Supernatural (TV Series)

Hell House (2006)

Shane Meier: Craig Thursten

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• Dean Winchester : We're reporters with the Dallas Morning News. I'm Dean, this is Sam.

  Craig Thursten : No way. Heh. Yeah, I'm a writer too. I write for my school's lit magazine.

  Dean Winchester : [sotto voce]  Oh. Well good for you, Morrison.

• Craig Thursten : Guys, I'm really not in the mood to answer any more of your questions, okay?

  Dean Winchester : Oh don't worry, don't worry, we're just here to buy an album, that's all.

  [he fishes through the rack, pulls out a record] 

  Dean Winchester : You know I couldn't figure out what that symbol was, and then I realized that it doesn't mean *anything*. It's a logo for Blue Oyster Cult. So tell me Craig, you uh, you into BOC? Or just scaring the hell outta people?

  [he hands Craig the album with the logo on it] 

  Dean Winchester : Now why don't you tell us about that house? Without lyin' through your ass this time.

  Craig Thursten : [sighing]  All right, um. My cousin, Dana, was on break from TCU. And, I guess we were just bored, looking for something to do, so I showed her this abandoned dump I found. We thought it'd be funny if we made it look like it was haunted. So we painted symbols on the walls, some from some albums, some from some of Dana's theology textbooks, and we found out this guy Murdoch used to live there, so we, we made up some story to go along with that. So, they told people, who told other people... and then these two guys put it on their stupid website. Everything just, took on a life of its own. I mean I, I thought it was funny at first but... now that girl's dead? I mean it was just a joke! You know I mean, none of it was real, we made the whole thing up! I swear!

  Dean Winchester : All right.

  [to Sam, as they walk out] 

  Dean Winchester : If none of it was real how the hell do you explain Mordecai?

• Sam Winchester : We're doing an article on local hauntings, and rumor has it you might know about one.

  Craig Thursten : You mean the Hell House?

  Dean Winchester : That's the one.

  Craig Thursten : I didn't think there was anything to the story.

  Sam Winchester : Why don't you tell us the story?

  Craig Thursten : Well, supposedly back in the thirties, this farmer, Mordecai Murdoch, used to live in the house with his six daughters. It was during the Depression, his crops were failing, he didn't have enough money to even feed his own family. So I guess that's when he went off the deep end.

  Sam Winchester : How?

  Craig Thursten : Well, he figured, it was best if his girls died quick, rather than starve to death. So he attacked them. And they screamed, and begged for him to stop, but, he just strung 'em up. One after another. And then when he was all finished, he turned around and hung himself. Now they say that his spirit is trapped in the house forever. Stringing up any other girl that goes inside.

  Dean Winchester : And where'd you hear all this?

  Craig Thursten : My cousin Dana told me. I don't know where she heard it from. You gotta realize, I didn't believe this for a second...

  Sam Winchester : But now you do.

  Craig Thursten : I don't know what the hell to think, man. Guys, I'll tell you exactly what I told the police, okay? That girl was real. And she was dead. This was not a prank. I swear to God, I don't wanna go anywhere near that house, ever again, okay?