Chapter Two: Trick or Treat, Freak - S2-E2
Continuity mistake: When Steve is trying to keep Nancy from drinking more alcoholic punch, he pulls on her cup. She pulls away and the punch spills all over her blouse. The spill stain changes significantly from shot to shot. The stains in the second shot are no longer there in the third shot. (00:42:22)
Chapter Seven: The Bathtub - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: When Mike and Lucas notice a van pulling out of a side street and coming to them, the sky is blue, but in the next shot, it is orange. (00:04:03)
Chapter Two: Vecna's Curse - S4-E2
Continuity mistake: After Mike kisses El on the forehead, Jonathan is in the back grabbing his glasses from his pocket. In one shot, he's grabbing them out, and then the next shot has them at waist-level.
Chapter Six: E Pluribus Unum - S3-E6
Continuity mistake: When the librarian picks up the phone he picks up the one in the middle, in the next shot we see he has the one to the left and when he hangs up it's the one in the center again.
Chapter Two: Vecna's Curse - S4-E2
Continuity mistake: When El advances on Angela and her friends at the skating rink and wallops Angela in the face with the skate, her aim is upwards at the lower cusp of Angela's nose for the impact. When Angela's friends sit her up in the following shot, the area between her eyes is cracked and bleeding instead as she screams in agony.
Chapter One: The Hellfire Club - S4-E1
Continuity mistake: Tammy Thompson's voice changes octaves as she sings the National Anthem. At the start, she's in a normal mezzo range. When the camera cuts from her to the back-and-forth dialogue between Steve, Robin, and Vickie, her voice then changes downscale to a very noticeable alto.
Chapter Five: The Flayed - S3-E5
Continuity mistake: When Robin takes the chemical container off Erica, in the shot of Erica saying "It could be useful", Robin is holding the container upright. In the next shot, it is being held at a rotated angle, then upright in the following shot. Two shots after that, the container is suddenly rotated again, then back to upright when the shot cuts. (00:17:25)
Chapter Five: The Flayed - S3-E5
Continuity mistake: Eleven and Mike are sitting next to each other at the hospital. Eleven looks to her left in one shot and the camera changes angles. She's now looking straight ahead and immediately looks to the left again.





Answer: The body was fake, made by the scientists at Hawkins Lab in an attempt to cover up his disappearance and the existence of the Upside Down.