True life may be stranger than fiction, at least where the Department of Energy is involved.

The Energy Department on Wednesday was initially quick to deny any similarities to its fictional counterpart in the hit Netflix series “Stranger Things,” in which a 1980s Indiana town gets besieged by a paranormal monster from a parallel universe. However, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz hinted on Chelsea Handler’s late-night Netflix talk show that some aspects of the series aren’t too far from reality.