#I haven’t seen the lone gunmen spin-off so if anything disproves this theory just ignore it

[pookie-mulder]

Starting a conspiracy therory that Jonathan Byers from Stranger Things is the same character as John Byers from The X Files.

I mean, them being the same person makes sense! All the upside down stuff and government conspiracies would make him paranoid as he grew up, right? And he has experience working for a newspaper, so I can totally see him starting up The Lone Gunmen.

Jonathan was born in 1967, and the actor who plays John Byers was born in 1963, so it works out timeline-wise. Jonathan would be 30 years old by the premier of The X Files in 1993.