Location from Stranger Things by The Duffer Brothers
The modest, cluttered home of Joyce, Jonathan, and Will Byers — ground zero for the first contact with the Upside Down.
The Byers house is where Hawkins' supernatural nightmare first became personal. When Will vanished into the Upside Down, Joyce refused to accept that he was dead — she strung Christmas lights across every wall and painted the alphabet beneath them, creating a crude communication system with her son trapped in another dimension. The house became a war room: Joyce and Hopper planning rescues at the kitchen table, Jonathan developing photographs of things that shouldn't exist, Eleven hiding in the back room. It has been invaded by Demogorgons, used as a base of operations against the Mind Flayer, and is the site of Will's exorcism when the Mind Flayer possessed him. The Byers eventually moved to California to escape Hawkins, but the house remains — a monument to a mother's refusal to give up and the place where ordinary people first learned how to fight the impossible.
A small single-story house at the end of a rural road, paint peeling, yard unkempt. Inside it is warm but chaotic — mismatched furniture, stacks of magazines, Joyce's ashtrays everywhere. The living room still bears faint marks where the alphabet wall was painted: 26 letters in uneven brushstrokes above a curtain of Christmas lights that once flickered with messages from a trapped boy. The house always feels slightly too cold, as if the membrane between dimensions is thinner here than anywhere else.
Also known as: the Byers house, Byers residence, Joyce's house, Will's house