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"Don't ever got no brain or nothin'."
  • The ending of "Interview With a Campfire". When the kids are watching their video at the end it goes crazy, showing flashes of unsettling images from the camp, and then Bean, their 'friend' from the camp, appears, shaking, with his eyes glowing and repeating the Arc Words relating to the ultimate fate of the settlers.
    • It also doesn't help that the ghost has red eyes and a very demonic, scary appearance.
    • Also doesn't help that it really comes out of left field since until then Bean was nothing but friendly toward the group and the group never did anything to provoke or anger him. Not to mention it looked beforehand like solving the mystery allowed Bean to have peace and move on.
    • The story of what happened to the original settlers is this too, coming off as a PG-friendly version of Roanoke or the Donner party.
    • The whole of the sequence where the gang is walking through the tunnels. They come across a group of skeletons seated at a table, still posed as if in the middle of their card game, with a millipede crawling out of one of their eye sockets. And as they walk through the tunnels, Bean turns around to reveal his eyes are glowing red, which scares the twins. They switch to a bright white as Dil finds him in an old photo and realizes they've been traveling with a ghost.
  • Tommy's flashbacks in "River Rats", showing why he's afraid of being in the water—on a fishing trip with Grandpa Lou, when he was somewhere around two or three going by his appearance in the flashback, he slipped into the river and nearly drowned. We see shots of him submerged and visibly terrified, scenes, where he emerges and thrashes about in the water and shots of a panicked Lou, calling out for Tommy to grab his hand.
  • The plot of "Susie Sings the Blues" where Susie is tricked into giving a 'music producer' $1,000 and meeting her, alone, at a store that turns out to be abandoned. While not as overtly terrifying as "Interview With a Campfire", it's terrifying in a more adult kind of way. While Susie getting conned out of a bunch of money is all that happens, her sister points out how much worse it could have been.
    "The money!? Susie, a lot worse could have happened to you than losing a thousand dollars! You go around with a woman you don't even know, say yes to whatever she tells you to do... She could have taken it a lot farther than she did! THINK ABOUT IT!"
  • The end of "Izzy or Isn't He?", after Dil's invisible alien "friend" is agreed by the group to have been imaginary, the shot pans out to the empty auditorium-with one seat folded down (as if someone were sitting in it), while some spooky, otherworldly music plays.

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