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Supernatural Season 1, Episode 13, Route 666 recap 🛻 Dean's ex-girlfriend calls for help, and this week's villain is... a racist truck. Yes, you read that right. A RACIST TRUCK. Berly and LA hit the road on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast, and LA opens with I take issue with this one. The acting was off, the chemistry was odd, and the sex scene did not meet our standards.
The episode starts in Cape Girardeau, Missouri (we cannot pronounce it), where a man gets chased down and murdered by an aggressive monster truck that acts almost animalistic. Meanwhile, Dean gets a call from his ex, Cassie (Megalyn Echikunwoke), who needs help, and Sam is LIVING for the tea. He wants ALL the details about Dean's romantic history and wears the biggest grin the whole episode.
Cassie is a reporter investigating why Black men keep dying on the same stretch of road, and her father was one of the victims. The mayor dismisses it all as accidents, despite the cars being SMASHED (Berly: You call that a dent?!). Dean and Cassie reunite, she barely acknowledges sweet Sam, and her mom shows up flustered and VERY dramatic with her teacup.
Episode Highlights (or Lowlights):
Chemistry between Dean and Cassie (more sibling vibes than romance)
The sex scene song (not what we would have picked)
Berly demonstrating the awkward back petting by hugging herself like a kid pretending to make out
Lighting so bad we couldn't even properly see topless Dean
Cassie being real DTF, according to LA's notes
Sam's adorable, mischievous grins, the true highlight of the episode
The mayor's liquefied bones (his insides became a SMOOTHIE)
The blue truck that is clearly BLACK the entire episode
Sam's master plan: "What if that didn't work?" "I was hoping that wouldn't happen."
Dean putting on his Terminator glasses
In the lore segment, we dig into the real history behind the horror: sundown towns, which we only learned about recently from Lovecraft Country and Watchmen (why didn't they teach this in school?!), and the Negro Motorist Green Book. Then we get into Stephen King's Christine, which some say was inspired by a real cursed car: the Golden Eagle, a 1964 Dodge 330. Legend has it that three police officers who drove it murdered their families, and that church members who vandalized it met gruesome ends. And the doors reportedly STILL fly open on the highway.
"I missed conversations that didn't start with 'this killer truck.'" – Sam Winchester
Your turn, hunters: Is Route 666 a guilty pleasure or a hard skip? And would YOU drive the Golden Eagle? Tell us in the Spotify comments, leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts (it's how new hunters find us), or send us fan mail. Bonus points for fandom fun facts we missed.
Denim-wrapped Nightmares is a Supernatural rewatch podcast hosted by Berly and LA, breaking down every episode of the Winchester saga with lore deep-dives plus cast and crew interviews. Special thanks to David Fesliyan and Fesliyan Studios.
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Berly:
Music. Welcome to denim wrapped nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch Podcast where we explore the TV series, episode by episode, over
LA:
drinks, we'll discuss the lore the gore and what we adore about the Winchesters and their adventures.
Berly:
I'm Burleigh and I'm a new fan of the series.
LA:
I'm LA, and I'm here along for the ride. Hello, la. Hello Burly.
Berly:
Last week we what's the blue ice or cold song, don't fear the Reaper.
LA:
Oh yeah, yeah.
Berly:
And the episode of faith Dean got electrocuted because he was playing around in water, and fired off a taser at a monster. Yeah, it was apparently 100,000 volts, and it fucked up his heart. So he was given a few weeks to live. And they went sought out a faith healer, and it turned out, wasn't a faith healer, they were controlling a Reaper, which there's apparently multiple Reapers, and they saved the day. They they broke the spell, and the Reaper got its revenge, but unfortunately, sweet Julie Benz did not get healed before they did it, so I don't think we'll be seeing her character make a recurring appearance.
LA:
What happened? How did he his heart get fixed? Though, I can't remember, because he got fixed.
Berly:
He got healed before they figured out that it was the Reaper, right? That's right, yeah. He Dean was healed by the faith healer.
LA:
Oh, yeah, because he was like, the last one to be healed, right? Yes,
Berly:
next to last one, Dean got healed, and then we saw the faith healer heal someone else, because they did that. Really cool. Cut to between two scenes where it showed the faith healer healing the guy with emphysema and the athletic jogger chick. Okay, okay, it was good. It wasn't one of my favorites, but it was a good episode. Yeah, this week.
