Among the new characters in the fourth season of “Stranger Things”, which ends on July 1, we find Eddie Munson, the leader of the Hell Club. This consists of a group of friends who gather to play the famous role-playing game “Dungeons and Dragons”.
Eddie becomes, as the season progresses, the main suspect in the death of one of the cheerleaders, Chrissie Cunningham.
The series itself states that the charges against him are based on the type of hobbies and clothes he wears. This is based on a historical fact known as “satanic panic”.
Which is basically a moral panic that started in the United States in 1980 and ended up disappearing in the late 1990s, reports GQ magazine, in 2022.
One of the best-documented cases that reflected the consequences of unfounded rumors was the story of Damien Echols, who became the inspiration for Eddie, something that was already confirmed by the “Netflix Geeked” account on May 27, 2022: