Supernatural Beings

Supernatural beings can include anything from ghosts to werewolves, vampires to leviathans. This page explores all the supernatural beings that have been on Supernatural thus far. Below is an overview of the various types of supernatural beings with a table of supernatural beings that have appeared on the show below.

GHOSTS

Powers and Abilities: Varies; can include telekinesis and possession.

Vulnerabilities: Varies; one standard is the salting and burning of the ghost's physical remains.

Appearance: Varies; the form of the deceased, which may have visible signs of trauma or decay.

Episodes:

• 1.01 Pilot
• 1.03 Dead in the Water
• 1.07 Hookman
• 1.09 Home
• 1.10 Asylum
• 1.13 Route 666
• 1.19 Provenance
• 2.06 No Exit
• 2.16 Roadkill
• 2.18 Hollywood Babylon
• 2.19 Folsom Prison Blues
• 3.06 Red Sky At Morning
• 4.02 Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester
• 4.06 Yellow Fever
• 4.07 It's The Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester
• 4.13 After School Special
• 4.15 Death Takes A Holiday
• 4.17 It's A Terrible Life
• 6.14 Mannequin 3: The Reckoning

Tessa: Well, like you said. There's always a choice. I can't make you come with me. But you're not getting back in your body. And that's just facts. So yes, you can stay. You'll stay here for years. Disembodied, scared, and over the decades it'll probably drive you mad. Maybe you'll even get violent.
Dean: What are you saying?
Tessa: Dean. How do you think angry spirits are born? They can't let go and they can't move on. And you're about to become one. The same thing you hunt.

– Tessa the Reaper and Dean, 2.01 In My Time Of Dying

A ghost or spirit remains connected to the mortal realm because it is attached to it through unfinished business or an unwillingness to move on. Many have a desire for revenge against those who they perceive to have caused their deaths, or will target people like them, for example Constance Welch and Peter Sweeney. Others like Dr Ellicott, Dr. H.H. Holmes, and Nurse Glockner were evil in life and continued this after death.

Sam seems to feel some sympathy for ghosts:

Molly: I don't understand how a guy like this can turn into that monster.
Sam: Well, spirits like Greely are like wounded animals. Lost... in so much pain that they lash out.
Molly: Why? Why are they here?
Sam: There's some part of them that... that's keeping them here. Like their remains, or unfinished business.
Molly: Unfinished business?
Sam: Yeah. It could be revenge. It could be love, or hate. Whatever it is, they just hold on too tight. Can't let go. So they're trapped. Caught in the same loops. Replaying the same tragedies over and over.
Molly: You sound almost sorry for them.
Sam: Well, they weren't evil people, you know. A lot of them were good, just something happened to them. Something they couldn't control.

A ghost who can move objects is referred to as a Poltergeist, and when they materialize or possess another person they may exude ectoplasm. Ghosts can also infect a person with Ghost Sickness, a disease that will make the sick person experience the ghost's feelings at the time of their death in slow motion. When Dean is infected, he experiences extreme fear and comes close to suffering cardiac arrest. How ghosts can effect the living and communicate after death is a topic of much debate. One common theory of ghosts is that they have the ability to manipulate electromagnetism, hence although they cannot always communicate in the normal human spectrum of hearing, they can manipulate electronic equipment to communicate by EVP.

Ghosts are not always present by choice or as a result of unfinished business. Ghosts can also be summoned and controlled by witches or demons. Walter Dixon uses necromancy to summon the ghosts of past hollywood actors and crewmen and forces them to kill people who have wronged him. The demon Lilith raises the Witnesses to attack hunters and break one of The 66 Seals. The demon Samhain summons ghosts and raises people from the dead, creating zombies.

Dispatching Ghosts

The boys commonly force a ghost to move on by salting and burning its corpse. Sam admits that "My dad always said it's like death for spirits. But the truth is, we never know."

This method is successful in most cases, including those of Dr Ellicott, Nurse Glockner, and Jonah Greely. In 5.09 The Real Ghostbusters, the final salting and burning is performed by Demian and Barnes. Sometimes, however, an object can anchor a person's ghost in the living realm. With the Hookman, the Winchesters salt and burn the corpse but also have to melt all the silver from his hook. Cyrus Dorian is salted and burnt but only banished when he and his truck are lured onto holy ground. In most cases, the object that must be destroyed to force the ghost to move on contains a small amount of DNA that has been preserved. This is true of Melanie Merchant and Dirk McGregor, whose remaining hair has to be burnt. In the case of P.T. Sandover, his gloves, which may have contained some skin cells or fingernail clippings, have to be burnt. In one memorable case, Rose Brown's kidney, which she donated to her still living sister, Isabel, binds her ghost to a living, moving object. Even though her body is burned by Sam, she cannot be dispatched, and Sam and Dean consider using hoodoo to keep Rose in check. Before they can explore that option, Isabel's sudden death, caused by Rose herself, forces Rose's ghost to move on.

Iron repels ghosts. For example, Sam uses an iron poker to protect himself and Sarah from Melanie Merchant. The use of iron to repel ghosts has another link with the electromagnetism theory, as striking a ghost with an object made of iron grounds their electric charge, disrupting them and warding them off until they're able to recover.

Sam and Bobby Singer also successfully "scare a ghost to death" by making him relive his torture and violent death, thus effectively dispatching him.
Occasionally, a ghost is dispatched when it is forced to deal with its unfinished business. Others must make the choice to cross over, like Molly McNamara and Cole Griffith.

• See also Vengeful Spirits

Appearances

• Constance Welch, the Woman in White in 1.01 Pilot
• Peter Sweeney, aka the drowned boy in 1.03 Dead in the Water
• Mary Worthington, aka Bloody Mary (urban legend), and Jess in 1.05 Bloody Mary
• Jacob Karns from Hook Man Legend in 1.07 Hookman
• Mary Winchester in 1.09 Home
• Dr Ellicott from Rockford Asylum in 1.10 Asylum
• Cyrus Dorian's spirit possesses his truck in 1.13 Route 666
• Melanie Merchant in 1.19 Provenance
• Dr. H.H. Holmes in 2.06 No Exit
• Claire Becker in 2.07 The Usual Suspects
• Maggie Thompson in 2.11 Playthings
• Father Thomas Gregory in 2.13 Houses of the Holy
• Molly McNamara and Jonah Greely in 2.16 Roadkill
• Ghosts of old Hollywood actors in 2.18 Hollywood Babylon
• Nurse Glockner in 2.19 Folsom Prison Blues
• Callie in 3.05 Bedtime Stories
• Sailor’s Ghost in 3.06 Red Sky At Morning
• Freeman Daggett in 3.13 Ghostfacers
• The Witnesses in 4.02 Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester
• Luther Garland in 4.06 Yellow Fever
• Ghost raised by Samhain in 4.07 It's The Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester
• Dirk McGregor in 4.13 After School Special
• Cole Griffith in 4.15 Death Takes A Holiday
• P.T. Sandover in 4.17 It's A Terrible Life
• Leticia Gore and the children in 5.09 The Real Ghostbusters
• Rose Brown in 6.14 Mannequin 3: The Reckoning
• Jo Harvelle and others controlled by Osiris in 7.04 Defending Your Life
• Kate Fox and Margaret Fox in 7.07 The Mentalists

GHOSTS IN LORE

Ghosts or spooks are controversial phenomena which have several possible definitions:

• The spirit or soul of a person who has died, especially one which haunts a place which was of emotional significance to that person when living.
• The personality of a person after his or her own death which is not directly tied to the soul or spirit. A sort of psychic memory-imprint.
• The character or memory of some being or thing which has died or, if it was never alive, been somehow destroyed or disassembled, which nevertheless remains existent (and sometimes detectable) in a semi-corporeal form.

According to reported sightings, ghosts have taken the shape of humans, animals, and even vehicles. There are reports of ghosts (usually of deceased humans) in most cultures throughout the world. There is a great deal of dispute whether ghosts are figments of the imagination or part of objective existence.

Ghosts are among the subjects studied by parapsychologists. Source: Wikipedia.org

SEE ALSO

• Vengeful Spirits

LEVIATHANS

Powers and Abilities:

• Super strength
• Regeneration
• Possession
• Shapeshifting

Vulnerabilities:

• Borax, beheading and powerful spells can temporary incapacitate them.
• Blood of the fallen and "bibbing" can kill them.

Appearance: Black goo, or human with the ability to transform its face into a giant mouth with pointed teeth and bifurcated tongue.

