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Supernatural Season 3, Episode 14, Long-Distance Call recap 📞 People in a small Michigan town are getting phone calls from their dead loved ones, and Dean gets a call from someone he's been dying to hear from: Dad, on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast. Fair warning: this might be Berly's least favorite episode so far. (Stick around to find out why.)

Sam and Dean investigate calls from a mysterious number, Shaw 33, and find a whole town talking to the dead: a woman getting calls from her mother, a man hearing from his late mistress. Then Dean's phone rings, and it's John Winchester, who says he knows a way to get Dean out of his deal. Sam isn't buying it. Dean desperately wants to. The title is shared with a 1961 Twilight Zone episode and a Richard Matheson (I Am Legend) short story about a widow getting calls from her dead husband, later adapted for The Twilight Zone as Night Call.

Episode Highlights:

• The cutest motel room in recent memory
• Thomas Edison's spirit phone (yes, that was a real thing he tried to build)
• Topless Dean (the episode's big win)
• Our 14th blood splooge of the series (minimalist but still counts)
• The phone company employee with porn and food everywhere
• Dean's To Catch a Predator joke about Sam's teenage witness
• Dean finally admitting to Sam that he's scared of going to hell

In the lore segment, we dig into the crocotta of Ethiopian and Indian legend, a dog-wolf-hyena hybrid that mimics human voices to lure its prey, its cousin the leucrota, and how both were likely early attempts to describe the spotted hyena.

Sam: "It's a crocotta."
Dean: "Gesundheit."

Your turn, hunters: Is Long-Distance Call a skip for you too, or are we being too harsh? 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/Long-Distance_Call
• https://mythologyplanet.com/what-is-the-crocotta-indian-mythology-beast/

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