History NightmareFuel / DesperateHousewives

* Karen [=McCluskey=] kept her dead husband Gilbert in a chest freezer for 10 years.

* The tornado that destroyed Wisteria Lane in "Something's Coming".
** Victor Lang getting {{impaled|with extreme prejudice}} in the chest by a sharp fence post the strong wind threw in him.

* The riot against the ex-convicts home which Paul Young set up. Including having Susan trampled, Lee and Bob trapped in a car which is being beat up, Juanita, a child screaming in terror whilst in the car, and the good old fashioned claustrophobia of being pushed along by masses of people. For parents, there is also Juanita beng lost in the mob.

Wisteria Lane may look like a charming suburbia, but it's also a place where horrible things happen.

* Karen [=McCluskey=] kept her dead husband Gilbert in a freezer for 10 years.

** Lynette ''takes him at home'' not knowing what just happened minutes before -- he killed his own mother. Sure enough, he snaps and attacks one of the twins for something as unsignificant as a remark to Lynette. And she ends up AloneWithThePsycho (and [[AdultFear about to give birth]]) in the penultimate episode of season 6.

** Lynette ''takes him at home'' not knowing what just happened minutes before -- he killed his own mother. Sure enough, he snaps and attacks one of the twins for something as unsignificant as a remark to Lynette.

* The whole arc about [[SerialKiller the strangler]] in season 6. Who's revealed to be Eddie Orlofsky.
** Lynette ''takes him at home'' not knowing what just happened minutes before -- he killed his own mother.

* The whole arc about [[SerialKiller Eddie Orlofsky]] in season 6.

'''Beware of spoilers!'''

* The whole arc about the SerialKiller in season 6, [[spoiler:Eddie Orlofsky]].

Wisteria Lane may look like a charming suburbia, but it's also [[DoomMagnet a place where horrible things happen]].

* Bradley Scott's death, stabbed in the back by his wife Maria with a knife.

* Karen McCluskey kept her dead husband Gilbert in a freezer for 10 years.

** Victor Lang getting impaled in the chest by a sharp fence post the strong wind threw in him.

Wisteria Lane may look like a charming suburbia, but it's also a place where horrible things happen.

* The riot against the ex-convicts home which Paul Young set up. Including having Susan trampled, Lee and Bob trapped in a car which is being beat up, Juanita, a child screaming in terror whilst in the car, and the good old fashioned clustrophobia of being pushed along by masses of people. For parents, there is also Juanita beng lost in the mob.

* Felicia Tilman is such a perfect combination of StepfordSmiler and BitchInSheepsClothing you'll shudder just watching her. Doesn't help that she's a recurring villain.

* Felicia Tilman is such a perfect combination of StepfordSmiler and BitchInSheepsClothing you'll shudder just watching her.

* ''Everything'' about Felicia Tilman.

* CrazyJealousGuy George. Everything about him, including his death.

* When a new neighbor moves in Wisteria Lane along with his sister, Lynette soon discovers that he keeps a lot of pictures of his former students in his basement. Troublded by his behaviour and persuaded that he is a pedophile, she warns her neighbors. However, they became violent, and began to harass the guy so much, that his sister has an heart attack, and dies. Lynette is devastated by grief, and go see him to apologize... Only for him to ''thank'' her. Turns out his sister only viewed the good in him, and was acting as his MoralityChain. With her gone, he is ''free''. Lynette is paralyzed in FridgeHorror, realizing that she just "freed" a pedophile. The guy moves out of Wisteria Lane, free to do what he wants. One of the few examples of KarmaHoudini of the show.