Unsolved Mysteries/YMMV

• Crowning Music of Awesome: The OP. Doubles as Hell Is That Noise, actually, as it's veryy awesome but also VERY creepy.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Some viewers, including this troper in his early youth, watched the show almost solely for its segments on the Unexplained, which were strange and fascinating enough to lead directly into...
• Nightmare Fuel: Especially the more paranormal mysteries.

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• • I was always a little scared of Robert Stack. His creepy monotone and the fact that he never appeared to blink always guaranteed I was hiding somewhere safe when we watched this.
• Crowning Music of Awesome / Hell Is That Noise: The theme song, which uses the phrygian musical mode to create what is unquestionably one of the creepiest songs in all television history. Go ahead: find it, put it on an MP3 or i Pod, and walk outside at night.
  • The originally-aired, non-symphonic version of the song had some subtle differences...that might have made it even creepier.
  • The ending credits music was also extremely haunting. Every single thing about the show's music was awesome, really.
• High Octane Nightmare Fuel: VERY high doses of it. Even the true crime segments was bone chillingly creepy.
  • The faceless hitchhiking ghost.
  • Woman and son terrorized while on a canoe trip.
  • The case where a lady comes out of a convenience store and find a Polaroid picture of a young boy and teenage girl (believed to be missing teen Tara Calico) bound and gagged in the back of a van.
  • The Boston Shopping Mall Rapist
  • The haunted bunk bed segment. Yes they made a segment about a haunted bunk bed scary as HELL.
  • The Blind River rest stop murders
  • Allagash Abductions
  • The Dennis Depue case: Which some have accused the first half of the film Jeepers Creepers of partially ripping off.
  • The Tina Resch case where a teen girl was supposedly haunted by a Poltergeist, or suffering from psychokinesis. Tina herself would later go to prison for allegedly being responsible for the death of her three-year-old daughter.
  • Keith Warren's death. It was so obviously not a suicide, that it makes you wonder what was being covered up.
  • The Wacker case, where a seemingly innocent, nice elderly couple are harassed for years by someone who seems to know everything about them. Not to mention that Dorothy Wacker is physically assaulted twice in this segment, one time by someone that she didn't even see.
  • The voice of the Circleville Letter Writer
  • Then there's the composite sketches, and age progression pictures Brr...
  • Satan worshippers. That is all.
• Replacement Scrappy
  • Then again, Robert Stack died on 2003. It's not like he can come back and take over, can he?
    • None of us/the fans have a problem with bringing in a new host. Like with anyone following Rod Serling on remakes of The Twilight Zone, though, does that new host fit in with the atmosphere? This isn't America's Most Wanted, its Unsolved Mysteries. Likewise, the rock music, instead of the world famous theme song, is garbage. "Hip culture" is often precisely the side of society that doesn't pay attention to the deeper things that Unsolved Mysteries stands for.
• Values Dissonance: It may be a little jarring to viewers when cases that involve people growing marijuana are treated with the same level of horror by the show as criminals that commit murder, rape, robbery, etc.
  • A large number of the stories about adopted children looking for their parents always mention how they kid was often abandoned by their young mother. While being a single teen mother isn't ideal nowadays, it's not exactly "abandon your child" horrible.