Everything You Need To Know About A Crossroads Box
Okay forget what I said above! I've gone through Crossroads Blues and All Hell Breaks Loose Part 2 for the crossroad box details and yummy 1080p HD screencaps. Prepare to have the window massively warped.
I posted the entire thing as a gallery on my little hobby blog (just for this purpose!) where you can see thumbnails of them all, and click on the little 'see fullsize' button bottom right in the slideshow to get the fullsize image. I'm not going to post them all here because it's... too many. Please go here:
Supernatural ? Crossroads Box Reference Gallery « Made of Pixels for the whole crossroads box reference gallery.
Crossroads Blues: When Dean and Sam arrive at the crossroads they note there's yellow yarrow flowers growing all around it, and mention yarrow flowers are used in summoning rituals. However, there is no trace of yarrow in 2 out of the 3 crossroads boxes we see next, and no sign of yarrow growing at the crossroads site in All Hell Breaks Loose Part 2. If you want to include it anyway, you can buy bunches of dried yarrow flowers
right here on eBay, and you can also buy yellow yarrow seeds to grow your own.
The contents of the first box, belonging to George Darrow, is shown to be the black cat's bone, bottle of graveyard dirt (there's a symbol in the glass on the bottle), the photograph of George Darrow, and an indistinct blurry bundle of something brown which could be a tied-together bunch of old, dead, black yarrow flowers.
We see that the container doesn't have to be a box or a tin, the blues player uses a burlap sack tied with string. We don't get to see its contents.
I took some bonus screenshots of the goofer dust in the gallery in case anyone wanted to recreate that. From google it looks like goofer dust is a real thing actually used in voodoo but is a sort of general term for many different blends of hexing powder, and the pictures of it all vary and I couldn't find any that were black like the show. Dean mistakes it for pepper, so that's probably your best bet for making your own goofer dust pouch.
When Dean comes to bury George Darrow's box again, but with his own photo instead this time, the box visibly contains different sized silver coins. I can count five that are visible. The same bottle of graveyard dirt, the same black cat's bone, and half his ID which says "Prince Animal" and calls him "Robert".
There's no sight of the (what I am assuming is) the dead yarrow, it seems like that was removed from the box when Dean buries it and summons the Crossroads Demon to save the final victim.
All Hell Breaks Loose Part 2: Dean makes his own box to save Sam. He uses a metal Oriental Mixture Tobacco tin. I spent a few hours searching for these, got some great product shots, and saw a couple sold recently on eBay for $10. At the moment there's only one I can find unsold listed on an antiques shop's online catalogue but they don't have an online shop or any contact details listed at all. I went slightly stalker and whois'd the domain name to get the store's address, phone number and e-mail address and e-mailed the owner. I don't live in Ohio, or I'd go knock on the door. I'd appreciate it if no one bought it from under me.
Anyway, it is a tobacco tin which makes me think the original tin was as well, they're the right size. You can find absolutely hundreds of hinged metal vintage tobacco tins on eBay and on Etsy.
Into this tin, Dean first empties a bag of silver coins, presumably the coins we saw in the last box. I can count 6 this time, but there's no in-focus moments of the coin details sadly. He then adds the same bottle of graveyard dirt, and what looks like a cat skull (which he pulls from a Senator Virginia Cut Plug Smoking Tobacco tin, which I guess is their handy cats-bones-tin, with what looks like part of a dollar bill and masking tape stuck to it) and an ID from their ID box, calling him Agent Dean Ford from the US Wildlife Service.
Bonus product shots of both of the tins I was able to identify (Dean's-to-save-sam Crossroads tin and the here's-where-we-keep-our-cat-skulls-why-what-do-you-do-with-yours Senator tin)
Oriental Mixture tobacco tin:
Senator Virginia Cut Plug tobacco tin:
The Senator one is actually pretty easy to find. There's one on
Etsy right now, and a couple of other websites, for around $20.