LA:
I take issue with this one.
Berly:
It was a little corny. Yeah, it was a little corny acting,
LA:
not so great. It was a terrible
Berly:
but, yeah, we were supposed not for not the guys were fine, right? Well, I thought the girl was fine too. It's just her and her mom were a little bit much. The chemistry was off. Also, I did bothered me. I didn't believe this was some grand lost love. She was gorgeous, and I want her hair, yeah, beautiful, and I didn't mind her acting. It's just the way the two characters interacted together. It felt more sibling like to me than
LA:
romantic. Yeah, it was just, it just wasn't there, yeah, for what they were trying to convey with, like, you said this long, long lost love or whatever. Like, no,
Berly:
right?
LA:
I'm not. I wasn't. I wasn't buying it.
Berly:
So if that didn't get our listeners excited to hear our recap today, Whoopsie, Whoopsie, let's get into the recap of this week's episode, which is route 666,
LA:
we are it starts out in Cape, Girardeau, Gerardo gyarado, I don't know Missouri. We're in Missouri. We see a guy driving down this road, and this very large truck starts following him,
Berly:
yeah, like, what's up? What's the monster truck rallies where they go over, they drive over other cars, yeah, up the hills, like, that big of a truck,
LA:
yeah? So he's just, like, aggressive with him, starts ramming him in the
Berly:
back. Was very distraught for this man, yeah. He was obviously terrified.
LA:
Yeah, I would have been too. So he ends up. This truck ends up running him off the road. He smashes into him, pretty bad. So bad that the back window, yeah, and the trunks, trunk like open, it's blocked, yeah. But anyway, eventually he gets run off the road, goes over something, and the car rolls, and he's gone,
Berly:
right? There was some construction stuff there. That's what it was. We find out later on that there was a home there, a historic home that had been bulldozed. And it seemed like maybe they were going to be building something new eventually, because at one point they're looking at blueprints and stuff. So there was, like, some they didn't get give a very clear shot of it, but some, like, barrels and construction stuff or whatever. So he goes driving off of that kind of goes airborne and flips and everything, yeah, it was bad. It was very dramatic, yeah.
LA:
So needless say, he doesn't make it, and we see the big old truck just like, vanish.
Berly:
But first it went like,
LA:
oh, it was so aggressive. It was like, lunging at him, yeah,
Berly:
it was, like, almost animalistic, yeah. I
LA:
was like, this is, I mean, I didn't like it. He made me uncomfortable. Then we cut to the boys. They're, they're heading to Pennsylvania, but Dean gets a call from an old friend and needs their help, so no more Pennsylvania. Kenya. They're headed to Missouri. Apparently, this Cassie girl and Dean had a history, and Sam is into it. He wants that tea. He
Unknown:
is
LA:
giving his brother such a hard time. It's adorable.
Berly:
You know, he owns rom coms, like he's got several DVDs of rom coms and stuff like that, probably, probably tried to set up all his friends together. He is way into Yeah, yeah.
LA:
So Cassie is at the police station, or she's at the paper. She works for the paper in the town, and her and her brother, or her dad's friend, are talking to the mayor about, what, what, what are we going to do about this, like black men are are disappearing on this road, you know, or being killed or whatever,
Berly:
because we found out this is the second person, and we also find out it was cassie's dad, yeah. So there's now two people who've been run off this road, and there's only one set of tire marks, so they're just saying, Oh, they just lost control of the car, that's it. And I remember Cassie describing but they all had that dent, that explainable. I'm like, dent, yeah, it was smashed. You call that a dent? Yeah, this fucking window got smashed out. He was it was inverted. Yeah, y'all are calling that dents, all right, but yeah, there's now two people who have been murdered in the exact same stretch of road, yeah, but only one tire track set. I said those words in the wrong order. That's okay, yeah, y'all know what I meant. And so they're going, Oh, we don't know, yeah, they just lost control. The
LA:
boys show up at the paper after Cassie is done talking to the mayor, and she's very delighted to see Dean. It was kind of awkward. Yeah, yeah. She did not acknowledge sweet Sam at all. It's all about Dean. But
Berly:
Sam had this grin, this little misty is grin on his face whenever he saw them looking at each other like he's watching
LA:
them intently. But he she gets introduced to him. So the three of them head to cassie's house, and she's just, she just fills them in on that is that when she talks about that there were some murders back in the in the day, or that's what, that's what they were, their research is, yeah,
Berly:
that's when we actually hear her talking about how her father was the second person, and that this is now a string of things, and her dad was seeing a truck beforehand, and she's giving them the tea while she literally serves them tea.
