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I Know What You Did Last Summer/Heaven and Hell

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ANGELS
For folklore on Angels, please see Lazarus Rising.

DEMONS
For folklore on Demons, see Sin City.

CLAIRAUDIENCE
In these 2 episodes, we are introduced to Anna, who can hear the angels talking. In her case, it turned out it was because she actually WAS an angel herself. However, many people claim to be able to "hear" information from spirits in the form of subtle sounds, words or ideas.
In the field of parapsychology, clairaudience [from late 17th century French clair (clear) & audience (hearing)] is a form of extra-sensory perception wherein a person acquires information by paranormal auditory means. It is often considered to be a form of clairvoyance.
Clairaudience is essentially the ability to hear in a paranormal manner, as opposed to paranormal seeing (clairvoyance) and feeling (clairsentience). Clairaudient people have psi-mediated hearing.
Clairaudience may refer not to actual perception of sound, but may instead indicate impressions of the "inner mental ear" similar to the way many people think words without having auditory impressions. But it may also refer to actual perception of sounds such as voices, tones, or noises which are not apparent to other humans or to recording equipment. For instance, a clairaudient person might claim to hear the voices or thoughts of the spirits of persons who are deceased.
Clairaudience may be positively distinguished from the voices heard by the mentally ill when it reveals information unavailable to the clairaudient person by normal means (including cold reading or other magic tricks), and thus may be termed "psychic" or paranormal.

FALLEN ANGELS
In most Christian traditions, a fallen angel is an angel that has been exiled or banished from Heaven. Often such banishment is a punishment for disobeying or rebelling against God. The best-known fallen angel is Lucifer (the name frequently given to Satan in Christian belief).
There are a number of different beliefs regarding the origins and motivations of fallen angels. Many focus on issues of free will, lust, pride, or the incomprehensibility of the acts of God.

Consequences of free will
It is generally accepted by most Christians that the fallen angels were cast out of Heaven because of actions taken against God. These actions were enabled because the angels were granted free will. Generally, these actions included active rebellion, doubt in God's motives or plans, or a rejection of the system of Heaven. Pride is often involved, especially in cases where an angel believed itself to hold more authority than God (Lucifer being the prime example).

Lust
The following comes from a series of ancient texts referenced in the Bible called "The Three Books of Enoch", a set of books found in the Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament. According to these books, it is because of lust that some angels fell from Heaven. God asked the "Watchers" (Grigori), a select group of angels, to assist the Archangels in the creation of Eden. Those Grigori who descended to Earth saw the daughters of men and became enchanted with them. Consequently, the Grigori began to reveal to man some of the secrets of Heaven, such as astrology and the vanity of enhancing the face and body with perfumes and cosmetics. The Grigori then fell in love with human women. According to the text, some of the Grigori even took wives and created offspring, giants known as the Nephilim. This made God so angry that he cursed those Grigori who had betrayed Him, threw them out of Heaven, made them mortal and transformed them into demons. God sent the Great Flood to cleanse the Earth of the wanton killing and destruction perpetrated by the Nephilim. Notable angels who fell in this account are Semyazza, Samael, Azazel, and Lucifer.




OTHER REFERENCES
I Know What You Did Last Summer
The title of the episode refers to the 1997 slasher film starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillipe and Freddie Prinze Jr. The movie was, in turn, based very loosely on the novel of the same name by Lois Duncan.

Dean: So I'm Girl, Interrupted…
Referencing the 1999 movie starring Winona Ryder as real-life mental patient Susanna Kaysen, who was placed in a mental institute after trying to commit suicide.

Dean: Sorry. Get yourself another one. Try JDate.
JDate is a dating site which bills itself as "the leading Jewish singles network".

Dean: So, you just forgot that you were God's little Power Ranger?
Reference to the Japanese turned English children's show Power Rangers. It features five normal teenagers with the ability to morph into superheroes.


Sources: Wikipedia, Spirit Journey.co.uk