History NightmareFuel / WelcomeToNightVale

* The [[HellIsThatNoise "adorable meow"]] of Khoshekh the Cat.

** [[spoiler: Cecil's voice, while talking about how everything is safe and fine. He sounds absolutely horrified, like he's trying to not start panicking and barely achieving it.]]
* The muffled ''noises'' of... ''whatever'' happened to the younger Cecil in "Cassette". As in "Sandstorm", it's all the worse because even Cecil is afraid - even more so, because here [[NothingIsScarier we don't even have his description of what's so terrible]], only that it's been moving closer and closer for some time.
** His mother covers up all the mirrors in their house after he becomes an intern at Night Vale Community Radio. Later, after his mother and brother (the latter's existence he doesn't even remember later in life) mysteriously disappear, all the mirrors are uncovered, and he has no idea who did it. Then, as he's looking into one of the mirrors, the ''something'' described above happens, the tape cuts out, and present day Cecil, clearly freaked out, destroys it and resolves never to think about it again. All of this is made more disturbing when you realize that it's a subtle ContinuityNod to something his mother told him when he was younger:

** His mother covers up all the mirrors in their house. Later, after his mother and brother (the latter's existence he doesn't even remember later in life) mysteriously disappear, all the mirrors are uncovered, and he has no idea who did it. Then, as he's looking into one of the mirrors, the ''something'' described above happens, the tape cuts out, and present day Cecil, clearly freaked out, destroys it and resolves never to think about it again. All of this is made more disturbing when you realize that it's a subtle ContinuityNod to something his mother told him when he was younger:

-->Someone's going to kill you one day, Cecil. And it will involve a mirror.

** His mother covers up all the mirrors in their house. Later, after his mother and brother (the latter's existence he doesn't even remember later in life) mysteriously disappear, all the mirrors are uncovered, and he has no idea who did it. Then, as
he's looking into one of the mirrors, the ''something'' described above happens, the tape cuts out, and present day Cecil, clearly freaked out, destroys it and resolves never to think about it again. All of this is made more disturbing when you realize that it's a subtle ContinuityNod to something his mother told him when he was younger:

* The muffled ''noises'' of... ''whatever'' happened to the younger Cecil in "Cassette". As in Sandstorm, it's all the worse because even Cecil is afraid- even more so, because here [[NothingIsScarier we don't even have his description of what's so bad]].

** Episode 32 is generally nightmarish. From the coach's tongue [[spoiler: to Josie's angel's disappearing to the Strex take over...it's unsettling all-around. ''Then'' you remember the kids where taken away by the Yellow Helicopters and are apparently "better behaved" and well...have fun sleeping.]]

*** And of course, as of [[WhamEpisode Episode 32]] [[spoiler:StrexCorp are in Night Vale now.]]

* There's something unsettling about learning in "Valentine" that the state government reacts to Night Vale's pleas for help as bizarre practical jokes.

** [[http://creepy-cuttingedge-and-cecilos.tumblr.com/post/58086158093/posting-it-to-the-right-blog-this-time-hopefully This post]] plays Kevin's dialogue in Night Vale and Cecil's dialogue in Desert Bluffs side-by-side, and it really, really highlights the terrifying dissonance between teh two and how afraid Cecil is.

--->[[TheUnsmile Step one: separate your lips. Step two: use facial muscles to pull back corners of mouth. Step three: widen your eyes.]] [[StepfordSmiler This is how to be happy.]]

* There's something vaguely unsettling about learning in "Valentine" that the state government reacts to Night Vale's pleas for help as bizarre practical jokes.

* The [[HellIsThatNoise "adorable meow"]] of Khoshekh the Cat.

* The vague, yet menacing, government agency, which is constantly watching you and can disguise themselves as shrubs, trees, doors, windows, and even [[ParanoiaFuel a passing breeze.]]

* At first, listening to the Desert Bluffs version of "The Sandstorm," you wouldn't think that it's much worse than Night Vale. In many ways, it sounds somewhat better, if slightly more [[Literature/BraveNewWorld Huxleyan]] than the [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour Orwellian]] Night Vale. Then the vortex switches Cecil and Kevin, and we find out that [[MeatMoss everything is covered in,]] [[EvilIsVisceral or made out of, viscera.]] Suddenly, Cecil's hatred of Desert Bluffs makes sense.

* At first, listening to the Desert Bluffs version of "The Sandstorm," you wouldn't think that it's much worse than Night Vale. In many ways, it sounds somewhat better, if slightly more [[Literature/BraveNewWorld Huxleyan]] than the [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour Orwellian]] Night Vale. Then the vortex switches Cecil and Kevin, and we find out that [[MeatMoss everything is covered in,]] [[EvilIsVisceral or made out of, viscera.]] Sleep tight, everyone!

* At first, listening to the Desert Bluffs version of "The Sandstorm," you wouldn't think that it's much worse than Night Vale. In many ways, it sounds somewhat better, if slightly more [[Literature/BraveNewWorld Huxleyan]] than the [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour Orwellian]] Night Vale. Then the vortex switches Cecil and Kevin, and we find out that [[EvilIsVisceral everything is covered in, or made out of, viscera.]] Sleep tight, everyone!

* Street Cleaning Day, an event so terrifying it even makes the City Council run in fear, and sends the usually unflappable residents of Night Vale into bunkers.

* Cecil in Desert Bluffs, describing his hideous, blood-spattered surroundings, stands out as particularly frightening in a series full of rather scary things. Similarly to Carlos's voice mails, it's scarier than most things because he's an outsider to the situation and therefore gets freaked out.