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The Montauk Project: The Long Island Conspiracy Theory That Inspired “Stranger Things”

Summary by Her Campus
Hawkins, Indiana has become one of the most well-known fictional settings over the past decade, but when the Duffer Brothers first pitched their supernatural series to Netflix, it was originally set in Montauk, Long Island, under a working title of “Montauk.” In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Ross Duffer said that they chose Montauk as the initial setting because it served as the basis for the fictional Amity Island in the 1975 film, …
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Her Campus broke the news in on Monday, December 8, 2025.
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