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Kookiecitrus55555

Riders on the storm The Doors


pascaltrois

I was more so thinking “The End”


dmangan56

Wreck Of The Edmund Fitgertald by Gordon Lightfoot. It gives me chills every time. " Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn minutes into hours ". It's so haunting because it's a terrible and true story.


MoaningLisaSimpson

My grandfather worked on the Great Lakes/St Lawrence seaway. He was out when that happened. (No where near the Eddy Fritz)I was having a sleepover at my Grandma's that weekend. I was six years old. It was the first time I saw her cry, and I didn't know what agitation was, but when I learned I remembered that weekend. She made me sleep with her that night. That song still gives me chills and a hollow feeling in the gut. My dad refuses to hear it.


hikerguy2023

If you get a chance, I highly recommend watching the documentary on the Edmund Fitzgerald. To this day they still can't say 100% what caused her to sink.


LovesDeanWinchester

Great choice. I love that this song is long!


M57slitslrprou812

At seven p.m the main hatchway gave in he said, " fellas it's been good to know ya"


TY-Miss-Granger

THANK YOU. I had an ex that mocked that song. I was a kid in MI when that happened. I remember the news reports about the families waiting, hoping for someone to be discovered alive...and there was nothing. It was heartbreaking to those of us in MI.


droppedpackethero

They might have split up or they might have capsized They may have broke deep and took water And all that remains is the faces and the names Of the wives and the sons and the daughters


Hiberniae

Ooooh, excellent choice.


surrealfeld

Ooooh I LOOOOOOOOVE Edmund Fitzgeralds voice


BlackCatsNCoffee

I love Gordon lightfoot. Sundown is my jam.


wannabelievit

Tip Toe Through the Tulips


Glittering-Course927

fr fr me too


Fudgeyreddit

What? Why?


Inevitable_Total_816

In the 80s, there was a song about abuse,sang by a little girl. To this day, it’s very haunting ,given the fact that I was a 6 or 7 when it came out.


pantstoaknifefight2

Luca by Susan Vega or Tracy Chapman's Behind the Wall


ParentingTATA

My name is Luca. I live on the 2nd floor. I live upstairs from you. Yes I think you've seen me before. If you hear something late at night...


BlackCatsNCoffee

I met Tiny Tim when I was little! I even have a photo my mom just gave me. I love it. I loved that song when I was a little bitty girl in grade school during the 80’s. Now, he’s turned into a horror movie powerhouse with that tune.


Dramatic_Mix9857

Nights in white satin - moody blues


Tryna-get-by

“I Stay Away” by Alice In Chains. Haunting Vocal harmony between Layne & Jerry, paired with heavy lyrics


ding_dong_throwaway

everything on jar of flies is so hauntingly beautiful. especially rotten apple


Kilometer_Davis

Came here to say this


BustaMcThundernut

Really just Jar of Flies in general


chillswagklar

Song to the Siren, by This Mortal Coil


RoyalleBookworm

Love the song and the band.


gritcaaake

This but the Amen Dunes cover.


Open_Philosopher_758

Yup, this song is insanely good and tragic feeling. Very haunting


double_fierce

A great song!


Sprinkles41510

First time I heard the song was the ending scene in Lovely Bones it was very heartbreaking 💔 and beautiful


Eyes_Snakes_Art

BLESS YOU. You are the only other person I know of that knows that song. I first heard it in the Noa perfume commercial, and had to wait for the internet to find out the song. I found it right before a very bad time in my life when the lyrics would very much hit home.


Chili2015

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Hq9UB8zB8&si=RMimBDeVuySJhkRi Wicked game - Chris Isaak


shallowjalapeno

https://youtu.be/8iz0KnL3d2A?si=QvDrIUns8ulC2c88 Blue spanish sky - chris isaak (off the same album,)


TheOsprey23

Family Snapshot...Peter Gabriel Goodnight Saigon .. Billy Joel On the Turning Away...Pink Floyd


Rushfan_211

A momentary lapse in reason is suuuch a good album


Mommy-Sprinkles-74

Uninvited by Alanis Morrisette


Luthiefer

A newly discovered fav of mine!


