With cold wind and Halloween lurking around the corner, the hit show Supernatural airs its official tenth season on Tuesday, October 7th at 9 p.m. on The CW. Lead actors Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles have portrayed the famous brothers Sam and Dean Winchester since Season 1, and actor Misha Collins not far behind portraying the character of Castiel (an angel) since Season 4.

Every Supernatural fan knows about how to kill just about anything that lurks in the dark, from typical spooks like ghosts and vampires, to more exotic beasts like skinwalkers and shapeshifters. Beginning in Season 1, viewers were pulled into the paranormal-hunting world of the Winchester family.

Motivated by mysterious death of their mother [Mary Winchester] when Dean is only around the age of five or six and Sam is still a baby, their father [John Winchester] is now hunting after whatever supernatural beast killed Mary. This results in his sons joining the “family business” as kids, trained by none other than John himself.

Growing up with a broken family doesn’t always end negatively, however. Over the course of nine seasons, Sam and Dean have stopped The Apocalypse and have saved hundreds of people from the threats of the paranormal like demons, angels, zombies, witches, reapers, vampires, and more.

The show is considered dangerously addictive and one of the most “binge-watched” shows on Netflix. It is one of the most popular streamed shows off of Netflix, Hulu, and various other video streaming providers. Supernatural isn’t all just about killing demons and monsters, however. The family aspect of the show is what makes so many people love the characters and the plot.

“The intellectuality of it and the combined fear factor is what pulls people in,” said Sarah Maerten, a sophomore who is a huge fan of the show. “The references from the Bible, like The Apocalypse in one of the seasons, are completely accurate to the Book of Revelation. And the fact that tons of the characters are from the Bible, like Lucifer, Michael, Gabriel, etcetera, applies, too.”

It’s not just the characters and the plot that grows fans. The actors also take a huge part in the large and growing followers. Each season has an eight- to ten-minute gag reel, which could be looked at as more popular than the show itself.

“The gag reels are like a reward for finishing the season,” Maerten said. On YouTube, some of the blooper videos put together by fans have over 16,000 views, and the Season Seven gag reel has 878,000 views, with more views every day. Fans tend to quote and reference the outtakes and bloopers more than actual funny lines from the show itself.

The show is painstakingly detailed and interwoven. Even in Season 9, seemingly small details are referenced all the way back from Season 1. Super Fans delight in identifying these hidden clues.  For example, Dean is always shown sleeping on his stomach because he’s afraid to wake up and see a loved-one burning on the ceiling, which is the way that his mother was killed and how Sam watched another loved one die in the Season One pilot.

Fans also love and adore the style of the Winchester brothers. Dean owns a black 1967 Chevy Impala, passed down from his father. In one of the seasons there are  flashbacks from when Sam and Dean were kids and had made the car their own. They scratched their initials into the wood under the back seat; Sam got a toy army man stuck in the inside an ashtray; and they both dropped Legos into the heating vents that still rattle when heat is turned on.

But it’s not just the wheels that fans fall in love with. The typical Winchester look consists of old ripped jeans and plaid shirts with leather jackets. The Winchester music genre is classic rock. Every season ends with the Kansas hit, Carry On Wayward Son. For fans, the song simply means ‘your favorite character is about to die’. Other songs by bands like AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Bon Jovi, Journey, (etc.) are also played throughout the episodes, either for the opening of the show or as action soundtracks.

“I love the show because it’s so life-like,” Maerten said. “The plot never fixes itself to a sugar-coated happy ending, and that’s easily relatable for teenagers especially.”

Supernatural has won five major awards: People’s Choice Award for Favorite TV Bromance [2014, Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, and Misha Collins], People’s Choice Award for Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Show [2013, 2012, and 2010], People’s Choice Award for Favorite Network TV Drama [2012], People’s Choice Award for Favorite Favorite TV Fan Following [2013], and SFX Award for Best TV Show [2010].

Entertainment Weekly reported that the Season Nine premiere of the show had around 2.5 million viewers and the season ten premiere is expecting around 3 million or higher.

Netflix is currently streaming Seasons One through Eight and Season Nine was available for disc in stores as of September 9th, 2014.