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Supernatural Season 2, Episode 4, Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things recap 🧟‍♀️ It's the Supernatural zombie episode: a dead college girl comes back, and she is FAST, while Dean is still drowning in grief on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast. Fun fact: the title comes from a 1972 horror comedy with a $50,000 budget. This episode is not a comedy, but we laughed anyway.

In Greenville, Illinois, a college student named Angela dies in a car wreck, and her grieving friend Neil and her ex-boyfriend Matt both have a lot of feelings about it. The boys arrive after a stop at their mom's grave in Lawrence, where Sam buries Dad's dog tags, and they find dead grass in a perfect circle around a grave nearby: signs of unholy ground. Turns out someone's been dabbling in ancient Greek necromancy, and Angela is not staying in the ground.

Episode Highlights:

• Sam burying Dad's dog tags at Mary's grave (we're not crying, you're crying)
• Dean the professor, interrogating Angela's poor dad about his ancient Greek book
• Neil, the sweet, maybe-too-sweet best friend
• Our fifth (and very minimal) blood splooge, right onto the TV screen
• Sam being too tall for the basement
• Angela's roommate Lindsey and a pair of scissors (great shot)
• A fast zombie! This is not The Walking Dead. This is World War Z. 
• The boys using themselves as bait at the cemetery
• A stake, a coffin, and one very cranky zombie. "Silver bullets won't do much, but they'll rattle her like a change purse."
• Dean's single tear, and finally opening up to Sam about Dad

In the lore segment, we dig into whether zombies could be real, from a 1997 study in The Lancet on reports of Haitian zombies to Cotard's syndrome, a rare psychiatric condition where people believe they're dead or decomposing, plus the creepy real-world parasites that turn their hosts into little incubators.

"Damn, that dead chick can run." – Dean Winchester

Your turn, hunters: Fast zombies or slow zombies? And did Dean's single tear wreck you too? 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/Children_Shouldn%27t_Play_With_Dead_Things
• https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326871
• https://www.viroxanimalhealth.com/resources/talkcleantome/2015/10/zombies-do-they-exist-in-real-life.html

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