Timeline (Season 1)

NOTE:

• Days spent on each case include the day after they solve them, if it is shown in the episode.
• Day counts assume one driving day in cases when the boys hear about the case and must travel to the location, unless otherwise stated.
• Day counts count partial days as full days (meaning if an episode starts late at night, that night counts as a day)
• Priority of information sources: A)Dialog, B)Logic, C)Art/Props Department, D)Other Official Sources, E)Conjecture.

October 30th - November 2nd, 2005 - 1.01 Pilot

Day Count: 4

Locations: Palo Alto, California; Jericho, California

Dean arrives in Palo Alto - quite late at night. The boys spend 2 days investigating a Woman in White in Jericho, California. Jessica dies. Sam and Dean hit the road.

• Oct 30 (Friday PM) – We’re introduced to Sam now twenty-two and attending Stanford University in Palo Alto, California with his girlfriend Jessica Lee Moore. They attend a Halloween party at a local bar and we learn Sam is getting ready for a law school interview scheduled for Monday November 2, 2005.
• Oct 31 (Saturday AM) – Introduced to Dean, Sam’s older brother who breaks in Sam and Jessica’s apartment. He talks Sam into joining him to search for their missing father, John. Sam leaves with Dean promising Jessica he’ll be back on Monday in time for his law school interview.
• Oct 31(Saturday) – Sam and Dean arrive in Jericho, California in search of their father and following his trail via the job he was working: A Woman in White. Dean ends the day by falling in a river.
• Nov 1 (Sunday AM) – Dean is arrested by local police who believe he is one of at least two serial killers responsible for the disappearances in Jericho. Sam goes to talk to Welch the widower of Constance who they identified as ‘the Woman in White’.
• Nov 1(Sunday PM) - Dean escapes the jail calling Sam to tell him their dad left coordinates to an unknown location in his journal. They later meet up when Sam is threatened by Constance. The final confrontation takes place in her previous home where she is pulled into hell by the spirits of her children she murdered.
• Nov 1 (Around 10:00 PM) – They leave Jericho. Sam identifies coordinates as Blackwater Ridge, Colorado, but insists Dean take him back to Stanford.
• Nov 2 (2:50-3am) – Dean drops off Sam at his apartment where he witnesses Jessica die in the same manner as his mother died exactly twenty-two years to the day. Dean returns in time to drag Sam from the burning apartment. (Time taken from deleted scene available on DVD/BluRay)

November 10th - 14th, 2005 - 1.02 Wendigo

Day Count: 4

Locations: Grand Junction (Lost Creek/Blackwater Ridge), Colorado

Sam and Dean arrive in Lost Creek, Colorado, and spend 4 days hunting a Wendigo.

• Dean says they spent one week in Palo Alto after Jessica's death.

Late November, 2005 - 1.03 Dead in the Water

Day Count: 5

Location: Lake Manitoc, Wisconsin

Sam and Dean spend 5 days investigating Lake Manitoc, Wisconsin, where people keep ending up Dead in the Water.

December 2nd - 5th, 2005 - 1.04 Phantom Traveler

Day Count: ~4

Locations: Catasauqua, Pennsylvania; Nazareth, Pennsylvania; Lehigh Valley Airport

Sam and Dean spend ~4 days investigating the Phantom Traveler at various airports.

• A archived newspaper article in the Djinn-Wish'Verse in S2's What Is And What Should Never Be about Britannia Flight 424 is dated Dec. 5th, 2005.
• In 1.06 Skin, we see that Sam's college friend Rebecca emailed him on December 5th to tell him about her brother who had been falsely accused of murder. Sam does not get the email until months later, however.

Unknown - 1.05 Bloody Mary

Day Count: 5-7

Locations: Toledo, Ohio; Fort Wayne, Indiana

Sam and Dean spend 5-7 days investigating Bloody Mary.

• The paper says "a short service will be held on ...ber 31st at 2pm" meaning, either October -before the series even starts -or December - but I doubt anyone would hold a funeral service on New Years Eve.

February 28th - March 7th, 2006 - 1.06 Skin

Day Count: 8

Locations: St. Louis, Missouri; Bisbee, Arizona (mentioned)

Sam reads an email from his friend Rebecca, while a day's travel from Bisbee, Arizona. St. Louis is said to be 400 miles behind them. Sam and Dean spend 8 days hunting a Shapeshifter in St. Louis, Missouri (two days spent driving there).

