The three Dread Doctors, the Surgeon, the Pathologist and the Geneticist, are a trio of human scientists who were enamored with the supernatural. The doctors enhanced themselves into esoteric superhumans using electromagnetism and pseudoscience. Their symbol is the ouroboros, the snake that eats itself.

 

The Surgeon's human identity is a man named Marcel who lived in Gévaudan in eighteenth century France. Marcel was fanatically devoted to and in love with Sebastien Valet, the Beast of Gévaudan.

 

After Sebastien died, Marcel then became the Surgeon, creating his two comrades, starting the Dread Doctors' works to find a way to bring Sebastien back to life.

 

Series

In Season 5, the Dread Doctors have come to Beacon Hills, California, to realise their ultimate goal: to resurrect La Bête du Gévaudan. They abduct numerous young people with genetic chimerism for their experiment. The Doctors then perform paranormal human experimentation on their abductees converting them into Chimeras including Tracy Stewart, Hayden Romero, Corey Bryant, Josh Diaz and Donovan Donati. They become enemies of Scott's Pack in the process and employ Theo Raeken, their henchman to spy on and sabotage them. The Doctors kill off the Chimeras once they are declared failures until they find a genetic success in Mason Hewitt.

 

Biography

The Doctors were once human, scientists who worshipped the supernatural. They uncovered the secrets of electromagnetism. In doing so, they rescinded their humanity, allowing them to prolong their lifespans, give them power, and the ability to erase themselves from people's memories. The Doctors are able to phase in and out of reality and space. They can teleport, are able to move distances without being seen and using electromagnetic waves, they can disable or disrupt electronics. They can induce illusions to incapitate their enemies. Because of their synchrony with frequencies, they are unable to infiltrate locations with a strong convergence of telluric currents.

 

The Dread Doctors have conducted their experiments in Beacon Hills before and have caused havoc, resulting in multiple deaths sometime before the start of the series, which was witnessed by Gabriel Valack. At some point the Dread Doctors came across Theo Raeken. They experimented on him; he became their closest success of recreating a supernatural creature through science, and entered into a partnership with him.

 

The Dread Doctors were drawn back to Beacon Hills when Stiles Stilinski, Allison Argent and Scott McCall renewed the nemeton.