The Bad Place (Alternate Universe)

The Bad Place is the name given by Kaia Nieves to an alternate universe populated mainly by unknown creatures.

Description
Like Purgatory, the Bad Place appears as a vast, untamed forest, filled with "blood, death, and monsters". However, unlike Purgatory that is surrounded in darkness, this world has light. Many creatures lurk inside the forest.

Background
The Bad Place, as Kaia Nieves came to call it, is shown to be an alternate universe that appears to be populated almost entirely by unknown creatures. All of her life, Kaia's Dream Walking visions have been focused on the Bad Place which left physical scars on Kaia that appear to others to be self-inflicted.

Season 13
In The Bad Place, Kaia talks about the Bad Place in a group therapy session, stating that her drug overdose came out of her desire to avoid dreaming so as not to see the Bad Place. She later tells the Winchesters and Jack about the Bad Place and her terror of seeing it.

While trying to open a portal to an alternate reality, Kaia has visions of the Bad Place. Guided telepathically by Jack, Kaia moves away from it and manages to locate the correct alternate reality and Mary Winchester. However, Kaia keeps flashing between Mary and the Bad Place. Eventually, Kaia and Jack manage to open a rift in the fabric of reality, disintegrating six nearby angels at the same time.

Due to Kaia flashing between the correct world and the Bad Place, Jack ends up in the other world at Mary's feet while Sam and Dean Winchester end up in the Bad Place in a giant monster footprint. Confused as to where they are, the Winchesters wander off through the Bad Place.



In Wayward Sisters, the Winchesters travel through the Bad Place, attempting to find a way out without success. They are eventually captured by a hooded figure and set up to be dinner for a giant ape-like creature.

At the same time, Jody Mills, Claire Novak and Alex attempt to find the Winchesters. After being found at the side of the road, Kaia is taken to the hospital in Sioux Falls where she is attacked by a monster from the Bad Place. The monster is killed by Claire and Jody and its presence makes the group realize that the rift to the Bad Place is still open. Under attack from the dead monster's pack mates, the group tracks down the rift and Claire and Kaia enter the Bad Place to rescue the Winchesters while Jody, Donna, Alex and Patience Turner kill the remaining monsters. Claire and Kaia rescue the Winchesters before they can be fed to the monster, but the hooded figure kills Kaia. After the Winchesters and Claire escape the Bad Place, the rift to it closes.

Later, Sam warns that the rift to the Bad Place was open for days so more monsters may have made it through before it closed. Jody promises that her group can deal with anything that ended up in Sioux Falls. That night, a rift from the Bad Place opens and Kaia's killer emerges in the Winchesters' world, revealing herself to be the alternate reality Kaia.

Known Inhabitants
Most of the inhabitants of this world are, yet, unidentified species of creatures.
 * A giant ape-like creature.
 * A shaded, ragged, humanoid creature species.
 * A spear wielding, tribal-like Kaia Nieves.
 * A gargantuan-sized, dinosaur-like creature

Aside of these creatures, smaller animals also exist (e.g.: Lizards).

Appearances

 * Season 13
 * The Bad Place
 * Wayward Sisters

Trivia

 * The scene where Sam and Dean unknowingly stand in a very large footprint of an unidentified creature resembles a scene from the 1998 film, Godzilla. In this film, the scientists unknowingly stand inside a crater, later revealed as one of Godzilla footprint.