So "Stranger Things...Firestarter... Escape from Witch Mountain" are actually based on a real military base in NY where the NSA/CIA ran all sorts of weird experiments on ESP, Telepathy, Out of Body Travel, etc.

Weirdo shit basically.

Many of the experiments fell under the Montauk Project.

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/search/site/Montauk%20Project

https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a28746159/stranger-things-true-story-real-world-mkultra-cia-project-montauk/

In the 1970's, the CIA being a wonderful, caring, lovely organization decided to expand their experiments to children.

Looking for "Super" kids with abilities that most didn't have...LIKE PATTERN RECOGNITION.

They advertised it in California as (2) different programs:

The Black and Gold program and THE GATE PROGRAM.

Old Noodles was part of both from 3rd grade till end of 5th grade from like 1978-1981.

Even though I'm a huge conspiracy theory quack I actually didn't know about this till about 3-5 years ago till I saw a video on it.

Someone had made a video about the GATE PROGRAM asking "Do any of you remember this???"

Now I can't find ANY mention of the B/G Program, the closest thing was an honors program for black kids, but that was like in the 2000's.

But holy fuck, for the GATE PROGRAM there's people like me NATIONWIDE.

In fact, when the blogger described what they did to him, I was flooded with all these memories.

The proxies tested all the kids in my elementary school, out of that (3) of us were picked and every Friday we would be let out early after lunch and sent to a tiny office with some old Commodore 80 computers and play games, we would be tested with those ESP cards where you had to guess the shape and they put headphones on us and made us listen to frequencies.

Now I was just a kid and was all proud to get to walk like a Big Boy when everyone was kept in class.

We did this every Friday then at the end we were given red pills which I was told was fluoride for our teeth.

WTF?

But I was a kid, didn't know better and trusted my teachers.

Now I'm looking at these declassified CIA documents and wondering what don't I remember?

No, I'm not crazy, this is not some "I'm unique" scream...I didn't even know it was a CIA project till I was in my 50's.

Sounds like some Sci-Fi bullshit, but I lived it.

Only thing I want to know is HOW DID I DO?

I do wonder if that's why I'm so distrustful of the government, which is odd being I've worked for Port of San Diego, City of San Diego, Feds and State of California.

I always assumed because I saw how terrible and wasteful they were... Except the Port.

Annnnnnnnd now it makes sense of why I think in patterns like some taller, better hung, Hispanic Rainman.

Rainmundo.

Although the only thing I've done with my "gift" is use it to beat people in Dominoes.

Although being part of an ACTUAL MK Ultra CIA Program is kinda a cool flex.

How's that for odd?

The program was supposedly disbanded in the 90's...Anyone here remember it or was part of it?

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/dnsa-intelligence/2024-12-23/cia-behavior-control-experiments-focus-new-scholarly