Venturing into the Upside Down was never a battle one could come out of unscathed. But the questions of the mystical seeping into reality or one's apartment's footsteps might be something Jamie Campbell Bower should look into, especially in the face of all the soul-stealing he has been dealing with for five seasons on Stranger Things now.

It should sometimes be taken into account that not all stray cats and snakes around your house are supernatural sightings, but rather, just Atlanta's geographic results, if not rumors.

Rumors around Jamie Campbell Bower had taken a rather unnatural turn when a post on X claimed snakes and cats had appeared in and around Bower's apartment while he had been occupied with the Stranger Things Season 5 shoot. However, a close look at his recent talk on Collider interviews revealed matters to be a hoax.

Bower had instead talked about his COVID-19 isolation before the final table read, sending him into a very Vecna-like isolation, but never claimed any explicit supernatural happenings. The tales of uncanny animal visits and odd coincidences appear more like atmospheric coincidences than confirmed paranormal events.

Whether a stray cat choosing Bower's home or snakes appearing near his door could be typical oddities rather than something more, the magic of Stranger Things is quite apparent within this incident which the Collider interview makes clear. Even if no supernatural forces haunted the Vecna-playing actor, the show’s power to spark these stories demonstrates its gripping hold on the audience's creativity and belief.

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What Bower thought was a good exercise for his Vecna mentality, the residents of the internet have read: Vecna's reality, instead. 

Harmless fan theories are one end of the spectrum, but the potential that Stranger Things holds, of being based on real-life occurrences, seems to have taken the audience by the shingles. But these instances do make even the debunked rumors around Jamie Campbell Bower's season 5 experiences something to think about.

That is, despite the fact that no amount of will could keep Eleven and Mike Wheeler together. And neither will any amount of belief turn supernatural experiences into reality. 

  Bower’s Stranger Things journey to the finale is actually thrilling even without confirmed supernatural extras. The isolation from his fellow cast due to his COVID-19 befalling in itself is an eerie nod to Vecna's Upside Down’s solitude, but, of course, nothing beyond the realm of reality. 

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