Scariest moment on television?

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Inspired by the Scariest Moments in Gaming thread, I decided to make a thread for television. As the topic says, what is the scariest moment you've had watching a television show.

For me, it was watching the Doctor Who episode "Blink". I'd heard it was creepy, but I figured "I'm 21, I can handle it," and watched it for the first time at 11 PM. Big, big mistake. I was shaking in fear for about 15 minutes after the end of the episode, was constantly looking over my shoulder while typing on the computer for at least 3 hours, and did not go to sleep until daytime.

The other episodes featuring the Weeping Angels are freaky in their own rights, but this episode was terrifying, not just creepy.

Spoiler: The cause of my fears

 

[Supertegwyn]

I found the Empty Child/Doctor Dances episodes to be pretty freaky.

Apart from that, my manly manly-ness makes me immune to your mortal fears.


Muhahahahahahahah!

 

[Loop Stricken]

I doubt anyone will remember it, but there was this thing on British TV many years ago called Ghostwatch.

Now as a small child, watching that... fucking hell.
incidentally the entire thing is, or at least was, on Youtube. Worth watching even if it looks a bit silly nowadays.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

I found the Empty Child/Doctor Dances episodes to be pretty freaky.

Apart from that, my manly manly-ness makes me immune to your mortal fears.


Muhahahahahahahah!

Are you my mummy?

 

[Supertegwyn]

I found the Empty Child/Doctor Dances episodes to be pretty freaky.

Apart from that, my manly manly-ness makes me immune to your mortal fears.


Muhahahahahahahah!

Are you my mummy?

Don't joke about that shit man, that gives me the freakies.


Nah, not now, but when I watched it it just surprised me how terrifying it was.

 

[BreakfastMan]

Spoiler: spoilers for Twin Peaks

Now to cry myself to sleep in fear...
[sub]Tie between this and the initial reveal of who killed Laura. You know the part, with the dancing. *shivers*[/sub]

 

[Lieju]

Mörkö.

Skip to 17.00.

She is the thing children's nightmares are made of. The Moomins also had a lot of other creepy stuff designed solely to scare kids, icluding an evil witch, a snow queen that can kill you with a touch, Hattifatteners...

Not even mentioning all the narural catastrophes like floods the show (and the original books) had. Including a comet that was going to crash into Earth and destroy it.
That stuff wasn't scary as such, though. Even when the world was dying and their house destroyed and the characters struggled to survive, it was still an adventure, not horror.

 

[madster11]

Courage the cowardly dog.

All of it.

That show didn't even freak me out a little bit as a kid, but now looking back at some stuff on youtube...
It's fucked up, man. Genuinely disturbing shit right there.

 

[VladG]

Turned on the TV, Jersey Shore was on and the fucking HD tuner refused to change the channel for a whole 30-40 seconds. Scariest tv experience ever.

 

[Nouw]

Pingu. Just pingu.

Turned on the TV, Jersey Shore was on and the fucking HD tuner refused to change the channel for a whole 30-40 seconds. Scariest tv experience ever.

30-40 whole seconds? You fucking beast.

 

[Random Fella]

This thing

That's just scary as hell

 

[RedDeadFred]

Hmm I remember the Bloody Mary episode of Supernatural. It was pretty scary. Reminds me of how much I used to enjoy the show before it became so focused on demons.

 

[Superior Mind]

Strangely enough the thing that scared me the most was from some random crappy sci-fi show. They had this character who I'm pretty sure was one of those introduce-to-kill characters who got sucked into a black hole. The thing I think that first scared me was that as he was pulled in and the camera did all this trippy shit and the song he was listening to, (Walk the Line by Johnny Cash,) got all warped.

I don't know why I found it so affecting but I think it got me thinking about the vastness of space, the insignificance of humanity and the finality of death, the latter being my one great fear as a child. Basically I would spend nights trying to contemplate what it would be to not exist. The scene of this throwaway character accepting his death before being torn up in shitty mid 90s CG just got to me for some reason and I dwelled on it for ages.

Also the Dial Z for Zombies Halloween episode of The Simpsons scared me for some reason. Funny; as an adult I love sci fi and zombies.

 

[lionsprey]

Mörkö.

Skip to 17.00.

She is the thing children's nightmares are made of. The Moomins also had a lot of other creepy stuff designed solely to scare kids, icluding an evil witch, a snow queen that can kill you with a touch, Hattifatteners...

Not even mentioning all the narural catastrophes like floods the show (and the original books) had. Including a comet that was going to crash into Earth and destroy it.
That stuff wasn't scary as such, though. Even when the world was dying and their house destroyed and the characters struggled to survive, it was still an adventure, not horror.

Oh shit that bloody thing i hate that thing. at least the hattifatteners had a funny name (might be scary in the original langue i saw the swe dub). that thing might be the basic form of most of my nightmares as a kid

 

[SlaveNumber23]

This thing

That's just scary as hell

Damn that thing gave me so many nightmares, wasn't there like a lion one as well? They're the devil man, the devil.

 

[Raven's Nest]

I think the X-Files can lay claim to having been one of the scariest shows on TV. Some down right creepy episodes come to mind, the china doll etc.

 

[Goshm]

I REMEMBER THAT THING!
(After calming down)
Somewhere in my memory I remember that. I canot remember where though... I just remember that jaw... and that tongue... where was it from? I'd like to remember.]

EDIT: The Bear thing. I clicked reply but it didn't seem to attach to my post.

 

[Savo]

The clown episode from Supernatural. I don't remember the name of the episode, but that had me crapping my pants when I was younger I'm not a big fan of clowns and this episode kept digging the knife in deeper, especially at the beginning. Seeing the clown standing by the side of the road waving and outside that little girls house *shudders*