History NightmareFuel / Lost

* The scene in which it's revealed that Ethan Rom wasn't actually one of the plane crash survivors. Going straight from discovering that someone's name wasn't on the manifest and ''realizing you have no idea who or what that person really is'', to seeing him ''standing over the defenseless Claire and Charlie'' is unnerving. And he just stands there, staring at them menacingly, with the most vacant expression imaginable on his face.
** "Hello there."
** The accompanying slide trombone sound effect makes it even more eerie.
** The scene when Jack and Kate find Charlie strung up in the grove.

** On a "List of Things You Don't Want to Hear When You're Tied Up and Locked in a Room Alone With Another Person," this ranks pretty high...
** FridgeLogic adds another layer. Ben knows exactly who Sayid is, and should have known what he's capable of. The fact Ben is scared means Ben made a conscious decision about what risk Sayid posed to him at this point, and has just realized he made the wrong call.
*** Not really as Ben was still playing Henry in that moment. That fear was Henry, not Ben. Remember that this guy has so many layers; it's no wonder all the other characters have no clue as to what he's thinking. It's just lie after lie after lie after lie...

* One episode ended immediately after Michael [[spoiler: shot Ana Lucia and Libby]]. Wham.
* Room 23. Watching Karl being strapped to a chair, drugged, and forced to watch a bizarre video with loud music blaring in his ears and weird clips of seemingly random images are seen flashing on the screen (one of the images consists of several, creepy doll faces) is disturbing.
** On that note, have you ever listened to the music of Room 23 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KpOxjUtmew played backwards?]]

* The crash of Oceanic 815 flight is shown in only bits and pieces but if you watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKcKtjrL5bc edited together]] you can see how violent and terrifing the crash actually was.

* The ending of ''The End'' gives us a pretty bad bit of FridgeHorror. [[spoiler: So we know Micheal's spirit was trapped on the Island, but there was a chance that maybe it was the power of the Man in Black or the same thing that acted as the source of his power that was keeping Micheal and the other ghosts there. But given that Micheal was absent entirely from the flash-sideway universe, which we find out is like purgatory, this means nothing that happened on the island in ''The End'' changed his fate, or that of the other souls trapped in the jungle. Poor Micheal is still trapped on the island, long after his friends have moved on to the afterlife.]]
** [[spoiler: And don't think you've got it made even if you make it to the afterlife. You might wind up in a ''vegetative state'' there, and thus always be a step away from Heaven, because [[AndIMustScream you can physically do *nothing* to move on or atone for your sins.]]]]
*** There is some hope however, [[spoiler: the Ghosts Hugo talked to were the ones who couldn't move on to purgatory yet, because they couldn't let go. And since Hugo and Ben were going to bring Walt back to the island it's probable that Hugo helped him come to terms with what happened and he moved on his own. There are still in fact several other Losties in purgatory who didn't make it to the Church, but some of them are awakened and are most likely going to go meet up with the rest of them when they're ready. But as for guys like Anthony Cooper, there really seems like there's no reprieve, not that I'm complaining.]]
** Locke's strangely horrifying line [[spoiler: "You don't have a son, Jack." That's some existential Mindscrewing right there. Since David argued with Jack and didn't act like an imaginary being, it can be assumed he had free will, so when Jack and Juliet left... did he just fade away? Did he die? Is he an orphan now?]]
*** At Lostpedia they make the case that [[spoiler: David must be real according to their interpretation of Christian's speech. He's just a surrogate. Now ''who'' he was in life if they are right in this interpretation, who his parents really were, and what it takes for him to move on, are other questions entirely]].
*** Or perhaps he's sort of junior emissary, not unlike Clarence in ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''. But yes, it was pretty spooky when Locke said that to Jack, since it's at that moment when what's going on in the "alternate timeline" (HA) really starts to become clear.
*** It's possible that David [[spoiler: is actually the son of Kate and Jack, as speculated by the Tumblr blog called "Lostanswers". He has freckles like Kate, similar in appearance to Jack, and there is a likely point in Season 5 or 6 where he was concieved.]]

* Seeing the ''Bad Robot'' vanity plate after hearing that [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal creepy closing credits]] music counts for something.

