
- J.L. v. Parham (Supreme Court, 1979): 46 children institutionalized without necessity
- Underground tunnels connect 17 buildings on campus
- One plaintiff, Joey Lister (J.L.), died under suspicious circumstances
Timeline
Is Stranger Things based on a true story?
YES.
The full investigation.
14,000 words. Every source cited.
Before the building disappears.
Available on Kindle
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