Stranger Things 3 Theory
Alright, I thought of this a couple days ago and have been dying to share. So, in the end credits scene of ST3 (spoiler alert) a couple Russian dude are about to beat a prisoner up. One goes to open a cell but the other dude stops him saying “No not the American” or something along those lines.
Now hear me out. THAT is Hopper. When the machine exploded and “turned him into dust” he actually ended up in the Upside Down. We’ve seen this happen before, where people supposedly turned into dust/vaporized and actually ended up in the Upside Down. We saw this in season 1, when Eleven defeated the demogorgon.
Now how did Hopper end up in Russia when the portal was in Hawkins? Simple. The Russians rebuilt the machine they made in Russia, and this time it worked because the portal was also open in Hawkins, which is where Alexei explains the machine works because the portal was open once before. The two machines are connected somehow. So Hopper went through the portal in Russia and got captured.
This would also explain why the demogorgon is somehow alive and how the Russians managed to get their hands on it. It was never dead.
With the new teaser out, I’d just like to point out my old post and say I’m at least 50% right
