Men of Letters bunker



The Men of Letters Bunker, or "the Batcave" as it was referred to by Dean Winchester, was the secret base of the Men of Letters. It could only be accessed by a special key.

History and details
The Men of Letters bunker housed many artifacts and was located in Lebanon, Kansas, the geographic center of the contiguous United States. Construction of the bunker was started in 1932 and took three years to build. After it was finished in 1935, the first case investigated in the bunker was that of Dorothy Baum. Much of the events were written into a set of books by Dorothy's father, who was a Man of Letters himself.

It was described as containing every object, scroll, and spell collected by the order for over a thousand years, as well as research and books on a variety of subjects. After eighty years the bunker had functional power and water supply and was also capable of providing some form of Internet connection.

It was said to be the "safest place on Earth, warded against any evil ever created." The warding on the bunker was devised by Cuthbert Sinclair before he was expelled from the Men of Letters and went rogue. The only way to get in was with the Key of the Order of Letters.

The bunker also possessed a lockdown mode, which could be activated by a lever in the electrical room. Once locked down, no one could get in or out of the bunker. The process caused an alarm and all the lights to dim, and be replaced by red ones.



In 2013, it became Sam and Dean Winchester's new base of operations. It was impossible to track cell phone signals that came from within the bunker; the closest that one could get a signal was outside of a twenty-mile radius.

The witch Olivette, revealed that there were actually many bunkers scattered across the world. Arthur Ketch also calls it "a bunker" when talking to Dean rather than "the bunker", further showing that there are more bunkers elsewhere. Sam later told Dean that the Men of Letters only had one bunker, but they had smaller chapter houses acting as outposts all over. The chapter house in Portsmouth, Rhode Island had a similar appearance to the bunker, but was much smaller.

By earlier 2017, Sam had downloaded all of the bunker's files into an online archive for better accessibility.

Later in 2017, the Bunker was put into a lockdown by Arthur Ketch that locked Sam, Dean, and Lady Toni Bevell inside, cut off all power and water and shut down airflow into the Bunker. This would enough to kill them in about two days. After being unable to find a magical way to reverse the lockdown, Dean used a grenade launcher to blast through a wall into the sewers and hit the manual override located outside the Bunker, ending the lockdown moments before it would've been fatal.

In 2018, in an attempt to rescue Mary and Jack from Apocalypse World, the Winchesters opened a rift leading from the bunker into the alternate reality. After twenty-four hours, the rift closed again on its own.

After discovering that the archangel Gabriel was within the bunker, the Prince of Hell Asmodeus contacted Sam and threatened to kill him and destroy the bunker if Sam didn't turn over Gabriel. Asmodeus was able to break through the bunker's wards as they were not designed for a demon as powerful as him and led an incursion into the bunker with five other demons. In the battle that followed, the other demons were overpowered and ultimately killed while the Prince of Hell himself was incinerated by Gabriel in the middle of the bunker's main room.

Layout and Contents
The bunker was laid out in two layers, with a balcony level on the entrance, and a second level where the main area was. It also contained a library and was decorated in lavish style. The walls were covered with bookcases and filing cabinets, detailing many files collected over centuries, and included every exorcism over three hundred years, case files, incident reports, and information on hunters the Men of Letters worked with. At the end was a very large telescope. It also contained several storage rooms.

In the room adjacent to the library was a variety of old computers and machines, including "Commodore 64". It was revealed they were still functional and possessed some form of sensors and early warning devices, as they were automatically activated when the angels were expelled from heaven and started tracking them falling, all over the earth.

It also had multiple showers and living quarters. The central area featured a long wooden table that could be used for gatherings. Much of the furniture and decor were from past decades. It had vinyl records and a functional record player. The headquarters also included many unique relics and artifacts, including the Spear of Destiny and the Key to Oz.

Despite being a large building, its entrance was rather small and nondescript. The entrance was located near the road but was almost below ground level. One of the rooms that were meant as sleeping quarters was claimed by Dean Winchester as his own, and he decorated it with a series of guns and other weapons, including his blade from Purgatory on the back wall. The room contained a bed with a memory foam mattress and a desk with a reading light, against which Dean placed a picture of his mother.

The complex also housed a shooting range, complete with three targets and a dungeon for holding demons hidden in one of its archive rooms. The dungeon included a Devil's trap as well as cuffs and chains that were engraved in spellwork. There was also a very large kitchen, and what seemed to be a sick bay.

The bunker had a garage that housed a lot of vehicles, like cars and Dorothy's motorcycle. Most vehicles were classics due to the Order's foundation in earlier decades. After its discovery, Dean started storing the Impala here. The bunker also had an electrical room which managed the controls to large parts of the building and included the lever that activates lock down mode.

The Bunker contains at least three pure gold knives that can be used to kill monsters.

The Bunker was warded for a long time by various spells, thanks to Cuthbert Sinclair's efforts, rendering it near impenetrable to most supernatural attacks and invasion. These wards can be "powered down" by the inhabitants to allow beings such as demons to enter.

