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1Yeah, ''Animal Jam'' may be your "average kid's game", with its [[SugarBowl sugary]] look and happy animals, but that doesn't mean there's nothing nightmarish.
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3* The whole premise of [[VileVillainSaccharineShow phantoms]], AnthropomorphicPersonification of pollution, destroying Jamaa, turning it from a bright, colorful GhibliHills SugarBowl to [[SugarApocalypse dark, frightening]] {{Mordor}}-like PollutedWasteland and kidnapping innocent animal citizens. And you thought pollution in RealLife couldn't be that scary...
4* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL3z5gLc-Kg Conversation Museum theme]] [[AccidentalNightmareFuel accidentally]] sounds like a horror theme. Some describe it as if a murder happened.
5* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-vWXCQnYDc There's a graveyard in the eagle adventure which is just creepy for kid's game to have.]]
6* If you turn into a flying animal in the hot cocoa hut and fly upwards, you'll see an eerie carving.
7** There's also a mask in the Sarepia theater which looks similar.
8* 'Bitter Sweets' is a Halloween adventure. It looks innocent enough, but the music is ''really'' spine-chilling.
9** The whole premise of the Proto-phantoms stealing all of the candies may be looked alright at first, but when you start playing with it, it wasn't just the Proto-phantoms that was around, the ''normal'' phantoms that you kill in normal adventures are also present. And it wasn't just the worst part: you are playing the adventure as your pet you selected, and you only have a ''single life to begin with''. And those phantoms there ARE SO ANNOYING to handle. Once struck, '''you are automatically lost your life and forced to revive again!''' Thankfully, this feature is already discontinued, as the normal phantoms are now removed, leaving the adventure being played much easier.
10** The surrounding place that you played in has a creepy case of [[SceneryGorn Scenery Gorn]], with the accompanying music that fits the background ''so well''. Here are a few examples:
11*** [[CreepyCemetery The graveyard]] located on the middle left of the adventure was an unsettling place, complete with irregular-sized tombstones being placed everywhere and creepy-looking trees. There are even two tombstones that turns out to be interactive, in which one of them is ''a weird-looking blob with lots of eyes popping out the headstone'', and the second opens ''a mouth-like door opens wide and a ghost comes out from the said tombstones''. The [[https://youtu.be/FFo8AcUQY8w music that accompanies it]] is rather eerie.
12*** The pumpkin patch has an array of weird-looking jack-o-lantern pumpkin carvings when you enter the area. Some of them are innocent enough, but then, you'll notice a few uncanny-looking one-eyed ones to a giant one with a rather ''[[NightmareFace nightmarish face]]'' carved onto it. The [[https://youtu.be/F3UBqP1HDQI matching background music]] doesn't even help any matter, complete with an [[OminousLatinChanting spine-chilling chanting]] being accompanied.
13*** The cave located on the right edge (near the lab) is pretty unnerving. The place is very dark, and there are phantom sludges everywhere and some obstacles that can be so annoying to handle as you passed through. If you had played several non-event adventures such as "The Great Escape" or "The Search for Greely", [[CallBack that should remind you of something.]]
14*** The background sound [[https://youtu.be/AEVNw4X0jB8 that was played on the area]] is also the worst. The beginning sounds straight out of a horror movie, and a few seconds later, [[JumpScare a banging piano-like sound was played after.]]
15*** The other two, the swamp and lab, aren't as bad, but can still be pretty unnerving.
16* The "[[HandInTheHole reach arm into the hole]]" choice in "Brady's Expeditions" involves a [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant]] uncannily lifelike [[CreepyCentipedes centipede]] grasping onto Brady Barr's hand.

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