Stranger Things Season 4: 10 Crazy Fan Theories That Could Happen

10. Going Nuclear

The success of a show like Stranger Things is linked to its cast of child actors, making timed releases extremely important. Having 17 year old Will show up sporting a fully grown beard wouldn’t sit right with fans, after all. But since filming has now resumed, we can thankfully forget about the showrunners having to use time jumps to maintain a sense of realism between the cast and their characters.

So then when can we expect season 4 to take place? Well, since the first season took place in 1983, the second in 1984, and the third in 1985, I’m prepared to bet that season 4 is set to resume in 1986: a year plagued by a terrible disaster popularized by both a critically acclaimed HBO series and Call of Duty 4.

I am, of course, talking about the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl. Since the teaser trailer has convinced us that Hopper is alive and well, working in the snow-capped slopes of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, it wouldn’t be a stretch to link the Russkis to this disaster. Who’s to say that the Russian encampment doesn’t move off west, with their connection to the upside down wreaking havoc on Pripyat and being covered up by authorities as a meltdown of sorts?

Now that’s a conspiracy Murray would be down for.