• Shapeshifter!Dean is killed on March 7th (according to information in later episode The Benders), making Dean Winchester officially dead according to the authorities.

Mid-March, 2006 - 1.07 Hookman

Day Count: 5-6

Locations: Ankeny, Iowa

Dean and Sam hunt the Hookman in Ankeny Iowa for 5-6 days.

• Occurs sometime between March 8th - March 22nd, 2006

March 23rd - 28th, 2006 - 1.08 Bugs

Day Count: 5

Locations: Oasis Plains, Oklahomo (fictional community)

Dean and Sam spend 4-5 days investigating bugs in Oklahoma

• March 20th ("Friday") – Dustin, the Oklahoma Gas & Power worker dies.

~March 29th - April 1st, 2006 - 1.09 Home

Day Count: 4

Location: Lawrence, Kansas

Sam and Dean head Home to Lawrence Kansas for 4 days (assuming one day driving time to get there) and try to get rid of a poltergeist.

• Dated due to the dates in Bugs and the timing of Asylum.

Asylum

LOCATIONS: ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS

• NOTATIONS: No actual dates are given in this episode, but Sam does mention the trip to Lawrence. Due to dates given in episodes that follow and the lack of dates in this specific episode I would place this episode as happening within a day or two of ‘Home’. This episode covers three days and the following dates are the possible time frame: April 01, 2006 – April 08, 2006. We do know though that the following episode ‘Scarecrow’ takes place the second week of April and it is back to back with ‘Asylum’. We know this because the final scene of ‘Asylum’ is the beginning scene of ‘Scarecrow’. So a more refined guess would be April 06, 2006-April 08, 2006.

• Possible discrepency: Sam mentions that they have been looking for John for "six months", which would place the episode in the beginning of May. However, this was said in a moment of anger and could easily be an exaggeration or approximation.

Scarecrow

LOCATIONS: BURKITTSVILLE, INDIANA

• NOTATIONS: This episode takes place during the second week of April so the time frame could be anywhere between April 08, 2006 – April 15, 2006. The episode covers four days sometime within the time frame listed.

Faith

LOCATIONS: UNKNOWN TOWN; SOMEWHERE IN NEBRASKA (NO TOWN NAME GIVEN)

• NOTATIONS: ‘Faith’ takes place over the course of eight days and two towns. Considering that the latest that I’ve ever seen it snow in Missouri, where the next episode ‘Route 666’ takes place, is maybe the first week in May (that was an oddity) I would place ‘Faith’ as taking place the third week in April. Somewhere between April 15, 2006 – April 23, 2006.

Route 666

LOCATIONS: CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI

• NOTATIONS: As I previously mentioned being a life long resident of Missouri the latest I’ve ever seen it snow is the first week in May (again an oddity) a good guess for the time frame of this episode is somewhere between April 25, 2006 – May 05, 2006. I honestly can’t see this episode taking place any later than May 05, 2006 and that’s pushing it considering locale and weather conditions. The episode covers a span of four days.

Nightmare

LOCATIONS: UNKNOWN TOWN TWO HOURS OUTSIDE SAGINAW; SAGINAW, MICHIGAN

• NOTATIONS: As Kripke & Co. often has done they do not give a specific time frame in which this episode takes place. It’s obvious that some time has passed since the events of ‘Route 666’ and I would make an educated guess that the events take place some time in mid-May possible the third week. Speculative dates suggested are somewhere between May 15, 2006 – May 22, 2006.

The Benders

LOCATIONS: HIBBING, MINNESOTA

• NOTATIONS: There are no actual dates given in this episode with the exception of Dean’s ‘death’ in the episode ‘Skin’ (see note on time line of Skin). Although due to the proximity of Minnesota and Michigan I would speculate that ‘Benders’ takes place somewhere between May 23, 2006 – June 10, 2006. As I said though---simply speculation. There is nothing concrete to go by as far as the script goes. The episode does cover a span of three days from the time of Sam’s abduction to their escape from the Bender family.

