

Sam played soccer and won a local championship. Sam embraced the opportunity to live the kind of life living on the road doesn't allow. Sully helped Sam cope with his feelings of being neglected by his father. While living with Bobby Singer off-and-on while John and Dean were on the road training Dean as a hunter, Sam befriended a Zȃnă named Sully, believing him to be an imaginary friend. However, when Sam grew tired of the way his father treated him, he gave the amulet to Dean instead as a Christmas present. While staying with his father's friend, Bobby Singer, Sam was given an amulet to give to John. Dean told him that their dad was a real-life "superhero." At six, Sam demanded Dean tell him what their father did. Sam's four-year-old brother Dean carried baby Sam out of the burning house.įor the first six years of his life, Sam was often left in the care of Dean in motel rooms. John Winchester heard his wife's screams and ran in to find Mary on the ceiling, dead, and the room engulfed in flame. Mary came upon this scene and tried to interfere, but was killed for her intrusion. He was only six months old when he was dragged into the world of the occult when a demon let itself into Sam's nursery and dripped its infernally tainted blood into the baby Sam's mouth. Named after his maternal grandfather, Sam was never meant to have a peaceful life.
