What segments are you embarrassed to admit scare you?

[flytrapp]

I'm with you guys.....Omar the Arsonist totally freaked me out as a kid (when I first saw the segment) and still WOULD freak me out if I didn't know it was some dumb teenager. If the case wasn't solved, I'd be still peakin' while watching the segment.

As for the music, definitely. A few years ago when there were segments on the forbidden site, some of them were very quiet and hard to hear, but often times the next one would be fairly loud. So when the next segment started and the music was suddenly loud, I'd almost jump out of my chair!

The lady in the Judy Hyams segment always freaked me out, although I don't know why. "Judy Hyams is alive, and she lives in Omaha"....just the way it was shot, I guess, with the creepy music in the background.

Elizabeth Campbell segment, EAR segment, and Ricardo Caputo segment are other ones that kinda scare me.

[isotope]

Originally Posted by flytrapp

I'm with you guys.....Omar the Arsonist totally freaked me out as a kid (when I first saw the segment) and still WOULD freak me out if I didn't know it was some dumb teenager. If the case wasn't solved, I'd be still peakin' while watching the segment.
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Really? I can see (or rather, hear) why it would scare a kid - but as an adult that scene is pure The desperate, contrived attempt to sound "evil", the cautious whispering (in case anyone over hears him)....

What always scared me was in the Edward Harold Bell case, when the woman is looking in the mirror and he just casually walks up to her in her own home - the scene is natural and understated and I can just imagine how something like that would scare the absolute s*** out of the would-be victim. Fortunately she had her wits and a gun to hand! I recall reading the woman who played that scene was not even a professional actress (just a UM crew member ) - if so, she does a great job with the screaming!

[dynoguy88]

Originally Posted by isotope

Really? I can see (or rather, hear) why it would scare a kid - but as an adult that scene is pure The desperate, contrived attempt to sound "evil", the cautious whispering (in case anyone over hears him)....

I was very easy to scare as a kid. But the Omar arsonist voice did not scare me because you could tell it was a kid's voice. Now if it was a man's voice saying those words in a much lower tone, then I would have had nightmares for weeks. Well, all except the part where he says, "Ancient spirits of evil."

Those of us kids of the 80's who watched the Thundercats cartoon know that's what Mumm-Ra used to scream every time he'd transform into Mumm-Ra the Ever-Living...



That was a mega hit cartoon at the time this fire happened and even at age 10, I thought, "Whatever. This is a kid and he stole that line from Thundercats."

As a kid, the main thing that scared me about that segment was wondering if someone had actually died in that fire. That was much more scary than the voice.

[WishfulDreamer]

I never found ''Omar'' scary at all, either. I would always laugh at ''this is what I've been doing on your week's vacation.'' If his voice had been, say, like the Circleville Writer voice (Ha. Ha.) maybe I would have been scared because it would have seemed way more diabolical.

[SheRaaa]

I always laugh, if a bit nervously, at the "You el sickos will pay" part of the Circleville segment. It's funny as heck, but you'd have to be an "el sicko" yourself to write that! So, kinda embarrassingly scary

[Olaf]

"Wadada" would have to be the segment that unsettles me the most. It saddens me that a woman could put her complete confidence and trust into someone that she knew well enough to continuously mention to her parents, only for the guy to go ballistic on her and do what he did. The freakishly inhuman composite sketch and clawed hand aren't even the tip of the iceberg of what's so unnerving about this case. It's more down to the fact that he's never been caught and could even still be out there.

[soilentgreen]

Originally Posted by flytrapp

The lady in the Judy Hyams segment always freaked me out, although I don't know why. "Judy Hyams is alive, and she lives in Omaha"....just the way it was shot, I guess, with the creepy music in the background.

I think that whole segment is deeply unsettling. What motivated the man and woman to stir up a long forgotten missing person case, and how did they obtain the information about her? Some guy goes to the trouble of abandoning her car over 600 miles away, but leaves blood on the backseat instead of cleaning it up. Then there's the letter sent to the police after the segment aired. All of it leaves you wondering how many people were involved in covering up her death.

