| Sam and Dean find out from a website that a group of teenagers discovered a dead body hanging in a haunted house. By the time the police got there to investigate, the body had gone. Talking to the teenagers, they find that they were all led there by one person, their friend, Craig, who reveals to Dean and Sam that the house is supposedly haunted by a man called Mordechai Murdoch who murdered his six daughters. When Dean and Sam go to the house, they meet two other people, Ed and Harry - 'professional' ghosthunters who happen to run the website that mentioned the haunted house story. Leaving Ed and Harry to it, the boys head over to the library to investigate the ghost. That night, another group of teenagers go to the house. One of the girls ends up dead - hung in the basement. The next evening, Dean and Sam sneak back into the house to take another look around. They come face to face with the ghost of Mordechai, who tries to kill them with an axe. And, unusually for a spirit, he seems to be immune to rock salt. The boys barely make it out of the house alive. They realise that one of the symbols painted on the wall of the house was actually from an old record cover and suspect that Craig may have had more to do with the story than he originally said. After some discussion, he reveals that he and his cousin Dana thought it would be fun to make the house look haunted and to scare some of his friends. None of it was real. Dean wonders to Sam how, if everything was made up by Craig, what the hell atatcked them the night before... Back at the motel, Sam suggests that Mordechai could be a Tupla - a Tibetan thought form which had come to life through the beliefs of the hundreds of visitors to the Hellhoundslair website, combined with a Tibetan spirit sigil which Craig had painted on the wall of the house. That could explain why the spirit was changing his method of killing. Testing their theory, Sam and Dean 'reveal' to Ed and Harry that Mordechai is vulnerable from a .45 loaded with wrought-iron rounds. A few hours later and the new story is up on the website. They head back to the house, planning an easy kill with the wrought-iron rounds, but instead discover that the Hellhoundslair web server had crashed, meaning that the story never got around. Mordechai wasn't vulnerable any more. They make it out of the house, but cant defeat Mordechai. Instead, Dean decides to set fire to the house - after all, if there is no house left, how can Mordechai haunt it? |
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