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.

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Jared Padalecki

Jensen Ackles

David Nutter

Eric Kripke

Patrick Rush

Peter Johnson

Bobbie Mannix

Michael Novotny

Aaron Schneider

Wendigo

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.

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.

Dead in the Water

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.

Phantom Traveler

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.

Bloody Mary

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.

Skin

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.

Hook Man

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.

Bugs

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.

Home

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.

Asylum

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.

Scarecrow

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.

Faith

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.

Route 666

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.

Nightmare

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.

The Benders

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.

Shadow

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.

Hell House

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.

Something Wicked

The Winchesters must deal with a dangerous spirit bound to an old family portrait that brings misfortune and death to anyone who buys it.

Provenance

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.

Dead Man's Blood

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.

Salvation

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.

Devil's Trap

When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way. 

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