Spooky Season: The Most Spooky Episode of Hey Arnold!

[@ExSpheriment]

I love this channel

[@someguyinamechsuit7062]

My theory is that Grandpa didn't work in railroad He worked at the steel mill, and the reason he knew the lights would go out is because every time he rode that train the lights would go out and every time he rode that train the conductor would play polka

[@Rachellk]

Wow yeah, they were calling him Steely Phil😂

[@comettamer]

I mean, it fits given his nickname.

[@dnasty312]

My great-grandpa was the opposite. He worked as a truck driver for the railway, transporting steel beams from the mill 🚛

[@MelancoliaI]

That's what I'm thinking. Remember the conductor was familiar with the 'haunted train' story, so this theory tracks. Phil made the story up over time on many bored rides to and from his night-shift at the steel mill, taking mundane details from his commute and transforming them into supernatural phenomena. The makings of a classic urban legend.

[@Angie-Pants]

I'm 32 whole Earth years old and my heart still races when the music starts at the end.

[@medeucaa]

Same

[@JakeAdkinsOfficial]

29, same...

[@hannahsings19]

30 and saaaaaaaaaame 🤣🤣🤣

[@Havokwreaker]

29 and ohhh yeah, my heart is racing.

[@fuzzycat31]

Me too.I’m 30 and I shield my eyes away

[@iwasinabox]

I remember the end of this episode had me sooo freaked out. This is one of those episodes you don’t forget.

[@kingcone9309]

Same here that ending is what I always remember and it burned in my memory.

[@datstoopidmex5305]

I thought I was the only one.. the way they made him look all beat up and crazy looking was weird as a kid..

[@tylerhood5035]

I always loved this episode and how terrifying it was. To know Arnold, Gerald, and Helga lucked out and missed an actual ride with the engineer is all the more haunting. I shows you how close they were to being spirited away by the mad man.

[@Stefan-ji2ek]

The ending of Weazing Ed chills me to the bone to this day.

[@cjg8763]

It's Wheezing Ed and..... SOME OTHER GUY! 😆😆😆

[@AdolphSaxOfficial]

THIS

[@gabriellucero7508]

This one and the headless cabby are my favorite episodes

[@jamestomlin5525]

Both had great music too

[@cjg8763]

Four eyed Jack!

[@starryeyez111]

headless cabby!!! it changed me lol

[@jojomcdodd8122]

What about the ghost bride

[@honorbluelovelyful]

Def was the scariest episode for me.....still gives me chills.....Brainy sitting on the edge made it even creepier

[@paullopez2021]

I always thought the ending was a fantasy sequence. Also, who knew Homer Simpson could sing the blues?

[@thesheerwoodcrow5465]

I love how their avoiding saying hell in the show lol

[@jamestomlin5525]

All the way down to..well, you know~

[@cjg8763]

@@jamestomlin5525 The South Pole? 😆

[@dementedmindstate7063]

In the ghost bride episode when they were reading her tombstone 😂😂😂

[@Thomasfan239sucksLOL]

Duhh its a KIDS Show! 🙄

[@Claybraham91]

@@Thomasfan239sucksLOL You're pointing this out why?

[@tawnie9204]

I always felt so bad for Brainy. I also wonder if Grandpa Phil experienced the haunted train ride himself. He just left that part out. That ending scene and song still creeps me out. After I watch it as a kid the first time, whenever I’d watch this episode again, I would change the channel right when I would see Brainy sitting on the fence post and the beginning music started.

[@paullopez2021]

Brainy reminds me of my old supervisor who was an introverted blond dude w/ glasses who everyone loved.

[@mr.checkyourself4672]

Yes this was a scary episode but the Ghost Bride episode scared me the story of her is something you see in a movie or a crime show but Hey Arnold scary stories always ends up true in the end.

[@jaelynn5950]

the ghost bride humming the wedding March also scared me😭

[@brightgabriel6714]

That one was straight demonic that episode was so creepy like way too creepy

[@giacomoaluotto4053]

Well four-eyed jack scares me 😱

[@desireejohnsonevans]

That one absolutely terrifies me still. And I’ll be 48 years old tomorrow.

[@Kreege]

wheezin ed scared me

[@labyrinthgirl17]

This episode, plus the episodes "Four-Eyed Jack", "The Ghost Bride", and "The Headless Cabbie" are why I spent several weeks when I was a kid being terrified of train whistles in the distance, going into basements, going near graveyards, and dogs barking.

[@AoiUsagiOtoko]

four-eyed jack was always the one that stuck with me the most for some reason. actually seeing the ghost at the end terrified me as a kid, even though the ghost was pretty chill lol

[@butth3ad]

the ending shot of this episode gave me NIGHTMARES for years the music, the conductor, everything

[@thaddeusicengard3944]

Watching this animation style makes me remember my childhood and it makes me emotional.

[@paullopez2021]

The only thing unsettling about this episode for me is knowing how old I’ve gotten. I haven’t seen this episode in 20 years.

[@mohammadarief8081]

It's so great of Helga for being still poetic even though she was so terrified 😂

[@RogueT-Rex8468]

I had a feeling you’d start arnold with this ep. this one is definitely a memorable one; and honestly yeah. The ending of this one was honestly unnerving.

[@HunterPBrown]

I'm convinced Brainy is immortal.