LA:
I didn't realize that. Well, her cassie's Mom comes in, and she is fucking flustered. Is a mess, like I I mean, I don't know what she had been doing, but she she was not having it. Dean tried to talk to her. She's like, No, I don't want to talk right now. And she takes off. It was, it's very weird, very brief appearance. But, man, I was like, Good lord, what did? What is wrong with her? I
Berly:
mean, understandably upset her husband just died, but yes, seemed very, almost frantic.
LA:
Also, by the way, Cassie didn't seem so upset about her dad, like did cry once. I'd be a mess. I'd be in bed, yeah, but I mean, good for her, I guess
Berly:
she had to get that date. Well,
LA:
that's true. Okay, so then they go do their research, and Sam discovers no not Sam. Dean and Cassie discover that back in the 60s, there was a truck that was involved in the death of a black man, and that, you know, back then, the town wasn't so it
Berly:
doesn't seem like a progressive town already, so you can imagine what it was like back Yeah,
LA:
so. And then, while they're there, Sam calls and mentions that he's been out doing his research and finds that they're the land where all this is like happening by was owned by this Dorian family who basically owned like everything in town. Dean looks it up and discovers that the mayor recently bought that land and Bulldog bulldozed the Dorian house. So some for some reason, in the article, it also mentioned that the the second or the first killing happened like the next day after the the house was bulldozed. I noticed
Berly:
that too. He pulled up the article talking about the house, and then he goes, the house was bulldozed on the third and the murder happened the very next day. And I'm like, it talks, it talks about the murder in the right and that article, because Sam told you it was bulldozed on the third. What are you reading? What is going on at this paper, Cassie, did you write that article?
LA:
Then we discover that there has been a third murder now, and we find out that. So it was cassie's dad and two of his friends, and they're all black men. We I forgot to mention that cassie's Mom is white. So they were an interracial couple back in the 60s, which, you know, didn't fly too well. Cassie Dean and Sam all go to the site of the where the house was bulldozed, and then the mayor's there, and they could kind of confront him again. And they're like, you know, this is the third one now, like, clearly, they're being targeted. What are you going to do about it? And she kind of accuses him of being racist, and he makes this strange comment to her that he's the last person that would be racist, and if and she should ask her mother about that, right? Yeah, I was, I was like, what?
Berly:
He had an attitude when he said that too. He's a little sassy. Hello. You are literally at a crime scene where a man has just died, you need to tone it down, sir, check that
LA:
attitude. Yeah, yeah. Now we are that evening, and Mr. Dean shows up to cassie's house. I don't know why. Well,
Berly:
he and Sam decided to split up that Dean would go talk to Cassie and try to figure out more about how the three victims are related, sure, and that Sam was going to dig more into the Dorian family, I think it was, oh, okay, yeah, they decided to split up. And Sam's like, yeah, you go, you go talk to Cassie. Bro, do that.
LA:
And he does. He gets there, and they almost, like, immediately feel like, have their this little tiff, and they're arguing, and it gets, I mean, I guess what you would want to call heated. I don't think it really got there, but that's obviously
Berly:
where they were trying to go. Yeah, wham even said beforehand, you guys clearly have unfinished business that you need to resolve, or some he said something along those lines,
LA:
well, and then Cassie, they like, they both end up apologizing, or aggressively apologizing to each other.
Berly:
I did like the backstory that basically it was, Oh yeah, yeah, because I told you, I would have jumped to the same conclusion if I were her, right. Basically, things were getting a little serious. They were getting really close. And then dean told her, Hey, my family and I hunt ghosts. I have to go with my dad. I'm sorry. And she just came to the conclusion of, if you wanted to break up with me, just break up with me. Why are you making up this crazy story? Yeah, for why you have to leave, yeah, which makes sense. And so she dumped him, yeah, I was gonna say, so she ended it, yeah, because she assumed that's what he was trying to do, and just didn't have the balls to do it,
LA:
yeah, which I mean. So I, my opinion, is that Cassie has been thinking about Dean all these years, and she's been thinking about Dane. She out of nowhere, just, like, very oddly, like, just goes after him, kisses him, and the way she and, I mean, immediately taking that jacket off, yeah, and then they pull away really awkwardly, and then go back at it again. But the way she did it, I was like, Oh, she's been wanting, she's been waiting for this, wouldn't you thinking about it? Oh, first, yeah, right, duh. Go for, I mean, I don't get I'm not I get it.