* The mercenaries dispatched to the island by [[spoiler:Charles Widmore]] in season 4 exhibit a horrifyingly callous disregard for human life. Martin Keamy in particular shows a disturbing willingness to kill people almost on a whim. At the end of ''Meet Kevin Johnson'', his team [[spoiler:snipes Karl and Danielle dead almost out of nowhere, leaving Alex alone and with no choice but to surrender]]. Keamy seizes the opportunity to [[spoiler:hold her as ransom in exchange for her father Ben, and ''coldly shoots her dead'' when he refuses to surrender]]. The mercenaries commence an assault on the barracks knowing full well that a baby is among its occupants, and when their siege fails, they return to the Kahana freighter and have it rigged with explosives, set to go off in the event of Keamy's death. He killed friend and foe alike, and it was genuinely chilling to observe his casual willingness to murder so many people.

* The dynamite at the end of season 1. ** And if that wasn't enough, in season 6 [[spoiler: the same damn thing happens again. Apparently Illana's PlotArmor wasn't strong enough to overcome a bag full of dynamite.]]

* Ben is terrifying at times. That creepy unblinking stare of his... *shudders*

** In Season 2, when he was a prisoner: How scary are you when you're tied up in a cell repeatedly getting the crap beaten out of you every other episode, and you can STILL give people nightmares?
*** "You guys got any milk?"
** So CreepyAwesome the production stag decided to make Ben a recurring character. Because he was ''that'' scary and awesome.
** If the character of [[ILied Ben Linus]] wasn't enough to give you nightmares, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoZaOU0TFHY his theme]] might be. Composer Creator/MichaelGiacchino is a master of creating NightmareFuel. Fully half the cues in the show's history (basically all the ones that aren't {{Tear Jerker}}s) could probably give someone nightmares. Some of them manage to be both TearJerker and NightmareFuel material at the same time.

* The smoke monster. Although introduced in the very first episode of the series, it seldom appears on-screen and is rarely even mentioned by the survivors prior to season 6 - but whenever it ''did'' show up, it always made one hell of an impression. It can expand itself to gargantuan proportions, possesses extraordinary strength, has the ability to take on the forms of the deceased, and emits [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-M8P14u_G8 quasi-mechanical noises]] to make its presence known.
** After spending the first five seasons being scared to death of the black smoke monster, there's something very unnerving about [[spoiler: seeing the island through its eyes as it flies around making that horrible clicking sound]].
* The look on [[spoiler: Un-Locke's face]] when he sees the little boy. He actually looks scared - which, given what he is and what he's capable of, is spine-chilling.
** And for that matter, [[spoiler: Un-Locke]] himself. UncannyValley is in full force whenever he appears, owing in large part to the dissonance between [[spoiler: his personality and that of the original John Locke]].
* The Season 6 episode "Sundown", especially [[spoiler: Claire's creepy backwards singing of her old {{Leitmotif}}, Catch A Falling Star.]]
** Another notably unnerving moment was when [[spoiler: Kate found Claire in the hole. Especially Claire's angry KubrickStare when Kate told her that it wasn't the temple people who took Aaron. It was really her.]] Also, [[spoiler: Claire happily delivering the following line with a smug smile on her face:]] "He's coming Kate! He's coming and they can't stop him!"
** The very brief conversation Sayid had with Ben [[spoiler:not long after murdering Dogen and Lennon, even giving him a full-on {{slasher smile}}]]. When ''Ben'' is creeped out, you ''know'' something's terribly, terribly wrong.
** Considering what a creepy, AxCrazy guy he is, [[spoiler:it was rather unnerving to see Martin Keamy again in the flash sideways]]. There was something very odd about his eyes -- maybe contacts, maybe just lighting -- which sent him into the UncannyValley. Maybe it's the fact that this particularly evil bastard is actually ''smiling''. You know something's wrong when he's cheerful.
** The scene where [[spoiler:Claire and Sayid, now both completely turned over to the side of darkness, are walking calmly through the carnage left over from the temple attack. With Claire singing a cheerful rendition of 'Catch a Falling Star' in the backround]].

