With all my due respect to John Walsh, I really don't like the tone of the AMW TV series. It's just too flashy, like if the producers of the Super Bowl would apply their aesthetics to UM (minus the lost love, ghost and UFO bits). The production team at CM understood what made this show special, they really put the emphasis on the "mystery". They knew how to convey a sense of foreboding in their segments, like something bad was about to happen any time soon. That was the hook. The stories profiled on UM where just like a good ghost tale told around the campfire. It would just pull you in. Every Wednesday nite, my brother and I would watch this show religiously. Lock the doors and windows, did not answer phones, even during the commercials (we would get more ice cream or double-check to see if the doors were indeed well locked).
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