Episodes:

• 7.01 Meet the New Boss
• 7.02 Hello, Cruel World
• 7.03 The Girl Next Door
• 7.05 Shut Up, Dr. Phil
• 7.06 Slash Fiction
• 7.09 How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters
• 7.10 Death's Door
• 7.11 Adventures in Babysitting
• 7.12 Time After Time
• 7.14 Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie
• 7.15 Repo Man
• 7.16 Out with the Old
• 7.20 The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo
• 7.21 Reading Is Fundamental
• 7.22 There Will Be Blood
• 7.23 Survival of the Fittest
• 8.01 We Need to Talk About Kevin (mentioned)
• 8.02 What's Up, Tiger Mommy?
• 8.05 Blood Brother
• 8.07 A Little Slice of Kevin
• 8.18 Freaks and Geeks (mentioned)

There are things much older than souls in Purgatory, and you gulped those in too... Long before God created angel or man he made the first beasts: the leviathans... I personally found them entertaining but He was concerned they'd chomp the entire Petri dish. So He locked them away. Why do you think He created Purgatory? To keep those clever, poisonous things out. Now Castiel has swallowed them, he's the one thin membrane between the old ones and your home.

– Death, 7.01 Meet the New Boss

HISTORY

Leviathan, also called the Old Ones, pre-date the creation of humans and angels, as well as the soul itself. They would also pre-date any beings with souls, such as monsters. They are therefore among the first creations of God.

Death describes them as immensely powerful, hungry, clever and poisonous. Before God went on to create more creatures, however, He felt that the Leviathans threatened to consume and destroy everything "in God's Petri dish." For this reason, Death states that God created Purgatory and sealed the leviathans inside to contain them and their hunger.

When Castiel opened the door to Purgatory and took in the power of the souls stored there to increase his own angelic power, he also took in the leviathans. With the help of Sam, Dean and Bobby, Castiel finally expels the souls back to Purgatory, but some of the leviathans "held on." Castiel's vessel is taken over by the leviathans, and they manage to guide Castiel's vessel into a nearby water catchment just before the vessel disappears in a whirlpool, releasing them into the water supply.

The number of leviathans that escaped from Purgatory is unknown. The leviathans operate within a hierarchy lead by Dick Roman. Their 'modus operandi' is to take on the forms of humans who have valuable skills, or are in positions that may be useful, particularly positions of power including the military and corporations. Dick Roman says their golden rule is "there's no such thing as monsters." Their plan, as revealed by Bobby Singer, is to turn humanity into the perfect never-ending food-source. To accomplish this, they are building slaughterhouses for humanity in various locations and are putting an additive into the food that dumbs-down humans. It also kills all monsters that feed on humans such as vampires, werewolves and ghouls and the leviathans develop a version that they put in coffee creamers that breeds out unwanted traits and kills those with them. The leviathan plan is also to build centers to cure diseases so that their food supply will be disease free.

The Word of God tablet on the leviathans reveals the way to stop them:

"Cut off the head, and the body will flounder. Waste not thy time nor your breath upon the leviathan herd. Point thy blade at the heart of their master, for from him springs all their messages. Leviathan cannot be slain but by a bone of a righteous mortal, as light and good as the leviathan are hungry and dark, washed in the three bloods of the fallen: a fallen angel, the ruler of fallen humanity, and the father of fallen beasts."

Dean, Sam and Castiel use this to kill Dick Roman, and with him dead, the remaining leviathan cease to be a significant threat. By one year after Dick's death, their influence seems to be completely gone from the world as people are shown to be back to normal and Sam and Dean are able to eat normal food without apparent worry about the food additive.

Castiel and Dean, while trapped in Purgatory, are constantly hunted by leviathan. They appeared suddenly as a mass of black goo that lands, causing a crater in the earth, and morph into human form. With the help of Benny Lafitte they defeat at least four, but Castiel later tells Sam and Dean that his last memory of Purgatory is being hunted by leviathans.

CHARACTERISTICS

The leviathan have been a metaphor for corporate greed, among other things, all season. When we were crafting these villains, we talked about what freaked us out in the writers’ room and we came to the conclusion that big corporations are scarier than the government.

A lot of our villains over the years have been monstrous, and we thought these monster corporations and their lack of morality seemed to be a perfect fit for this ultimate monster.

– Sera Gamble and Robert Singer, Supernatural: The Official Companion Season 7

The leviathans have sharp teeth within an expanding jaw, and possess a bifurcated tongue. They feed on human internal organs - sometimes with cheese.

They can mimic a particular human being following contact with one, or if they obtain DNA from a person. They are then aware of all that person's thoughts and feelings, and even hallucinations.[2] All the leviathans now outside Purgatory absorbed everything that Castiel knew, as he was their original vessel. When wounded they "bleed" black goo.

Leviathan!Sam said that he once had a brother with many issues, and that he ate him in the end - so they are not averse to cannibalism. This is later shown when Dick Roman eats Victor and George plans to eat Joyce Bicklebee, with George telling the Winchesters that a leviathan eating another is one of the only ways to kill them.

"Bibbing" was first mentioned by Dick Roman when he told Valente: "Next time, call me with a win. For your sake. Please don't make me bib you." When Dick decides that Dr. Gaines's experiments are drawing too much media attention, he decides to bib him. This involves literally placing a bib on him, and then Dr. Gaines eats himself until nothing is left - except a goo stained bib. This is one of the only known methods of eradicating a single leviathan for good.

Sam and Dean refer to them as "big mouths."

Powers and Abilities

• Possession - Leviathans can possess any human they come into contact with in their fluid form. This person becomes their physical embodiment of sorts. These shells bleed black ectoplasmic blood when injured and can reshape their jaws to display long sharp teeth and a two-pronged tongue.
• Shapeshifting - Once a vessel is taken they can reshape it into any human form they touch. They require only a fragment of DNA to transform into a person; even lost hair will do. The creature possessing a little girl takes the form of a doctor by touching his arm. They can also absorb the memories of anyone whose form they take, much like a shapeshifter, but without requiring the person to remain alive. It is revealed that certain humans like Charlie Bradbury and Bruce Springsteen possess a certain "spark" that means they cannot be emulated as effectively.
• Super strength - They are shown to possess greatly enhanced strength; at their first meeting, they are able to hurl Dean and Bobby across a room with little effort.
• Healing/Endurance - Leviathans are extremely resilient, surviving multiple shotgun blasts with silver shot, including one to the head at point blank range. One also survived and reassembled itself after being crushed by a falling car. They can even re-attach their heads if decapitated.
• Can kill angels - Episode 7.21 Reading Is Fundamental shows that leviathans can overpower angels easily. They are immune to an angel's power and can kill them by forcing their fists into the angel's stomach, causing the angel to then ooze black goo and die.
• Flight - In Purgatory leviathans are able to fly through the air in the form of meteors of black ooze that crash into the ground and take on a humanoid form.

Weaknesses

• Blood of the Fallen - The leviathan tablet states that a leviathan can be killed by a bone of a righteous mortal soaked in the blood of the fallen. There are three fallen whose blood is required; the first of these is a fallen angel (Castiel's blood qualifies). The other two fallen are the ruler of fallen humanity (meaning Crowley, the King of Hell) and a father of fallen beasts (an Alpha). Once this weapon is assembled, the leviathan only needs to be given a fatal blow to be killed, but it can result in those nearby being pulled to Purgatory with the leviathan soul.
• Borax - Leviathans are highly susceptible to materials that contain the chemical compound borax (sodium borate) such as household cleaning products. Contact with their skin results in an instant burning effect that can reduce them to charcoal-like husks if they are exposed to too much. It is suggested that they will eventually heal from the effects, however. Their leader, Dick Roman, may be less susceptible to the chemical.
• Beheading - Removing a leviathan's head disables them temporarily. But unless the head is kept far away from the body it will re-attach itself. The combination of burning them with borax and then beheading them and separating the head and the body appears to be the only way to put them down indefinitely, assuming the head has no way of finding its way back to the body.
• Witchcraft - Leviathans show susceptibility to witchcraft. It can incapacitate them temporarily.
• Other leviathans - Leviathans can be killed by another leviathan eating them. A leviathan can even eat itself, a process referred to as "bibbing."
• Rigid hierarchy - The leviathans rely heavily on having one all-powerful leader to give them instructions and conduct their master plan. If he dies, they fall apart completely and revert to a state of disorganization.

LIST OF LEVIATHANS

The first leviathan appearance is when they take over Castiel. As leviathans take the form of humans, they are referred to here by their human names.