* In the episode "Dr. Linus", [[spoiler: even though Ilana forgave Ben and he ultimately didn't have to go through with it, watching him being forced to literally dig his own grave was nothing short of horrific. That's gotta be one of the worst ways to die]].
* Huh, you know this island really isn't that bad. Beautiful landscape, good weather, no wild anim-[[BearsAreBadNews OH DEAR GOD POLAR BEARS!]]
* So, as of Everyone Loves Hugo, we know what the whispers in the jungle are... knowing doesn't really make it less scary. In fact, it kind of [[FromBadToWorse makes it worse]] when you consider [[FridgeHorror how many distinct voices you can pick out of the whispers.]]
* Well, ''The Candidate'' provides us with the possible horrors of [[spoiler:submarines.]]

** This troper simoultaneously cheered and cried upon seeing Ben kill him, knowing that it would cause the freighter with the survivors on it to explode. What seals the deal is Ben’s casual disregard of all the human life he has doomed: Keamy broke him when he killed Alex, and it shows.

[[caption-width-right:350:Talk about [[BearsAreBadNews bears being bad bews]]]]

* "[[OneWingedAngel I'm sorry you had to see me like that.]]" [[{{HSQ}} So are we]]. Anything capable of turning the MagnificentBastard Ben Linus into a quivering, wide-eyed mess in the corner of a room deserves nothing but fear.

** "YOU KILLED MY DAUGHTER!" Although it's a [[CrowningMomentofAwesome CMoA]] for Ben, it doesn't change the fact that it's absolutely TERRIFYING.

** In the second part of the pilot episode, a small expedition of survivors - namely Kate, Sawyer, Sayid, Charlie, Boone, and Shannon - manage to get the transceiver working and hear a transmission in French. After a couple seconds of Charlie cheering that the French are coming to rescue them, Shannon translates the transmission: "The others are dead. It killed them. It killed them all. It is outside." The MoodWhiplash makes an already creepy moment that much more chilling. There's also an accompanying counting voice; it sounds eerily monotone, not unlike a NumberStation. Once again, Charlie has the last word: "Guys... where are we?"

* "[[OneWingedAngel I'm sorry you had to see me like that.]]" [[{{HSQ}} So are we]]. Anything capable of turning the [[MagnificantBastard Magnificant Bastard]] Ben Linus into a quivering, wide-eyed mess in the corner of a room deserves nothing but fear.

* "[[OneWingedAngel I'm sorry you had to see me like that.]]" [[{{HSQ}} So are we]].

* The Statue of Tawaret. A giant, Colossus-like sculpture of the Ancient Egyptian fertility god looking out into the open sea. It has the face of a hippopotamus and the body of a man - except for its feet, which have only four toes each. The thing that adds to its mystique is, you never really get a good look at the full statue from the front. The only time its face is ever shown in any significant detail is when the Black Rock is sailing towards it in the midst of a fierce storm]] (6x09, ''Ab Aeterno''). One of the slaves below deck managed to catch a glimpse of it from a hole in the cabin walls. He thought he saw the devil. It's not hard to see why.

* In the second part of the pilot episode, a small expedition of survivors - namely Kate, Sawyer, Sayid, Charlie, Boone, and Shannon - manage to get the transceiver working and hear a transmission in French. After a couple seconds of Charlie cheering that the French are coming to rescue them, Shannon translates the transmission: "The others are dead. It killed them. It killed them all. It is outside." The MoodWhiplash makes an already creepy moment that much more chilling. There's also an accompanying counting voice; it sounds eerily monotone, not unlike a NumberStation. Once again, Charlie has the last word: "Guys... where are we?"