Berly:
And then on a show that so far, LA and I have been so impressed with the music choices. Yeah,
LA:
really good. I
Berly:
love it. So good. This was horrible, but this sex scene song,
LA:
I I don't know what, who was thinking that this would be a good sexy song to have for a sex scene. I don't know what the song was. It made it even more awkward, like their lack of chemistry, and then this terrible song, like, I was so disappointed
Berly:
the lighting, you couldn't even see Dean's topless body very well, yeah, because of the lighting. And there was a lot of rubbing up and down the baby petting, yeah, I actually got up in the corner, yeah, and showed LA. You remember when we were kids, and we used to do this and, like, put my arms around myself. We'd pretend you were making out with somebody, and you when you'd move your arms around and wiggle around, that's very much what it made me think of definitely, I had high expectations, me too, for the first sex scene. I was disappointed. I was disappointed. Yes, it just was all wrong. The afterglow scene was cute.
Unknown:
Yeah, she was really petting in that chest I would have too. He has some great kids, really rubbish, good biceps and good pectorals. Yeah, isn't that what men like their tits to be called pecks, yeah? And oh, he's got good arms, Yeah,
Berly:
gotta go. He's gotta go. Yeah.
LA:
So yeah, they're chit chatting after the romp they had, and Sam calls and tells them that the mayor has been killed. They did show it, and he was out on his land that he bought when bulldozed, the house
Berly:
where he knows all these murders are happening, by the way, and he's out there by himself with some blueprints. Yeah, so I. Guess he was planning to build something, but that's never addressed, right?
LA:
But you, I mean, you see, like, the little, it's like, roped off in areas and whatnot, and he goes back to his car, throws the blue prints in, and, lo and behold, the racist truck shows up.
Berly:
And he does not like this white man. No, no, no, no, which? And we're
LA:
like what? We're like, Whoa, he's white. What's, what's, what's wrong? What are you doing?
Berly:
And how dare you not give this white man a free pass. What is wrong with you?
LA:
It's not, it's not, it's not his. Mo, you know, right? So he's taking a turn. He's He's changing it up.
Berly:
The truck has taken a turn. I see what you did there. I see what you did there. Anyway, he chases the Yeah,
LA:
the sweet old Mayor takes off running, and the truck is after him, and it's the oddest scene that he's I don't know if the truck hit him. It looked like maybe it grazed him as he was falling onto the ground. It
Berly:
looks like at one point he was gonna run off the road, but then the next shot, he wasn't off the road. And then he was just like, oh yeah. It looks like he tripped and fell, but then he goes flying through the air and rolls over. And sure enough, like, No, he did. He did not just he is dead. His face is fucked. Yeah. He looks like two. Face. He's already like, pale. Half his mouth is gone. He's already pale and blood
LA:
coming from the nose. Glory immediate. And I still, I still don't understand. I
Berly:
don't understand how the truck did that. How
LA:
did it do I don't, I don't. I'm like, it didn't look like he hit him. He just tumbled down the little road like anyway. But I did. Did did you? Did you hear them say that, like his, all of his bones were crushed and it was like his body was liquefied or, yeah, what is that? It made
Berly:
me think of that bug you talked about in the bugs episode where you said they somehow liquefy their praise insides so they can suck everything out like a smoothie. So
LA:
gross. Yeah, I guess maybe that's what happened. So I guess the boys take off. Cassie at home by herself, just sexy walking around with her glass. She's so skinny.
Berly:
Yes, I'm very definitely early. 2000s the layered tank tops, or the low rise,
LA:
super low, the
Berly:
tank tops that had the little peekaboo right above the poopa area.
LA:
I remember when I when she was walking around, I was like, how are those pants staying up? They look like they're, like, one wrong move, and we're gonna see things
Berly:
this episode. And skin, skin, the friend, the college friend she had, oh my god, shrugs on quite a bit. And the ribbon necklace choker thing. It's fun seeing the little obviously, the flip phones and stuff are very obvious, but yeah, it's fun whenever you get to see some of that early 2000s fashion, definitely.
