Yellowjackets.
Yellowjackets is a TV show about a high school girls soccer team, named the Yellowjackets, who get into a plane crash and survive in the wilderness for 19 months. The show follows the Yellowjackets during their time in the wilderness and their lives in regular society 25 years later. It is a horror/mystery show that may or may not be supernatural.
One of the most debated topics is whether or not the supernatural actually exists in Yellowjackets. It is constantly suggested by the show and its characters that hauntings, demons, or other forces follow the Yellowjackets, but it is also contradicted as often. The Yellowjackets came back to society, but none of them truly returned in spirit. They remain in the wilderness from the trauma they went through out there.
So is it really all in their heads? I don't think so. I believe the supernatural is a metaphor for their trauma, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist in universe. Horror constantly uses the supernatural to explore very human experiences.
While many supernatural occurrences in Yellowjackets can be explained by things that could actually happen, I think the amount is too great to be realistic. The idea that everything in Yellowjackets has a rational explanation relies on so many coincidences that it becomes less believable than the supernatural just existing. Something I read once in a discussion about this topic was the idea that just because something is delivered through mundane means, does not mean it has a mundane cause. For example: A sorcerer casts a spell that makes a hurricane wipe out a town. A hurricane is a normal thing that normally happens in real life, but the source of it here is supernatural. This idea has stuck with me.
This uncertainty about the supernatural was crafted on purpose. The women don't know what's true and neither do we.
As I said before, nearly everything in Yellowjackets that is supernatural has some possible explanation for it. But there is one thing that I can't see any possible explanation for.
In season one, the character Lottie has prophetic dreams and visions. In one, she sees an explosion go off right behind her friend, Laura Lee's head. Laura Lee soon after dies in an explosion. After this, some Yellowjackets want to try traveling away from their base to find society. Lottie has a dream foreseeing danger for them. Lottie says she saw a "river of blood" and red smoke. When the small group takes off, they find a red stream and have to fire off a flare that gives off glowing red smoke. To me, it doesn't matter if the stream was red because it was simply rich in iron, there was no way for Lottie to know it was there. She never went out that far to our knowledge. This is the clearest cut example of something odd with no real explanation.
In another time I might bring up other unusual occurrences even if they do have possible explanations.
