Ben Campbell

* Season 1
* Season 2
* Young

**Ben Campbell** is a fictional character in *Secrets of Sulphur Springs.*

He is portrayed by Josh Braaten; his younger self is portrayed by Jake Melrose.

## Personality

Ben is a caring dad. He can be strict, but seems to know a lot about how to raise kids. He and his wife, Sarah, do what's best for their family. Ben is a deep-thinking and worrisome father. However, he isn't so innocent. He lied, saying that he didn't know Savannah even though he did, and temporarily lost the trust of Griffin and Sarah.

## Appearance

Ben is a tall, Caucasian male with brown hair and blue eyes. He has a small beard and mustache with few grey hairs. Young Ben had the same appearance, just without the grey hair and mustache. Present Ben is in very few promotional material, so he does not have a default outfit. Young Ben's default outfit is the one he wears in *Straight Outta Time.*

## Biography

Ben went to Camp Tremont in the years before the hotel closed. While there in 1990, he met Savannah, a clever girl who loved pulling pranks. She went missing that summer and the camp closed, along with the hotel. Ben returned to Chicago where he met Sarah and they had three children: Griffin, and the twins Wyatt and Zoey. In Griffin's 7th grade year, Ben decided to move everyone to Sulphur Springs, Louisiana, where they took ownership of the abandoned Tremont Hotel to restore it to how it once was.

## Relationships

### Griffin Campbell

**(Birth–Present; Father and Son, Friends)** Ben and Griffin have a normal father-son relationship. However, during the series, suspicions arose of Ben who had claimed that he didn't know Savannah. When Griffin and Harper time-traveled, they realized that Ben did indeed know Savannah and was her friend. Ben also thought Griffin was hiding something but was too afraid to ask. In *Long Time Gone,* Ben and Jess Dunn organized a search party to look for Harper and Griffin who couldn't be found. In that same episode, they realized that Ben could be hiding something bigger about Savannah. In *If I Could Turn Back Time*, young Jess tells Griffin that he acts a bit like Ben, and he gets defensive. "I'm nothing like him."

### Sarah Campbell

**(Unknown–Present; Spouse)** Sarah and Ben are very close and have the idyllic marriage. Sarah is loyal and kind to Ben. However, Ben had been lying to her, claiming that he didn't know Savannah. In *If I Could Turn Back Time*, he came clean about everything and Sarah got mad. On a phone-call with someone named "Jenny," she explained how once they found Griffin, she was going to take the kids and leave for Chicago. She later ditched this plan and decided to do what's best for the family.

### Wyatt and Zoey Campbell

**(Birth–Present; Father and Son and Daughter)** The twins greatly look up to their father, but they become suspicious of him as the series progresses. Before, whenever they brought up Savannah, he'd get tense and tell everyone to stop talking about ghosts. After the blackout, he becomes more interested in finding out what happened to her, possibly from the guilt from 30 years ago. "Our son is missing and you're ghost hunting?" Sarah told him. They later let go of this suspicion, and it was never brought up again in the Season.

### Jess Dunn

**(190?–Present; Friends)** Jess used to have a huge crush on Ben when she was Griffin's age. She was jealous of Savannah because he spent more time with her. In Long Time Gone, Ben accused Jess, saying that she was the reason Savannah went missing. Jess started hating him for what he said. "Ben's a jerk," she told Griffin and Harper in If I Could Turn Back Time. She still doesn't like Ben, and even tells Sarah to move her family back to Chicago. They lost touch after that summer.

### Savannah Dillon

**(1990–late 1990; Best Friends)** Savannah and Ben were close friends in 1990, the year the Tremont Hotel closed. They pulled pranks together. In *Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Time*, she danced with him, leaving young Jess in a jealous rage. To avoid all the drama, they spent the night in the tree house. Ben saw Savannah sneaking out of the tree house and followed her into the hotel's basement. They laughed and talked. Upon hearing a loud bang, Ben took off running back to the bunkhouse, assuming that she did the same. Savannah went missing the following morning, and rumors began to spread that she had died in the hotel or drowned in a lake. Ben felt guilty and confessed. "It's my fault, all my fault." he told his father.

Thirty years later, in 1990, Ben found a note left for him by Savannah in *Time After Time*, telling him that she ran away from camp. Learning this made Ben finally realize that nothing bad had happened to his friend and that there had never been anything for which he should have blamed himself.

## Appearances

### Season 1

#### Present Ben

* *Once Upon a Time*
* *Somewhere in Time*
* *Time to Face the Music*
* *Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Time*
* *Time Warped*
* *Long Time Gone*
* *If I Could Turn Back Time*
* *As Time Goes By*
* *No Time Like the Present*
* *Time After Time*

#### Young Ben

* *Once Upon a Time*
* *Somewhere in Time*
* *Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Time*
* *Time Warped*
* *Long Time Gone*
* *If I Could Turn Back Time* (mentioned)
* *As Time Goes By* (pictured in flashback)
* *No Time Like the Present* (mentioned)

### Season 2

* Only Time Will Tell
* No Time to Waste
* Time Out
* Wrong Place, Wrong Time
* It’s About Time
* Crunch Time
* Check-out Time
* Time is Not On Our Side

### Season 3

* Time Won't Let Me
* Time in a Crystal
* Closing Time
* Bad Judge of Time
* Time Waits For No One
* Time Reveals All
* Scream Time
* Nick of Time

## Trivia

* Throughout the entire series, he only talked to Harper twice.
* Ben is short for Bennet, not Benjamin.
* He is one of the 4 regular male characters, including Griffin, Wyatt and Topher.
* He used to play the guitar when he was younger.
* Ben Campbell and Jess Dunn are both in their early forties in 2020 which is consistent with them having been teenagers in 1990. This makes them older than most other parents on Disney Channel.