LA:
So anyway, I don't know. She's just wandering around the house. Who knows doing what? And the truck shows up, and he's, once again, aggressively lunging at the house. For some reason, she decides to stay in the room where he's surrounding the house in different places, and she closes the shutters, because that's gonna stop him. That's gonna help her, which I don't, I'm like, he's just like, taunting her when he's in this huge truck, and he totally could have just ran rammed into the house, right?
Berly:
I've seen videos where a car is driven through a house, yeah,
LA:
and she's all upset, and grabs the phone, and that's what she does, and lo and behold, Dean, Dean and Sam come over,
Berly:
just so you know, If you ever call me and just scream my name twice into the phone, I am not gonna know what to do to help. Yeah, I won't know. I'd be like, What
LA:
the fuck what is going on? FYI, I
Berly:
will need more information. Yeah, for sure,
LA:
they decide it's time to have a chit chat with Mama, and she's there once again, very dramatically upset, with her teacup in her hand, up up up to her face. And Dean asks her, or I guess Cassie asks her about what the the mayor said.
Berly:
And she had asked how she told Dean. She asked her before, and she didn't want to talk about it, and so they kind of pressure her a little bit more now to talk yeah. And at first, Cassie tried to be like, I told you no. And then the mom goes, Yes, like that, yeah.
LA:
And she very dramatically, tells us the story that I don't know the mom's name, but she, I guess, back in the day, dated Cyrus Dorian, and at the same time, was dating cassie's Dad, Martin. And Cyrus found out about it, wasn't happy, and she and Martin actually ended up deciding to get married in this chapel in. In town, and the night, I guess, that they were going to get married, someone set fire to the the cute little church, and there was a children's choir practicing inside, and they all died, which is awful,
Berly:
right? The mom said that since they were interracial, they didn't want to deal with the drama. So basically, at the last minute, they decided to elope instead. So that's why they weren't at the church.
LA:
Exactly. Yeah, that night their their wedding night, somehow, Cyrus, I guess Cyrus, like, took Martin out or something.
Berly:
I think he chased him down, just like he did. Okay, eventually, it just kind of showed the truck and him mark, like, on a fee, it looked like a field or something. Yeah, Dorian got a hold of Martin. Somehow he's trying to beat his ass. Yeah. He's
LA:
got, like, a bit, some long stick beaten him, but Martin kind of got the upper hand and grabbed the stick from him and beat him basically to death. He calls on his two friends who come and help him. They put Cyrus in the truck and push the truck into the swamp, and they would never talk about it again. They all keep the secret all these years, the mayor at the time, was a police officer, and he kind of caught wind and figured out what happened, but he kept his mouth shut and didn't do anything because
Berly:
he knew Dorian was the person who was killing all the other black people and the string of murders that was mentioned toward the beginning at the end, yes, yeah.
LA:
So, I mean, I mean, they, he kind of did the town a favor. It sounds like, yeah. Anyway. So then the boys head to the swamp, of course, because they've got to dredge up this truck, because we got to burn, burn those bones always salt and border always, and the truck is blue, which the whole episode. I'm like, That is a black truck. It looks like a black truck.
Berly:
Maybe the swamp, like, made it change colors somehow, yeah, I don't know.