• Dick Roman (deceased) - Leader of the leviathans.
• Annie / Dr. Gaines (deceased)
• Edgar (incapacitated) - A leviathan who works in demolitions.
• Two members of the Stockville Sharks Swim Team, who later become a head nurse and a hospital administrator at Sioux Falls General.
• Chet (incapacitated) - Leviathan who works for a credit card company assigned to track down Sam and Dean Winchester.
• Valente - A leviathan FBI agent.
• Leviathan!Sam and Leviathan!Dean (incapacitated) - Leviathan doppelgängers of Sam and Dean Winchester.
• Susan - Dick Roman's assistant.
• Joyce Bicklebee (deceased) - A leviathan in real estate.
• George - Joyce's assistant.
• Pete - Charlie Bradbury's manager at RRE.
• Tarrell - The leviathan who assumes Pete's position at RRE.
• Victor (deceased) - Roman's minion at RRE.
• Approximately ten leaders of various divisions of Dick Roman's grand plan.
• Three SucroCorp guards (incapacitated).
• At least one SucroCorp scientist (incapacitated).
• Four seen during Dean's time in Purgatory (incapacitated).

Unconfirmed

• Gwyneth Paltrow
• Fred Savage

EPISODES

7.01 Meet the New Boss

Whilst ingesting all the souls from Purgatory to became the new God, Castiel also took in the leviathans. The leviathans struggled for control, briefly taking over Castiel's vessel to smite people that even the now-wrathful Castiel didn't intend to, and causing his vessel to physically deteriorate and potentially explode.

With the assistance of Dean, Sam and Bobby, Castiel returns the souls to Purgatory. But "some" of the leviathans hold on, and assume control of Castiel's vessel. Stating that Castiel is dead, the Leviathan!Castiel attacks Dean and Bobby with manic delight, remarking: "Oh this is going to be so much fun."

7.02 Hello, Cruel World

After having revealed themselves to Dean and Bobby, the leviathans quickly realize they cannot remain inside Castiel's vessel as it begins to rapidly burn up and are forced to leave for the time being; they promise to return and finish what they started. Leviathan!Castiel staggers out into the open and submerge themselves in a nearby municipal water source, abandoning the vessel, leaving only Castiel's bloody trenchcoat behind.

The leviathans then disperse to take separate vessels of their own by various means of exposure to the tainted water. One takes a girl whilst she drank from a public water fountain, for example. Two of the creatures infect a pair of gym students and use them to kill and devour two other students, leading Dean to their whereabouts. The creature possessing the girl meets with another leviathan - Edgar - to discuss their next move and the "boss" they take their orders from.

The girl comes up with a plan to solve their feeding problem and steals the form of a doctor - Dr. Gaines - at Sioux Falls Hospital. It then uses the position to acquire easy meals. Its act of cannibalism is witnessed by Sheriff Jody Mills, who escapes the hospital with Bobby's help. Edgar arrives with the two gym student leviathans, which take on the forms of members of staff. Bobby investigates one of the bodies and is confronted by the leviathan Dr. Gaines, who recognizes him from before, when it was inside Castiel.

Bobby subsequently escapes the confrontation and races back home, informing the boys of his discoveries along the way. When they return to his house they discover it burned down and Bobby missing, however. Sam and Dean are then attacked by Edgar the leviathan who informs them that they are considered "competent" enough that the head leviathan wants them dead. The boys succeed in defeating it by dropping a car on it. Both suffer severe injuries, however, forcing Dean to call for an ambulance.

Back at Bobby's, the black blood of the leviathan Edgar, spills back into the body and its hand twitches as a sign of life.

7.03 The Girl Next Door

Bobby arrives at the hospital where Dr. Gaines works to rescue Sam and Dean. He tells Dean to meet him in the ambulance bay and tosses him a pair of crutches, then grabs the gurney holding an unconscious Sam. He stows Sam in the back of the ambulance and climbs in the driver's seat. Dr. Gaines receives a call telling him the Winchesters are in the hospital, and with the leviathan nurse he goes in search of the brothers. They spot the ambulance and run towards it. Dean board the ambulance just in time and all escape.

Three weeks later, Bobby's contacts tell him that the Leviathans at the hospital - Dr. Gaines, the head nurse and an administrator - have disappeared. He says that other hunters are reporting similar attacks and that "they're like shapeshifters only a lot more into eating folk. And nothing can kill 'em."

A leviathan has taken the form of an employee working for a credit card company called Chet, and has set up flags on credit cards with the Winchester brothers' known aliases. One is triggered when Sam uses the pseudonym Lemmy Kilmister in Whitefish Montana. Chet calls Edgar for guidance, and Edgar tells him to get after the brothers. He tracks down the location where the card was used, and finds Sam on the security footage. He calls Edgar again to tell him that he is on their trail, then pours a vat of hot cheese on the bound and gagged store clerk, and eats him.

7.05 Shut Up, Dr. Phil

Chet gets instructions by phone as to the Winchesters' location and says he's about a day and a half drive from Prosperity, Indiana. When he finds Sam and Dean, Dean shoots him, but his body simply pushes the bullet out. As Chet is about to attack, Don Stark enters and paralyzes him with some sort of spell, which he says will disable him for a day or two. He advises the Winchesters to put the creature in a bottomless hole.

Sam and Dean bind Chet with chains, and put him in the back of the Impala.

7.06 Slash Fiction

Chet is chained to a chair in the basement of Bobby's cabin, still weakened by Don Stark's spell. Bobby tries every method in the book to find a means to harm the leviathan, but everything fails, much to Chet's amusement. Whilst preparing electric shock, Bobby brushes against Chet's arm, allowing him to take his form in order to mock him on a personal level. Bobby loses his cool and cuts Chet's head off, which seems to be the solution he was looking for.

Bobby later finds Chet re-attaching his head, however, and wonders how else he might harm the monster when something starts to drip through the ceiling and onto Chet, who screams in agony as the liquid burns through his skin. Bobby rushes upstairs to find his guest, Sheriff Jody Mills, cleaning the floor with borax products. He quickly douses Chet with the stuff and beheads him once again, this time keeping his head in a cardboard box and instructing Jody to take it far away and "drop it in the drink" while he buries the body in cement.

Meanwhile, two more leviathans have taken Sam and Dean's form and are going on a rampage from town to town, killing people en masse. This causes the authorities to place Sam and Dean on the top most wanted list and a manhunt begins, with two FBI agents taking a particular interest. The doppelgängers succeed in luring them into a trap and Sam and Dean are arrested by the police.

The leviathans then infiltrate the police station and try to kill the Winchesters, but are caught by surprise when Dean uses Borax against them and decapitates them as informed by Bobby. With their heads missing, one of the FBI agents, actually a leviathan, informs his "superior" of the situation and is advised to adopt new tactics in hunting the brothers.

Elsewhere, the leviathan superior, Dick Roman, enters his limo and is greeted by the demon Crowley, who proposes an alliance between their two factions. Dick coldly refuses his offer, however, considering Crowley a "hideous mutation" and not worthy of his attention. Crowley leaves, insisting the leviathan keep his offering of infant-flesh muffins.

7.09 How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters

Sam, Dean, and Bobby follow a suspicious meat truck from a Biggerson's Restaurant to a building run by Dr. Gaines. Their first clue that something is very wrong is the arrival of Edgar, who is meeting with Dr. Gaines. Dr. Gaines has been experimenting on food to create an addictive product that will pacify and fatten humans for ease of leviathan consumption. He is behind the new Turducken Slammer at Biggerson's. However, a small percentage of test subjects have a had a bizarre reaction involving massively enlarged adrenal glands that drive them into a zombie-like, cannibalistic frenzy. Their behavior has led to newspaper reports speculating about the Jersey Devil. Edgar warns Dr. Gaines to burn his failed subjects because their leader, Dick Roman, is coming to check on him.

Dick arrives, and Dr. Gaines shows off his lab, in which test subjects are passively watching surgery on television next to a dead relative. Dick likes what he sees, but reminds Dr. Gaines that his work made the papers. Dick wants to make this a "teachable moment" for his other subordinates. His assistant, Susan, places a bib around Gaines's neck, and he reluctantly eats himself alive.

The leviathans capture Bobby, who has been spying on them, and take him to Dick's office. Dick tells Bobby that he is going to eat him, but he is mildly impressed by humanity's achievements, including the gun. He speculates that Sam and Dean will soon attempt to rescue Bobby, who tries to convince him otherwise. Dick is proved correct when Sam and Dean burst into the facility with spray bottles of borax and start spraying the Leviathans. Dick commands Bobby to remain in his office and leaves to take on the brothers, taking a gun with him. Bobby runs to the desk, finds folders of information on Leviathan plans, and grabs one of Dick's fancy weapons. Susan tries to stop him, but Bobby shoots her in the head, buying enough time to get past her.