** For me it was when [[spoiler: Kate found Claire in the hole. Especially Claire's angry KubrickStare when Kate told her that it wasn't the temple people who took Aaron. It was really her.]] Also, [[spoiler: Claire happily delivering the following line with a smug smile on her face:]] "He's coming Kate! He's coming and they can't stop him!"
** Also from "Sundown", [[spoiler: Sayid's very brief conversation with Ben, complete with {{slasher smile}}.]] When ''Ben'' is creeped out, you ''know'' something's terribly, terribly wrong. It was also just ''slightly'' awesome.
** Considering what a creepy, AxCrazy guy he is, [[spoiler: it was rather unnerving to see Martin Keamy again.]]. There was something very odd about his eyes -- maybe contacts, maybe just lighting -- which sent him into the UncannyValley. Maybe it's the fact that this particularly evil monster is actually ''smiling''. You know something's wrong when he's cheerful.
*** Definetely inappropriate contacts, and his [[{{Camp}} usual]] squirrel-smile, [[ChewingTheScenery soiled by pieces of the scenery]]. It takes the whole scene to the edge of {{Narm}}.
*** But you must admit, he makes great eggs.
** The scene where [[spoiler: Claire and Sayid, now both completely turned over to the side of evil incarnate, are walking calmly through the carnage left over from the temple attack. With Claire singing a cheerful rendition of 'Catch a Falling Star' in the backround.]]
*** Claire's "baby". That she knows it isn't real somehow makes it worse.
* Going back to the earlier seasons, in the pilot episode the Losties first get the radio working and hear a transmission in French. After a couple seconds of them cheering that the French are coming to rescue them, Shannon translates the transmission which says in part: "The others are dead. It killed them. It killed them all. It is outside." The MoodWhiplash makes an already creepy moment that much more chilling.
** It doesn't help that the counting voice sounds just like a NumberStation.
*** Fridge Logic says that's probably exactly what the radio broadcast of the numbers was originally set up as.

* The scene in which it's confirmed that Ethan Rom wasn't actually one of the plane crash survivors. Going straight from discovering his name wasn't on the manifest and ''realizing you have no idea who or what he really is'' to seeing him ''standing over the alone, defenseless Claire'' is unnerving.
** That creepy smile he gave Claire and Charlie in that scene should send chills of terror up and down your spine whenever you see Creator/WilliamMapother, regardless of the context.

* The season 2 episode when Sayid is interrogating "Henry Gale": "My name is Sayid Jarrah, and I am a torturer." The creepy music and Naveen Andrew's emotionless delivery makes it absolutely chilling, coupled with sudden look of OhCrap on [[spoiler: Ben's]] face as he realizes Sayid isn't bluffing...

* Locke's methodic and unconcerned preparation of [[spoiler: his suicide]], in ''The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham''. The scene doesn't skip the details that are skipped usually in movies, like the cable and the knots. It gives a weird creepy view of what it actually means to [[spoiler: prepare to hang yourself]].

* Nikki and Pauolo being BuriedAlive, especially when Nikki opens her eyes just in time to have a face full of dirt thrown in it. [[AlasPoorScrappy Even Scrappies don't deserve that.]]

** On their very first night following the plane crash, the survivors hear strange noises in the jungle. They range from mechanical clicking, something akin to stomach-growling, an eerie whale-esque siren, and what can best be described as the sound of a construction project from Hell that's on the verge of collapsing at the foundation. Keep in mind, these are the closest approximations that can be made when describing these noises; they sound otherworldly and unnatural, not like anything you'd ever hear in real life. Then the Survivors see a few trees getting knocked over in the distance, and it becomes clear that this creature - whatever it may be - is not something you'd typically find in a Polynesian jungle.
** The next day, The monster snatches the pilot from the cockpit and bludgeons him to death in what is clearly a far more gruesome manner than what would later be seen. Certainly you must've gotten chills when Jack, Kate, and Charlie are visiting the wreckage in the jungle, or the night before when they first heard the monster roaming about. And the first time we see a dead person walking around the island (Christian) is very creepy indeed.

* Nikki and Paulo's ultimate fate. After their relationship was obliterated by greed, they are both [[spoiler: paralyzed by one of Arzt's so-called Medusa spiders, making them appear dead. As Hurley and Sawyer bury them, Nikki wakes up just in time to see them cover her head, and both of them suffocate while fully aware of what is happening and unable to call for help. The soundtrack makes it all the more chilling.]]
* Just about anything to do with the hatch button, although the Swan training film is particularly notable in its creepiness.
** The terrifying moment when [[spoiler: the countdown ran out and Egyptian symbols started appearing instead of numbers]]. Add to that [[spoiler: the automated voice saying "SYSTEM FAILURE" over and over again, the sound of something metallic smashing repeatedly against the other side of the wall, and that low hum getting louder and louder]]...

--> Michael: I though you said there were 23 of you.
--> Libby:...there were.

