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Supernatural tells the story of Sam [Jared Padalecki] and Dean [Jensen Ackles] Winchester, two brothers raised from childhood to be nomadic hunters of supernatural phenomena. When Sam was six months old and Dean was four, something otherworldly killed their mother in a housefire. After that, their father John [Jeffrey Dean Morgan] became obsessed with the paranormal and took to hunting evil across the backroads of America while teaching them the tools of the trade along the way. For awhile, Sam turned his back on hunting and lived a normal life attending college at Stanford University and building a healthy relationship with a girl named Jessica. But that all came to an end when Dean showed up on Sam's doorstep asking for help after their father disappeared on a hunt. Today, the brothers travel from town to town investigating the demonic and the paranormal while continuing John's quest to find what killed their Mom. Sometimes the stories are based on actual urban legends, such as the Lady in White, Bloody Mary, or the Hookman, but more often than not, Supernatural will take pieces from folk lore, classic mythology, ghost stories, etc. and put them in a new context. The show premiered on YTV on Sep 6th, 2005 and started on the WB a week later. Generally, there are 22 episodes in any given season with seven to nine episodes focused on the mythos while the rest are standalone episodes. Three seasons have been completed so far and the fourth begins in September 2008.

They drive a black 1967 Chevy Impala. It was given to Dean by his father, John. It has the license plate KAZ 2Y5. The KAZ is a reference to Kansas, the Winchesters' home state, and the 2Y5 is 2005, the year the show premiered.

According to Jensen Ackles, Dean's necklace is an Egyptian protection amulet, possibly a representation of the Bull-Man, a Mesopotamian demon that helps people fight evil and chaos, or Mithras, a Roman Zoroastrian god whose many duties include protecting the righteous from demonic forces. It was revealed in A Very Supernatural Christmas where and how Dean got the necklace (it once belonged to Bobby) but not what it was intended for nor if does anything special, although Kripke hinted at LA Con in 2008 that the necklace may contain an extra bit of mojo. Kripke said that there is a reason why Dean always wears it but that they haven't yet found the right story to reveal why.

At the start of season one Dean was 26, and Sam was 22. Dean's birthday is January 24th,1979. Sam's birthday is May 2nd,1983.

They are from Lawrence, Kansas, which isn't just some random thing on the part of the producers. Do a google search of "Lawrence Kansas legends", and you should find some good stuff.

Dean runs elaborate credit card scams and hustles pool and poker games to make it from day to day.

November 2, 1983 which is All Souls Day in the Roman Catholic Church.

Y.E.D is an acronym for Yellow Eyed Demon, a term first uttered by Dean in episode 2.9 Croatoan. Acronyms and names for the other lower class demons and supernatural creatures featured on the show so far include: B.E.D (Black Eyed Demon, typical soldier demons), R.E.D: (Red Eyed Demons, deal making demons). and PsyKids (Psychic 20somethings that have enhanced mental abilities such as visions, telekinesis, telepathy, etc.).

Don't worry, there are thousands of people out there in the same boat. Region 1 DVDs (US and Canada) have the special features. They were removed from both the Region 2 (Europe, Israel, and Japan) and region 4 (Australia, Central and South America) DVDs for some reason. You can get the Region 1 DVDs at any good DVD importing site. Most DVDs players are able to play the Region 1 NTSC. However, some may have regional encoding and will not play DVDs from other regions. There are a number of websites set up to deal with this by providing hacks to change the encoding of your machine. Just search in Google.

Here's a link to a detailed Supernatural music guide that will give the answer. http://freenet-homepage.de/screever/Supernatural-Music-Guide.html

Prior to the filming of Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, Jared Padalecki accidentally broke his hand rehearsing a stunt. Following this, the writers had to write in Sam breaking his hand when he and Dean were taking out the zombie during the climax of said episode.

Two possibilities have been offered: 1) Since Mary was out of Mirror-world, her presence would cause anyone nearby to bleed out of their eyes, or 2) Dean was bleeding because he felt guilty over something that happened in the past. Originally people thought the answer was in the flashback scenes from Something Wicked, but Eric Kripke confirmed that Dean was hiding a bigger secret than that. Kripke recently reiterated at the LA Con in 2008 that Dean's eyes were bleeding for a reason but did not say why.

In a deleted scene, Dean notices that his watch had stopped and that the radio was going to static(two actual signs of nearby paranormal activity). Dean's hunter instincts kicked in, and he rushed to Sam's place figuring he would be the target.

In episode 2.10 Hunted, Gordon casually revealed to Dean that he had roadhouse sources who were watching the brothers. We were supposed to meet Gordon's source in that episode (some old shifty guy that Ellen would run out of the bar), but Eric Kripke said the scenes were so bad and corny they had to drop them from the episode.

John's journal has been placed online by Warner Brothers. Go to: http://supernatural.warnerbros.com/. You'll have to click around a bit, but you will eventually get to it.

Sorta. While they changed the name of the town and built up the legend, it is based on the village of Dudleytown, Connecticut, which is left in ruins and resides on private property. In fact, it was supposed to be called Dudleytown in the show but they had to change the name for presumably legal reasons. Here's a link on the history and legends of Dudleytown. http://www.ghostvillage.com/legends/dudleytown.shtml

http://cwtv.com/thecw/style-supernatural has the wardrobe from season 3 and (Episode 2.9) Croatoan.

Season 1: The boys are on a hunt to find their father.

Season 2: The boys struggle to figure out Azazel's plans for Sam.

Season 3: The boys are trying to find a way to get out of Dean's deal.

Season 4: The boys must fight to keep the 66 seals from being broken.

We don't know. After Sam dies at the end of "All Hell Breaks Loose Part 1" the only viewpoint we see is Dean's. Sam is brought back soon after, and does not even know he died, let alone where he was. It's likely that he does not remember just like Dean does not remember his out of body experience in "In My Time of Dying", but it has never been addressed on the show.