Forget about any modern horror film because this show haunted our dreams…
Fancy delving into some repressed childhood trauma? Sure, why not?!?!
With news that Unsolved Mysteries is set to return, here are some of the reasons why it freaked us out.
The theme song
In the grand tradition of creepy horror tunes, Unsolved Mysteries probably had the most malevolent, haunting and disturbing intro music.
The Exorcist, Halloween, The Omen and The X-Files were all famous for their creepy scores but this one still makes our nerves clench.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwAG-DnWhiY
Clip via –Â thatsclassicofficial
The presenters voice
We really love the late Robert Stack because he starred in Airplane, Caddyshack II and Beavis and Butt-Head Do America but his voice scared the living crap out of us.
He could probably read the tale of Humpty Dumpty to a bunch of school kids and traumatise them. His presenting style along with the deep, ominous and haunting voice will stay in our dreams/nightmares forever.
What other presenter could give the same gravitas to stories about skunks and Tupac?
Clip via –Â crooks
We also loved the fact that Stack parodied himself in Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s brilliant BASEketball.
Clip via –Â NMNJFan
The show’s concept and style
Before we became accustomed to watching Crimeline, Unsolved Mysteries was the first show we remember that incorporated the look and feel of an actual criminal investigation with people manning the phones in a live studio.
What made the show so memorable was that it mixed and re-enacted real life tales of crime, mysteries and murder with absolutely loopers tales of vampires, UFO’s and ghouls.
The problem though was that our young minds still thought that the show was leaning more towards factual, realistic and hard-hitting journalism aka we believed most of it. Hey, we were still young.
Cue us sleeping with the light on.
We still vividly remember this Kurt Cobain episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-jgd_0uomk
Clip via –Â John Randhawa
The time it was aired
Whoever was responsible for the decision to air this show at tea-time is all of the following; 1) An evil genius, 2) The owner of the most twisted sense of humour, 3) The person that caused us some mild childhood trauma.
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