The Bunker can be sent into a lockdown that cuts off all power and water inside, locks the doors beyond any ability to open and stops the airflow into the Bunker. This type of lockdown will kill three people trapped inside in two to three days and with the addition of a mystical dampener, even magic can't reverse it. The only way to end this kind of lockdown is to hit the manual override located outside the Bunker.

Current

 * Sam Winchester
 * Dean Winchester
 * Rowena MacLeod
 * Arthur Ketch
 * Jack
 * Mary Winchester
 * Alternate Bobby Singer
 * Alternate Charlie Bradbury
 * Castiel
 * Maggie
 * Members of Bobby Singer's colony
 * Members of the Resistance

Former

 * Men of Letters
 * Cuthbert Sinclair
 * Peter Jenkins
 * James Haggerty
 * The Wicked Witch
 * Dorothy Baum
 * Gadreel
 * Linda Tran
 * Charlie Bradbury
 * Members of the Styne Family
 * Sully
 * Kevin Tran
 * Metatron
 * God
 * The Darkness
 * Billie
 * Fiona Duncan
 * Gavin MacLeod
 * Mick Davies
 * Ketch's Henchmen
 * Eileen Leahy
 * Ketch's Assault Team
 * Lady Toni Bevell
 * Crowley
 * Donatello Redfield
 * Ghost Kid
 * Bunker Incursion Demons
 * Asmodeus
 * Gabriel
 * Lucifer

Appearances

 * Season 8
 * As Time Goes By
 * Everybody Hates Hitler
 * Trial and Error
 * Remember the Titans
 * Goodbye Stranger
 * Pac-Man Fever
 * The Great Escapist
 * Clip Show
 * Sacrifice
 * ​Season 9
 * Devil May Care
 * I'm No Angel
 * Slumber Party
 * Dog Dean Afternoon
 * Heaven Can't Wait
 * Bad Boys
 * Rock and a Hard Place
 * Holy Terror
 * Road Trip
 * First Born
 * The Purge
 * Captives
 * Thinman
 * Blade Runners
 * Mother's Little Helper
 * Meta Fiction
 * Stairway to Heaven
 * Do You Believe In Miracles?
 * Season 10
 * Black
 * Soul Survivor
 * Hibbing 911
 * The Things We Left Behind
 * The Hunter Games
 * There's No Place Like Home
 * About a Boy
 * Halt & Catch Fire
 * The Executioner's Song
 * The Things They Carried
 * Inside Man
 * Book of the Damned
 * The Werther Project
 * Dark Dynasty
 * The Prisoner
 * Season 11
 * Form and Void
 * The Bad Seed
 * Baby
 * Thin Lizzie
 * Our Little World
 * Plush
 * Just My Imagination
 * O Brother, Where Art Thou?
 * The Devil is in the Details
 * Into the Mystic
 * Don't You Forget About Me
 * Love Hurts
 * The Vessel
 * Beyond the Mat
 * Red Meat
 * Hell's Angel
 * The Chitters
 * Don't Call Me Shurley
 * All in the Family
 * We Happy Few
 * Alpha and Omega
 * Season 12
 * Keep Calm and Carry On
 * Mamma Mia
 * The Foundry
 * The One You've Been Waiting For
 * Rock Never Dies
 * LOTUS
 * First Blood
 * Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets
 * Family Feud
 * The Raid
 * Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
 * The British Invasion
 * The Memory Remains
 * The Future
 * Twigs & Twine & Tasha Banes
 * There's Something About Mary
 * Who We Are
 * All Along the Watchtower
 * Season 13
 * The Rising Son
 * Patience
 * The Big Empty
 * Tombstone
 * War of the Worlds
 * The Scorpion and The Frog
 * The Bad Place
 * Breakdown
 * Various & Sundry Villains
 * Devil's Bargain
 * Good Intentions
 * A Most Holy Man
 * Scoobynatural
 * The Thing
 * Bring 'em Back Alive
 * Funeralia
 * Unfinished Business
 * Beat the Devil
 * Exodus
 * Let the Good Times Roll

Trivia

 * Castiel's safe place inside his mind is the bunker's kitchen.
 * During Gadreel's possession of Sam, Sam was inside what he thought was the bunker's library.
 * In All in the Family, God teleports the Impala into the middle of the Bunker's storage room while saving its passengers from Amara.
 * As shown in We Happy Few, Sam's bedroom is Room 21.
 * Dean's room appears to be Room 11.
 * Room 15 appears to be a guest room, as Mary Winchester, Mick Davies and Castiel were each shown using this bedroom.
 * Fans who toured the Supernatural set of the Men of Letters bunker revealed that the crew use the same room as the set for Sam and Dean's bedrooms.
 * In The Vessel, Lucifer drapes Castiel's trench coat over a chair after getting it wet. He is banished away before he can retrieve it, yet he appears in the following episode with an identical one.