Sam and Dean Winchester vs. The Witches Ball

As I continue my Supernatural season one DVD marathon I find myself looking up some creepy myths online - at night - alone. The night I was writing this particular post I had just added the above picture and was about done when all of the electricity went kaput for about five minutes in the entire area (I checked outside). Creepy coincidence? You tell me. I’ll be cuddling up to a blanket and watching my cat for odd behavior.

So, what was it that I was looking up online that was getting me freaked? The Witches Ball. If you Google for ‘The Witches Ball‘ you’ll come across an overwhelming variety of different sites. Places like Salem Massachusetts have Halloween parties which are given that name. That was exactly the sort of image that was first conjured in my mind with the phrase. I was picturing people dressed in pointy witch hats and gyrating to songs like ‘I’ve Put a Spell On You’. (And nooooww you’re mine! Muah - ha - ha!)

The deeper you look, there is something else that goes by the name The Witches Ball. It is, ironically enough, an actual ball of marble which serves at a tombstone in the Myrtle Hill Road Ohio cemetery. The local Ohio lore says that it marks the grave of an ‘evil witch‘ who was buried standing straight up with the marble ball over her so she couldn’t rise from the dead. Of course, there’s a completly contradictory story about the woman buried there being the murderer of her family. That seems to be a less popular theory.

I would love to see this explored on The CW’s Supernatural sometime. As you can already see, I found some YouTube videos which use The Witches Ball as the video subject. The first one has some neat video aging effects. But it’s the second video I really want to discuss.

It reminds me of the season three episode of Supernatural, entitled Ghostfacers. It was a great episode. But - it was showing inept ‘kids’ playing around at the job that Dean and Sam do.

The people who made this video are the Akron Paranormal Investigations team. It seems that they are more into things for the hype than anything serious. But I guess you’d start to get that picture when you hear the song they have, see the graphics, and note that they openly recruit volunteers (read: any bored teen who likes horror movies). What’s more, in the video where you see them exploring The Witches Ball, they have the ever so sweet song ‘Balls to the Wall‘ playing over and over. It’s touching, really.

I think that any real paranormal investigators take things much more seriously and don’t make a mockery of these types of supernatural forces. If you can believe that there are these types of forces, why are you encouraging people to traipse around and very potentially get hurt? I’m all for deepening a person’s look into the supernatural world to understand things if they so choose - but thinking it’s all party tricks seems like bad business. I think it goes without saying that these investigators are guys that Sam and Dean would laugh at in a minute. Hell, I could be wrong. But, then again…

Supernatural clip time! Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki are our heroes.

“…Those two goofballs who almost got us killed.” - Sam Winchester, 3.13 Ghostfacers

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