Stranger Things season 4 arrives on Netflix later this year and ahead of its launch fans have been busy exploring a theory that could spell Eleven’s death.
Following the release of the episode titles in November, many have been re-examining the events of the first-look trailer and have deduced that Millie Bobby Brown will be in grave danger thanks to a new secret lab.
In the Welcome to California teaser trailer, quick snippets revealed scenes of a door in the middle of the desert before military vehicles appeared to congregate around a similar-looking location.
Fans are convinced that the door is a gateway to an underground military base that houses the Nina Project, which is also the title given to episode five of season four.
‘Just on the face of it, looking at the door in the desert, many folks will deduce on their own that it is the entrance to a secret base,’ a Reddit user posted. ‘You are correct to assume that.
‘So, this underground base is a former US missile silo.. maybe a retired Titan or Atlas silo (or hybrid of the two as from what we’ve seen they share different design bits…. The topside door belongs to an Atlas F silo complex and the lower base, which we’ve seen in detail, looks like a Titan I or II.
‘It was a total accident how I put this together as the interior has distinct wall tiles and by chance, I was reading a recent news article at the time about nuclear proliferation treaties, and the stock photo used had the identical tiles and flooring… I was bowled over.’
The user continued: ‘Even prior to that revelation, I had already figured they were in an underground facility and recalled the VSF movie The Cell, where the bad guy has a secret underground torture-chamber hidden on a farm beneath… a grain silo.
‘So, having gone from grain silo to missile silo was pretty jaw dropping. Of course, with the 004 footage out it all seems very obvious now.’
The Redditor believes the facility looks like a converted lab, similar to that of Hawkins.