Shadow

LOCATIONS: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

• NOTATIONS: Note to Kripke & Co. – I love how you never give us dates unless it’s absolutely required---not!! LOL This episode covers the least amount of time at this point and holds the most emotional punch possible in that length of time. From the point Sam and Dean visit Meredith’s apartment until they hightail it out of Chicago in the opposite direction of John two days pass. I’m speculating here, but I would say the timeline is somewhere between June 08, 2006 – June 15, 2006. Our boys must have been exhausted and hurting after this escapade.

Hell House

LOCATIONS: RICHARDSON, TEXAS

• NOTATIONS: I’ve never been to Texas, but I have had friends that have. I’m pretty sure that the weather is not nippy in June (the episode starts with a scene two months before our boys arrive). Although, if I go with the idea that the boys arrive at the end of August then that at least that gives them a full three months to have healed from the wounds they sustained in ‘Shadow’. Yes, I know that’s not much better than instantaneous healing, but it’s closer to a real healing schedule. So I would speculate that ‘Hell House’ takes place somewhere in the vicinity of August 20, 2006 – August 31, 2006. The episode covers a span of four or five days.

Something Wicked

LOCATIONS: FITCHBURG, WISCONSIN; FORT DOUGLAS, WISCONSIN; MENTIONS OF OGDENVILLE, NORTH HAVERBROOK, AND BROCKWAY. You gotta love the fact that either Kripke, his writers, or both are fans of the Simpsons.

• NOTATIONS: It’s established at the beginning of the episode by a question that Sam asks Dean that this episode takes place during the school year. Considering the weather and locale I would suggest that this episode takes place sometime in mid to late September, possibly the second or third week of the month. Breaking it down any further is virtually impossible since yet again---no dates. Of course we are used to that by now, but we still love that little evil bastard Kripke anyway. LOL Dates suggested here: September 10, 2006 – September 24, 2006.

Provenance

LOCATIONS: UPSTATE NEW YORK; NEW PALTZ, NEW YORK; HUDSON VALLEY

• NOTATIONS: This episode covers a span of five days. Figuring in the distance between Wisconsin (Something Wicked) and upstate New York (New Paltz;Hudson Valley) I would speculate this episode takes place somewhere between October 01, 2006 – October 9, 2006. I’m factoring in that we know that the final three episodes of the first season are basically back to back and occur in the vicinity of one year after the Pilot episode which started on October 30, 2005.

Dead Man's Blood

LOCATIONS: MANNING, COLORADO

• NOTATIONS: This episode covers a span of four days. At this point we’re aware that almost a year has passed. I believe it’s mentioned in either ‘Salvation’ or ‘Devil’s Trap’ which are back to back episodes. So my working theory because honest to God I love the evilness of Kripke & Co. and November 2 seems to hold a special meaning in the SPN-verse I decided that more than likely the final scenes of ‘Devil’s Trap’ occurs on November 2. Now I have no proof to back this up, but come on guys---we’re talking about Kripke here. So going on that assumption ‘Dead Man’s Blood’ would begin somewhere in the vicinity of October 25, 2006 and covers a four day span that ends on October 29, 2006.

Salvation

'LOCATIONS: BLUE EARTH, MINNESOTA; MANNING, COLORADO; SALVATION, IOWA; LINCOLN, NEBRASKA; UNKNOW RURAL LOCATION IN SOUTH DAKOTA; JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI; UNKNOWN LOCATION IN RURAL MISSOURI

• NOTATIONS: I decided to do the final two eps together because despite two separate titles they are a single story. ‘Salvation’ picks up on the day following the end of ‘Dead Man’s Blood’ which would if my time line is correct be October 30, 2006. Two days are covered in ‘Salvation’ spanning four separate locations (Blue Earth, Manning, Salvation, and Lincoln). As the episode ends we are, following my speculative timeline, in Salvation, Iowa on October 31, 2006.

Devil's Trap

• 'Devil’s Trap' begins where ‘Salvation’ ends in Salvation, Iowa on October 31, 2006. Three days pass in ‘Devil’s Trap’ spanning four locations (Salvation, unknown rural location in South Dakota, Jefferson City, and an unknown rural location in Missouri). As the season finale ends we are left with an accident on a rural highway somewhere in Missouri on the night of November 02, 2006.

Additional timelines

• See also Season 1-3 timeline based on dates as mentioned in text or shown on screen by Lle Llywela

• Pre-Series and Season 1-8 Timeline - Compiled by hells-half-acre