Hugo Moriarty

Name	Hugo Moriarty
Actor	Cameron Grierson
Dates	???? – 1978 (suicide) 1978 – 2016 (spirit laid to rest by Sam Winchester)
Location	St. Paul, Minnesota
Occupation	Ghost
Episode(s)	12.03 The Foundry

History

Hugo was a loving family man with a daughter named Elizabeth until 1978 when his daughter was killed in a hit and run accident. The loss of Hugo's daughter drove him insane, and he bricked himself behind a wall in his basement and starved to death.

Following Hugo's death, he became a ghost, trapped in the house he had once lived in. As families moved in with children, Hugo coveted the children in his maddened state and murdered them, binding their spirits to his which gave him great power. Hugo committed these murders in 1985, 1989, 1991 and 2004. Amongst those killed was Lucas Kellinger.

Episodes

12.03 The Foundry

In 2016, a couple is drawn into the abandoned home where Hugo and his trapped souls reside. Hugo murders both adults, freezing their hearts solid. The deaths draw the attention of hunter Mary Winchester who investigates with the help of her sons Sam and Dean. After encountering the spirit of Lucas, the younger Winchesters believe themselves to be dealing with mylings, the vengeful spirits of children from Scandinavian lore, but Mary recognizes that Lucas wasn't trying to hurt her and contacts his mother to learn of how he died—he had died in the same manner as the couple Hugo had murdered.

Upon Mary's return to the house, she is led to the wall Hugo's body is hidden behind by Lucas but is confronted by Hugo who possesses her and uses her to attack her sons. Before Hugo can kill Dean, Mary starts struggling for control with him, regaining enough control to direct Sam to the basement. As Lucas directs Sam to the wall behind which Hugo's remains are located, Hugo regains full control over Mary and disarms Dean, but turns his attention to the basement after hearing Sam start to knock down the wall behind which he is hidden. Taking advantage of the moment, Dean uses an iron chain to bind Hugo as Sam salts and burns his body. Hugo is expelled from Mary and, as he goes up in flames, the souls of the children he trapped appear around him. With a scream, Hugo's ghost disappears in a blast of flame and the children are released, allowing their souls to finally move on to Heaven.

After returning to the Bunker, Mary explains to her sons that, when Hugo possessed her, she saw and felt what had driven him to do what he had done and explains his motives to them.

Trivia

• Hugo is the first ghost laid to rest on-screen by salting and burning their bones since 7.19 Of Grave Importance. Other ghosts were generally tied to objects instead of their bones and in the case of Vance Collins, tied to both their bones and an object.