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The season begins on November 6, 1983 in Hawkins, Indiana. At the Hawkins National Laboratory, researchers force a young girl with psychokinetic abilities, named Eleven, to make psychic contact with an unknown entity. This contact inadvertently creates a rift to a world known as the Upside Down, a decayed, time-frozen replica of Hawkins. A monstrous humanoid creature escapes and abducts a boy named Will Byers, alongside several other residents. Will's mother, Joyce, and the town's police chief, Jim Hopper, search for Will. Meanwhile, Eleven escapes from the laboratory and assists Will's friends, Mike Wheeler, Dustin Henderson, and Lucas Sinclair, in their efforts to find Will.[2]