LA:
It was like a anyway, they pull the they pull Cyrus out and lay, lay him on, I don't know what, but they burn him up. I
Berly:
think it was the bed of the truck, wasn't it? Was it? No, because the truck was behind them when they're doing it. Oh, I don't know where they let them then, but anyway, it was, it wasn't the ground, it was up on something, yeah,
LA:
it was like, almost like a grate of some kind, I don't know Anyway, not important. And the truck shows up, and Dean decides he's going to take it on a ride with his sweet car, because it's not going to outrun that, you know, then it gets very actioned. It's the action starts happening and Dean, Dean takes the truck. The truck's following him. Sam calls him on the phone, and he pulls out a map, which I was like, What are we doing here? I thought, I thought he was supposed to be burning the truck, because that's what Dean told him before he left. Instead, he pulls out a map, and he's asking Dean where he is, and he's like, I need to know exactly where you are which I'm like, it's on a back road. Like, how's he gonna tell you that? So he switches over and calls Cassie. He's like, I need some information. Switches back to Dean and tells him, and luckily, there's a sign that Dean can tell him where he is, and he tells him to turn, and then he tells him to go seven, exactly seven tenths of a mile and stop, which I'm like, what I was like, No, how would you? How could he gage that? But if that happened today,
Berly:
I would have been booked, yeah, exactly my my odometer does not look like that, no,
LA:
but he had the old school little countdowns, countdown rolling numbers, right, so he was able to stop right when he was supposed to. He was like, What do I do now? And Sam's like, just do what you're doing. Let him come to you. The truck comes like, you think he's going to ram into Dean's car and just like, kill him or whatever. But the car, the truck, like, breaks apart all over his car and goes and just like, kind of disappears. And then we find out, Sam tells him that he's at the site of the church, and it's hallowed ground, even if the church isn't there. And he was hoping that, you know, if, if the truck went through there, it would get destroyed. And Dean's like, Okay, well, what if that didn't happen? Sam's like, I was just hoping that wouldn't happen.
Berly:
I gotta say, Sam. I thought the highlight of this episode was gonna be naked Dean, but the highlight of this episode was Sam. He cracked me. He was cute quite a bit in this episode, yeah, then we have to go say our goodbyes, right? Dean kind of insinuates that maybe there's a future for him and Cassie. And Cassie says something like, the realist, yeah, that she she knows there's not going to be, but he's like, you never know, yeah. And then that great chemistry they have, you know,
LA:
the boys take off and leave Cassie behind, and
Berly:
Sam kind of asked Dean sometimes, have you ever thought about, you know, giving it up so that you can have a relationship and have all these things? And Dean put on some Terminator glasses, and. Just smiled. And I think he said, like, wake What do you say? Yeah,
LA:
wake me up when I it's my turn to drive right, yeah, and that's that, that's that. But at least Dean got some, you know, Dean got late, yeah, I
Berly:
think it's probably been a while. We got to see a more of that nice bicep and clavicle and pectoral and nip slip, and that was nice. He
LA:
has great lips.
Berly:
He has, yeah, we've already said, I know a lot of great things. I
LA:
just can't like every episode. I'm like, Man, when's
Berly:
Sam gonna take his shirt off? Right? Sleeping in T shirts and shit? No bullshit. Cheer. Padillacky. All right. So goriest thing to happen in this episode was the mayor and his face. Oh, my god, yeah. And of course, you know, the beating wasn't gory, but it could be triggering violence. Yeah, a little bit, so not too much gore. The bear's face was definitely unexpected. So let's go into the lore. So I don't know about you. Okay, hold
LA:
on. I was just gonna say, I'm I wrote when we were first watching this. Are we really talking about a racist truck? Is that? What's going on here? I was like, Okay, we're getting a little far fetched here.
Berly:
Little little campy, little little campy, yeah, for a very serious topic, yes. Oh, I
LA:
also put that Cassie was real. DTF,
Berly:
wouldn't you be?
LA:
I know I was. I mean, no, no, oh, my God, that's not what I meant to say at
Berly:
all. Okay, on to the lore again with our lore, what we try to look for if is if there are any real life, real world things that inspired the supernatural things? Yeah, in the episode. So there were two things that I thought of while I was watching this episode. One, not so much supernatural, but the first definitely real, and that is sundown towns, which my ignorant ass didn't know about until somewhat recently, when we watched Lovecraft century. Yeah, yeah, man,
LA:
I between that and watchmen and stuff, I'm like, I was, I'm still, I'm sure I'm still ignorant to a bunch of stuff, but I was just like, Man, why did I ever learn about this stuff?
