The Complete Stranger Things Timeline, EXPLAINED

MsMojo

Dive into the mysterious origins and chilling events that shaped Hawkins, Indiana. From secret experiments in the 1950s to the terrifying portals of The Upside Down, uncover how psychic children, government conspiracies, and monstrous forces collide in this deep dive into the Stranger Things universe. Get ready to revisit every twist, showdown, and dark secret that made the show a cultural phenomenon!

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00:00Stranger Things is known for basking in 80s nostalgia,

00:04but the story actually begins a wee bit earlier in the late 1950s.

00:09Victor Creel thought he'd found the perfect place to raise a family,

00:13a big house in the quiet town of Hawkins, Indiana.

00:16But his son Henry, however, was not exactly a sunshine and baseball kind of kid.

00:21He had special powers and was a bit of a budding psychopath.

00:24But Henry, my boy, he was a sensitive child.

00:32In March of 1959, young Henry murdered his mother and sister in what looked like a supernatural meltdown,

00:39and his father was blamed for their deaths and tossed into an asylum, where he remains to this day.

00:45Oh, this demon, it was taunting me.

00:49And I'm sure it would take me just as he'd taken my Virginia.

00:55Meanwhile, the exertion caused Henry to fall into a coma.

00:58The story attracted the attention of one Dr. Brenner,

01:01who took an intense interest in the boy with psychic powers.

01:05Brenner visited the now-awake Henry and took him into his care,

01:08hoping to study his brain and harness his supernatural abilities.

01:12Henry was taken to the brand new Hawkins National Laboratory,

01:17where Brenner literally branded him Subject 1.

01:20Henry became the lab's first psychic guinea pig,

01:23and, as it turned out, its last success story.

01:25Brenner quickly realized that he needed more test subjects,

01:29and thus began a secret MK Ultra-like experiment,

01:33which saw Brenner kidnapping kids, taking them to the lab,

01:37and training them to unlock their dormant abilities.

01:40When Papa finally realized he could not control me,

01:44he tried to recreate me.

01:49He began a program,

01:51and soon,

01:53others were warned.

01:56Fast forward a decade or so.

01:58The U.S. government was now very into LSD and telepathy,

02:02and a woman named Terry Ives volunteered to undergo some experiments.

02:05After being drugged, manipulated, and subjected to psychic tests,

02:10she discovered that she had been pregnant the entire time.

02:13In 1971, she gave birth to her daughter Jane,

02:16who had special powers owing to the experiments performed on her mom.

02:20Brenner, ever the baby snatcher,

02:22stole Jane at birth and renamed her Eleven,

02:25being his 11th subject.

02:27He told Terry that she had miscarried,

02:29and then fried her brain for asking too many questions,

02:32placing her in a state of near Catatonia.

02:34She won't get better.

02:37Will she?

02:41They don't think so, no.

02:43At the lab, Eleven grew up with other numbered children,

02:46and Brenner harnessed her abilities.

02:48Among her caretakers was a friendly orderly,

02:51who always seemed to know a little too much.

02:53Of course, this was a now-grown Henry,

02:56who was manipulating Eleven to join his psychopathic crusade against humanity.

03:00I could make my own rules.

03:03I could restore balance to a broken world.

03:08A predator.

03:10But for good.

03:12He convinced her to remove an implant that Brenner had given him to suppress his powers,

03:16and went on a psychic rampage,

03:18slaughtering everyone in the lab.

03:20When Eleven saw the carnage,

03:22she faced him in an epic telekinetic showdown.

03:24Fueled by rage and heartbreak,

03:26she blasted him through the very fabric of space and time,

03:30and sent him to another dimension entirely.

03:32Henry fell into some kind of creepy world filled with monsters and swirling particles,

03:37and he then reconstituted these particles into his massive pet spider,

03:42the Mind Flayer.

03:42Owing to the enormous expense of power,

03:45Eleven fell into a coma and suffered amnesia,

03:48forgetting the encounter entirely.

03:50Brenner, having survived the massacre,

03:52swept the mess under the rug and pretended everything was fine,

03:56simply finding some new kids and carrying on with his experiments.

04:00It was you.

04:05Always you.

04:06Fast forward a few years to 1983.

04:09Brenner is still working with Eleven,

04:11and is now forcing her into a sensory deprivation tank

04:14as some kind of Cold War spying scheme.

04:17Unfortunately, Eleven entered a dark void and encountered the Demogorgon.

04:21But after curiously touching it,

04:23a gate to the Upside Down was opened,

04:25and the Demogorgon escaped.

04:27Mike, I'm sorry.

04:31Sorry?

04:31What are you sorry for?

04:33The gate.

04:39I opened it.

04:40And with that, we come to season one,

04:43November 6th, 1983.

04:45Sweet little Will Byers biked home from a long campaign of D&D with his friends

04:49and was kidnapped by the Demogorgon,

04:51who took him back to the Upside Down for reasons that still aren't entirely explained.

04:56His frantic mom, Joyce, goes to the police,

04:58getting everyone's favorite chief of police, Jim Hopper, on the case.

05:02Just find my son, Hopper.

05:04Find him.

05:06Hopper deduces that the local lab is somehow involved in Will's disappearance.

05:11Meanwhile, Will's friends, Mike, Lucas, and Dustin,

05:14find Eleven, who had escaped the lab in the Demogorgon chaos.

05:18Everything is eventually traced back to Hawkins' lab.

05:21Will is rescued from the Upside Down,

05:23and Eleven goes missing after killing the Demogorgon.

05:26In exchange for both Eleven and Will's freedom,

05:28Hopper promises to keep the whole thing secret.

05:31You gotta give me your word.

05:35Nobody's ever gonna find out about this.

05:38And those other three kids, those boys, you're gonna leave them alone.

05:44And I'll tell you.

05:48I'll tell you where your little science experiment is.

05:51Eleven didn't die, but was transported back to the Upside Down,

05:54where she stayed for all of two minutes before re-emerging through another gate.

05:58She then wandered the woods until she was found by Hopper,

06:00who took her in as his daughter and kept her secluded in a cabin.

06:04All right, look.

06:06How about I get off early tonight,

06:09and I buy us a bunch of candy,

06:11and we can sit around and get fat,

06:13and we watch a scary movie together.

06:15Unfortunately, the Upside Down wasn't done,

06:17and Henry's pet, the Mind Flayer, had its eye on Earth.

06:20It uses Will's connection to the Upside Down and possesses him,

06:24using him as his conduit in the real world.

06:26But once again, the good guys emerge victorious.

06:29They force the Mind Flayer out of Will.

06:31Eleven closes the gate to the Upside Down and is legally adopted by Hopper,

06:35and the lab is closed thanks to the involvement of conspiracy theorist Murray Bauman.

06:40Since the release of the incendiary tape,

06:43the once quiet town of Hawkins, Indiana,

06:45has spent time in a place it never expected.

06:48The national spotlight.

06:50One year later, summer 1985,

06:52the heat has arrived, and with it, the new Starcourt Mall,

06:56a pastel paradise of neon lights, food courts, and capitalism.

07:00Everyone loved it.

07:01However, this is really just a cover for the Soviets,

07:04who had constructed the mall to mask their true intentions.

07:06Just below the mall was a massive device that they were using to open a new gate to the Upside Down,

07:24hoping to utilize its monsters for Cold War purposes.

07:28The portion of the Mind Flayer that flew out of Will now possesses Billy,

07:31who constructs a massive monster out of the melted bodies of Hawkins' citizens.

07:36Once again, the day is saved.

07:38The Russian's tool is destroyed,

07:40and the body part monster dies once its connection to the Upside Down is severed.

07:44Unfortunately, the ending is not so happy this time.

07:47Billy dies saving the kids,

07:48Hopper is taken by the Soviets,

07:50and the buyers leave Hawkins for California,

07:53taking Eleven with them.

07:54But I know you're getting older.

07:57Growing.

08:00Changing.

08:02And I guess,

08:03if I'm being really honest,

08:07that's what scares me.

08:10I don't want things to change.

08:13Spring 1986.

08:15Creepy things start happening in Hawkins.

08:17Teenagers start dying in horrible ways,

08:20their bones shattering and their eyes being gouged out.

08:22Poor Eddie Munson, the town metalhead and dungeon master,

08:26was framed for the murders,

08:27sparking a satanic panic in the town.

08:30And I've come to accept an awful truth.

08:34These murders are ritualistic sacrifices.

08:37We've all heard about how satanic cults are spreading to our country like some disease.

08:42And Eddie Munson,

08:44he's the leader of one of these cults.

08:47A cult that operates right here in Hawkins.

08:49But our heroes weren't fooled.

08:51Nancy, Steve, Robin, Dustin, Lucas, and Max

08:54began to uncover the truth.

08:56The real culprit was Henry Creel,

08:58who has since been transformed into the grotesque monster Vecna.

09:02He was targeting those with trauma

09:03and murdering them in order to open four gates

09:06between the Upside Down and the real world

09:08for an impending invasion.

09:09You don't have to do this.

09:13You can still stop this.

09:16It is over Eleven.

09:19Your friends have lost.

09:22Meanwhile, Brenner finds Eleven again

09:25and takes her to a top secret lab in the Nevada desert.

09:28Under his care, she began reliving her memories,

09:31discovering her role in creating Vecna,

09:33and how she was the sole survivor of the massacre of Hawkins' lab.

09:36Their work is soon interrupted by the army,

09:38who invades the secret lab and kills most of its inhabitants,

09:42including Brenner.

09:43Luckily, Eleven is picked up by Mike, Jonathan, Will, and Argyle,

09:47who have traced her back to the lab.

09:57Bye, Papa.

09:58Meanwhile, Hopper is being kept prisoner in a remote Soviet camp,

10:03where he discovers that they, too,

10:05have been experimenting with the Upside Down

10:07and even have a few of its inhabitants,

10:09including Demogorgons and some swirling particles

10:11belonging to the Mind Flayer.

10:13He's rescued by Joyce and Murray,

10:15and they return to Hawkins,

10:17where they all reunite with the gang.

10:21Hey.

10:21You're grown.

10:27Yeah.

10:30You're shrunk.

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10:45The Hawkins group invades the Upside Down,

10:50and Eddie dies while drawing the bats away from Vecna.

10:53I didn't run away this time, right?

10:57No, no, no, no, no.

10:59You didn't run.

11:01You're gonna have to look after those little sheep for me, okay?

11:04Vecna is seemingly killed by Robin, Steve, and Nancy,

11:07but not before he attacks Max,

11:09who was suffering trauma owing to the events of the previous season.

11:12He succeeds in killing her,

11:14but Eleven is able to bring her back to life,

11:16albeit in a completely comatose form.

11:18Owing to the bad news,

11:20her brief death creates Vecna's fourth and final gate,

11:23allowing the Upside Down to fully invade Hawkins.

11:30And that's Stranger Things.

11:32We can't wait to see what season five has in store.

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