Creepiest segment

[Hambone2421]

The Signal Mountain Murders had some creepy parts to it. As did the Phillip Fraser one. But the one segment that was creepy AF the entire time (at least to me) was the Beverly McGowan segment. The entire situation creeped me out. Even moreso when they showed the actual police footage of them entering her apartment and seeing how it was left.

[SPD Yellow]

The Blind River Rest Stop case remains my “Nope, can’t even!” segment. It does show that for all of UM’s silliness, they could direct a damn good low-budget horror short.

It’s not helped by the fact you can see the raw pain carved on Gord McCallister’s face, especially when he says he wishes he’d died that night with his wife. I know there’s no real such thing as closure, but I always hoped he was able to know some happiness in the years following the crime.

[DALLASTEXAN!!]

Originally Posted by SPD Yellow

The Blind River Rest Stop case remains my “Nope, can’t even!” segment. It does show that for all of UM’s silliness, they could direct a damn good low-budget horror short.

It’s not helped by the fact you can see the raw pain carved on Gord McCallister’s face, especially when he says he wishes he’d died that night with his wife. I know there’s no real such thing as closure, but I always hoped he was able to know some happiness in the years following the crime.

I also hope that he found happiness after that horrific event. he was fortunate to survive and it is so difficult for survivors to recover from those type of crimes. if anyone deserves to be happy it would be Gord.

definitely blind river is up there with any segment. the reenactment was so chilling. the "I'm gonna rob you then I'm going to kill you" line is one of the most morbid lines I've ever heard.

[WishfulDreamer]

Originally Posted by DALLASTEXAN!!

definitely blind river is up there with any segment. the reenactment was so chilling. the "I'm gonna rob you then I'm going to kill you" line is one of the most morbid lines I've ever heard.

It is definitely one of the scariest segments. The part where Gord leaps from the RV and then has the idea to roll under it to hide, only to be saved because another person drives into the rest stop (becoming a victim to the killer)...it's just a terrifying experience to watch in a reenactment. I can't even imagine how Gord felt. The whole time, he was hoping desperately to find help for his wife, too, with the hope that she had survived her wound.

I'd also add that the Boston Rapist segment is right up there as creepiest. I've mentioned in other threads that the actor in that one was phenomenally chilling, with how calm and callous he was the whole time. It's a really difficult watch.

Both of these segments have an uncaught/unidentified perpetrator, only compounding the creepiness.

[DALLASTEXAN!!]

Originally Posted by WishfulDreamer

It is definitely one of the scariest segments. The part where Gord leaps from the RV and then has the idea to roll under it to hide, only to be saved because another person drives into the rest stop (becoming a victim to the killer)...it's just a terrifying experience to watch in a reenactment. I can't even imagine how Gord felt. The whole time, he was hoping desperately to find help for his wife, too, with the hope that she had survived her wound.

I'd also add that the Boston Rapist segment is right up there as creepiest. I've mentioned in other threads that the actor in that one was phenomenally chilling, with how calm and callous he was the whole time. It's a really difficult watch.

Both of these segments have an uncaught/unidentified perpetrator, only compounding the creepiness.

I just watched the Boston Rapist segment. and I agree that one is chilling. it was painful to watch the devastation that he caused.

[Janel "Jaycee" Miller]

I don't know if this qualifies as being creepy, but the Jean Marie Gagnon and Louis Bourgeois segment, particularly when one of those men tried to jump into a woman's car but could not because the door was locked, probably made me realize when I saw the segment at the ripe old age of about 13 the importance of locking all vehicle doors at all times.

[scarfish]

Agreed. Especially the ominous low hum music during the end part.
Eileen Mangold is creepy.
And Rick Church just skulking around in the night.

[Janel "Jaycee" Miller]

I thought of a more creepy one. How about when the son of Dorothy Donovan sees her killer walking towards her house? Or when Clarence Roberts pops out of nowhere to watch a fire from the distance?

[bigted12]

The black hope curse segment always seemed the most creepy to me, i don't even believe in ghosts and these things but based on everything i've read about the case there has to be some level of truth to it, these families really did abandon their homes and they got sick.

[Corkys-Place]

Originally Posted by Janel

Or when Clarence Roberts pops out of nowhere to watch a fire from the distance?

As a child that footage of his silhouette watching the Fire at night scared the hell out of me!

[dynoguy88]

Originally Posted by WishfulDreamer

It is definitely one of the scariest segments. The part where Gord leaps from the RV and then has the idea to roll under it to hide, only to be saved because another person drives into the rest stop (becoming a victim to the killer)...it's just a terrifying experience to watch in a reenactment. I can't even imagine how Gord felt. The whole time, he was hoping desperately to find help for his wife, too, with the hope that she had survived her wound.

It's bone chilling scary. I'm not sure it was necessary for the reenactment to show Brian Majors failing to get his started as the killer points the gun at his windshield. The story is terrifying on its own and I feel like UM wanted to crank up the scary past 100.

Gord McCallister's interview was one of the saddest and heartbreaking in the show's history. Especially the part where he said that he didn't care if the killer tried to locate him. He had already lost the most important person in his life in such a horrific way. In his mind, nothing could be worse for him at that point.

[sharonite]

Originally Posted by bigted12

The black hope curse segment always seemed the most creepy to me, i don't even believe in ghosts and these things but based on everything i've read about the case there has to be some level of truth to it, these families really did abandon their homes and they got sick.

Sorry, but Black Hope is probably second only to Lake Wales as the show’s most ridiculous “haunting” segment. I mean, voices of slaves coming out of the toilet?

Someone here posted a hilarious rant about this segment that boiled down to (paraphrasing) “Bored people in an exclusive subdivision didn’t have any black people nearby to blame for their problems, so they found some long-dead black people to blame instead.” I suspect that the home abandonments, lawsuits against the developer, etc. were about money more than anything else.

[schmave]

Originally Posted by bigted12

The black hope curse segment always seemed the most creepy to me, i don't even believe in ghosts and these things but based on everything i've read about the case there has to be some level of truth to it, these families really did abandon their homes and they got sick.

I felt so sorry for the people in that segment, especially those who lost their daughter so suddenly. They didn't do anything wrong.
I remember that rant sharonite. One of the dumbest things I've ever read on this site.

[Hambone2421]

Originally Posted by dynoguy88

Gord McCallister's interview was one of the saddest and heartbreaking in the show's history. Especially the part where he said that he didn't care if the killer tried to locate him. He had already lost the most important person in his life in such a horrific way. In his mind, nothing could be worse for him at that point.

Completely agree. I don't like re-watching the segment because of his interview. That poor man.

[sharonite]

Originally Posted by schmave

I felt so sorry for the people in that segment, especially those who lost their daughter so suddenly.

I felt badly for them too (who wouldn't?) but the daughter had what we would now call "pre-existing conditions," including cancer and an infection of the heart muscle. It seems likely that those conditions were the cause of her sudden death, not the malevolent ghosts of enslaved people.