People Threatening To Throw Away Their Clocks After Watching Stranger Things 4

Stranger Things fans have been threatening to throw away

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their grandfather clocks after watching the latest instalment of Netflix's hit sci-fi show.

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Part one of the fourth season dropped on Friday, 27 May, and it appears the Duffer

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brothers have well and truly stuck to their promise of it being their darkest and scariest one yet.

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Alongside the terrifying new big baddie Vecna, there’s also the presence of the

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grandfather clock, which we first saw ticking away ahead of the official trailer’s release.

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Without giving away the identity of the supervillian, what we will say is that the antique

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clock carries a sinister significance, as it appears as a vision of Vecna’s victims before their time is up, so to speak.

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Now here’s where we enter spoiler territory for episode four - you have been warned.

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