Zoey

Marie

Ignacio

Galen

Ollie

Tala

Quinn

Bodie

Teacher

British

Vampire Bodyguard

Francis

Woman

Bodyguard

The Narrator

African lady

Soft Bubbly

Southern

Robot

Hailey

French

Hood

Indian Girl Accent

A French Girl

Male Russian Accent

Irish

Sensitive, curious, and D&D-brained. Determined to find Will no matter what.

Mike Wheeler

Logical, brave, skeptical until the facts stack. Loyal when it counts.

Lucas Sinclair

Charismatic tinkerer with endless snacks and bigger heart.

Dustin Henderson

Quiet, artistic, gentle. Vanishes—but lingers in flickers.

Will Byers

Escaped lab child with telekinetic gifts and a number on her wrist.

Eleven

Sharp, fearless skater with complicated home life.

Max Mayfield

Gruff, grieving police chief starting to see what he can’t explain.

Jim Hopper

Fiercely devoted mother following the evidence no one else can see.

Joyce Byers

Observant loner with a camera and a cracked-open heart.

Jonathan Byers

Smart, underestimated; won’t look away from the dark.

Nancy Wheeler

Good hair, bad choices, unexpected backbone.

Steve Harrington

Dr. Martin Brenner

Hellfire Club king; loud, loyal, braver than he knows.

Eddie Munson

Checked-out suburban dad; unbothered until the TV dies.

Ted Wheeler

Polite, observant, trying to keep the family steady.

Karen Wheeler

AV Club teacher who makes impossible science make sense.

Mr. Clarke

Tommy H.

Middle-school tormentor learning real fear has teeth.

Troy

Barbara Holland (Barb)

Hopper’s secretary; hears everything, repeats nothing.

Florence

Well-meaning officer, always two beats behind.

Callahan

Hopper’s steadier second—skeptical of monsters, for now.

Powell

Tall, skeletal, petaled maw. Drawn by blood and fear. Silent until it isn’t.

The Demogorgon

Hive-mind intent on domination; infects, puppets, feeds on fear.

The Mind Flayer

Quadruped killers; pack hunters with a razor shriek.

Demodogs

Smoke-like force seeping through cracks, seeking hosts.

The Shadow Monster

People possessed by the hive—aware, unable to stop it.

The Flayed

1983. Hawkins, Indiana. When 12-year-old Will Byers vanishes, the town starts unraveling. Kids search with flashlights, parents panic, and something strange stirs in the dark. Before the world knew about the Upside Down or Eleven’s powers, the nightmare had already begun. Step into a town of secrets, shadowy labs, and flickering lights. The monsters aren’t coming. They’re already here.

Nov 6, 1983—Will vanishes biking home. His bike is found in the woods.

Will Byers Disappears

Electrical disturbances ripple across Hawkins.

Lights Start Flickering

A girl with powers appears in the woods, running from someone.

Eleven Escapes Hawkins Lab

Christmas lights blink in patterns. Morse? Madness?

Joyce Talks to the Lights

A body is recovered. Some doubt it’s Will.

Body Found in the Quarry

Tall, inhuman, fast. The kids call it the Demogorgon.

First Monster Sighting

Shadowy government facility behind fences. Kids, experiments, portals, denials.

Hawkins National Laboratory

D&D haven for the misunderstood; fiction is starting to look like news.

The Hellfire Club

Underfunded, overworked, unprepared for monsters.

The Hawkins Police Department

Everyone knows your name—and your secrets.

The Town of Hawkins

Stranger Things: The Hawkins Files

Hallway lights buzzed faster the deeper they went. Walls were wet. The air tasted like static.

Blood dripped from the lab ceiling—not fresh, not old. Metal scraped somewhere below.

Across town, a dog howled once, then silence. House lights blinked off together, back on out of order.

Will’s drawings covered the floor—teeth, tunnels, storms. One page was new. Ink still wet. No one drew it.

Joyce’s fridge hummed a deeper note. Every magnet was stuck inside the door spelling nothing—or something backward.

In the Upside Down, the Byers TV crackled with names it hadn’t learned yet.

