User blog:KillRoy231/One thing that always bugged me

Is, in a world where the supernatural exists and monsters attack regularly, why isn't the general public aware of it? Why are the only humans who know of them either hunters or people who encountered them and survived? Why do the others think it's pretty much our world when it's not? What kept them hidden all these years?

In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the mayor is well aware of the supernatural (and is a supernatural being himself), as are the cops and Principal Snyder, and he has them cover it up, presumably to make his sinister plans easier. While Buffy, who is also supernatural, has to keep her identity as Slayer hidden to "avoid endangering people", unless she has to reveal this to save them. Plus in Sunnydale a lot of people who do encounter vampires try to deny or forget it, hence "Sunnydale Syndrome".

In Charmed, both sides - witches, Whitelighters, demons, warlocks, Darklighters - specifically keep a low profile to avoid drawing unwanted attention. It's one of few things good and evil agree on.

In Harry Potter and Men in Black, they have magic or technology to erase people's memories who do witness magic or aliens.

Yet in Supernatural, no clear answer is given for why monsters and demons have stayed under the radar despite killing people often, presumably for thousands of years.

I think I may have my answer though: God made it like that. He probably tried the opposite in an earlier world (maybe a few), and either didn't like how it was there, or wanted to try something new with this world, or maybe others before it and prefers it this way.