Sam and Dean try their borax on Dick, and while he burns, he seems less susceptible to damage. The brothers by enough time to get outside the building and start their van. Bobby runs after them and dives inside just as Dick comes out of the building, shooting. He hits Bobby as the van speeds away. 

7.10 Death's Door

Dean finds Dick in his car outside the hospital where Bobby is fighting for his life. When Dean yells that Dick Roman is there, passers-by start taking pictures with their phones. Dean challenges him to kill him there, but also points out that - being famous - he can't kill him without bringing attention to the leviathans. Dick laughs, seemingly unconcerned by Dean's threats.

7.11 Adventures in Babysitting

Dean has given Frank the numbers 48495 which Bobby wrote on Sam's hand before he died, and also asked him to research Dick Roman. It is shown that the leviathans have recalled the Turducken Slammer meat, presumably because of the bad side effects of the additive. Having not heard from him for a month, Dean returns to Frank's house to find it deserted. Frank confronts him, and they both have to shed some blood to prove to the other they are not a leviathan.

Frank has moved all his equipment into an RV, after feeling he was being watched after he started investigating Dick Roman. Frank says he has found evidence of the leviathans in positions of influence. He tells Dean he has found nothing on Bobby's numbers, but then he tried combinations with adding a sixth number and realized they are coordinates to a field in Wisconsin, owned by Dick Roman.

Frank and Dean travel to the area and disguise themselves as phone company workers. They discover surveillance covering the area and retreat to Frank's RV to monitor it. They discover Amanda Willer, who works for Richard Roman Enterprises, surveying the site for construction. It is unknown if Amanda is a leviathan.

7.12 Time After Time

Before he dies, Chronos - the God of Time, tells Dean and Sam:

"You want to know your future? I know your future. It's covered in thick black ooze. It's everywhere. They're everywhere. Enjoy oblivion."

7.14 Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie

Frank reports that there is nothing new on Dick Roman but that Fred Savage is a leviathan.

7.15 Repo Man

Frank reports to Dean that leviathans have infiltrated the luxury cruise ship industry.

7.16 Out with the Old

Dean continues to insist Frank research the leviathans and try and find out what Dick Roman is planning. Frank reports to Dean, Dick's funding an archaeological dig, a factory in Saudi Arabia, and a fishery in Jakarta. He thinks they are behind the new Biggerson's restaurant in Butte, Montana. Frank tells Dean Tromso in Norway has "zero leviathan activity."

While investigating cursed objects in Portland Oregon, Dean and Sam discover that leviathan Realtor Joyce Bicklebee and her assistant George, are acquiring properties from local owners, and killing those who refuse to sell. In the confrontation that follows, Sam and Dean decapitate Joyce with help from George who plans to eat her in order to kill her. Afterwards, George reveals that the leviathans are planning on building a research facility, in order to find a cure for cancer. When Sam asks why, George replies: "'Cause we're only here to help."

7.20 The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo

Bobby's ghost reveals that the leviathans are planning on making slaughter houses so they can feast on humans regularly and cure them of cancer to improve their food source. They are also using Turducken style meat to dumb down humanity so that no one will notice and have bought a list of restaurants "ten pages long" to spread the additive. Dick, who has Frank's hard drive, asks his employee, Charlie Bradbury, to hack into it and give him any info that's on it, namely about himself and the Winchesters. He also has one of his minions eat Pete and another pick up a package from an airport containing the Word of God tablet regarding the leviathans. However, Sam and Dean steal it after learning of it from Dick's emails and Charlie helps them by erasing everything on the hard drive. Dick tries to stop them and is attacked by Bobby, who is having trouble controlling his anger towards Dick. Enraged, Dick eats Victor for failing him.

7.21 Reading Is Fundamental

Dick Roman discovers the identity of the prophet Kevin Tran, who has the power to read the Word of God stolen from them by Sam and Dean previously. He orders Edgar to capture the prophet, which he does by posing as a detective and questioning Kevin's mother. As chance would have it, two angels deliver Kevin to his mother and directly into Edgar's hands. Edgar easily kills the angels and takes Kevin. The leviathans also recapture the leviathan tablet which Kevin has with him.

After Kevin is taken away by the angels, Sam and Dean learn a way to kill leviathans from Kevin's translation of the tablet: the bone of a righteous mortal washed in the three bloods of the fallen. They start their search for the needed ingredients by getting fallen angel blood from the resurrected Castiel.

7.22 There Will Be Blood

Kevin Tran is captured and taken to the new leviathan headquarters, SucroCorp, where he is forced to translate the Word of God after the leviathans threaten his mother's life. After reading the translation, Dick Roman sends Edgar to kill the Alpha Vampire and get his blood.

Putting their additive in the high-fructose corn syrup SucroCorp makes, the leviathans are able to quickly spread the additive and humanity starts to become mindless just as the Leviathans planned. Dick also does a series of interviews promoting himself and his plans with SucroCorp.

Edgar travels to the Alpha's hideaway and meets with him, sensing that he has Sam and Dean Winchester. The two discuss the leviathan and vampire relationship and the Alpha's worry about the death of other vampires, especially after Sam and Dean told him that the leviathans are purposefully making the food poisonous to them. Edgar eventually admits to this and attacks the Alpha who is no match for him. However, Sam and Dean break free and Sam decapitates Edgar. Edgar's visit has the opposite intended effect: now knowing that the leviathans have betrayed him and owing Sam and Dean his life, the Alpha gives them the blood they need without a fight.

Later, at SucroCorp, Dick summons Crowley into a devil's trap in order to make a deal with him to prevent the Winchesters from getting his blood.

7.23 Survival of the Fittest

In order to stop Crowley from giving the Winchesters his blood, Dick Roman summons him into a devil's trap at SucroCorp and offers him a deal: Canada in exchange for the demons leaving the U.S. alone and giving the Winchesters the wrong blood. Crowley agrees and the two formalize a deal with a very long contract. However, not trusting Crowley, Dick has the arm of the real Dick Roman brought out and used to have a bunch of leviathans take on his form to confuse the Winchesters and make it so they can't tell which one is him if they come after him.

Dick holds a meeting with a bunch of leviathan delegates working on various parts of the leviathan grand plan. He describes how America will be cut up into various different zones each with a different purpose for their plan. He shows them how a modified dairy creamer will hold a modified version of the additive which will weed out unfavorable traits such as thinness. He demonstrates this by having a scientist inject a thin girl named Polly with the creamer which kills her. At the same time, Kevin Tran escapes, but after learning the new plan, is recaptured by Susan.

Sam and Dean, after getting the needed ingredients for the weapon with Crowley betraying Dick like feared, try to locate Dick by hacking into SucroCorp's security cameras using what Charlie Bradbury taught them, but find all of the decoys that Dick set up and are confused. Bobby Singer shows up possessing a motel maid named Louise to try to kill Dick with a machete, but is stopped by Sam and he and Dean then leave to come up with another course of action.

After learning that Castiel, because he was the leviathans' original vessel, can tell the leviathans apart no matter what form they are in, Sam and Dean convince him to help them and launch an assault on SucroCorp. The rouge demon Meg crashes the Impala through SucroCorp's front gate and giant glass sign, allowing Sam, Dean and Castiel to sneak in while they are distracted. Meg decapitates the guards and Sam finds and rescues Kevin and the two plan to blow up the leviathan lab and the poisoned creamer. After finding at least one fake Dick Roman, Dean and Castiel locate the real one in the lab and decapitate the leviathan scientist before confronting Dick. In the fight that follows, Dean, with the help of Castiel, kills Dick, but the two are dragged to Purgatory with his soul.

After the death of their leader, the leviathans are left confused and disorganized which, according to Crowley, is because Dick is the only leader they ever had since creation. With Dick dead, the leviathans are little more than ordinary monsters, tough to kill but manageable. Crowley informs Sam that they have to keep them from getting a new leader and that he has an army of demons outside SucroCorp ready to dispatch all the remaining leviathans inside.

8.01 We Need to Talk About Kevin

After escaping from Purgatory and reuniting with Sam, Dean proves to him that he is not a leviathan among the other tests he performs (demon, shapeshifter) and does the same to Sam. Later, after finding Kevin Tran, Kevin shoots them with a squirt gun which Dean appears to assume is filled with borax as he informs him as well that they are not leviathans. All the leviathan influence appears to be gone by this time one year later as people are no longer dumbed-down as they were before the assault on SucroCorp and Sam and Dean eat regular food without apparent worry or mention of the food additive.

