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Supernatural Season 1, Episode 5, Bloody Mary recap 🪞 Berly and LA are back on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast, and LA's very first note on this one? I don't mess with that shit! Bloody Mary sleepover legends traumatized her as a kid (relatable).

The episode starts in Toledo, Ohio, where three girls play truth or dare and young Lily gets dared to say Bloody Mary three times in the mirror. Her dad, Steven Shoemaker, starts seeing a creepy figure in every reflective surface of their VERY mirror-heavy house (seriously, way too many mirrors) and ends up dead in the bathroom with his eyes liquefied into blood. Yikes.

Meanwhile, Sam's having nightmares about Jessica burning on the ceiling and refuses to talk about it (tortured soul Sam is back!). The boys trace the ghost to Mary Worthington, a woman murdered in front of her mirror in Indiana, and discover she isn't coming after just anyone. She's targeting people with a secret: they caused someone's death. Along the way they meet bitchy-but-smart Charlie, who wisely gets Sam's number (smart move, girl!), and her friend Jill, who does Bloody Mary to prove it's not real and... immediately dies.

Episode Highlights:

• LA's cousin scaring the absolute shit out of her with a "behind you!" prank
• The boys crashing a wake in their grungy hunting clothes (maybe wait till after, guys?)
• Sam's reflective shirt buttons needing to go (for safety!)
• Dean bribing the sassy morgue attendant with Sam's poker winnings
• Mary crawling out of the mirror, straight up The Ring style
• Sam revealing he dreamed about Jessica's death BEFORE it happened (guilt intensifies)
• Dean the knight in shining armor, smashing mirrors (that's a LOT of bad luck, boys!)
• Mary getting a very Dorian Gray taste of her own reflection

In the lore segment, we dig into the real Bloody Mary: Queen Mary I of England, aka Mary Tudor, who earned her nickname by burning hundreds of Protestants at the stake. We also get into how Foxe's Book of Martyrs sealed her reputation and whether she inspired the Bloody Mary cocktail. Brutal history, but probably not the source of the sleepover game.

Sam: "Lollipops and candy canes."
(Dean had asked what he dreamed about. And yes, we toasted "Your brain is full of lollipops, rainbows and cheese" from Get Him to the Greek instead.)

Your turn, hunters: Did YOU ever say Bloody Mary three times in the mirror, or are you with LA and don't mess with that shit? 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/Bloody_Mary
• https://www.britannica.com/story/was-bloody-mary-a-real-person
• https://www.history.com/news/queen-mary-i-bloody-mary-reformation

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