** ''Everything'' about that cabin is terrifying. Even taking its unremarkable backstory into consideration (constructed in the late 1970s by DHARMA Initiative leader Horace Goodspeed as a retreat for him and his family), it's just a downright creepy place. In the premiere of Season 4, Hurley comes across it in the middle of the night and peers in through the window to see Christian Shepherd sitting in the chair at the center of the room... and then somebody else comes up to the window and looks back out at Hurley, who is so scared at this point that he runs back into the jungle in a panic. But it gets worse. After running a safe distance away from the cabin, Hurley stops to survey the area, turns around - and sees the cabin again, right in front of him. The building has the ability to ''move''.

* The early episodes of the series set the course for all kinds of spooky. I mean, the monster eats the pilot in a far more gruesome manner than what would later be canon. Certainly you must've gotten chills when Jack, Kate, and Charlie are visiting the cockpit. And the first time we see a dead person walking around the island (Christian) is very creepy indeed.
** As for the pilot's death, it's not contradictory of the later canon at all. He wasn't shown to have been "eaten", just battered and bloody. Smokey could have easily beat him into that state. Still very scary, this troper remembers being horrified when we first saw his body perched in the tree.
* Jacob's cabin, for one.
** Jacob himself, for two.
*** Except that wasn't him. We now know it was The Monster. I'd still like to know who the other guy was, though, the guy whose eye we saw.
*** It was Christian.
*** Christian (well, MIB in his guise) was confirmed as being the first figure. The second figure was probably either Jacob or another case of MIB projecting himself (like he did when tormenting Eko).
* "Teresa falls up the stairs, Teresa falls down the stairs..."
* Nikki and Paulo's ultimate fate. After their relationship was obliterated by greed, they are both [[spoiler: paralyzed by one of Artz's spiders, making them appear dead. As Hurley and Swyer bury them, Nikki wakes up just in time to see them cover her head, and both of them suffocate while fully aware of what is happening and unable to call for help. The soundtrack makes it all the more chilling.]]

** [[spoiler: And don't think you've got it made even if you make it to the afterlife. You might wind up in a ''vegetative state'' there, and thus always be a step away from Heaven, because [[AndIMustScream you can physically do * nothing * to move on or atone for your sins.]]]]

** [[spoiler: And don't think you've got it made even if you make it to the afterlife. You might wind up in a ''vegetative state'' there, and thus always be a step away from Heaven, because [[AndIMustScream ''you can physically do nothing to move on or atone for your sins.'']]]]

* The ending of ''The End'' gives us a pretty bad bit of FridgeHorror. [[spoiler: So we know Micheal's spirit was trapped on the Island, but there was a chance that maybe it was the power of the Man in Black or the same thing that acted as the source of his power that was keeping Micheal and the other ghosts there. But given that Micheal was absent entirely from the flash-sideway universe, which we find out is like purgatory, this means nothing that happened on the island in ''The End'' changed his fate, or that of the other souls trapped in the jungle. Poor Micheal is still trapped on the island, long after his friends have moved on to the afterlife.]]]]]
** [[spoiler: And don't think you've got it made even if you make it to the afterlife. You might wind up in a ''vegetative state'' there, and thus always be a step away from Heaven, because [[AndIMustScream ''you can physically do nothing to move on or atone for your sins.'']]

* The ending of ''The End'' gives us a pretty bad bit of FridgeHorror. [[spoiler: So we know Micheal's spirit was trapped on the Island, but there was a chance that maybe it was the power of the Man in Black or the same thing that acted as the source of his power that was keeping Micheal and the other ghosts there. But given that Micheal was absent entirely from the flash-sideway universe, which we find out is like purgatory, this means nothing that happened on the island in ''The End'' changed his fate, or that of the other souls trapped in the jungle. Poor Micheal is still trapped on the island, long after his friends have moved on to the afterlife.]]

** [[spoiler: And don't think you've got it made even if you make it to the afterlife. You might wind up in a ''vegetative state'' there, and thus always be a step away from Heaven, because ''you can physically do nothing to move on or atone for your sins.'' AndIMustScream indeed.]]

* Nikki and Pauolo being buried alive, especially when Nikki opens her eyes just in time to have a face full of dirt thrown in it. [[AlasPoorScrappy Even Scrappies don't deserve that.]]

* Seeing the ''Bad Robot'' vanity plate after hearing that creepy credits music counts for something.

* The ''Bad Robot'' vanity plate after hearing that creepy credits music counts for something.