Elizabeth Campbell's purse being located, 4 years and around 250 miles away.

The letter that indicated that Charles Horvath's body was in the lake; then during the search, another letter stated that investigators were searching on the wrong side of the bridge.

[Charlie99909]

Originally Posted by dynoguy88

I was very easy to scare as a kid. But the Omar arsonist voice did not scare me because you could tell it was a kid's voice. Now if it was a man's voice saying those words in a much lower tone, then I would have had nightmares for weeks. Well, all except the part where he says, "Ancient spirits of evil."

Those of us kids of the 80's who watched the Thundercats cartoon know that's what Mumm-Ra used to scream every time he'd transform into Mumm-Ra the Ever-Living...



That was a mega hit cartoon at the time this fire happened and even at age 10, I thought, "Whatever. This is a kid and he stole that line from Thundercats."

As a kid, the main thing that scared me about that segment was wondering if someone had actually died in that fire. That was much more scary than the voice.

Growing up in 90's I seem to remember that Omar clip everywhere. Real Tv, UM, Current Affair (I believe), etc. It just never seemed scary after the second viewing. It got to the point where my brother and I use it as a joke between us. It seems the internet is that way too, found this the other day and had a good chuckle.

[ILikeTurtles]

Someone mentioned EAR/ONS...I've seen the segment a couple of times over the years but because it was 2002 UM, months before the show ended, it didn't grab my attention that much. I can only imagine how insane this segment would of been if it was 1989 UM.

[kolson82]

Originally Posted by ILikeTurtles

Someone mentioned EAR/ONS...I've seen the segment a couple of times over the years but because it was 2002 UM, months before the show ended, it didn't grab my attention that much. I can only imagine how insane this segment would of been if it was 1989 UM.

Agreed. Considering E! did a good job covering this story, I just know that UM--during their heyday--would have made it into one of the most memorable segments of the show's history.

[tvscript124]

Originally Posted by MegtheEgg86

Some of those photographs of Pat make her look downright diabolical.

Especially the one that they kept running of her with the almost black eyes.

[tvscript124]

Originally Posted by Olaf

"Wadada" would have to be the segment that unsettles me the most. It saddens me that a woman could put her complete confidence and trust into someone that she knew well enough to continuously mention to her parents, only for the guy to go ballistic on her and do what he did. The freakishly inhuman composite sketch and clawed hand aren't even the tip of the iceberg of what's so unnerving about this case. It's more down to the fact that he's never been caught and could even still be out there.

That's terrifying, as is the sketch.

[DALLASTEXAN!!]

the Marfa lights episode spooked me as a young adult. not sure why because now I think it's kind of a funny segment. I actually visited there recently. I went up to the viewing area and did not see any lights. I saw plenty of stars as it is one of the darkest locations I've ever been to. and I had a rattlesnake that coiled up and rattled at me. so the idea of walking through the desert to sneak up on the lights doesn't seem like it would go on without wildlife encounters.

[TheCafeDisco]

In the Glen and Bessie Hyde segment, when the river tour group was being interviewed about their encounter with a mystery woman in their group claiming to be Bessie Hyde.

Picture being with a group gathered in the dark in the middle of the wilderness around a campfire. Then, imagine the tour guide begins to tell the legend of Glen and Bessie Hyde when this weirdo abruptly speaks up and says "I'm Bessie Hyde." And then goes on to tell how she killed her husband with a knife nonchalantly. It would have been incredibly unsettling.

This does not scare me as a viewer, but I found the whole scene eerie and If I were on that tour I would have noped out of there asap. At best, I would be sleeping with a pocket knife in my sleeping bag. Had UM utilized the creepy synthesizer music found in the Doreen Picard opening in the campfire confession scene instead of the music they chose, it would have given off a completely different vibe.

[ScaryFog]

Ethel Kidd who's body was found tied to a tree.
The Blind River Killer.

The Omar/arson was scary as well.