BuzzFeed Unsolved idea

[xt1me]

Ok, so I‘ve finished binge watching BuzzFeed Unsolved & as much as I like fandom's whole Shane’s actually a demon bit & he scares other demons away from Ryan I think it’s funnier if he totally human and still scares demons away from Ryan.

Hear me out.

So, say demons need belief in order to manifest. That’s why they always start out as just noise that could be rats or the birds or the wind or something. Why they usually manifest at night & in already creepy places. They more you start to imagine that there could be something else around the more power they have to manifest. And yeah, you could also believe in things that could stop them, anything from religious symbols to pulling the covers of you bed over your eyes, as long as you believe in them they can affect you. And they love feeding on fear.

So Ryan pretty much attracts them like moths to a flame. Only Shane refuses to believe in them. He’s never seen any evidence that couldn’t be explained away since he doesn’t believe enough in them for them to be able to do something that couldn't be explained away. It a catch 22 type deal.

And all the while Ryan is there believing enough that he’s like a buffet & demons can’t do anything about it.

 

How about, when they went to the Sallie house, the demon there was going to just try for Ryan but Shane was quite literally asking for it when he lay down on that pentagram. The Sallie demon considered itself as pretty strong and emboldened by all the fear from Ryan decided that it’ll just make Shane believe in it enough to manifest & wreck shit up. While it couldn’t appear physically yet the fact that the 2 of them were staying the night meant it could invade their dreams.

Ryan is too afraid to sleep & Shane pissed it off so it goes for Shane. It does the whole ‘cower mortal I shall devour your soul’ thing. Dreams being easier to go straight to the big stuff then reality. Only for Shane to just go ‘huh’. It turns out even in dreams he doesn’t believe in any of it. Now the demon is really mad. It’s all ‘I’m a big scary demon, be afraid’. But Shane is all, ‘no your not, I’m obviously dreaming’. Which is pretty cool since if he knows he’s dream then it means he’s lucid dreaming and he always wanted to try that. At this point he almost ignoring the demon who decide that screw how much energy it’d take this guy is going down. Only to find out he’s trapped. Looking down it sees it’s in a devil trap. It yells at Shane asking ‘what the hell it this?’ Shane just says it was something Ryan was going on about & he thought it was appropriate to be in a dream about a demon. The Sallie demon is now incredulous as well as angry, this wasn’t even a proper trap, the writing around it was gibberish. Shane admits he doesn’t actually know anything about demon traps but this was his dream so what he says goes. The demon is left gaping, humans were not supposed to realise this. Then Shane decide he’s had enough of all this & tells Sallie that it should go get stuck in a box. The last thing the Demon sees in the dream before getting locked away is Shane wondering how you figure out how to fly in a lucid dreams.

Ryan nopes out & it wakes Shane up from his dozing & he forgets all about his dream as he mocks Ryan. But even though he doesn’t realise it, he now has a demon trapped inside him.

The demon’s pretty locked away, it can’t affect Shane because the guy doesn’t believe in it & locked inside a mortal it can’t affect anything around it. It can talk to other demons if they get close enough though.

It tried to get the Goat-Man to help but once Steve finds out what happened to Sallie it decides he is not messing with these guys. I guess it really is their bridge now.

Sallie calls the Goat Man a wimp which is when he realises he can get Shane to say things. Unfortunately, it's only things that Shane was going to say anyway so it’s not actually any help. It’s not even as coherent as the bagel vine (‘what do you what to eat?’ ‘the souls of the innocent’ ‘a bagel’ ‘no!’ ‘2 bagels’)

This is why Shane makes that threat to Annabelle. Shane thinks he’s just joking around as usual but Sallies trying to warn it’s fellow demon.

The Goul Boys are a trap.