Teenage Girl (Hell House)

This unnamed teenage girl is a resident of Richardson, Texas.

Background
This girl, along with two other boys, venture along a muddy path late at night in search of a deserted cabin. The path is misty and there is no certainly that they'll find what they're looking for.

Craig Thursten is leading the group while carrying a torch. Shortly after he tells them that the cabin is close, the cabin itself appears. When asked how he knew about the place, Craig reveals his cousin told him about it.

This teenage girl is too terrified to go inside, leading Craig to insult her and insist they check the place out now that they're here. One of the boys agrees, eager to get back to the car due to the freezing temperature. Once inside, the three find the walls of the cabin decorated in odd symbols. One of the boys lead the group down into the basement. Although initially unafraid and even skeptical about the tales of a man who used to hang girls in this place, they group notice a body hanging and each of them scream.

Two months later, Sam Winchester mentions the incident and tells Dean that when the police went to check on the haunted cabin, they found no body and accused the teenagers of "yanking chains". Since Sam believes the teenagers might be telling the truth, Sam and Dean question the trio, including this girl.

However, their accounts don't exactly match. This girl even admitted to keeping her eyes shut most of the time. The girl believed the dead woman was a red-head. They all agree however, that the body was real and that Craig is the one who led them there.

RICHARDSON, TEXAS. TWO MONTHS AGO. NIGHT.

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Towing and Salvage yard.

DEAN is driving. He looks over and sees SAM sleeping with his mouth open. He feels around then gently places a plastic spoon in SAM'S mout Texas, kinda Nair in your shampoo again huh?

SAM All right, just remember you started it.

DEAN Ah ha, bring it on baldy.

SAM Where are we anyway?

DEAN A few hours outside of Richardson. Gimme the lowdown again?

SAM (Reading) All right, about a month or two ago this group of kids goes poking around in this local haunted house.

DEAN Haunted by what?

SAM Apparently, a pretty misogynistic spirit. Legend goes, it takes girls and strings them up in the rafters. Anyway this group of kids see this dead girl hanging in the cellar.

DEAN Anybody ID the corpse?

SAM Well, that's the thing. By the time the cops got there the body was gone. So cops are saying the kids were just yanking chains.

DEAN Maybe the cops are right.

SAM Maybe, but I read a couple of the kids firsthand accounts. They seemed pretty sincere.

DEAN Where'd you read these accounts?

SAM (A little embarrased) Well, I knew we were going to be passing through Texas. So, umm, last night, I surfed some local ... (quickly) paranormal websites. And I found one.

DEAN And what's it called.

SAM HellHoundsLair.com

DEAN Lemme guess, streaming live out of Mom's basement.

SAM (Grinning) Yeah, probably.

DEAN Yeah. Most of those websites wouldn't know a ghost if it bit 'em in the persqueeter.

SAM Look. We let Dad take off. Which was a mistake, by the way. And now we don't know where the hell he is, so meantime we gotta find ourselves something to hunt. There's no harm checking this thing out.

DEAN All right. So where do we find these kids?

SAM Same place you always find kids in a town like this.

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EXTERIOR. NIGHT. FAST FOOD OUTLET 'RODEO DRIVE'.

The Impala pulls up.

Snippets of the people that were at the Hell House being interviewed.

GUY 1 (At outside table) It was the scariest thing I ever saw in my life, I swear to God.

GUY 2 (through the serving hatch) From the moment we walked in the walls were painted black.

GUY 1 Red.

GIRL (at inside table) I think it was blood.

GUY 1 All these freaky symbols.

GUY 2 Crosses and stars and...

GUY 1 Pentagons.

GUY 2 Pentacostals.

GIRL Whatever, I had my eyes closed the whole time.

GUY 1 But I can damn sure tell you this much. No matter what anybody else says...

GIRL That poor girl.

GUY 2 With the black...

GUY 1 Blonde...

GIRL Red hair, just hanging there.

GUY 1 Kicking!

GUY 2 Without even moving!

GIRL She was real.

GUY 1 One hundred percent.

GUY 2 And kinda hot. Well you know in a dead sort of way.

DEAN (lookng at SAM with eyes raised) Ok!

SAM And.... how'd you find out about this place anyway?

All THREE SITTING TOGETHER NOW. (Simultaneously:) Craig. Craig. Craig took us.

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INTERIOR. MUSIC SHOP.

SAM and DEAN enter.

CRAIG (Behind counter) Fellas. Can I help you with anything?

SAM Yeah, are you Craig Thurston?

CRAIG I am.

DEAN Well we're reporters with the Dallas Morning News. I'm Dean, this is Sam.

CRAIG No way. Well I'm writer too. I write for my school's lit magazine.

DEAN Well, good for you Morrissey.

SAM Umm. We're doing an article on local hauntings and rumor has it you might know of one.

CRAIG You mean the Hell House?

DEAN That's the one.

CRAIG I didn't think there was anything to the story.

SAM Why don't you tell us the story.

CRAIG Well, supposedly back in the '30s this farmer, Mordachai Murdoch, used to live in this house with his six daughters. It was during the Depression, his crops were failing, he didn't have enough money to feed his own children. So I guess that's when he went off the deep end.

SAM How?

CRAIG Well, he figured it was best if his girls died quick, rather than starve to death. So he attacked them. They screamed, begged for him to stop but he just strung 'em up, one after the other. And when he was all finished he just 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 Where'd you hear all this?

CRAIG My cousin Dana told me. I don't know where she heard it from. Ya gotta realize, I -- I didn't believe this for a second.

SAM But now you do.

CRAIG I don't know what the hell to think, man. You guys, I--I'll tell you exactly what I told the police, ok? 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, ok?

DEAN Thanks.

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EXTERIOR. HELL HOUSE. DAY.

