Devil's Trap: A Supernatural Podcast

We're counting down to midnight and its not just because this is our New Year's episode! We're talking about Supernatural Season 5 Episode 21 "Two Minutes to Midnight." Join in Diana in trying to figure out who actually cheated death!

Research Links

• Dengue fever - Wikipedia
• Final Destination in Real Life: 8 People Who Couldn't Cheat Death - life imitates art, Final Destination, deaths - Oddee
• Wolf Attack: Russian Granny Fights Off Beast | Scoop News | Sky News
• 10 People Who Cheated Death In The Most Badass Ways

We talk Season 5, Episode 20 - The Devil You Know. Play along in this weeks quiz: "Pharmaceutical Company, Drug, or Demon?" The results are terrifying.

Research Links

• Bags of shredded docs: Indian drugmaker Lupin handed a Form 483 by FDA inspectors – Endpoints News

It's our 100th episode and we're celebrating with Liz's favorite episode Season 5, Episode 19 Hammer of the Gods! Its also Loreapalooza! We have Mercury! Baron Samedi! Zao Shen! Ganesh! Kali! Odin! Loki! Ragnarok! Don't you mock our world turtle.

Research Links

• Kali - Hindu Goddess of Time, Power and Destruction | Mythology.net
• Moksha - Wikipedia
• Kitchen God – OCCULT WORLD
• Kitchen God/ Zao Shen/ Zao Jun - Chinese Customs
• Ganesha | Meaning, Symbolism, & Facts | Britannica
• Bawon Samdi | Description & Characteristics | Britannica
• Baron Samedi – HoodooWitch
• BARON SAMEDI – OCCULT WORLD
• Baron Samedi And the Voodoo Loa of Haiti | Ancient Origins
• Baron Samedi - Wikipedia
• 5.19 Hammer of the Gods - Super-wiki
• Mercury (mythology) - Wikipedia
• Ragnarök - Wikipedia
• Loki - Norse Mythology for Smart People
• Loki - Norse Mythology for Smart People
• Loki - Norse God | Mythology.net
• Loki | Mythology, Powers, & Facts | Britannica
• Zao Shen | Chinese mythology | Britannica
• Odin - Wikipedia
• Odin - Ruler of the Norse Gods
• Ganesha, the Hindu God of Success
• Ganesha - World History Encyclopedia
• Zao Jun Chinese Kitchen God: The Complete Guide (2022)
• Kitchen God - Wikipedia
• Zao Shen | Chinese mythology | Britannica
• Kali Goddess of War, Destruction and Creation | Symbols
• Kali: The Dark Mother Goddess in Hinduism
• Kali | Hindu goddess | Britannica
• Kali - World History Encyclopedia
• Baldr - Wikipedia
• Baldur – Mythopedia
• Baldur - Norse Mythology for Smart People

We talk about the 100th episode of Supernatural, Season 5, Episode 18 Point of No Return. Does this episode solidify Destiel? Do you also want to beat the crap out of Dean? Test your knowledge of the first 100 episodes in this week's quiz!

Research Links

• 5.18 Point of No Return - Super-wiki

Does Season 5, Episode 17 of Supernatural have 99 Problems? Maybe but we still like it. Even if Liz was so disappointed when she found out the truth about the Whore of Babylon. And yes, Aleister Crowley is still gross.

Research Links

• Babalon - Wikipedia
• Babylon - Wikipedia
• The Whore of Babylon | Roman Catholicism
• Babalon Working - Wikipedia
• Whore of Babylon - Wikipedia

If you're going to have a silly version of Heaven, at least it has Ash and Pamela in it! We dissect Supernatural Season Five, Episode 16 Dark Side of the Moon. Test your knowledge about Ash and Pamela alongside Diana in this week's quiz!

Research Links

• 5.16 Dark Side of the Moon - Super-wiki

Supernatural Season 5 Episode 15 "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" might be a trip to bummer land but at least there are zombies? Play along with Diana in "Back from the Dead" featuring the golden voice of Babe!

Research Links

• Strange Cases of People Who Rose from the Dead
• Death: Its Causes and Phenomena with Special Reference to Immortality
• Press Democrat 17 March 1889 — California Digital Newspaper Collection
• 10 Strange Cases of People Who Rose From the Dead - Elite Readers
• Here’s the story behind the ruins in Patapsco Valley State Park – Baltimore Sun

Is Supernatural Season 5, Episode 14 "My Bloody Valentine" the grossest episode of Supernatural ever made? Likely and we're here for it! We talk about the gross effects from Toby Lindala. Are you a mythographer? What is that? See if you know the answers in our quiz "Cupid is Stupid."

Research Links

• mythographer - definition and meaning
• Cupid - Wikipedia

We discuss Supernatural Season Five Episode 13 "The Song Remains the Same" and the song that is the same's lyrics go: Time travel is still stupid. Find out some of the things that make the angel Michael who he is, like his healing streams and how he's a psychopomp. Ooooh psychopomp.

Research Links

• 5.13 The Song Remains the Same - Super-wiki
• Encyclopedia of angels : Guiley, Rosemary : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• St. Michael the Archangel - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online
• War in Heaven - Wikipedia
• Archangel Michael Will Fight Satan During End Times

Talking Supernatural Season 5, Episode 12 "Swap Meat.' Is it Samgary? Garysam? Frustrated Virgins? Find out. And while you're there, hear the tale of the possible poltergeist or witch or just a nanny screwed over by the Italian justice system, it's the story of Carole Compton.

Research Links

• 5.12 Swap Meat - Super-wiki
• Maggie Briggs, 58-, was attack by teenage girls in Maltby High Street  | Daily Mail Online
• 15 Dec 1983, 14 - Liverpool Echo at Newspapers.com
• 14 Dec 1983, 1 - Evening Sentinel at Newspapers.com
• 17 Dec 1983, 1 - The journal. at Newspapers.com
• 14 Dec 1983, 2 - The journal. at Newspapers.com
• Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Tale of Modern Day Witchcraft | by Elizabeth Melville | Medium
• If You Think Witch Hunts Are A Thing Of The Past, You Haven't Heard Of Carole Compton – Funny Stories On The Net -FunnyModo.com
• Superstition