Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-6383956-20140617174526/@comment-70.49.253.16-20141204072120

I think it's actually fairly straight forward.

You can 'choose' to become one, like Allison did after finding out. She may have been born into it, but I fully believe that if she'd said no, her father would have taken her away. Hell, he tried to take her away, to remove her from that world and give her a normal life, but she chose to stick around.

You can also be born into it, like Chris, Kate and Allison all clearly were.

Or you can probably marry into it, as I believe Victoria did.

Bennett's story, though vague and incomplete, was most likely one of those options. If I had to guess, he was a hunter by choice or by birth. Probably birth. His family and the Argents probably knew each other, or something.