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Government scientists don’t stop fucking shit up.
They really didn’t mean to, it was actually out of their control. The experiment to create mutant kids was something they definitely meant to do and therefore definitely in their control, but what followed 34 years after wasn’t something they intended to happen.
1953 was the year the CIA started Project MKUltra. After many modifications to the drugs given to the pregnant women of the program, the first to survive utero development was born in 1957 but died three years. First as in 001. First as in first to make it to an age that showed brain activity unlike any human infant. Again and again, modifications after modifications, until finally, the first child to survive long enough to showcase their mental abilities was raised. The first as in 006. There were nine more children after 006 that displayed mental abilities, each one different than the next.
The utero drugs given to 006-015 were different psychedelics but were all unified by one element: einium. It was the key to keeping the children alive long enough to reach the potential MKUltra needed from them. Hawkins was the lab that perfected this formula. 006-015 were all born and kidnapped at the hands of Hawkins, but the children were handed to different labs for the development of their powers. Hawkins, Avon, Franklin, and Terre Haute all began with two gifted children in their charge (with Terre Haute and Franklin gaining a third as the last children were born) as well as vials of the utero drugs given to each of them.
It’s the preservation of the utero drugs that really fucked the scientists over.
Despite the fact that Indiana isn’t known for being remarkable, some very remarkable things happened there. 1983 marked a very remarkable time for not only Indiana, but for the scientists in Indiana. A portal was opened in Hawkins, but the contents of it spilled over through the tunnels built to connect all 5 labs.
In the panicked frenzy of fighting off the creatures, the ten vials were left unprotected.
Four creatures, each in a different lab, smashed into those vials and were covered in its contents, mutating and evolving like those children once had.
Despite the gate closing in 1984, the creatures remained, lurking.