Berly:
Exactly, so for those of you who may not know, sundown towns were all white municipalities, I say were, but unfortunately, there's probably some that still exist, or neighborhoods in the US that practice a form of racial segregation by excluding non whites via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation or violence. So they will literally Chase black people out of town. Basically say, if you're here after sundown, we're going to get you the term came from signs posted that quote, unquote, colored people had to leave town by sundown. And we saw in Lovecraft country the HBO series, which was based on a book written by Matt ruff that Atticus Freeman, tick, tick, good. I'll tick, play medicine, played by Jonathan majors, yum. He is in a car, and he gets pulled over in Jim Crow America. So it's like 1950s and he's looking for his dad and all this other kind of stuff that I won't go into, but he gets pulled over by a police officer who basically informs them you're in sundown country and threatens to lynch them if they don't leave the county before sundown. Also, like,
LA:
how fucked up is it that? Like, okay, cool, you're just free to, like, murder somebody after sundown and you're not gonna get in trouble for it. Back then, anyway, it's, it's
Berly:
insane to think about. But back then, there were people who didn't even consider black people people, it's just and again, unfortunately, there are people who still feel that way today, as I have found out more and more and more in the past, almost decades since the 2016 election, more and more people just keep showing their asses, showing who they are. Anyway. They also have, you know, the Green Book, the Negro Motorist. Green Book is in sundown and then we know Green Book and things like that. So sundown Towns was definitely something that came to mind while I was watching this episode. Yeah, I obviously wasn't featured or what have you, but I feel like it had to have been part of the inspiration for the episode. Yeah. Well, I
LA:
mean, all of them happened at night on that road, so exactly
Berly:
and literally being chased down by a racist truck, by a racist truck, I couldn't help but think of sundown towns, very aggressive racist truck. Yes, the animalistic things they did to the truck. Yeah, it was. Little corny, but I also thought it was creative to make the truck more menacing. Yeah?
LA:
Because I, like I said, it made me uncomfortable. Yeah?
Berly:
So the second thing I thought of, and probably most obvious, especially for anyone our age watching this episode, is Stephen King's Christine.
LA:
Oh, yeah, I have never seen that. I mean, I know I get, I know what you're referencing and how, how it relates. But yeah, which was
Berly:
a book first? Yeah, there was a movie adaptation, however. And it basically tells the story of a car who was apparently who, which was apparently possessed by malevolent supernatural forces. So it's a killer car, according to digital publisher fine medium and broad, this 1983 novel is based on a real car. Oh, really, yes, okay, the cursed automobile known as the Golden Eagle was a 1964 dodge 330 limited edition, which I Googled, and it looks really cool. Ooh. It was originally purchased to be a patrol car in Old Orchard Beach. Maine, all three officers who drove the cursed sedan prematurely died, oh, not in the line of duty, but by suicide after murdering their own families. All three, all three. Oh, shit, the Dodge
LA:
was there a timeline there of when all that went down.
Berly:
It wasn't covered. It wasn't covered in this article. But when I googled the name of the car, the 1964 dodge 330 limited edition, all of a sudden I couldn't find it. When I was looking for Cursed car, killer car, ghost car, I only found this one article. But then whenever I Googled 1964 dodge 330 limited edition, all of a sudden, there's all these articles about this specific car. Oh, wow. So if you want to know a timeline, I would suggest googling that the 1964 dodge 330 limited edition to get more information. Okay, but the Dodge was sold to an elderly local who sold it to the Allen family, according to current owner, Wendy Allen, the Allens never directly suffered under the curse of the Golden Eagle, except that the doors would fly mysteriously open when they drove it on the highway.
LA:
Holy oh my god,
Berly:
the cursed vehicle did take the lives of several kids who were hit by other cars, flew through the air and landed under the wheels of the Dodge. What apparently okay and another child who foolishly touched the car would die, along with their entire family. Two weeks later, in a house fire, they were suspected of starting damn throughout the 80s and 90s, members of local churches, fearing the car was possessed by evil demons vandalized the car only to die shortly afterwards, including one who was struck by lightning and one who was decapitated by a big rig.
LA:
Oh, my good man. Eventually,
Berly:
the good church folks stole the car, chopped it into pieces and scattered its cursed remains across several area junkyards the Allens were supposedly able to collect enough of the pieces to put the Dodge back into working order, hence how there's a current owner right now. Why? Yeah, since the rebuild, the Golden Eagle hasn't reportedly taken any more lives, but the doors still fly open when the Allens are on the freeway.
LA:
I hope those seat belts are good, right? Wow, that's crazy.
Berly:
Sam, yeah, Sundance towns and a real killer car possessed is the closest I could get to Laura on this. To close it out, we're going to quote Sam when he was reminiscing about simpler times being away at college, and he said I missed conversations that didn't start with quote this killer truck. Cheers, cheers.
LA:
Oh, Sam,
Berly:
thank you for listening to denim wrapped nightmares.
LA:
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