Supernatural Fans Choose Lesser-Known Episode as Most Horrifying – Are You Brave Enough to Watch?

Considering the show revolves around all manner of demonic, vile, cruel, and frightening creatures, most episodes contain chilling scenes and stories.

But one has stood out above all others as being the most horrifying, and it is not one that most people readily recall.

It goes all the way back to the very first season when Sam and Dean were still finding their feet as a hunter team. We are talking about season one, episode five. Bloody Mary.

Even people who have not seen Supernatural are familiar with the concept of Bloody Mary. A game played by school children, who recite the phrase in front of a mirror to frighten themselves.

The legend goes that Mary will appear in the mirror behind the person who repeats the chant three times and kill them.

This becomes all too real for Sam and Dean when they pay a visit to Ohio to investigate the mysterious death of Steven Shoemaker.

The cause of death is officially ruled to be a stroke, but the Winchester brothers soon learn his eyes were gouged out which is not fitting with that explanation.

It turned out that his daughter and a few of her friends were playing Bloody Mary and an awakened spirit targeted him.

As if a spooky ghost woman appearing in a mirror and taking people's eyes to kill them wasn't scary enough, there was a specific reason she went after the girl's father and not her and her friends.

Because this spirit takes out people who are hiding terrible secrets. Sam and Dean deduce that Steven had killed his wife and made it look like an accidental sleeping pill overdose.

More victims follow suit, Jill, a girl who got away with killing an eight-year-old boy in a hit-and-run, Charlie, who bore guilt over her ex-boyfriend's suicide, and one of our heroes, Sam who had been hiding the fact that he dreamed of his girlfriend Jessica's death days before it happened and did not prevent it.

Luckily Charlie and Sam manage to escape death, but Jill is not so lucky.

Fans find this episode particularly terrifying because of the dark, chilling nature of the primary antagonist, as well as the idea that secrets cannot stay hidden from supernatural creatures.

The notion that one way or another, people would be made to pay for their sins, is scary for anyone holding a secret. Which is many people in the world.

Bloody Mary had viewers afraid to look in mirrors, wanting to keep the lights on at night, and even worried that watching the episode could awaken some form of evil due to the number of times the words "Bloody Mary" were uttered.