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mikepants
Since: Dec, 1969

I've wasted hours searching for this. Please... please help... (trembling hands)
Okay. So. This is going to be difficult to explain. There is a song snippet used so often in horror/supernatural/eerie/ironic situations in TV and film, it has reached almost Wilhelm-ian levels of self-reference, but I can't find it because I don't know the name, it has no words, and every time I hear it, I go "There it is again!" and then forget to make a note of where it was.
It's four notes sung by (probably) a woman, usually played while a character is staring down a dark hallway, swinging open a door, or some other scene where we need to know, yes, this is a creepy situation but nothing creepy has actually happened yet.
Playing around with an online piano, I'm almost sure that the notes go F-D-F-E, and the entire vocal snippet lasts around 4 or 5 seconds. I've been combing through the snippet, music, and horror tropes and have so far come up with nothing.
Edited by mikepants