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Supernatural Season 9, Episode 15, #Thinman recap 👻 A teenage girl is taking selfies, and there’s something behind her with no face... and a receding hairline. Odd choice, on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast.

The Ghostfacers are back! Ed and Harry roll up in their van chasing clout and filming crime scenes, and their behavior has Berly and LA deeply conflicted about two characters they used to love. Meanwhile, Dean is sure the killer in Springdale, Washington, is a ghost, and Sam is sure it isn’t. The answer turns out to be far more depressing than either guessed.

Episode Highlights:

• A selfie with a faceless figure lurking in the background
• Blood pouring out through the slats of a closet door
• “Should I come with you?” “Do you want to?” The brothers are still at it
• The Ghostfacers are back! Well, mostly (Where are Spruce and Brittany?)
• “Say hola to my little pistola”
• Dean digs his heels in on “it’s a ghost,” and Harry gets to tell him he’s wrong
• Blood splooge #79 at the restaurant, and the Ghostfacers callously film the body
• Superman can fly, but Batman can’t: a sweet childhood memory with no “those days are over” afterward
• A deputy who is way too excited to finally use his taser
• Harry’s rocking chair speech leaves both brothers silent

Both hosts were thrilled to see the Ghostfacers, at first. As the episode went on, Ed and Harry’s lack of empathy got hard to watch, from filming a body to talking carelessly in front of a grieving mom. The hosts want a redemption arc and the whole team back together. The villains are so despicable that they almost distract from that. The brothers finally get a quiet, nostalgic moment with no fight attached. Meanwhile, Dean is getting very comfortable with a blade. The gore: the cold open closet and blood splooge #79.

In the lore segment, Berly covers Slender Man, a monster with an actual birthday: a 2009 Something Awful Photoshop contest. The internet piled on from there, with backstories and series like Marble Hornets, until he became an open-source monster. Months after this episode aired, a real attack in Wisconsin was tied to the legend, which is why the hosts suspect the episode has quietly disappeared from syndication. Editor's update: it hasn't. 

“It’s Scooby-Doo time, douchebag. Take off the mask.” – Ed

Your turn, hunters: Did the Ghostfacers deserve better this time around? 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/Thinman
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man
• https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27776894
• https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/30/the-story-of-slenderman-the-internets-own-monster/

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