Eddie’s notebook repeated in the margins: Don’t roll a 1.

A radio DJ looped the same track thrice, then vanished. His distorted voice still haunts AM: “They’re already here.”

The quarry water rippled without wind; if you stared long enough, your reflection blinked.

Locker #216 says ‘HELLFIRE RULES.’ Under it, in red: ‘…except on prom night.’ No one mentions last year.

The intercom sighed during chemistry. No announcements followed.

Girls’ bathroom mirrors steamed with ‘RUN’—no lipstick in gym period.

AV Club’s ghost detector roams the cafeteria while the football team argues about destiny.

Someone snuck out of the lab at midnight—letterman jacket, glittering spores.

Detention’s far-left seat hums if you sit too long.

Homecoming posters keep getting replaced with ‘Vote Vecna’—worryingly well designed.

Half of Grease rehearsal had nosebleeds. Allergies, says Mrs. French.

Hellfire notes warn in all caps: WE ARE NOT SAFE IN THE BAND ROOM.

One arcade cabinet never powers down; no one remembers its plug.

PA played ‘Africa’ backward. Principal blames a tape deck. AV kids blame the Mind Flayer.

At the rink, an extra skater vanished into smoke—with no wheels.

Photo booths add a final unknown face to every strip.

A mixtape labeled ‘For When It Starts Again’—Track two: Screaming.

Max pops bubblegum like armor. “The monster doesn’t scare me. Missing gym does.”

A camcorder overwrote a vacation; playback shows a snowy playground and footprints ending mid-slide.

Detention’s only kid draws the Ghostbusters logo; new names appear when the teacher turns away.

A VHS labeled DO NOT WATCH sits warm on the library cart.

Connie Prince

Mr. Doyle

Ricky Lane

Nurse Halpern

Hawkins Lab

The Lights

Missing Pets

The Quarry

The Static

Lockers slam, AV club meetings buzz, and something creepy’s always humming through the overhead lights. The school’s a second home for the kids—and a hotspot for secrets.

Hawkins Middle School

Teen drama, cheer practice, and lockers full of bad decisions. Popular kids rule the halls, but underneath the surface, everyone’s hiding something.

Hawkins High

Cold walls. Locked doors. Government men in white coats. Most of Hawkins has no idea what’s going on here—but the air outside feels wrong, like something's leaking through.

Cozy but cluttered. A place full of warmth, worry, and flickering Christmas lights. Ever since Will vanished, the walls feel like they’re listening.

The Byers House

Twisting, overgrown, and far too quiet. Bikes crunch over dead leaves, and flashlights don’t reach as far as they should. Something moves out here. Always just out of sight.

Forest Path

Neat, suburban, and stifling. The kind of house where things are always 'fine'—unless you look too close. A hub for late-night planning, secret meetings, and basement hangouts.

The Wheeler House

A homemade fort deep in the woods. Will’s safe place. Blankets, comic books, and dreams built from plywood. It was supposed to protect him. It didn’t.

Castle Byers

All-American small town charm with a twist. The movie theatre’s always playing something retro, but lately, the streets feel a little too empty after dark.

Downtown Hawkins

A quiet road cutting through the trees. The last place Will Byers was seen. The air feels colder here, like it remembers what happened.

Mirkwood Road

A steep drop into dark water. It’s a place for teen dares, whispered stories—and bad things hiding just below the surface.

A mirror of Hawkins twisted by decay. Rotting vines, toxic air, and a silence that hums. It’s not empty. It’s watching.

The Upside Down

Flashing lights, synth music, and the smell of popcorn and teenage sweat. The Arcade is where high scores are earned—and sometimes strange figures flicker in the screens.

The Arcade

Rows of VHS tapes and judgmental co-workers. A quiet job on the outside, but sometimes weird customers and weirder footage pass through the doors.

Family Video

Dimly lit, poster-covered, and filled with the echoes of metal riffs and dice rolls. Campaigns unfold—and sometimes real-life horror spills in.

Hellfire Club Room (Hawkins High Basement)

Grease-stained menus, decent burgers, and a quiet local who minds his own business. It was just a diner—until a mysterious girl showed up barefoot and bleeding.