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Supernatural Season 9, Episode 19, Alex Annie Alexis Ann recap 🧛 Sheriff Jody Mills (Kim Rhodes) is BACK, and she's protecting a troubled teen named Alex (Katie Sarife), who was raised by a nest of vampires and really, REALLY wants to go home, on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast. Mama bear Jody: activated.

A deputy in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, picks up a teen runaway, and things go very wrong at the station. Jody calls in the Winchesters, and they quickly figure out Alex is a human kidnap victim who's been living with vampires since she was a little girl... and they're coming to get her back. While Jody hides Alex at a remote cabin, Sam and Dean track down the nest in O'Neill, Nebraska, learn exactly how the vampires have been using her, and discover that the vampire mom at the center of it all has her own tragic reason for keeping Alex. Meanwhile, Sam starts to notice that Dean is enjoying his work a little too much.

Episode Highlights:
Jody Mills, wonderful to see her as always
The boys learning Alex isn't the victim they expected
Vampiric Stockholm syndrome, as Jody puts it
Dean at the wood chipper: "Need a hand?" (There was literally a hand.)
The vampires' very dark use for Alex (it gets worse)
Alex's years-old bite marks that just... vanish (one episode after the show joked about continuity errors)
Dean's dead man's blood trick, and some very cool decapitations
Dean's "look at me, bitch" moment that made us go WHAT
Jody finally facing her own grief (growth!)
Sam's worry about how much Dean is enjoying the kill (the Mark of Cain is no joke)
In the lore segment, we revisit the vampire cure from Live Free or Twihard and dig into the real-life case of a man in Turkey diagnosed with clinical vampirism, whose insatiable craving for blood earned him a write-up in the journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics in 2011 and, according to a 2013 Smithsonian report, was eventually cured after two years of treatment. It's some of the darkest lore we've done.

Your turn, hunters: Should Jody take in Alex? And how worried are YOU about Dean right now? Tell us in the Spotify comments, leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts (it's how new hunters find us), or send us fan mail. Bonus points for fandom fun facts we missed.

Sources:
https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Alex_Annie_Alexis_Ann
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/real-life-turkish-vampire-now-cured-16969818/
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Supernatural Season 9, Episode 18, Meta Fiction recap 🪽 Metatron (Curtis Armstrong) is writing the story now, and Gabriel (Richard Speight Jr.) is BACK... or is he? Berly and LA break it all down on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast.

Metatron opens the episode at a typewriter in a smoking jacket and ascot, narrating his own story like he's God. And he kind of is now. Meanwhile, Dean is brooding in the shower (we needed more), Cas is on the road with his motel room and no wings, and a familiar face pops up on a Casa Erotica tape before appearing in person on Castiel's couch. Full body shots plus close-ups, interesting angles and lighting. Thank you, Thomas J. Wright!

Episode Highlights:
Metatron in the opening credits, and the jokes about continuity and retcons
Gabriel looking right at the camera: Don't you need gas? (We should have known.)
Dean getting some alone time with Gadreel (Tahmoh Penikett). Gadreel does not leave in good condition.
Metatron fingering Cas with all of human pop culture, so Cas can finally get references
Cas in a SUIT for about forty-five seconds before the trench coat comes back. The audacity.
Sam and Dean's holy fire plan (how many rings did they make, just to be sure?)
Curtis Armstrong clearly having the time of his life
Hannah's I knew it! moment
The story is FINALLY moving forward (thank you, Robbie Thompson!)
In the lore segment, we dig into Gabriel's horn: how Gabriel became the trumpeter of Judgment Day in Milton's Paradise Lost, Armenian religious art, and spirituals like Blow Your Trumpet, Gabriel. Gabriel announces births and interprets visions, but when does he pick up the horn? Listen to the end to find out.

"Bitch, please. You've been God more often than Dad has." – Gabriel (to Castiel)
Your turn, hunters: Did the Gabriel reveal get you too? And would YOU blow the horn of Gabriel? Tell us in the Spotify comments, leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts (a review helps other fans find their way to the bunker), or send us fan mail. See you next time. Cheers!

