8.5/1011,564 votes#1 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/2005
Two brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester, witness their mother's paranormal death as children and grow up trained to fight by a distraught father who wants nothing more then to hunt down the thing that killed his wife. Sam escapes to college to start a new, normal life, but gets pulled back in after Dean shows up on his doorstep to tell him their father is missing. Following clues from an eerie phone message from him, the boys travel to a small town and encounter a vengeful spirit called the "Woman in White" who then starts to haunt Sam.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: Eric Kripke
7.8/109,208 votes#2 - Wendigo
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/2005
Sam and Dean follow the coordinates left in their father's journal and land in the middle of the woods where they investigate the disappearance of several campers. The two brothers soon learn they are dealing with a Wendigo, a creature made famous in Native America legends. A Wendigo is a former human whose cannibalism has transformed him into a creature with superhuman strength and speed that feasts on human flesh.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: N/A
7.9/108,522 votes#3 - Dead in the Water
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/2005
Sam and Dean investigate a series of mysterious drownings written off as suicides. They discover the spirit is an angry little boy with the power to travel through water who is taking revenge on certain town inhabitants for a dark secret buried long ago. Dean forms a bond with a young boy who seems to have the power of premonition.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Sera Gamble, Raelle Tucker
8.0/108,084 votes#4 - Phantom Traveler
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/2005
On TransNational flight 2485, a man possessed by the spirit of the Phantom Traveler causes the plane to crash, leaving only five survivors left alive. Sam and Dean must exorcise the angry spirit before it attacks the survivors. The brothers realize the only way to do that is to take the battle to the skies.
Director: Robert Singer
Writer: Richard Hatem
8.2/108,206 votes#5 - Bloody Mary
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/2005
In suburban Nebraska, a group of partying high school teens jokingly dare their friend Charlie to look into the mirror and repeat "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary," not knowing this will unleash a series of mysterious murders. Sam and Dean realize that Bloody Mary has the power to travel through all reflective surfaces when she is hunting a victim. Worried that teens are accidentally summoning Bloody Mary, Sam and Dean race to destroy the violent spirit before she can kill again.
Director: Peter Ellis
Writer: N/A
8.2/107,736 votes#6 - Skin
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/2005
Sam and Dean come to the aid of Sam's old college buddy after he is accused of a murder he swears he didn't commit. The brothers discover a shapeshifter is adopting the likenesses of others and murdering people. The brothers' race to stop the shapeshifter takes a terrifying turn when he shifts into the likeness of Dean.
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Writer: John Shiban
7.8/107,504 votes#7 - Hook Man
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/2005
The infamous "Hook Man," a vengeful spirit who kills his victims with a shiny hook that serves as his hand, terrorizes a small college town in Iowa. Sam and Dean learn that all the victims are connected to the daughter of a local minister and race to find and destroy the Hook Man's bones before he comes for them.
Director: David Jackson
Writer: John Shiban
6.8/108,015 votes#8 - Bugs
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/2005
After a construction worker is killed by insects burrowing into his brain, Sam and Dean investigate the town's history and find that the new housing development is being built on sacred Indian land. The Indians put a curse on the land after their reservation had been ravished and destroyed. Sam and Dean must find a way to survive and kill the deadly swarm of bees, locusts, spiders and beetles.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Bill Coakley, Rachel Nave
8.8/107,978 votes#9 - Home
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/2005
Sam is haunted by a vision of a woman trapped in his childhood house and convinces a reluctant Dean that they need to go home. Upon arrival, they meet the woman in Sam's premonition and she reveals that the house is haunted. Looking into their personal history, the brothers discover their father had visited a psychic after their mother's death and they turn to the same woman for answers of their own. Together they discover a malevolent poltergeist has inhabited the house and set out to exorcise it, but are blindsided when another unseen spirit steps in.
Director: Ken Girotti
Writer: Eric Kripke
8.3/107,391 votes#10 - Asylum
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/2005
Sam and Dean investigate an abandoned sanitarium and discover that when the hospital was open, the patients held a revolt against the cruel and unusual punishments inflicted by the head doctor. While the brothers search the premises for four lost college students, the tortured spirits cause them to go insane, turning Dean against Sam.
