New CIA Document Details Experiments on Extrasensory Perception and Telepathy In Stranger Things, intelligence officers used psychic methods in an attempt to gather intelligence on enemies, or perhaps outwit them on the battlefield. As you know by now, that decision is what tore open a tear between dimensions, allowing Stranger Things to become a masterful fictional tale, and one of Netflix's flagship programs all these years later. While there are no Demogorgons walking the world in real life — ahem, at least to the knowledge of the public — the series was still based on conspiracies and intelligence experiments that have since come to light.