the daughter of a trickster arch angel

Hell House part 3

INTERIOR. MOTEL ROOM.

DEAN is sitting on the bed drawing the symbol, while both SAM and JJ are researching.

What the hell is this symbol? It's buggin' the hell outta me. This whole damn job's buggin' me. I thought the legend said Mordechai only goes after chicks.

It does.

that is what it says, JJ says agreeing with Dean

All right. Well I mean that explains why he went after you, but why me?

Hilarious. The legend also says he hung himself but did you see those slit wrists?

Yeah.

What's up with that? And the axe too. I mean, ghosts are usually pretty strict, right? Following the same patterns over and over?

But this mook keeps changing.

(clicking away on his laptop) Exactly. I'm telling ya, the way the story goes ... wait a minute.

JJ looks over at Sam laptop to see what he's looking at.

What?

Someone added a new post to the Hell Hound site. Listen to this. 'They say Mordechai Murdock was really a Satanist who chopped up his victims with an axe before slitting his own wrists. Now he's imprisoned in the house for eternity.

this is starting to sound like a game of screwed up telephone, JJ states.

Sam nods his heads agreeing with Josie.

Still staring at the symbol he has drawn, DEAN suddenly sits straight up.

Where the hell is this going?

I don't know but I think I might have just figured out where it all started.

Sam and JJ shared a look before following Dean out the motel room door.

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INTERIOR. MUSIC STORE.

Craig is sitting at the counter looking depressed.

Hey Craig? Remember us?

Guys, look I'm really not in the mood to answer any of your questions ok?

Oh don't worry. We're just here to buy an album, that's all.

DEAN flicks through and picks up an album

To Sam and JJ as the three of them, approach the counter You know I couldn't figure out what that symbol was and then I realized that it doesn't mean anything. It's the logo for the Blue Oyster Cult.

Josie eyes widen in shoke.

(To Craig) Tell me Craig, you, uh, you into BOC? Or just scaring the hell outta people? Now why 'n't you tell us about that house ... without lying through your ass this time.

(Sighing) All right, um. My cousin Dana was on break from TCU. Ah, I guess we were just bored, looking for something to do. So I showed her this abandoned dump I found. We thought it would be funny if we made it look like it was haunted. So we painted symbols on the walls, some from some albums, some from some of Dana's theology textbooks. Then we found out this guy Murdock used to live there so we ...we made up some story to go along with that. So they told people, who told other people. And then these two guys put it on their stupid website. Everything just took on a life of its own. I mean I, I thought it was funny at first but... now that girl's dead! It was just a joke, you know. I mean, none of it was real, we made the whole thing up. I swear!

All right.

SAM, JJ and DEAN turn to leave.

If none of it was real how the hell do you explain Mordechai?