Ellen Harvelle

Ellen Harvelle is a hunter and owner of a bar called "Harvelle's Roadhouse which hunters are known to frequent. She started the bar with her deceased husband, Bill. Sometime before 1995, John Winchester happened to be one of the hunters that stopped in. The three grew close through the years, with John being considered as part of their family, even. He remarked to their daughter, Jo, that the Roadhouse was his favorite place to be. Bill and John shared many similiar traits with each other: Besides both being fathers with children, both were considered to be fantastic hunters, and both commonly hunted alone. Tragically in 1995, while attempting to turn the Devil's Gate into a Devil's Trap at the Devil's Gate reservoir, John made the fatal mistake of scuffing a line of salt that had been drawn around Bill who was bait. The demons possessed him and John had no choice but to shoot him dead. The incident haunted John who never came back to the Roadhouse for nearly twelve years after that.

2006

Ellen calls John saying that she has information on the demon that he is hunting. Somehow, her calls were missed by John who didn't know of them until nearly a month after Dean's death. John decides to visit the Roadhouse and he and Ellen get a chance to reconnect. She is both shocked and deeply troubled by the news of Dean's death and gives him the information that she knows.

Later, Ellen is furious when Jo sneaks out to go find John and his boys on a hunt they are on. She frantically calls John looking for information on her whereabouts, John tells her the truth and promises to look out for her. That promise is nearly broken when the spirit they are hunting kidnaps Jo and holds her along with another girl he had taken. Ellen is not made aware of this fact and remains unaware of what happened.

2007

Around the middle of April, Ellen goes to get some food for the bar, when she comes back she finds the entire place engulfed in flames, the inferno is blamed on demons. Ellen remarks that she's lucky to be alive, that she couldn't have been gone more than fifteen minutes at most. She finds her way to Bobby's where she is reunited with Jo, John and Bobby. She plays a part in the final battle with Azazel.