Sources:
https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Meta_Fiction
https://thegoodnewsherald.wordpress.com/2018/08/18/gabriels-horn/
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Supernatural Season 9, Episode 17, Mother’s Little Helper recap 🫙 A schoolteacher makes meatloaf out of her husband, a former nun says it’s demons, and Sam works a soul-stealing case solo on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast.
A schoolteacher comes home, her husband doesn’t get up to help with the groceries, and he asks what’s for dinner. She makes meatloaf. Out of him. Honestly, Berly and LA have some thoughts about whose side they’re on. Sam takes the case in Milton, Illinois, solo, while Dean stays behind to “research.” Meanwhile, the townspeople are acting a lot like a certain soulless Winchester.
Episode Highlights:
Meatloaf night, a candlestick, and blood splooge #80
Sam takes the Impala solo, and Dean must really be into his research
Dean drinks a whole bottle of brain fuel with zero effect
Don’t get in the van, even if you know the driver (children of the ’80s know)
A boy, a steak knife, and mashed potatoes in the wound
Dean reports “real progress” from a barstool, and Crowley casts himself as the mistress
An absolutely fabulous former nun in a matching green suit and hat tells the police it’s demons
A 1958 flashback with Henry Winchester and Josie Sands at St. Bonaventure, where Henry says the wrong thing
Glowing soul jars that look like Galadriel’s light, and Sam’s prerecorded exorcism
A very unsubtle “hunter” pulls a giant knife at the bar, and Dean gives him a pep talk
Written by Adam Glass and directed by Misha Collins, who was apparently too busy behind the camera to show up in front of it. Both hosts call it a filler episode that dragged, even with a lot going on. Their favorite part was the 1958 flashback with Henry and Josie, which finally answers a question they’ve had since Season 8. Dean’s arc, though, felt odd. The gore: blood splooge #80 and some very bloody jail cell walls.
In the lore segment, LA revisits the soul lore from Family Matters with a guide to spotting someone with no soul. The warning signs: no empathy, can’t forgive, deeply cynical, no ambition or hobbies, egotistical, dead eyes, manipulative, and nobody trusts them. Berly and LA read through the list and begin to get concerned. About themselves. If you’re still not sure, the only real test is an angelic cavity search.
“What’s in that bottle? Delusion?” – Crowley
Your turn, hunters: Should Julia have spoken up back in 1958? And how many soulless signs did you check off? Tell us in the Spotify comments, leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts (it’s how new hunters find us), or send us fan mail. Bonus points for fandom fun facts we missed.
Sources:
https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Mother%27s_Little_Helper
https://hackspirit.com/how-to-spot-someone-with-no-soul/
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The First Blade, Men of Letters & the Real Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
Crowley is in a hotel room in silk pajamas, surrounded by drained bodies, eating pizza, and crying at sad movies. He is not okay. Nobody call hell right now.
This week Sam and Dean track down a very compromised King of Hell, stage an intervention, drag him back to the bunker, and somehow end up in a magical invisible mansion run by the expelled Men of Letters master of spells who has a collection problem and thinks Dean would make a lovely addition to it. Also: Snooki shows up as a crossroads demon, the antiques curator at the National Institute of Antiquities is deeply unbothered by federal investigators (but hot-and-bothered by Dean Winchester), and the First Blade finally makes contact with the Mark of Cain. It does not go great.
Berly also makes a case for the Sam and Crowley storyline that never happened, and she is right to mourn it. The lore this week covers the real Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Victorian occult secret society whose actual magical symbol ended up on the Men of Letters crest. It turns out the bunker's glorified book club has real world bones, and they are extremely dramatic.
Drop a comment with your thoughts, and if you're enjoying the show, a review helps other fans find their way to the bunker. See you next week. Jerk. Bitch.
Sources:
https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Blade_Runners
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetic_Order_of_the_Golden_Dawn
https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Men_of_Letters
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Ghostfacers, Slender Man & the Internet's Darkest Urban Legend
A teenage girl is taking selfies and there is something behind her with no face... and a receding hairline. Odd choice.
This week the Ghostfacers are back! Ed and Harry roll up in their van chasing clout, filming crime scenes, and generally behaving in ways that have Berly and LA deeply conflicted about two characters they used to love. Meanwhile Sam and Dean are investigating what looks like a monster but turns out to be something far more human and far more depressing. The villains this week murdered people over a declined PTO and an unanswered date request, yet somehow that still isn't the most upsetting thing about this episode.
The lore covers Slender Man: where he came from, why he works, and why this episode has almost certainly been quietly pulled from syndication. It started as a Photoshop contest in 2009. It did not stay there.
Drop a comment with your thoughts, and if you're enjoying the show, a review helps other fans find their way to the bunker. See you next week. Jerk. Bitch.
Sources:
https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Thinman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27776894
https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/30/the-story-of-slenderman-the-internets-own-monster/ 
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