8.02 What's Up, Tiger Mommy?

Castiel reveals that he abandoned Dean in Purgatory as he feared that the more powerful monsters there, including the leviathans that are still in Purgatory, would come after him and he didn't think Dean was safe. However, Dean doesn't care that the leviathans may be after Castiel and convinces Castiel to work with him and Benny to get out.

8.05 Blood Brother

In a flashback to his time in Purgatory, while arguing with Dean and Benny, Castiel senses Leviathans nearby and the three run, but are attacked by two leviathans. Dean decapitates one, but the other gets the drop on Castiel and nearly kills him before Benny decapitates it.

8.07 A Little Slice of Kevin

In a flashback, as Dean and Castiel head for the portal out of Purgatory, two leviathans attack them. They initially get the upper hand, knocking Dean down and beating Castiel up, but Dean decapitates one from behind and Castiel holds the other one in place while he decapitates that one.

In the present, Castiel describes the last thing he remembers in Purgatory as being on the run from leviathans before appearing in Illinois.

8.18 Freaks and Geeks

Victor Rogers mentions the past leviathan situation as a "fiasco" and a "wake up call." 

LEVIATHANS IN LORE

In the Judeo-Christian tradition a leviathan is a giant sea monster, described in the Book of Job. The Talmud Baba Batra 75b states that the archangels Michael and Gabriel will be the ones who slay the Leviathan. Other legends say God will slay the beast. (Source: Leviathan in Judaism)

Death also refers to the leviathans as "the Old Ones" a term used by H.P. Lovecraft in the Cthulhu mythos to describe ancient powerful alien beings who come to Earth. A race called the Old Ones also features in Stephen King's Dark Tower series. In Binsfeld's Classification of Demons, Leviathan is the name of Envy, one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

EXTERNAL LINK

• Sera Gamble and Bob Singer talk about Leviathans with AOLTV

REAPERS

Powers and Abilities:

• Can reap souls, stop time, and alter human perception.
• Invisible to living humans.

Vulnerabilities:

• Can be killed by Death's scythe and angel swords.
• Can be bound by spells and Enochian symbols.

Appearance: Spirit-like; can alter how humans perceive them, and can possess someone to manifest in a physical body.

Episodes:

• 1.12 Faith
• 2.01 In My Time of Dying
• 4.15 Death Takes a Holiday
• 5.10 Abandon All Hope...
• 5.21 Two Minutes to Midnight
• 6.03 The Third Man (mentioned)
• 6.11 Appointment in Samarra
• 7.10 Death's Door
• 8.19 Taxi Driver
• 9.03 I'm No Angel

DESCRIPTION

Dean: We're dealing with a reaper.
Sam: You really think it's the Grim Reaper? Like, angel of death, collect your soul, the whole deal?
Dean: No no no, not the reaper, a reaper. There's reaper lore in pretty much every culture on Earth, it goes by 100 different names, it's possible that there's more than one of them.

– Dean and Sam, 1.12 Faith

HISTORY

Reapers are responsible for escorting deceased souls to the afterlife, and they refuse - or are unable - to tell the deceased what awaits them. According to Castiel, reapers gather in groups "at times of great catastrophe" or distress, and he lists the Chicago Fire of 1871, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the destruction of Pompeii as examples. The dead soul may choose not to accompany them, and to remain in this realm as ghosts, and eventually become vengeful spirits. Reapers serve Death and are not aligned with Heaven or Hell.

Some reapers have become rogue operators, collecting souls or moving them between Heaven and Hell for a price. This may have been prompted by the averted Apocalypse, as according to Balthazar in season six:

"It's a new era. No rules, no destiny. Just utter and complete freedom."

Neither this nor Death's feelings or knowledge of rogue reapers has been confirmed.

CHARACTERISTICS

A reapers true form appears to be spirit like, with a white aura surrounding them. They take on the more human like appearances as a way to make it easier to convince a soul to pass on to the next plane of existence. While the majority of reapers that have been seen have been male, they do appear to have different genders, as Death has referred to the reaper Tessa as female. Rogue reapers also appear to have additional capabilities, according to the angel Bartholomew:

"Some of you have taken your skill set to a whole new level..."

Powers and Abilities

• Have access to Heaven, Hell, Purgatory and the Veil.
• Invisible to humans unless the person is near death or in spirit/astral projection form. May also become visible at will to mortals.
• Able to stop time.
• Teleportation
• Are experts at tracking down souls.
• Capable of altering human perception to make themselves appear any way they want.
• Can possess humans in order to be able to physically interact with living humans.
• Telekinesis

Vulnerabilities

• Vulnerable to Death's scythe.
• Can be bound using spells.
• Can be rendered powerless and vulnerable inside of a reaper trap.
• Can also be possessed by demons, although the only demon that was known to be capable of doing this was Azazel, who is more powerful than the average demon.
• Can be killed by an angel sword.

EPISODES

1.12 Faith

Sue-Ann Le Grange uses black magic to harness a reaper. She turns her husband Roy Le Grange into a faith healer by forcing the reaper to kill people whom she thinks are immoral and transfer their life force to Roy's ailing supplicants. A dying Dean is saved in this manner. The reaper is released when Sam smashes her necklace, and it kills her.

2.01 In My Time of Dying

A reaper appears as a young woman calling itself Tessa, and tries to help Dean crossover. She tells him that souls who refuse to move on become vengeful spirits. Azazel possesses Tessa in order to return Dean to his body and fulfill his end of the deal with John.

4.15 Death Takes a Holiday

Tessa turns up when a reaper in a small town disappears, and the fatally injured people in the vicinity stop dying. She is kidnapped by Alastair. Killing two reapers under a solstice moon is one of the 66 Seals. A ritual is performed, and the implement for killing is a scythe. According to Alastair, it belongs to Death one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

An old friend lent it to me. You know, he doesn't really ride a pale horse, but he does have three amigos.

– Alastair, 4.15 Death Takes a Holiday

While the first reaper is killed, Sam and Dean manage to save Tessa, who then begins reaping those who should already have died.

5.10 Abandon All Hope...

Reapers appear en masse in Carthage, Missouri as Lucifer prepares to summon Death.

5.21 Two Minutes to Midnight

Crowley sees a neighborhood in Chicago "swarming with reapers." Death is in town planning to unleash a storm and other natural disasters that will kill 3 million people.

6.11 Appointment in Samarra

Tessa is summoned by Dean, who wants to contact Death. She later escorts him around so he can experience Death's rounds.

7.10 Death's Door

After Bobby is shot in the head by Dick Roman, he slips into a coma. While traversing his own mind, Bobby's Reaper appears before him, intending to take him to the afterlife. The reaper reveals that due to Bobby's condition, it is unable to reap him through conventional means, and had to enter his mind to retrieve him. Bobby, needing to pass on a message to Dean and Sam, refuses to go with it and flees further into his own mind, much to the reaper's irritation. Later, Bobby manages to temporarily imprison the being using a spell he had learned, in an attempt to slow it down. The reaper is not concerned, as Bobby's deteriorating mind would eventually free him. Instead, it warns Bobby that he would become a ghost if he continued to persist, and assured him that he had done enough for the world and the boys. Bobby, disregarding himself, refuses and goes through the last door in his mind. After he wakes up and eventually slips back into the coma, the reaper is there waiting for him. It attempts to convince Bobby to move on one last time, assuring him that the Winchesters would be just fine without him, and warning him that he had just one last memory left. Bobby's answer is not heard.

8.19 Taxi Driver

Crossroads Demon: Rogue reapers. They got secret ways, in and out. Not just Hell -- the Veil, Heaven.
Sam: Rogue reapers smuggling people?
Crossroads Demon: People, souls...
Sam: So, what? They're like Hell coyotes?

– Crossroads Demon to Sam, 8.19 Taxi Driver

Needing to sneak into Hell, Sam and Dean approach rogue reaper Ajay to take them after learning that he and other rogue reapers transport mortals and souls in and out of Heaven and Hell for a price. Sam and Dean learn that when they burned Bobby Singer's flask, Ajay took his soul to Hell on Crowley's orders. Ajay agrees to take Sam to Hell on the terms that the Winchesters will owe him a favor in the future. Sam agrees and Ajay takes him to Purgatory where a portal to Hell exists that acts as a backdoor. Ajay tells Sam to meet him where he dropped him off in exactly 24 hours and leaves, however, Crowley learns of the deal from one of his minions and questions Ajay. After learning that he helped Sam sneak into Hell and that he is due to pick him up, Crowley kills the reaper with an angel sword to prevent the pick-up and trap Sam in Purgatory.

