History NightmareFuel / Metro2033

* The phenomenon that Artyom encounters right near the beginning, just after leaving VDNKh. He hears a strange noise coming from a crack in a pipe, then his companions all start breaking down. One starts inconsolably crying, another tries to wander off... He encounters it a second time with Bourbon, who starts speaking (apparent) nonsense before keeling over dead for no reason. Khan suspects that what's happened is the dead, with no heaven or hell to go to, have wound up residing in the pipes and drag people who pass by into their old lives.

* The final level, set in the Ostankino tower (or what's left of it), is ''terrifying'' if you have Acrophobia (fear of heights). Hell, it's terrifying even if you don't. The ruins of the tower look like they're holding by miracles alone and several time ladders or platforms just collapse under Artyom's weight, rushing down hundreds of meters below while Artyom hangs for dear life, with the camera giving you a view of the plummeting death that awaits you if you're not careful.

** The final level, set in the Ostankino tower (or what's left of it), is ''terrifying'' if you have Acrophobia (fear of heights). Hell, it's terrifying even if you don't. The ruins of the tower look like they're holding by miracles alone and several time ladders or platforms just collapse under Artyom's weight, rushing down hundreds of meters below while Artyom hangs for dear life, with the camera giving you a view of the plummeting death that awaits you if you're not careful.

* In the ''Lost Catacombs'' level, Artyom and Bourbon run into a large room while escaping some mutants. You should have known something was wrong when the nosalises refused to enter the room. Or when you noticed the room was littered with dead bodies who have not been [[ScavengerWorld looted]].

*** And still more troubling, the area where you find them is full of poisonous gas. The skeletons have no gas masks on, but they are all calmly seated, and behind them is a box full of fresh, unused masks.

[[caption-width-right:348: One of the many abominations that threaten Artyom and mankind as the Metro inhabitants know it...]]

* Nosalises are generally not very frightening in most encounters, as they attack in large, unstealthy, groups and are so noisy that they can be heard coming. However, some variants are pretty nasty - the plated variants found in [=D6=], which just. Won't. Fucking. DIE! [[spoiler: Fortunately, they're absent in ''Redux''.]]

** Dead City has a hidden apartment complex where you encounter the ghostly shadow of a hanged man, as well as a broken-down TV that glows ''{{Film/Poltergeist}}''-style.