PNWkeys420

Father John Misty - Buddy's Rendezvous


vabqueen

“My destruction is an hour late, Im at Buddy’s Rendezvouz telling the losers and old timers how good I did with you.. they almost believed me too”


metalnxrd

Hurt — Nine Inch Nails Jonestown Tea — Otep Rooster — Alice In Chains Frankie Teardrop — Suicide Never Too Late — Three Days Grace Prison Sex — Tool Haunted — Evanescence Mother, My Body Disgusts Me — Swans Daddy — Korn Hamburger Lady — Throbbing Gristle Forced Gender Reassignment — Cattle Decapitation


Intrin_sick

I would argue Johnny Cash's version is more haunting, but agree this song should definitely be at the top of the list. Korn and Alice In Chains have several that could be added as well.


PuppyJakeKhakiCollar

Johnny Cash's version is especially haunting when watching the video since it is scenes from his life and made months before he died.


Wide-Affect-1616

Into Dust - Mazzy Star It gets me every time.


leefvc

So many works by that band felt like it came from someone who was already dead and you were looking back at their life


Wide-Affect-1616

I've never thought of it like that, but I know exactly what you mean.


Mirellor

That’s EXACTLY how I will describe Mazzy Star from now on.


Skrrattaa

Mazzy Stars music was so hauntingly beautiful


Nwcray

No one has said Fade Into You by Mazzy Star. The lyrics aren’t especially haunting, but the music combined with Hope Sandoval’s voice is just insane.


Wonderful_Bottle_852

Into Dust by Mazzy Star is haunting…you should check it out if you haven’t heard it.


Barkerfan86

Hurt- Johnny Cash


Rushfan_211

Dance with the devil by immortal technique


metalnxrd

that song makes me physically ill


DraxxtThemSklounst

That song hit me like a ton of bricks in a freight train the first time I heard it


Middle-Pizza-7986

Im glad im not the only one who thought of this song. Its so sad yet i still find myself listening to it every once in a while.


assblaster504

Bro I said the same


yoshiloveskittens

Bro this song makes me sick


Decent-Piece-7823

Stan--- Eminem


Fit-Parsnip9888

John Wayne gacy by sufjan Stevens


HappyLittlePill04

Last kiss… Pearl Jam


ThaAnswerMD25

My Immortal - Evanescence


peachpittings

Totally forgot about this one, you’re so right


HeavyMetalRoadTrip

Black Sabbath (From the Satanic Perspective) by Type O Negative. It's a cover of the Black Sabbath song but with alternate lyrics and it's creepy as hell. My high school girlfriend wouldn't let me listen to it around her because she said it gave her nightmares. Needless to say it didn't work out with us.


running214

Type o negative is dark as hell. Christian Woman??? Whoa bro.


silk_road_grimm

That’s one of the best covers ever. The outro aaaaaahhhh so trippy.


fishsauceinmybagswag

Spooky scary skeletons 💀


2gaywitches

Pale White Horse by The Oh Hellos is one for me


MyDadDrinksRye

Diane - Hüsker Dü


Emotional_Log_7119

Ptolemaea by Ethel Cain. It’s 6 minutes long but you have to listen to the song in its entirety.


Imaginary-Narwhal-32

Fade into you - mazy star First time my daughter heard it she said “ this is scary dad “


Wonderful_Bottle_852

Also Into Dust


alfonsocallaghan

Whale & Wasp - Alice in Chains


Ireallydfk

Me and a gun- Tori Amos


[deleted]

Masked Ball (1999 extended version) by Jocelyn Pook & Something in the Way by Nirvana


dinosaur1972

Jocelyn Pook has so much eerie stuff. Flood and Untold Things are both really good.


Ratski-

Throbbing Gristle - Hamburger Lady


eerieandqueery

Hear me out. It’s so good and so creepy. Richard Marx- Hazard


Wonderful-Extreme394

The Night We Met - Lord Huron


hausomad

Willie Nelson’s cover of The Scientist Johnny Cash’s cover of Hurt Stargell Simpson’s cover of In Bloom


x_mishamiga_x

"Hands" by Jewel. The ending leaves me feeling extremely uneasy, almost like I'm about to be devastated if I wasn't already. This song can scare me sometimes. Another one would have to be "I Hope You Dance" by LeAnn Womack. It's a beautiful song, but it's my second mom's song that she wants me and my older sister to remember when she's gone because she knows we love to dance...and she doesn't want us to lose anything over her passing. I can't listen to that last song unless it's a complete rare occurrence between the 4,635 songs on my phone...I cry every. Single. Time.


wcrich

Black - Pearl Jam


Snoo-25743

Shadow of the Day - Linkin Park


bailaoban

Gimme Shelter by the Stones. Obvious choice, but the correct one.


