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The "Nevada Experiment" was a US government attempt to reproduce what had happened to the USS Eldridge in 1943. The government facility that hosted the experiments was located in or around Rachel, Nevada. The project was apparently led by Dr. Martin Brenner.
History[]
1943[]
The USS Eldridge, a US navy ship, was used in the secret government experiments known as both "Project Rainbow" and the Philadelphia Experiment. In 1943, the vessel went missing; the vessel had traveled to Dimension X, with most of the crew being killed in the process. Only Dr. Martin Brenner's father survived the disaster; on his deathbed, he finally divulged the truth about the incident to his son.[1]
1950s[]
Following the Philadelphia Experiment incident, Dr. Brenner and his staff began work on the Nevada Experiment, an attempt to reproduce what had happened to the Eldridge in 1943. The government facility that hosted the experiments was located in or around Rachel, Nevada. However, a rogue staff member defected and stole essential equipment from Brenner, hiding the equipment inside a nearby cave system.[1]
According to one account, it was this equipment which changed the trajectory of Henry Creel's life forever. Henry, who was only a small child, was exploring the Nevada caves one day while playing with his spyglass. While exploring, Henry stumbled across the scientific equipment; the technology unexpectedly activated, transporting Henry and the rogue staff member to Dimension X, killing the staff member in the process. In the alternate world, Henry saw glimpses of strange creatures and was exposed to the influence of a shadowy entity.
Henry survived the ordeal and eventually returned home after 12 hours, but with wildly different blood, and an altered personality. Brenner later recovered the stolen equipment, also finding the spyglass belonging to Henry. Brenner was able to eventually track down Henry thanks to the dropped spyglass, and would eventually make him the first of a new series of test subjects at Hawkins Lab.
According to this account, it was Henry’s exposure to the Mind Flayer at a young age that led him to develop special psychokinetic abilities. This appears to contradict Henry's own account of events, in which Henry apparently discovered the Mind Flayer and Dimension X at a much later stage in his life.[1][2]
Behind the scenes[]
The setting of the Nevada Experiment might reference the government test site for atomic weaponry established in the early 1950s, also in Nevada.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Stranger Things: The First Shadow
- ↑ In SFX Magazine #372, the following is said: "While some of Creel's origin story has been told, [Kate] Trefry emphasises that the version of events seen on screen may not be reliable; we were, she notes, told what happened to the Creel family by Henry himself. '[The First Shadow] is a different perspective,' she says. 'We're reaching back into Henry's past to understand why he is the way he is.'"