9.03 I'm No Angel

In order to find Castiel, Bartholomew hires rogue reapers to hunt for him. One reaper named Maurice follows Sam and Dean, but is captured by them after they notice him following them. Dean tortures him with an angel sword for information and after Maurice tells him all he knows, Dean stabs him through the neck with the sword, killing him.

Another reaper possesses a woman named April Kelly and locates Castiel. She pretends to take him in and has sex with him, but the next morning ties him up and tortures him for information on Metatron with his angel sword. Castiel tells her he didn't know what Metatron was doing and that he doesn't know the spell that he used to expel all angels from Heaven, but that as his grace was the final ingredient, he may be the key to reversing it. At that moment, Sam and Dean arrive to rescue Castiel, but Castiel is killed by the reaper with the angel sword, and then proceeds to disarm Dean of his own angel sword and flings him and Sam across the room. However, while she is distracted with Sam, Dean kills her with the angel sword she had used on Castiel. Ezekiel then resurrects Castiel and heals the damage the reaper did to him.

TRIVIA

• Alex Diakun who played the Reaper in 1.12 Faith, also played Mr. Vili in8.02 What's Up, Tiger Mommy?.

SEE ALSO

• Death
• Tessa
• Ajay
• April Kelly
• Maurice
• Bobby's Reaper
• Coptic Cross
• Reaper Trap

VAMPIRES

Powers and Abilities:

• Superior strength, speed, and senses including sight, hearing, and smell.
• Retractable fangs that allow them to bite humans or animals and feed on their blood.

Vulnerabilities:

• Bloodlust
• Dead man's blood
• The Colt
• Decapitation
• The Sun
• Angelic touch
• Vamptonite

Appearance: Human with retractable fangs.

Episodes:

• 1.20 Dead Man's Blood
• 2.03 Bloodlust
• 3.07 Fresh Blood
• 4.05 Monster Movie (actually a disguised Shapeshifter)
• 6.05 Live Free or Twihard
• 6.07 Family Matters
• 6.10 Caged Heat
• 6.16 ...And Then There Were None (mentioned)
• 6.19 Mommy Dearest
• 6.20 The Man Who Would Be King
• 7.08 Season Seven, Time for a Wedding! (mentioned)
• 7.22 There Will Be Blood
• 8.01 We Need to Talk About Kevin
• 8.02 What's Up, Tiger Mommy?
• 8.05 Blood Brother
• 8.07 A Little Slice of Kevin
• 8.09 Citizen Fang
• 8.10 Torn and Frayed
• 8.18 Freaks and Geeks
• 8.19 Taxi Driver
• 9.02 Devil May Care
• 9.04 Slumber Party (mentioned)

DESCRIPTION

Folkloric creatures, thought to be the re-animated corpses of human beings and said to live on human or animal blood. They often have unnatural powers and the ability to physically transform.

– Pad of Definitions (1.20 Dead Man's Blood), Official Website

A vampire is created when a person ingests vampire blood, but the transformation is not complete until they feed on human blood. Once turned, they suffer from bloodlust and must feed on blood, human or animal, to survive. Unlike folkloric vampires, they do not require an invitation to enter a home and are not killed by sunlight. They also prefer to live in packs in locations called nests, and will mate for life. After death, vampire souls go to Purgatory.

The Alpha Vampire was the very first vampire and he appears to have a psychic connection with other vampires. By the year 2006, vampires had been hunted so intensively and become so rare that John Winchester had thought they were extinct. But in the year 2010, the Alpha Vampire uses his psychic connection to encourage vampires to feed on blood from blood bags and focus on increasing their numbers. Dean kills all the vampires he finds in one nest, but it is unknown how many other nests may have been created or increased their numbers.

A cure for vampirism exists, but only if the vampire has not yet drunk human blood. They need to drink a mixture that includes the blood of the vampire that turned them.

CHARACTERISTICS

Vampires nest in groups of eight to ten. Smaller packs are sent to hunt for food. Victims are taken to the nest where the pack keeps them alive, bleeding them for days or weeks.

– Dean Winchester (1.20 Dead Man's Blood), John's Journal

Powers and Abilities

• Have extremely enhanced senses that include being able to smell humans and vampires over long distances, and the ability to see in pitch darkness.
• Can exhibit an eyeshine like effect (only shown in 1.20 Dead Man's Blood).
• Have sharp, pointed, retractable teeth that emerge from their gums and extend beyond their human teeth.
• Are immortal and unchanging.
• Can infect others by feeding them their blood so that they turn into vampires themselves.
• If they have enough human blood, they can heal quickly from any wound besides amputation.

Weaknesses

• Sunlight - it's not deadly, but can cause a nasty sunburn. Vampires prefer to sleep during the day.
• Dead man's blood. Large quantities can paralyze a vampire and cause wounds that are slow to heal.
• Decapitation - cutting off the head of a vampire will kill it.
• Angelic powers - angels can burn vampires from the inside out with a touch, killing them.
• The Colt - a special bullet fired from the Colt can kill a vampire.
• Bloodlust - a vampire must feed on blood, human or animal, to survive (it is unknown how long a vampire could survive without feeding before it would starve to death, or if such a thing is even possible).
• Burning saffron, skunk's cabbage and trillium blocks a vampires scent. John Winchester gives these to Dean to put on the fire. He also tells Dean to dust their clothes with the ashes to stand a chance of not being detected.
• Vamptonite - the blood of humans which has been poisoned by the Leviathan food additive is fatal to any vampire who ingests it. Called vamptonite by Dean, this is also effective if the blood is injected directly from a syringe.

FEATURED VAMPIRES

• Luther, Kate, and Hank in 1.20 Dead Man's Blood
• Lenore in 2.03 Bloodlust and 6.19 Mommy Dearest
• Eli in 2.03 Bloodlust
• Dixon and Gordon in 3.07 Fresh Blood
• Boris, Robert, Kristen and Dean in 6.05 Live Free or Twihard
• Alpha Vampire in 6.07 Family Matters and 7.22 There Will Be Blood
• Benny in 8.01 We Need to Talk About Kevin and 8.02 What's Up, Tiger Mommy?, 8.05 Blood Brother, 8.07 A Little Slice of Kevin, 8.09 Citizen Fang, 8.10 Torn and Frayed and 8.19 Taxi Driver
• Andrea Kormos, Quentin, Sorento and Benny's Maker in 8.05 Blood Brother
• Desmond in 8.09 Citizen Fang
• Jimmy Day and Seth in 8.18 Freaks and Geeks

EPISODES

1.20 Dead Man's Blood

Daniel Elkins attracts the attention of a group of vampires, led by Kate, who follow him home and kill him after a struggle. They take the Colt from him and Kate presents it to her mate and patriarch, Luther. The vampires live in an old barn where they capture tourists and feed on them, turning one such victim into one of their own. Their nest is invaded by the Winchesters and Kate is lured after them, only to be captured and infected with dead man's blood while another vampire is killed. John Winchester uses her as a bargaining chip to force Luther to hand over the Colt, after which the vampires tried to kill John. At the same time, Sam and Dean rescue the vampires captives, killing the vampire guarding them and then go to help their father. Sam and Dean take down two vampires with dead man's blood soaked arrows and presumably later kill them and John kills Luther with the Colt. Only Kate and the turned victim escape alive.

2.03 Bloodlust

Sam Winchester is captured by a group of vampires who have sworn off human prey and have chosen to feed on cattle instead, but they are still living in fear of being hunted. Their matriarch, Lenore, wishes for Sam to go back to his brother and the hunter Gordon Walker and ward them off hunting her kin. Gordon refuses to do so, however, and discovers the nest and tortures Lenore with dead man's blood to prove to the Winchesters that all vampires are monsters. Lenore resists her bloodlust despite his methods of temptation. The Winchesters turn against Gordon and free Lenore, having seen her resilience.

3.07 Fresh Blood

A vampire called Dixon has been infecting young blonde women with vampirism in the hopes of rebuilding his lost family and repopulating the vampiric species. He converts them by feeding them his blood under the pretense that it is a recreational drug, administered either with an eyedropper or in a drink. One of the girls he has recently turned is caught and interrogated by Sam and Dean, which puts them on his trail, but the timely arrival of a vengeful Gordon Walker prevents them from pursuing Dixon.

