Episode Details

Supernatural Season 1, Episode 2, Wendigo recap 🔥 Berly and LA are back on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, the Supernatural rewatch podcast, and they cannot stop saying "Wendingo" instead of "Wendigo" (there's only ONE "n," people!).

The episode opens at Blackwater Ridge, Colorado, where three camping bros learn the hard way that see-through tents offer zero protection. One guy gets attacked first (RIP, early-2000s horror tropes), a pre-Glee Cory Monteith gets snatched right out of the tent, and the third guy films it all on a Blackberry held backwards, because front-facing cameras weren't a thing yet. Remember those days?

Meanwhile, Sam's having nightmares about Jessica doing a Carrie-style grave grab, and the brothers follow the coordinates Dad left in his journal. They meet Haley Collins (Gina Holden, serving looks in tiny shorts that are NOT woods-appropriate), her little brother Ben (a baby-faced Alden Ehrenreich, aka the future Han Solo!), and their guide Roy, who is about to learn why you STAY IN THE PROTECTIVE CIRCLE.

Episode Highlights:

• Dean and Sam posing as "Ranger Ford" and "Ranger Hamill" while talking to the future Han Solo (Star Wars Easter egg overload!)
• Dean's "I don't do shorts" fashion stance
• Peanut M&M's leaving a Hansel and Gretel trail
• Roy being "secretly sassy" before becoming Wendigo snacks
• Zero blood splooges this week (just evidence of previous splooge)
• Dean gets a kiss, Sam gets a shoulder pat (ouch)

In the lore segment, we dig into the Wendigo of Algonquian folklore, the controversial "Wendigo psychosis," the Cree healer Jack Fiddler, and the Donner Party, plus some unwanted Dahmer talk.

The verdict: the Wendigo goes down in flames (flare gun for the win), the Collins siblings survive, and everyone agrees to tell the authorities it was a bear. Dean declares he hates camping (relatable), and Sam gets to drive for once.

"Saving people, hunting things. The family business." – Dean Winchester

Your turn, hunters: Team "Wendigo" or Team "Wendingo"? Would you have stayed in the circle, or are you a Roy? 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 below. Bonus points for fandom fun facts we missed.

Sources:

• https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Wendigo
• https://gizmodo.com/wendigo-psychosis-the-probably-fake-disease-that-turns-5946814
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party

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