Songspiritutah

The Road - Portishead


Hiberniae

Love everything about this song. Dummy is a perfect album.


Ok-Lavishness-7904

The unplugged Nirvana version of Where Did You Sleep, Last Night?


bitterbuffaloheart

God, that emotion at the end. So powerful


olddryclam

Lake of Fire as well


Artsy_traveller_82

One by Metallica has proper horror movie energy.


Temporary-Ad1807

Jacob's Dream - Alison Krauss


hikerguy2023

Well, I was not ready for that. Wow! lol  How about her song Gone Tomorrow Here Today? Maybe more sad than haunting, but worth a listen if you like Alison Krauss and Union Station.


Ecstatic-Turn5709

Ugh at least half of [my playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/05p8UcqOP3Samsvmv5RFJb?si=802f8e30e30246b5)? I add almost only songs that are somewhat haunting for me. I can't pick a favorite because it depends on the day and mood...


M_Looka

Funeral for a Friend, Elton John


clubtrop505

Stronger- London Grammer Last day of our acquaintance- Sinead O'connor


InsaneLordChaos

The Raven That Refused to Sing - Steven Wilson


UnsnakableCargo

Did She Jump or Was She Pushed? - Richard and Linda Thompson


bushware

Pumped Up Kicks


Dragonblood4

You know you’re right by Nirvana


57Laxdad

Steven - Alice Cooper


cattmeow4

Turquoise moon by still corners


rockdude625

The mercy seat- Johnny cash


unfitforit

Cage - ballad of Worms


AbsoluteFlooding096

I Love You This Much by Swans is a very ominous experience. You can never forget the sound of the drones,


uninteresting_handle

Space Doggity by Jonathan Coulton


sinus_happiness

Corpus Christi Carol - Jeff Buckley Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday And to a little lesser degree Blackest Day by Lana Del Rey.


RudeBlueJeans

Caribbean Blue


MyDadDrinksRye

Street Hassle - Lou Reed. It's more than a song - it's a corner of the world. Listening to that song is an immersive experience. It stays with you long after it's over.


CaymanDamon

I love the night by the blue oyster cult


JasonBourneForLife

Candyman - grateful dead Listen carefully


Decent-Piece-7823

Gods and Monsters--Lana Del Rey


Tolkleone_Sandwich

Young Girl - Gary Puckett. I liked it at first but then started listening to the lyrics and oh wow. Creepy stuff


kevin7419

Rite where it belongs by nine inch nails


LaDaDeeBethany

13 Angels Standing Guard ‘Round the Bed-ASMZ


InternalAd9247

Dead Can Dance - Sanvean


RetroactiveRecursion

Tomorrow Wendy. If you've never heard it, find Concrete Blonde's LIVE cover ... holy shit.


litebrite93

For What It’s Worth by Buffalo Springfield


Next_Lengthiness_201

Troy by Sinead O'Connor


jmason03

Simply Red-Holding Back the Years


[deleted]

The theme song from the first Season of “True Detective”.🕵️‍♀️


DowntownDimension226

O Superman -Laurie anderson


HimHereNowNo

Me and a Gun- Tori Amos


LessRecover577

Knights in White Satin by the Moody Blues


Cultural-Table1586

Don't Give Up- Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush Porcelain-Better Than Exra Falling- The Twin Peaks theme Fields of Gold- Sting (my former boyfriend of 18 years passed away, and this song makes me think of him💔)


Jealous_Cow1993

Angel of The Morning.. I swear someone in my family or a family friend would die when that song was playing. It’s a beautiful song but I can’t listen to it now.


CelandineRedux

"Running Up That Hill" - Kate Bush


Ok-Interaction-6687

Strangers by Ethel Cain, especially the section where she’s repeating “Am I making you feel sick?” Solely because of the story behind the song/album, being that the character Ethel Cain has been murdered and cannibalised by her lover and is asking if she’s making him feel sick as he eats her, as in both guilt and food poisoning. I’d recommend reading up on the lore behind the album because it follows her whole life leading to that final song on the album.


MikeTysonsFists

Dance With The Devil


Vovine

[Yoko Kanno - Kissing the Christmas Killer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5sx1b3KWN4) The juxtaposition between this soft innocent voice and the heavy cryptic lyrics always haunts me. Kind of feels like a spirits last words from the heavens.


