The Rising of the Witnesses is one of the 66 Seals that was broken by Lilith. She forced the ghosts of people who witnessed the supernatural to rise. She specifically used ghosts of people that hunters could not save, causing them to go after the hunters and kill them. Carl Bates, R.C. Adams, Olivia Lowry, and a hunter named Jed all died when the Witnesses rose and killed them by pushing their arms into the hunters' bodies and exploding their chests from the inside out.