In a cruel twist of fate, Dixon captures Gordon and turns him into a vampire as punishment for the vampires he's killed in the past. Gordon is not a passive victim, however, and he uses his new strength to murder Dixon's girls and escape. This drives Dixon to despair and apathy, and when the Winchesters find his lair, he admits to everything he has done - it is implied that they kill him. Gordon, after escaping Dixon's lair, soon falls victim to bloodlust and feeds on human blood. He then continues his hunt for Sam by setting a trap, capturing and infecting another woman to work as a distraction and then isolating Sam so that he can attack him. Gordon underestimates Sam, however, and is subsequently decapitated with barbed wire in the fight while Dean kills Gordon's victim with the Colt.

4.05 Monster Movie

In this episode, the Winchester brothers begin their supernatural investigation by looking into a vampire attack. However, the "vampire" turns out to be a shapeshifter who disguises himself as classic horror movie monsters, including Dracula.

5.03 Free to Be You and Me

Dean decapitates a vampire on the hood of the Impala, quoting: "Eat it Twilight!"

6.05 Live Free or Twihard

In Limestone, Illinois, Sam and Dean investigate the disappearances of several young women. They discover that the most recent victim was obsessed with Twilight-style vampires, and that she was communicating with someone who claimed to be a vampire online. At the same time, a blood bank van is robbed. Sam and Dean go to a club called the Black Rose, the girl's last destination, and discover vampires trying to "recruit" new members. Sam kills one vampire, but Dean is turned by a vamp named Boris. Sam intervenes, belatedly, and chases the vampire away. The Winchesters return to their hotel room, and Sam calls Samuel. Dean, who is prepared to be killed by Samuel, sneaks away to bid Lisa goodbye. He is nearly overwhelmed by his hunger, but resists and returns to Sam and Samuel. Samuel surprises Dean by revealing a cure in one of his ancestor's hunting journals. In order to work, Dean must consume no human blood, and must acquire the blood of the vampire that turned him, so Dean goes to the nest of the vampires with a syringe of dead man's blood.

At the nest, a "recruiter" named Robert offers Dean blood, which he declines, and reveals that they are not longer allowed to kill people. Dean meets Boris, and tries to stab him with the dead man's blood, but Boris is too quick. Before Boris can kill Dean, all the vampires collapse, Dean included. He has a shared vision of the Alpha Vampire, and perceives that the Alpha wishes to build an army. When he awakes, Dean must fight the vampires in the nest. He eventually kills all the members - except one beheaded by Sam and Samuel - and gets Boris's blood. Samuel prepares the cure and Dean drinks it. He vomits blood and passes out, but re-awakes as a human.

The episode poked much fun at vampires in popular culture. See the episode entry for details.

6.07 Family Matters

Samuel and his people capture the Alpha Vampire. They subdue him using an IV of dead man's blood and attempt to interrogate him, but he is extremely resistant to pain and doesn't give Samuel any information. After Samuel leaves the room where he is being held, he is approached by Dean and Sam and he reveals to them that, though he is the first vampire, he has a mother. He also tells them that Samuel is torturing him for information about Purgatory and its location. Shortly after their conversation, he escapes his cage and almost escapes, but demons appear and take him away on Crowley's orders. It is revealed that Samuel has been working for Crowley, who takes Alpha Vampire to continue interrogating it about Purgatory.

6.10 Caged Heat

While making their way through Crowley's prison, Sam and Dean come across a vampire in one of the cells. It is presumably killed by Castiel when he kills all of the monsters in the prison.

6.16 ...And Then There Were None

Bobby mentions a nest of vampires acting up as a result of Eve passing through their area.

6.19 Mommy Dearest

Castiel brings Lenore to Bobby's place so that they can ask her for Eve's location. She is hesitant, but eventually tells them where to find Eve: in Grants Pass, Oregon. She then asks to be killed. With Eve on earth, her nest has abandoned her and returned to feeding on humans, and even she has given in to her bloodlust on one occasion. Sam and Dean try to persuade her that after Eve is destroyed things will improve, but Lenore is doubtful. Castiel places a hand on her head and kills her.

In Grants Pass, Oregon, they find Eve experimenting with creating hybrid monsters. On examination of some of the hybrids in a bar, Dean finds they have strange hybrid attributes - one creature has vampiric teeth in addition to the spike of a Wraith protruding from its wrist. Dean dubs these hybrids Jefferson Starships.

6.20 The Man Who Would Be King

Crowley has captured a vampire and has discovered that when he burns Eve's brain or sticks a spike into it, the vampire feels pain.

While interrogating Redd, Bobby Singer reveals that Redd had captured a nest of eight vampires in Swan Valley for Crowley as part of his duties of hunting monsters to help Crowley find Purgatory.

7.08 Season Seven, Time for a Wedding!

Bobby Singer is mentioned to be hunting a major vampire nest in Oregon so he is unable to help Dean. He is forced to send Garth instead.

7.22 There Will Be Blood

Sam and Dean learn from Crowley that the Alpha Vampire escaped before Castiel killed all of the monsters in Crowley's prison and as they need the blood of an Alpha for a leviathan killing weapon, gives them the location of the Alpha's hideout. There, Sam, Dean and Bobby discover that the vampires have been killed by feeding on humans poisoned by the leviathan food-additive and find Emily, a girl kidnapped by the vampires years ago who is secretly loyal to the Alpha. Emily leads them to the Alpha, but betrays them to him. At the same time, Edgar the Leviathan comes for the Alpha as well having learned his location from a vampire he captured, turned into to get his memories, then killed. Sam and Dean try to convince the Alpha to give them his blood, but he has made a deal with Dick Roman and doesn't believe them when they tell him Dick has betrayed them. The Alpha has Sam and Dean locked up and meets with Edgar who confirms that the Leviathans betrayed the vampires and that the food-additive is intended to kill all monsters that feed on humans including vampires in order to get rid of competition. At the same time, Sam and Dean break free and kill a vampire with poisoned blood and get kitchen knives to deal with Edgar and the other vampires. The Alpha battles Edgar to no avail, but Sam and Dean intervene, decapitating Edgar. Grateful for them saving him and understanding that the vampires and the Winchesters have a common enemy, the Alpha gives Sam and Dean his blood without a fight and lets them leave with Allan, a young boy he has kidnapped but promises to "see you next season" which they look forward to.

8.01 We Need to Talk About Kevin

Flashback: In Purgatory, Dean interrogates a vampire about the location of Castiel and decapitates him when he doesn't get an answer. He is attacked by another vampire, but is saved by the vampire Benny who offers him a deal: Benny will show him a way out of Purgatory that only humans can use if Dean lets Benny's soul hitch a ride out with him. Dean agrees as long as they find Castiel first.

Later, Dean succeeds in escaping Purgatory with Benny's soul and performs a ritual that resurrects Benny at his gravesite. The two go their separate ways, but Benny later contacts Dean and they agree to not keep in touch for awhile, but that Benny can call Dean if he needs help.

8.02 What's Up, Tiger Mommy?

Flashback: Dean and Benny interrogate a monster for the location of Castiel and finally learn his location from the monster before Dean kills it with Ruby's knife. Dean and Benny locate Castiel and tell him of their plan to escape, though Benny warns that he doesn't know if the way out will work with an angel. Benny gets confrontational about the fact that Castiel abandoned Dean and Castiel reveals to both that he did it to protect Dean as powerful monsters, including the leviathans are after him. Castiel reluctantly joins Dean and Benny in looking for a way out of Purgatory.

8.05 Blood Brother

Flashback: Dean, Benny and Castiel defend themselves from three monsters that attack them and then argue about the fact that Castiel's presence is drawing attention to Dean and Benny. Benny and Castiel want Dean to leave Castiel behind, but Dean is determined to get all three of them out as per their deal or die trying. When Dean points out that Benny is a vampire, Benny insists that he only feeds on blood transfusions and that "I feed on blood, not people." However, before they can argue anymore, Castiel senses leviathans approaching and three are forced to run. The three end up fighting two Leviathans and Dean decapitates one and Benny decapitates the other, saving Castiel much to Dean's shock.

