Stranger Things

Stranger Things
Active since 2017-10-21
Players investigate a series of clues scattered throughout ads for Stranger Thing's second season.
Type	[[List_of_Investigations#Investigation|Investigation]]
Discovered	2017-10-21

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The Stranger Things ARG is the ongoing investigation of a series of clues related to the show by the same name.

Power and Light

A poster was found in a NYC subway advertising the fictional company Hawkins, from the Stranger Things universe. When the phone number appearing on the ad is called, 1-888-355-8703, the caller is prompted with a menu containing a series of options:

Transcript of menu:

 To learn more about our mission, press one. 
 For news and updates, press two. 
 To report an outage or suspicious activity, press three. 
 For hours of operation, press four. 
 To listen to customer testimonials, press five. 
 If you would like to learn more about Hawkins Power and Light, press six.

When option number four is selected, the transmission is interrupted with a sequence of tones. These were identified as dtmf, resulting in the following string: 5309746849872

Additionally, some callers were given the option of submitting their address, and later received a box of Hawkins-related items.

This page is a work in progress and will be updated as developments emerge.