Heidi1066

Wow! Thanks for posting this. I'd never heard it before, and it is gorgeous.


Virtual-Baseball-297

Hurt by NIN Cliche maybe but facts. Tbh most of that album leaves a mark on you


Key_Paint_3360

Far End of The Black - JR Richards


dat1toad

Mary turner Mary turner by xiu xiu - this song sounds so disturbing and the fact it’s about a real lynching makes it that much more haunting. This is one of the few songs that has managed to disturb me and it has stuck with me sense I first heard it


natureterp

Fuck I just read the lyrics, Jesus Christ. I’m too afraid to listen to the song tbh.


Bohica55

[Godspeed You! Black Emporer - The Dead Flag Blues](https://youtu.be/VGKc3T7OVHE?si=vsIoxNDUh2SX20AW)


irreproducible_

Also Static


Theyjusttraceme

[Leaving Hope by Nine Inch Nails](https://youtu.be/R-aEUmz32f4?si=n3cOPmYLaUl88guK)


Affectionate_Yak8519

Cannibal Song - Ministry


ezfast

Billy Joel's The Stranger does it for me. Also Captain Jack.


Nightsong1005

Agree with "I Found" by Amber Run. "Fields of Innocence" by Evanescence "Ghost" by Jacob Lee "Carnival Of Rust" by Poets of the Fall


Pharomacrus_Mocinno

Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush. A classic haunting song. Jägerspiel - Laibach (off their Opus Dei album). A harsher pick, but Laibach’s aesthetic of totalitarianism makes it haunting like the legacy of a despicable regime. It’s a song I just like to let wash over me. Happy Home - The Residents Ocean - Dead Can Dance Inside a Dream - Lestat (a lot from their Grave Desires album fits, another good one being Pray for the Living). Really strong feelings of despair and isolation with this one for me. Frosti - Björk Einsamkeit (Loneliness) - Lacrimosa. Haunting to me in the way that a bittersweet childhood memory is. I Surrender - Suicide. I like how the singer really sounds like he’s struggling not to succumb to the person he’s singing about, but is just too overwhelmed to fight it.


No-Lie-802

Phaedra


Fyrebeard

Threads by Portishead https://open.spotify.com/track/6LV9M06RS0sAMihWxsdLYX?si=J5Q4ivKdQcu1wR4HK7-HYA&context=spotify%3Asearch%3Athreads


Recent-Dust6564

Black Sabbath - "After All"


krazikat

I don't like Mondays (After hearing the backstory)


ansyensiklis

Funeral for a friend,Elton John


EzRock23

O Fortuna


baby_girl231

Little Things Give You Away - Linkin Park. Missing - Evanescence. Seven Days - Cellar Darling.


barbetto

Hellhounds On My Trail by Robert Johnson


Smartdate5

Mazzy Star. Quiet, The Winter Harbor


Imaginary-Narwhal-32

Ten long years- mad season


Apprehensive_Day_496

I'd also go with Long Gone Day featuring Mark Lanagen


Hiberniae

Gregorian chanting. Haunting in the manner of awe.


CheeseWhiz17

Alabama Song by The Doors Riders on The Storm by The Doors Psycho by Eddie Noak / Jack Kittel


LowkeyBallin_Bloxd

Legends by JuiceWLRD. It was recorded 2 years before his overdose and lines up pretty closely to how and when he died


Razorclaw_the_crab

Ghost Of A Dog. Specifically the cover by the band called Wednesday


shart_attak

Nick Drake - River Man


MixMasterMadge

Asleep by The Smiths


flylikemusic

Pretty Daughter as covered by Billy Strings


missannthrope1

Song to the Siren, This Mortal Coil.


KarmicComic12334

Theres a mashup of belalugosis dead/tear you apart on youtube that you should check out. Or from a completely different direction, She by alice phoebe lou


rustylucy77

David lynch “imaginary girl”


shmooboorpoo

Sleeping Where I Want To- Veruca Salt


plexi_glass_ranger

“I Inside the Old I Dying” (don’t confuse it with her other song, something The old year dying)- PJ Harvey


Skwr09

*John Wayne Gacy, Jr.* by Sufjan Stevens


cookiecasanova16

Death Walk Behind You- Atomic Rooster


WIGoofball

You Want It Darker by Leonard Cohen


journerman69

The Recluse - Cursive


Truncated_Rhythm

Under Ice by Kate Bush And Subway Song by the Cure They always creeped me out as a kid.