Director: Guy Norman Bee
Writer: Richard Hatem
8.6/107,637 votes#11 - Scarecrow
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/10/2006
Sam and Dean finally make contact with their father, but he tells them to stop looking for him and sends them on another ghost-hunting job. Frustrated with their father's evasiveness, Sam sets out alone to find him while Dean stays back to obey his father. Dean investigates a small town in Indiana where couples have gone missing the same day each year and discovers the farmers are sacrificing them to a Pagan God who takes the form of a scarecrow.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: N/A
8.7/107,973 votes#12 - Faith
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/17/2006
While battling a demon, Dean is electrocuted, resulting in permanent damage to his heart and leaving him with only a couple of months to live. A despondent Sam searches desperately for a way to save his brother and believes he may have found an answer through a preacher who claims to heal the incurable. However, Dean and Sam discover that the preacher is getting help from the Grim Reaper who is trading one life for another he feels is less worthy.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Sera Gamble, Raelle Tucker
7.3/107,340 votes#13 - Route 666
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/31/2006
Dean is contacted by his first love Cassie, an African-America girl, who asks him to come to Mississippi to investigate a string of racially motivated murders. Each murder is linked to a mysterious truck that seems to have no driver and leave no tracks. Sam is stunned to see this new side of his brother as Dean struggles to come to grips with the residual feelings he has for Cassie.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Eugenie Ross-Leming, Brad Buckner
8.1/106,922 votes#14 - Nightmare
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/7/2006
Sam has a premonition in which a man is killed, but the murder is made to look like a suicide. Sam convinces Dean that they must investigate the case, but the two are puzzled when they fail to find anything that indicates that the death was supernatural in nature. That is, until they find out that Max, the reclusive son of the first victim, has been using his recently acquired power of telekinesis to kill the family members that once abused him. Sam also discovers Max's mother was killed by the same fiery demon that took his own mom.
Director: Philip Sgriccia
Writer: Sera Gamble, Raelle Tucker
8.2/107,140 votes#15 - The Benders
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/14/2006
Sam and Dean head to Minnesota where a young boy witnesses a man vanish into thin air. Upon searching for clues, Sam is abducted by what he assumes is a supernatural being, and Dean is left to search frantically for his brother. However, both are stunned when they realize the kidnappers are human, and using the captives as human prey for a twisted hunting expedition.
Director: Peter Ellis
Writer: John Shiban
8.5/106,846 votes#16 - Shadow
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/28/2006
Sam has a reunion with a girl he once met, Meg, but it turns out that she is using the brothers to lure their father John to his doom.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Eric Kripke
8.2/106,989 votes#17 - Hell House
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/30/2006
Sam and Dean investigate the case of a maniacal ghost inhabiting a long abandoned Texas farmhouse known as "Hell House." They believe the ghost is the spirit of a deceased Depression-era farmer who killed his family, but they soon realize it is something far more powerful.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Trey Callaway
8.5/106,916 votes#18 - Something Wicked
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/6/2006
Sam and Dean battle a Shtriga, a witch that sneaks into childrens' bedrooms and sucks the lives out of them. Dean must relive his childhood when he remembers that he encountered the Shtriga years ago.
Director: Whitney Ransick
Writer: Daniel Knauf
8.6/107,224 votes#19 - Provenance
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/13/2006
The Winchesters must deal with a dangerous spirit bound to an old family portrait that brings misfortune and death to anyone who buys it.
Director: Philip Sgriccia
Writer: David Ehrman
8.4/106,704 votes#20 - Dead Man's Blood
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/20/2006
To obtain a mystic gun capable of destroying the demon that killed their mother, Sam and Dean must team up with their father John and face off against vampires.
Director: Tony Wharmby
Writer: John Shiban, Cathryn Humphris
8.8/106,943 votes#21 - Salvation
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/27/2006
John has realized where the demon will strike next and the Winchesters head there to stop the next killing. But Meg begins killing John's friends and demands the Colt or she'll keep going until everyone John knows is dead.
Director: Robert Singer
Writer: Sera Gamble, Raelle Tucker
9.2/107,931 votes#22 - Devil's Trap
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/4/2006
When Meg boasts that John is her prisoner, the boys visit a friend of their father's to get information about demonic possessions and ways to trap a demon. It turns out Meg is not what she appears.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Eric Kripke
The Best Episodes of Supernatural Season 1
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Pilot" is the best rated episode of "Supernatural" season 1. It scored 8.5/10 based on 11564 votes. Directed by David Nutter and written by Eric Kripke, it aired on 9/13/2005. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "Wendigo".