Why is the 'Unsolved Mysteries' theme song so creepy? We asked the experts
Gary Malkin co-wrote the theme music to "Unsolved Mysteries" and knows firsthand just how scary it was to millions of viewers - especially kids who stayed up past their bedtime to watch the reality show in the '80s and '90s.
"We used to get letters all the time from parents saying, 'Could you please change the theme music? Our children are terrified of it,'" he recalled during a recent phone interview.
Now "Unsolved Mysteries" is back, and so is the haunting earworm of a theme song Malkin wrote with Michael Boyd more than 30 years ago.
A revival of the long-running series - which aired on broadcast TV for more than a decade and explored mysteries of all kinds, from unexplained deaths and alien abductions to, um, spontaneous human combustion and the
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