Stranger Things Reveals First Looks at New Villains in 2026 Return

It’s really puzzling trying to figure out what’s going on in Tales from ’85. As a fan, I always thought when they closed the gate to the Upside Down, everything on that side should have died, cut off from the Mind Flayer. But Season 5 showed us Hawkins Lab was doing way more shady stuff than we knew, so maybe they were experimenting on things right when they shut the place down. Maybe some of those experiments survived and got loose. Hopper says in the trailer, “These woods hide a lot of mistakes,” and that feels so true! I’m just left wondering what these new monsters are, and what other secrets are hidden out there.








