Neal and Jake Van Hunters are two inseparable brothers who have never had it easy in their lives - they lost both their parents under very strange circumstances when they were young, they had to give up their brother and ended up with a hateful uncle who made their lives hell. Not long after, they managed to get them from their uncle thanks to a kind-hearted man named Anthony Cooper and his wife. Both husbands really wanted a child and so they adopted both boys. It didn't take long for Tony's wife Monica to get sick and die. Tony thought for a while about giving the boys to an orphanage because he wasn't sure if he could take care of the boys while working hard. But in the end, he decided to keep the boys. When Neal was ten years old, he and his brother, who is two years younger, discovered a family secret: they come from a long line of men and women who kill monsters and solve other supernatural and paranormal phenomena.