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1* The title sequence for Season 1 was easily the spookiest for an American family show in TheSeventies, with Nancy and the boys running around a large, dark maze in the middle of wilderness at night, while mysterious music plays and ghostly images of spooky book covers appear around them.
2* In ''The Mystery of the Hollywood Phantom'' there is a very harrowing scene where Nancy is walking down an empty street at night, searching for a man in a [[MalevolentMaskedMen grotesque mask]] reminiscent of Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera's scarred face. As she walks down the street, to a spine-tingling score, we see the Phantom looking at her out of alleys and stairwells, while she doesn't see him.
3* Practically the entirety of ''The House on Possessed Hill'':
4** The musical score is full of eerie [[OneWomanWail One-Woman Wailing]], [[PsychoStrings tense violins]], and [[OminousMusicBoxTune Ominous Music Box Tunes]].
5** The OminousMusicBoxTune referenced above, comes from a pair of pair of [[CreepyDoll windup dolls]] that move and play music when wound up. When Joe is searching the house looking for Stacey, he looks into an empty room and sees that someone has wound the dolls up, presumably Stacey. He leaves, and the dolls wind down and stop... only to start moving again, despite nobody winding them up.
6** Frank looks into a room and sees a pool table covered in balls. As he watches, one of the balls starts rolling, and knocks into another ball, all by itself. [[spoiler:This incident, like the musical dolls, is never given a rational explanation.]]

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