There are still many others unaware of the paranormal and trans-dimensional horrors lurking beneath Hawkins’ fabric of reality, though, and while it seems like the kind of scenario where ignorance is bliss, it also feels criminal for such things to go unannounced to the general public.
(I can’t imagine the Byers family would be able to talk about anything but this for the next year.)
Many of the residents (and others) that we met from the Hawkins area in Season 1 were wrapped up in the middle of everything happening with Will and Eleven and the Laboratory.