The rumours surrounding Stranger Things episode 9 on Netflix grew so intense that it crashed Netflix. Rumours went viral on social media that a secret episode 9 of Stranger Things would drop on January 7 but it turned out to be a hoax.

Could the internet actually be onto something, or are the rumors baseless? Here’s what we know about the speculation surrounding the ‘Stranger Things’ finale.

Apparently, a fake countdown clock went viral on TikTok, leading to a website that was just an internet troll having some grim fun at the expense of the ridiculous conspiracy theories floating around about a secret episode to Stranger Things ' fifth and final season.

In a bizarre turn of events, Stranger Things star Jamie Campbell Bower, who plays Henry Creel aka Vecna in the sci-fi series, seems to be accidentally encouraging the new fan-founded conspiracy theory taking over the internet known as Conformity Gate.

Stranger Things has come to an end, and as the Upside Down industrial complex prepares to churn out more strange things, the show’s biggest fans have a simple question: Where is the real series finale,

While the theory is unlikely to be true, more Stranger Things content is indeed coming. Netflix is releasing a documentary about the making of season 5 on January 12 2026, which is a far more realistic follow-up to the platform’s biggest series ever after its feature-length finale.

Stranger Things fans are going wild on the internet with a theory that a secret final episode will be released

Stranger Things, Netflix’s decade-defining sci-fi phenomenon, has officially ended after nearly 10 years. What began in 2016 in the fictional town of Hawkins with bikes, walkie-talkies, and middle-school heroes grew into a global pop-culture machine filled with Demogorgons,

There is no another finale of Stranger Things. The countdown clock on the website was fake and created to fool fans.