The Shadow People

The Shadow People is an unique sub-branch of Violent Spirits that introduced in Supernatural: Joyride.

History
In late 1960s (at July 20, 1968 according police report, shortly after assasination of Robert F. Kennedy), a mentally-deranged paranoid hippie-turned-preacher-turned-cult leader Caleb Fells, committed murder-suicide along with 24 members of his cult, "Free Folk of the Fields" or simply known as "The Fields", believing that death of RFK will trigger the event of the Apocalypse. Not wanted to die during Apocalypse event, he decided to blow themsleves using dynamites in their commune ranch where now become Yates family' ranch. The resulted explosion caused all of the cult members and some townfolks living nearby perished. It was very hard to estimate how many number of victims, as most of bodies destroyed and only 23 identifiable parts that subsequently known.

The ranch later abandoned in aftermath of the incident. The ranch subsequently passed to several hands. However due to the dark past, nobody want to live here. Eventually, the incident later forgotten by townfolks and the ranch owned by Yates family, after buy it from unknown past owner of the ranch some time prior the event in novel.

In 2017, after the Yates rebuilt the ranch and renovated the house where the cult commune house was stood, spirits of Caleb Fells and others awakened become The Shadow People, beginning their reign of terror and anarchy, continuing Caleb Fells' work.

Physical Appearance
The Shadow People appear like a grayish-black humanoid shadow with static, flickering red eyes. When it possessed human, the human will retain static, flickering red eyes too, which Dean was thought akin like an old TV get lost signal.

Some stronger Shadow People may retain more stable appearance. While retain their looking, it have discriminable feminine (but not always woman) looking-face with long claws. Their claws are corporeal enough to pierce human flesh.

When it "killed" either by electrocution by taser, exposure from UV-A light from blacklight, or rock salt blasts, it will simply faded and dissapear. Their "death" somehow permanent, as it will no longer come back after being "killed".

Supernatural: Joyride
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Powers and Abilities
The Shadow People are unique Violent Spirits with menacing qualities. Despite physically weak compared with other ghost types, it still very dangerous because their ability to influence anarchy and social disorder and their infectious possession capabilities.
 * Shapeshifting - The Shadow Peoples are capable to shapeshift their appearance resembling their target or their own desired. However, despite their shape changed, it also come with twists they have crooked movement which noticable by human.
 * Infectious Possession - The shadow people have unique strategy to possess human. Rather possessed human as whole entity, they can split themselves. One able to split into numerous fragment and distributed to people living in a town, enough to assembly a mob to decimate a town.
 * Mental Manipulation - After infecting people, they can influence thought of people to commit anarchy and social disorder. The first sign, is sudden blackout. Hext, the victim started to do simple anarchy acts like vandalism and streaks, and eventually escalated to riots and brutal fights, and finally committing evil acts like arson and murder.
 * Memory Manipulation - After infecting people, it somehow able to reset the victim brain function, leaving them no recollection about what happening during possession.
 * Claws - Strong Shadow People able to create claws. Their claws are corporeal enough to pierce human flesh.

Weaknesses
Despite menacing appearance and capabilities, The Shadow People are weak enough to be defeated.
 * Retinal flare - When recorded by security camera, both The Shadow People and possessed people can be distinguished by retinal flare. It was appeared as static, flickering eyes in B/W security footage, but showed red color in color camera footage or directly seen by naked eye.
 * Salt - Rock salt blasts could expel them from their vessel (possessed person), as well "killing" them.
 * UV-A light from blacklight - UV-A light exposure could expel them from their vessel, as well "killing" them.
 * Electrocution - Electrocution with taser could expel them from their vessel, as well "killing" them.
 * Salting and burning of remains - Like all ghost, Salting and burning their remains destroyed him.
 * Destruction of object where they tethered into - Due to The Shadow People in Supernatural: Joyride was born because of explosion and very difficult to located every single remains left, Sam and Dean decided to burn the Yates' house as the house was connected with the incident. To completely erase any residual, they decided to burn the house from the baseent by flooding the basement with two tank of gasoline and torched it. As the fire consume the house, any remaining Shadow People paled and faded away forever.

Appearance

 * Supernatural: Joyride

Trivia

 * While the novel refer the creature as "The Shadow People", Sam, Dean, and others referred them as "Shade(s)" or "Shadow(s)", as nobody know the proper name of the species of ghost.