STRANGER THINGS' CIA SECRET

NETFLIX'S hit show Stranger Things has set viewership records with its fifth and final season — and now The National ENQUIRER can reveal the '80s-set paranormal drama is based on a real CIA program that used psychically gifted individuals to spy on the Soviet Union.

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A psychic located a downed Soviet bomber in Zaire, allowing the U.S. to reach the crash site ahead of the Russians, sources say

In the blockbuster show, Millie Bobby Brown's Jane Hopper, better known as Eleven or El, belongs to a secret CIA operation based in fictional Hawkins, Ind., but escapes and joins a crew of mischievous and heroic local kids who battle monsters from another dimension.

Eleven is shown using a combination of ESP and remote viewing and sensory deprivation — such as being submerged in a makeshift float tank — to remotely locate creatures and people, including a Russian spy.