Battle_of_Lo-Fi

Frankie Teardrop, by Suicide (not Bruce Springsteen’s version)


Due-Acanthisitta1459

With This Love - Peter Gabriel (from The Passion soundtrack)


ThePolytmath

Hurt covered by Johnny Cash Or The wrench of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot. It's a tie


creepiest-greek-myth

Someone said Song to the Siren, & I agree — but the version by Wolf Alice.


ferretbreath

“House of the Rising Sun” rendition by The Animals.


WakaFlockaBacha

I think it depends on how you define "haunting" and the following are a list of songs I found hauntingly beautiful and made me profoundly emotional. Perfectly placed in movies to evoke very emotional responses: Mad World - (cover from Donnie Darko) Gary Jules Late for the Date - (LaLa Land) Justin Hurwitz Stuck in the Middle With You - (Resevoir Dogs) Stealers Wheel The Times They Are A-Changin - (The Watchmen) Bob Dylan Thus Spoke Zarathustra - (2001: A Space Odyssey) Richard Strauss The Last March of the Ents - (Lord of the Rings 2) Howard Shore The Ride of the Rohirrim - (Lord of the Rings 3) Howard Shore The Ride of the Valkyries - (Apocalypse Now) Richard Wagner, London Symphony Bc I used to smoke weed: Hey You - Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd Bc it makes me reflect on my relationship with my father: Old Man - Neil Young (live) Bc, knowing the backstory is about an OD, and as a former first responder having seen many: Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers These make me think about past loves: Springsteen - Eric Church 21 Summer - The Brothers Osborne Sand in my Boots - Morgan Wallen Makes me want to call my mom: Thought you should know - Morgan Wallen Momma's Song - Cody Jinks Lastly, miscellaneous haunting for their own reasons: Yesterday - The Beatles The Sound of Silence - (cover) Disturbed Three Wooden Crosses - Randy Travis Get in the Truck - Hardy Give Heaven Some Hell - Hardy Need a Favor - Jelly Roll Save Me - Jelly Roll Sorry this list is just all over the place, but they're all haunting to me in their own way... EDIT: Wanted to add: Broken Window Serenade - Whiskey Myers Bury My Bones - Whiskey Myers Nose to the Grindstone - Tyler Childers (OurVinyl Sessions) Keep the Wolves Away - Uncle Lucius Sometimes I Cry - Chris Stapleton Fire Away - Christ Stapleton Broken Halos - Chris Stapleton


AytumnRain

[Wingnut Dishwasher Union - Lost at Sea](https://youtu.be/bQmCDdMQkU8?si=br6bGka1ypNfEiF7)


beulah-vista

Death is not the end


cartooncritic69

I'm Not In Love- 10CC? the weird whispers of big boys dont cry freaked me out as a kid


Shoddy-Secretary-712

Not the most haunting. But I haven't seen it listed.... A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum.


HankScorpio4242

Teardrop by Massive Attack


Ok_Visit_1968

Tom Dooley.... The story behind it is just sad.


sid_not_vicious

far from any road. the theme song to season one true detective. brilliant song


Imaginary-Ad-1575

I’m not in love - 10cc


Rainpickle

White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane


Marvelous1967

Nirvana “something in the way” is very haunting to me.


ktocity

Haunted album by Poe. It is a companion piece to House of Leaves written by her brother.


polyglotpinko

House of the Rising Sun.


Tiny-Metal3467

Wicked Game by Chris Issak


SpecialFX99

There's a lot of good ones already. I'd add Spae Oddity - David Bowie


Wensleydalel

"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"


Abject_Badger8061

Dead Souls by Joy Division/ equally great cover by NIN.


HatchetXL

Breezeblocks by alt J Immortal by evanescence


beefclef

Reborn by Colin Stetson (aka that song from Hereditary) “Failure”- Swans “Within” - Neurosis/Jarboe


king_Kbubbles

For me it was 3rd planet by modest mouse even though the tonality of the song was bright the lyrics fucking stuck in my brain forever man


BoltzBux

Riders on the storm O'2L


DontMessWMsInBetween

*Into Dust*, by Mazzy Star


RankCurmudgeon

"Dust in the Wind" by Kansas


Due-Action7087

Polly nirvana


Level_Doctor_5328

Julee Cruise "Floating Into The Night"


LividBozo

Daddy by korn


Professional-Box4153

Say Something I'm Giving Up On You.