take my hand. play the supernatural interactive website with me
this is yet another thing i found out about through the 2005 supernatural forum when they started talking about passwords they needed for unlocking stuff
once upon a time when you visited supernatural.warnerbros.com you were greeted with this point and click game (?) thingy that was updated as season 1 was premiering, with new stuff being added periodically. for example, the key on the floor, the metal safe and the notepad weren't there in the earliest save of this website on internet archive.
as far as i can tell, the website was created on october 1st 2005, but the earliest messages about it on the forum that i could find are from november 5th 2005.
the combination to open impala's trunk is 11-2-83, which is the hint dean gave on his voicemail when you called him before 'home' premiered
john's journal has been in the game since the beginning, but new pages were being added every couple days/weeks, according to the forum.
i clicked on john's journal last in the video, because that part of the game hasn't been saved by internet archive and the game crashes, sadly, but later on i found a catalogue with all of the pages in it on spn wiki. scans of the pages, transcription of john's 1983 journal
one of the mysteries john's journal provided was, 'what is the significance of 1246?'
a while later the key to open the glove box appeared
(note the SEX:F on sam's driver's license, of course. but also the fact that it was issued in california...)
the laptop, according to WB's official description of the season 1 DVD, is dean's! but the files inside it are sam's.
and what are the files inside it? well, on the video you can see two, but there are actually three. we'll get there
'research links' brings up actual paranormal lore blogs, not created by the production team, as far as i can tell, just by regular people on 2005's internet
site links from the bottom up. ghosts2
2005's wendigo page on wikipedia
and um.... aaevp dot com... which isn't archived, so i don't know if it was a real site. if it was, it probably belonged to the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena
but now, well. the site looks like this
'hunter's blogs' is locked, and the password to open it was one of the bonuses on the season 1 DVD (that 'access to dean's computer' / 'sam's files' thing)
you can read jo's blog here
the third item on the laptop, which wasn't saved on internet archive for some reason, was added on the evening of february 28th 2006, after the premiere of 'shadows'. ANDOVER3125550143
it was an audio file of morse code that translated to 'salvation', which would be s01e21
and this box from the floor, which was never opened as far as i could find, was theorized to be the box of family pictures sam and dean got in 'home'
two three more tidbits. rolling stones tickets?
and after 'asylum' aired, the game added dr. ellicott's journal, but i couldn't find it archived or on the wiki. sorry to this man
and at the end of this journey, as i gazed upon a message that said 'here's a post that gathered up all the information and transcribed john's journal'
i click on it, and what do i find.
that that very post turned into supernaturalwiki.com