Benny, knowing that if his maker gets wind of the fact that he is alive will come after him, goes after his maker to kill him first. He tries to get a vampire from his former nest named Quentin to tell him where his maker is, but Quentin ambushes him with two other vampires. Benny wins the fight and kills all three vampires, but is badly injured and calls Dean for help. Dean brings Benny blood from Benny's truck to help him recover and Benny explains what he's doing so Dean decides to join him. Benny explains that his former nest are vampire pirates, or as Dean calls them, vampirates, who find private yachts going on long journey's, ambush them, feed on the owners and sink the boats to hide their crimes. Dean and Benny figure out from things Quentin had on him that the nest is on Prentis Island and head there with Benny explaining his own personal history of falling in love with one of the people he ambushed, abandoning his nest who's leader believes he's a god and being killed ultimately for his betrayal. He also wants revenge for the death of his lover Andrea Kormos which was the last thing he saw before he was killed.

On Prentis Island, Benny is shocked to find Andrea alive and a vampire and is ambushed and captured while Dean escapes. Dean makes his way through the nest, single-handedly killing all of the vampires he finds, which is at least four of them. Andrea and another vampire named Sorento hold Benny captive and Andrea is revealed to be so high up in the nest that she only reports to the leader, Benny's maker. Andrea orders Sorento away then reveals she still loves Benny. Telling Benny that his resurrection is proof that his maker is not a god and that he can kill the maker where Andrea and the other vampires can't, she gives him the keys to his handcuffs and a knife with which to kill the maker. Benny is brought before his maker who reveals that he turned Andrea as a form of revenge against Benny. Benny reveals Andrea's treachery by showing his now-free hands and easily overpowers and kills Sorento with his own knife when he attacks him. Benny's maker refuses to defend himself, hating the world and wanting to die on his own terms, but Benny promises to show him another world (Purgatory) and kills him with Andrea's knife. Heading down to meet Andrea, Benny is shocked to learn that instead of wanting to burn the operation to the ground and start a new life with him like he wants, Andrea wants to continue the piracy and hunting humans and starts to attack Benny when he refuses. However, Dean decapitates her from behind before she can attack.

Benny is left completely distraught by the experience and wonders why Dean kept his word and resurrected him rather than betraying him. On the mainland, Sam and Benny meet and an awkward moment ensues where Sam wants to attack but Dean dissuades him. Recognizing that Sam and Dean need to sort things out, Benny leaves them alone.

8.07 A Little Slice of Kevin

Flashback: In Purgatory, Benny leads Dean and Castiel to the location of the portal, telling them that someone told him where it was. Dean argues with him over the idea that whoever told him could've been lying to him, but Benny insists that he lies, he doesn't get lied to. Finally, Benny is proven right when the nearby portal opens in response to Dean's presence. Telling Dean he's putting a lot of trust in him, Benny prepares to transfer his soul into Dean. Dean tells him he has earned that trust and casts a spell that transfers Benny's soul into his arm. When Dean makes it out of Purgatory through the portal, Benny's soul goes with him.

8.09 Citizen Fang

A rouge vampire named Desmond decides to create his own nest and tries to entice Benny, who has moved back into his hometown in Louisiana and is looking after his great-granddaughter Elizabeth secretly, into helping him. However, Benny refuses so Desmond warns him that he will kill someone every night until Benny agrees. Desmond's first victim draws the attention of mentally-unstable hunter Martin Creaser who is following Benny and believes him to be the killer. He calls in Sam and Dean, but Dean believes Benny's story even after finding him after he buries Desmond's second victim. Despite Dean's belief, Martin and Sam go after Benny until Dean tricks Sam into leaving. Dean and Benny go after Desmond after Benny pretends to agree to join him to learn where he is and in the confrontation that follows, Benny kills Desmond. However, seeing Dean bleeding from an attack stirs Benny's bloodlust.

Afterwards, realizing that the situation means he can no longer stay there, Benny leaves, but Martin, obsessed with killing Benny, kidnaps Elizabeth to force him to return. In the confrontation that follows, Benny pretends to allow Martin to kill him, but turns the tables on him and in the fight that follows, rips out his throat, killing him, before fleeing.

8.10 Torn and Frayed

Benny calls Dean for help after his loneliness starts to get to him without Dean or Andrea there to keep him going in the right direction. Though Dean, who believes Benny's story after learning what happened from Elizabeth, promises to meet Benny for coffee once the case he is on is over, he later calls Benny to say a final farewell, having decided to cut all ties to the vampire. Benny is left in a deteriorating situation: no friends and he's running out of blood with only one bag left.

8.18 Freaks and Geeks

In Conway Springs, Kansas, as Krissy Chambers and Aiden sit in a car at a make-out spot, a vampire attacks them, expecting easy prey. However, they are actually young hunters who laid a trap for it as it has supposedly killed Aiden's family. While the vampire is distracted with the "scared" Krissy, Aiden decapitates it from behind and confirms that it is the one that killed his family.

Hunting the vampire that killed Josephine Barnes' family, Jimmy Day, Krissy, Aiden and Josephine come into contact with the Winchesters who are in town tracking vampire kills and found out about them. Aiden and Josephine find a young woman tied up in Jimmy's motel room, but he runs when confronted by them. Krissy takes Jimmy down with a dart filled with Dead Man's Blood, but he claims not to know what is going on and that he is innocent of the deaths of Josephine's family. Not believing him, Josephine cuts his head off.

The next day, Victor Rogers pulls the three from school and shows them a surveillance photo of a female vampire he claims killed Krissy's father. He proves it to them as the vampire has on a necklace owned by Lee, but Sam isn't so sure that its real as it has no date stamp. At the same time, Dean learns from Jimmy's victim that she was actually kidnapped by a man in a hoodie and a blue van and that Jimmy only returned from Afghanistan a few weeks before, making him a new vampire. Josephine's family was also killed a few months before, making Jimmy innocent of their murders like he claimed.

Following a clue, Dean travels to the closed Conway Springs Lodge where he finds the woman who is completely confused as to what is going on. She is a vampire, but has been newly turned and hasn't fed yet. As a result, when the kids show up to kill her, Dean convinces them that something else is going on and to not kill her as if they can get the blood of the vampire that turned her, they can cure her.

At the same time, Sam goes after the man in the hoodie with Victor only to learn that he is a vampire named Seth working with Victor. Victor knocks Sam out and ties him up, planning to have Seth kill him. They have made a deal: Victor lets him roam free and in return, he works for Victor, killing people so he can create the next generation of hunters. Sam, Dean and the kids arrive and the Winchesters reveal the truth to them. Seth confirms he is the true killer of their families, something he says he enjoyed and Victor tries to convince them not to let it change anything. When that fails, Seth takes Aiden hostage so he and Victor can escape. When Josephine distracts Victor, Krissy shoots Seth in the right eye and chest with darts filled with dead man's blood, taking him down.

After everything is over, Seth is presumably killed and using his blood, the group is able to make the cure and administer it to his innocent victim, returning her to being human.

8.19 Taxi Driver

In Purgatory, a vampire attacks Sam, but after he stabs it in the stomach with Ruby's knife, Sam decapitates him with the vampire's own blade.
After learning from Naomi that Sam got to Hell through Purgatory and that Ajay is dead, Dean goes to Benny for help. Benny agrees to let Dean kill him and then lead Sam and Bobby Singer to the portal out as he doesn't feel like he belongs on Earth. After agreeing to see Benny when Sam returns, Dean decapitates him.

Three more vampires attack Sam and Bobby. Sam kills two, but the last one nearly overpowers Bobby before Benny rips out his throat. Recognizing Benny, Sam lets him lead them to the portal out where three more vampires, enraged at Benny working with a Winchester again, arrive to attack. Having never intended to return to Earth, Benny stays behind to hold the vampires off and is last seen being torn apart by them as Sam escapes.

9.02 Devil May Care

A vampire stops at the side of the road where a girl, Tracy Bell, is having car trouble. The vampire offers the girl a ride and when she agrees and starts to get in his van, extends his fangs in preparation to feed on her. However, Tracy is a hunter and kills the vampire, leaving his headless body and abandoned van by the side of the road.

9.04 Slumber Party

Charlie Bradbury reveals that she has become a hunter and that one of the beings she hunted was a teenage vampire.

VAMPIRES IN LORE

According to most lore, vampires subsist by feeding on the life essence (generally in the form of blood) of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person. Although vampiric entities have been recorded in many cultures, the term "vampire" was not popularized until the early 18th century, after an influx of vampire superstition into Western Europe from areas where vampire legends were frequent, such as the Balkans and Eastern Europe. This increased level of vampire superstition in Europe led to mass hysteria and in some cases resulted in corpses actually being staked and people being accused of vampirism. Local variants of vampires were also known by different names, such as vrykolakas in Greece and strigoi in Romania. Source: Wikipedia.org.

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