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Supernatural Season 6, Episode 14, Mannequin 3: The Reckoning recap 🫀 (No, there was never a real Mannequin 3. We checked.) Killer mannequins are taking revenge in Paterson, New Jersey, Lisa FINALLY tells Dean what's what, and Baby gets possessed, on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast. Plus, a Missy Elliott earworm we couldn't shake the whole episode.

Fresh off his wall cracking (we LOVED the flame still flickering in his eye), Sam and Dean investigate a string of deaths that start with mysterious gashes on the victims' foreheads: a janitor (Nicholas Carella) at a junior college and a security guard (Jorge Vargas) at the Saltzman and Sons factory, where a seamstress named Rose (Christina Sicoli) disappeared a few years ago. Meanwhile, Ben calls Dean with an emergency, and Lisa (Cindy Sampson), dressed for a date, has some choice words for Dean.

Episode Highlights:

• The most impressive anatomy dummy we've ever seen
• Dean: Be my Valentine? (Again! See My Bloody Valentine)
• The creepy, faceless white mannequins
• The episode's weirdly softcore music (what WAS that?)
• Lisa standing up for herself: "I'm trying to move on, what do you want?"
• Ben (Nicholas Elia) asking Dean why he hates them (ouch)
• Johnny's (Jake Richardson) very special girlfriend
• Baby, possessed and driving herself (THAT'S MY BABY!)

In the lore segment, we dig into the John Lawson House in New Hamburg, New York, built in 1845, where a trio of mannequins appeared on the porch for about a decade, changing outfits, wigs, and props without anyone ever seeing who moved them, and the theory that they're possessed by the victims of a deadly 1871 train crash and an 1877 fire nearby.

"So what, we've got a bunch of killer dolls like Chucky? I mean, come on, that's just freakin' creepy." – Dean Winchester

Your turn, hunters: Is Lisa right to move on? And would YOU walk past a house with three mannequins on the porch? 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/Mannequin_3:_The_Reckoning
• https://genius.com/Missy-elliott-work-it-lyrics 
• POE - ANGRY JOHNNY (Music Video - Original 1995): https://youtu.be/lrygAv93Ick?si=CqcsBP6b9vQQK3NF 
• https://indie88.com/a-house-haunted-by-mannequins-the-bizarre-story-of-the-john-lawson-house/

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