STRANGER THINGS and Pedogate

Season 5 is all about systemic child rape: a "revelation of the method"?

The orally administered violation of Will Byers

The opening episode of the long-awaited fifth season of Stranger Things opens with a flashback to season one, a scene which “retcons” the scenario involving the character of Will Byers during the time when he was lost in the “upside-down” realm.

The imagery this scene displays is provocative, shocking, and deeply unsettling in its ramifications.

Poor young Will (Noah Schnapp) curls up helplessly, as he is menaced by various uncanny beasts with snarling, anus-like mouths. Will puts up a valiant fight against these terrifying and disgusting creatures, but they overpower him and soon he is dragged, unconscious, to a muddy, slimy habitation, where his insensate frame is seized and borne aloft by a clump of seemingly sentient vines that spring from the ground. Will is then approached by Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower), a monstrous being who— as season four of the series revealed— used to be a similarly scared little boy himself.

“At long last, we can begin,” Vecna mutters, before forcibly affixing a protoplasmic tentacle to Will’s mouth. Some kind of fluidic ooze courses through the tentacle and down Will’s gullet, in a continuous stream. As Will gags and grunts helplessly, Vecna mock-tenderly smooths the hair on the boy’s forehead with his bony, tendriled finger.

“You and I are going to do such beautiful things together, William,” Vecna purrs. “Such beautiful things…”

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Some commentators noticed the obvious: that the scene described above depicted something very akin to the sexual assault of a child. Most of those who rightly perceived this imagery, and its implications, were outraged. It is tough to watch, but a case could be made that this scene, and the storyline of season five of Stranger Things generally, serve a purpose: to expose the sexual exploitation of children that seems endemic to the entertainment industry, and indeed all sectors of elite society.

Of course, there are naysayers who wish to deny the obvious, apparently claiming that there is nothing at all sketchy about a little boy being orally violated in such a grotesque manner. Nor, I suppose, do they blanch at the moment in episode four, in which the vile Vecna draws the now teenaged Will to him, and lets him know that his victim’s symbolic rape has served the wicked creature’s nefarious purposes. Vecna has taken several more children hostage, and intends to “turn them out” (as prison lingo would have it) in the same way that he did to Will, in order to possess and enslave them, and through them, wreak dreadful havoc upon the world.

“Will, you broke so easily. You showed me what was possible.”

Coldly, with devastating candor, Vecna lets Will know that it was through “breaking” him that he came to see that children were the key to the achievement of his depraved and destructive plans.

“Can you see them, William? Can you see the children? Do you know why I chose them to reshape the world? It’s because they are weak, weak in body and mind, easily broken, easily reshaped, controlled, the perfect vessels. And you, Will, you were the first. And you broke so easily. You showed me what was possible, what I could achieve….”

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Vecna, of course, was really only confirming that which he already knew through experience. As a boy named Henry Creel with psychokinetic powers and a patently psychopathic personality, young Vecna was taken away by a secret government agency with MK-Ultra-esque ambitions of training psychically gifted children in order eventually to use them as assets.

These children were held on a secret base in Hawkins, Indiana where they endured physical and psychological abuse, and were pushed to the very limits of their capabilities. Not all of them survived, but a few managed to escape.

“Project Indigo,” as it is called in Stranger Things, is based directly on the lore surrounding a rumored secret program held on Camp Hero in Montauk, New York. Sometimes called “Project Phoenix” or simply “The Montauk Project,” it reputedly brought in boys who were runaways. street urchins, and foster home refugees, and trained them to accomplish tasks including but not limited to telekinesis, remote viewing, and astral projection. Numerous men claiming to be survivors of this regimen discuss being sexually abused; indeed, the abuse was deemed a necessity in order to “break” these boys and enable them to disassociate, so that they could be better equipped to use their psychic gifts.

The now-abandoned Camp Hero, alleged site of “Project Montauk”

When the Duffer brothers first pitched a show to Netflix, it was even called Montauk, and was set on the notorious alleged site. Changes were apparently suggested, and Montauk eventually became Stranger Things, but the source material speaks for itself. The abovementioned naysayers, who try to claim that one is wrongheaded or even perverse for accurately comprehending the show’s depiction of systemic child sexual abuse, then, have effectively shown themselves not only to be obtuse but also woefully deficient in what certain insufferable people now call "media literacy.”

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While the conclusion of season five quite literally remains to be seen (episodes 5, 6, and 7 are scheduled to release on Christmas Day, and the finale on New Year’s Eve), it is clear that Vecna’s plan to “break” children via sexual abuse in order to brainwash them to serve his interests are a direct reflection of what was done unto him and the other lost children who got corralled into taking part in the Indigo Project.

Accounts of rampant sexual abuse of children by elites, reported in such incidents as the Franklin Scandal, the “Finders” cult, the Casa Pia scandal, the “Dutroux affair,” the Presidio scandal, and numerous other uncovered atrocities, remained at the margins of contemporary discourse, often haughtily dismissed by “respectable” outlets as “conspiracy theories,” until stories like Jimmy Saville and Jeffrey Epstein fully broke into mainstream consciousness. In showbiz, the 2014 documentary An Open Secret exposed the rampant extent of child sexual exploitation in Hollywood.

Certain high-profile media productions, like Seasons one and three of Nic Pizzolatto’s True Detective, and now season five of Stranger Things, have made the subject of high-level child sexual abuse a primary fixture of their storylines.

Are such public acknowledgements of systemic atrocities against children a sign of certain “white hats” within the system wishing to draw attention to these horrific crimes? Or is it another iteration of the esoteric strategy known as “revelation of the method,” by which the system flaunts its wickedness, ostensibly to run psychic cover for itself by hiding its diabolical activities in plain sight?

Andy Nowicki is the author of several books, including The Insurrectionist, Muze, and The Rule of Wrath, the shocking memoir The Secret Life of an Alt-Right ‘Operative.’ , and now the mind-bending alt-historical romance The Curtsy and the Kiss. Visit his YouTube channel.