SAM and DEAN slush up the muddy path to the house.

SAM Can't say I blame the kid.

DEAN Yeah, so much for curb appeal.

Cut to them both looking around. SAM comes back toward DEAN who is holding the EMF, which is making sounds.

SAM You got something?

DEAN (Tapping the EMF) Ye-ah. The EMFs no good.

SAM Why?

DEAN (Gesturing at overhead power lines) I think that thing's still got a little juice in it. It's screwing with all the readings.

SAM Yeah that'd do it.

DEAN Yeah. Come on, let's go.

They head inside and start looking around.

DEAN (Whistling) Looks like old man Murdock was a bit of a tagger here in his time.

SAM And after his time too. That reverse cross has been used by Satanists for centuries but this sigil of sulfur didn't show up in San Franciso until the '60s.

DEAN (Staring at SAM) That is exactly why you never get laid.

DEAN (Moving to the other wall) Hey what about this one, you seen this one before?

(Gesturing at a symbol. It is a cross with a dot in the middle. The bottom stroke looks like an upside-down question mark.)

SAM No.

DEAN I have. Somewhere.

SAM (Rubbing the symbol) It's paint. Seems pretty fresh too.

DEAN I don't know Sam. You know I hate to agree with authority figures of any kind, but ... the cops may be right about this one.

SAM Yeah, maybe.

A sudden noise has them on alert. They take up positions either side of a door. DEAN nods and they bust through. Bright lights shine in their eyes.

GUY 1 Oh, cut. It's just a coupla humans.

One guy holds a small electrical gadget, the other a camera which he switches off.

GUY 1 What are you guys doing here?

DEAN What they hell are you doing here?

GUY 1 Ah-ha-ha. We belong here, we're professionals?

DEAN Professional what?

GUY 1 Paranormal Investigators. (He hands them both business cards) There you go, take a look at that, boys.

DEAN Oh you gotta be kidding me.

SAM Ed Zeddmore and Harry Spengler? Hellhoundslair.com. You guys run that website.

ED Yeah.

DEAN Oh yeah, yeah, we're huge fans.

ED And ahh, we know who you guys are too.

DEAN and SAM both look at him sharply.

SAM Oh yeah?

ED Amateurs. (DEAN immediately loses interest) Looking for ghosts and cheap thrills.

HARRY Yep. So if you guys don't mind, we're trying to conduct a serious scientific investigation here.

DEAN Yeah, what have you got so far?

ED Harry, why doncha tell 'em about EMF?

HARRY Well...

SAM (Playing dumb and trying not to smile) EMF?

HARRY Electromagnetic field? Spectral entities can cause energy fluctuations that can be read with an EMF detector. Like this bad boy right here.

He turns it on. Dean smirks at SAM.

HARRY Whoa. Whoa. It's 2.8mg.

ED 2.8. It's hot in here.

DEAN whistles in admiration.

SAM Wow.

DEAN Huh. So you guys ever really seen a ghost before, or...

ED Once. We were, uh...we were investigating this old house and we saw a vase fall right off the table...

HARRY By itself.

ED Well, we, we we we didn't actually see it, we heard it. And something like that...it uh...it changes you.

DEAN Yeah. I think I get the picture. We should go, let them get back to work.

ED Yeah, you should.

DEAN Sam.

ED (As SAM and DEAN leave) Yeah, work.

ED (To HARRY) I'm sorry. That pot we smoked gave me the giggles.

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EXTERIOR. PUBLIC LIBRARY.

SAM exits and comes down the stairs as DEAN approaches.

SAM Hey.

DEAN Hey. What you got?

SAM Well I couldn't find a Mordechai but I did find a Martin Murdock who lived in that house in the '30s. He did have children but only two of them, both boys, and there's no evidence he ever killed anyone.

DEAN Huh.

SAM What about you?

They have reached the Impala and stand talking over the top of it.

DEAN Well those kids didn't really give us a clear description of that dead girl but I did hit up the police station. No matching missing persons. It's like she never existed. Dude, come on, we did our digging, man, this one's a bust all right. For all we know those hellHound boys made up the whole thing.

SAM Yeah all right.

DEAN I say we find ourself a bar and some beers and leave the legend to the locals.

DEAN gets into the car. SAM leans down, smiling, to look in the window.

DEAN turns the key in the ignition. Latino pop-dance music blasts from the speakers; when Dean tries to turn it off, the wipers turn on. DEAN rears back.

DEAN WHOA! What the...

He quickly reaches to turn everything off.

SAM gets in, laughing. He licks his finger and marks an imaginary '1' in the air then points to himself.

DEAN (Giving him a dirty look) That's all you got? Weak. That is bush league.

The impala pulls away.

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EXTERIOR. HELL HOUSE. NIGHT.

Two girls and a guy approach the house.

GUY This is it. The point of no return.

GIRL 1 Why do I have to go in there?

GIRL 2 Because Jill you chose dare. You either have to grab a jar from Mordechai's cellar and bring it back or....

GUY ...or you can make out with me.

JILL (giving them both a dirty look) I'll take the homicidal ghost, thanks.

She turns on her torch and slowly approaches the house, leaving the other two behind.

GUY Would you ever take that dare?

GIRL (scoffs) Hell no!

JILL cautiously moves inside. There is a noise like knives being sharpened.

JILL Hello? Hello? Is anybody there?

The camera plays over some hanging chicken feet. Jill makes her way to the cellar, looks around, and moves toward the jars. She takes one, but hears a sound, whirls, and drops the jar, panicked.

JILL Ok. Ok ok ok ok.

She turns and sees Mordechai. He throws a rope around her neck and she screams and keeps screaming as she is hoisted in the air. In the last shot it appears that she is dead.

END ACT ONE