Vance Collins
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| Name | Vance Collins |
| Actor | Nathan Dashwood |
| Dates | ???? - 1862 (killed by brother) 2013 (spirit laid to rest by Garth) |
| Location | Kearney, Missouri |
| Occupation | Spectre Confederate Soldier |
| Episode(s) | 8.06 Southern Comfort |
History
Vance Collins was a soldier in the Confederate Army who was killed by his brother, Union Corporal Jim Collins in battle during the Civil War. Jim buried him on the battlefield, but eventually out of guilt, he dug Vance up and buried him under the title "the Unknown Soldier" in their home town of Kearny, Missouri. Vance is trapped in his coffin for nearly 150 years, but is released when a bunch of kids break into his mausoleum and desecrate his grave. Vance's ghost attaches itself to his Indian Head penny which was stolen by one of the teenagers.
Episodes
8.06 Southern Comfort
Vance becomes a spectre, or an "avenging ghost," possessing people who take possession of the penny, senses their betrayals, and forces them to killing those people. Possessing Mary Lew, he kills her husband Chester Lew after she gets the penny at the grocery store when one of the kids used it as change. Vance then possesses her son Scott Lew when he finds the penny in her purse and kills his former business partner, Jeff. Deputy Doug, who hates the sheriff, heads to the evidence room to retrieve Scott's inhaler, but gets possessed and kills the sheriff. After the deputy is detained, Officer Karl Henry also gets possessed and tries to kill a doctor who was an umpire in a baseball game he lost in.
He runs out of shotgun pellets before he can kill the man and when Dean tries to stop him, possesses Dean. After salting and burning Vance's bones and failing to put him to rest, Sam and Garth learn of what is keeping him tied to the earth, but when they go to tell Dean, they find him possessed. Drawing on Dean's anger at Sam abandoning him in Purgatory, the possessed Dean nearly kills Sam until Garth manages to knock the penny from his hand. As Garth has let go of his past grudges, Vance is unable to possess him and Garth melts down the penny, putting Vance to rest.
