chapter nine → wendigo

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chapter nine
whitney never thought
that she would go
camping in her life
but it went downhill
when the wendigo
kidnapped her
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third person's pov
later that night

Sam, Dean and Whitney are all sitting in a bar table. "So, Blackwater Ridge doesn't get a lot of traffic. Local campers, mostly. But still, this past April, two hikers went missing out there. They were never found." Sam says as he pulls out John's journal.

"Any before that?" Dean asked as Whitney is drinking water, as she was heartbroken that the bar didn't have chocolate milk.

Sam pulls out newspaper articles to show Dean. "Yeah, in 1982, eight different people all vanished in the same year. Authorities said it was a grizzly attack." Sam says.

Dean reads the headline in The Lost Creek Gazette:
GRIZZLY BEAR ATTACKS!
UP TO EIGHT HIKERS VANISH IN LOST CREEK AREA
HIKERS DISAPPEARANCE BAFFLE AUTHORITIES'

Sam pulls out his laptop. "And again in 1959, and again before that in 1936." Sam says as he opens the laptop, which already has a window tab open to Tommy's video. "Every twenty-three years, just like clockwork. Okay. Watch this. Here's a clincher. I downloaded that guy Tommy's video to the laptop. Check this out." Sam says as he pulls up the video and goes through three frames of the video one at a time. A shadow crosses the screen.

"Do it again." Dean says as Whitney is watching, as she is sitting on her uncle's lap. 

Sam repeats the frames. "That's three frames. That's fraction of a second. Whatever that thing is, it can move." He says, as Dean hits his arm, and he looks up.

"Told you something weird was going on." Dean says.

"Yeah." Sam says as he closes the laptop. "I got one more thing." He says as he hands over another newspaper article. "In 'fifty-nine one camper survived this supposed grizzly attack. Just a kid, barely crawled out of the woods alive." Sam says as Dean looks at the article.

"Is there a name?" Dean asked as Whitney finished her water.

On the way to this Shaw guy's house, Whitney fell asleep, as her snores filled the silence of the Impala. Dean couldn't help but smile at hearing his daughter sleeping ever so peacefully. He is almost tempted of bring her back to the motel, but Whitney wouldn't want to wake up in an empty room. 

He made that mistake once.

He doesn't want to make it again.

After Sam and Dean finished talking to the Shaw guy about getting some more information, Sam and Dean raise that maybe this isn't some killer grizzly bear, maybe it is something more.

Whitney stirred in her sleep, as Dean holds her in his arms. "It's okay, baby. Go back to bed." Dean mutters in her ear, as she has her face buried into his neck. He uses his right hand to rub her back, which slowly helps her fall back asleep.

"Spirits and demons don't have to unlock doors. If they want inside, they just go through the walls." Dean says.

"So, it's probably something else, something corporeal." Sam says, as Dean gives his brother a look.

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