

Meanwhile, Will's friends Mike, Lucas, and Dustin began investigating Will's disappearance. In a later attempt, the Monster broke clean through, although Joyce managed to outrun it.

In an early attempt, Joyce saw her house wall become warped and distorted as the Monster started to break through, terrifying her. Joyce and Will had some success, with Will manipulating the electricity in his home dimension, although these attempts would sometimes attract the monster. Once in the Upside Down, Will managed to evade the creature for almost a week and began attempting to communicate with his mother.

Will hid in the shed, loading a rifle in self-defense, but the Monster simply appeared behind him, taking him into the Upside Down. The Monster chased Will as he entered his house, forcing Will to run to his garden shed. The Monster arrived at Mirkwood, a road near a local forest, where it stalked Will Byers on his way home. The Monster had the ability to travel between dimensions on a whim, creating temporary portals in the fabric of reality. The Demogorgon appearing before Will Byers on Mirkwood. An unnamed scientist was not so lucky the Monster caught him as he tried to operate an elevator. Eleven managed to exit the tank and escape the lab amidst the ensuing chaos. In that exact moment, a gate to the Monster's dimension cracked open in the wall of the tank room, allowing the creature to pass through. As Eleven psychically approached the Monster, she could see it feeding off an otherworldly egg. This time, Brenner ordered Eleven to make contact. Martin Brenner was intrigued by the creature, repeating the experiment on November 6, 1983. The Demogorgon being approached by Eleven.ĭr. Eleven's instincts urged her to stay away from it she panicked, and the experiment was aborted. Although she successfully eavesdropped on a Russian spy as instructed, she unwittingly came across the Monster. A subject with psychic powers labeled Eleven was placed into a sensory deprivation tank as one of Hawkins National Laboratory's experiments this allowed Eleven to delve into a deeper psychic state.