[@mcurran6505]

Or he could be a zombie.

[@cjg8763]

I love how they just toss him out into a lake 😆😆😆

[@PhilipJFryII]

Now that's terrifying.. and that too!

[@g1rldraco7]

No joke this episode scared me as a kid, the imagery, the sounds and that ending O.o I hope you cover the ghost bride episode since it marks the last time Gerald tells urban legends in the series.

[@littlemurdermachine6646]

My two favorite Hey Arnold ghost episodes was when Arnold and Gerald went to go find a ghost inside the bordering house it's pretty forgettable but the atmosphere was so aesthetically pleasing I like it. My second favorite episode was the ghost bride, I was surprised on how much they were able to get away with in that episode. First the ghost bride killing her soon to be husband and sister like that scene surprised me so much as a kid and then the she committed suicide afterwards like damn also that chase scene where the "ghost bride" was chasing them gave me chills.

[@fiemouse]

I remember researching on the internet in the early 2000s for anything about this train thinking it was an actual event in history. I loved this episode, and it is probably one of my favourites!

[@BobtheExile]

I was gonna ask if that was Dan Castellaneta voicing the engineer because he sounds a hell of a lot like Homer Simpson but then I read the credits at the end and saw I was right. Had no idea Castellaneta also played Grandpa Phil, though

[@gabbagoo9774]

And Earthworm Jim/ Evil Jim Actually, listening to Grandpa, he basically uses Evil Jim's voice. Huh.

[@saturnash]

I'm SO GLAD I'm not alone in having been heavily freaked out by and DREAD watching this episode!! I had to watch this while driving so I couldn't look at the screen 🙈

[@prize5ighter]

I hope you weren't driving a train.

[@christopheredwards788]

Happy 25 years Hey Arnold

[@TheEngaged22]

The “ball-chinned” conductor 😂

[@andrearosalez3866]

I can’t unsee that 😂

[@chanibonnie90]

Wheezin Ed was the one that fucked me up as a kid, because I truly believed he was real. Especially when you hear his laugh at the end of the episode.

[@NakkiArchives]

The Headless Cabbie and The Ghost Bride one was the scariest for me without a doubt❤️

[@FilmmakeroftheFuture]

I feared for Ernie’s life at the end of the Headless Cabbie. Fortunately, he was okay.

[@NullaLexInk]

I haven't got a chance to watch the video yet, but I just wanted to say that seeing an upload from you is always a definite highlight of the day. Glad I found your channel a couple of months back. Keep up the amazing work man!

[@kamikaze1038]

Couldn't agree more. This channel is definitely a hidden gem.

[@kagenotatsumaki]

I've always loved this episode for the song at the end lol The episode that always freaked me out as a kid was the Wheezing Ed episode, something about the art style they used when Gerald was telling the story always sent shivers down my spine.

[@lizanboyz10]

The one I remember that FREAKED me out as a child was when Arnold goes to hang out with his cousin Arnie...

[@axlneztsosie3176]

Hahahahaha no shit.

[@goman335]

I still get chills at the ending scene.

[@paullopez2021]

This episode never freaked me out. But I remember it fondly for its off-the-charts creativity. This 15 minute episode from 1996 puts most of today’s sitcoms to shame.

[@mr.alucardrules4956]

I love spooky episodes of non spooky shows i just love horror in general unfortunately i've watched just about all of them i need more

[@themenacingsloth]

Gerald’s face in the thumbnail has me deceased XD

[@collegerebel]

Man, this episode and the headless cabbie were my favorites! The alien invasion prank was pretty good too. I love halloween episodes in cartoons. They always throw the show's reality into question with all the supernatural happenings. Hey Arnold is usually pretty grounded, with some surrealism mixed in, sure. But when this episodes happen, you as the viewer get thrown for a loop.

[@MegaZzZeux]

Can't wait for the Doug Halloween episode lookback, that was one of the few that actually creeped me out as a kid. As always keep up the good work!

[@ladiesman181002]

It wasn’t doctor. It was the engineer!

[@JohnnyRamRod]

I loved (and still love) this episode of Hey Arnold!

[@tomboyangel78]

Hearing you describe your dread for the ending of this episode as a kid reminds me of how I felt with a Jimmy Neutron episode where the kids explore an ancient pyramid. Every time I watched that episode, I'd have a nightmare about the mummies from it... even though it never scared me! Anyway, great addition to your celebration of spooky month. There is always something about horror-themed cartoon episodes that bring a charm to childhood and nostalgia 🎃

[@ClaudiaWowPaw]

This episode was one of my favorites . The dead bride and the ghost with the glasses was also insane. They terrified me .

[@PatrickWilliams-ts4le]

I like to think it was the real ghost train, but it spared Arnold and company cause they are kids and/or it wasn't their time to "go". So it gave them a nice scare before letting them go.

[@ChrisWhiton]

This was always my favorite one (next to the turtle episode) as a kid, back when I could tolerate watching an episode of a show more than once lol.

[@matthewjimenez655]

I love the song at the ending

[@royaltyblessed2454]

I think the headless episode was scarier. I feel there were some more disturbing ones but this was probably the first one of its kind in the series

[@donovanbradford8231]

Really enjoy these old breakdowns of these classic 90's cartoon.

[@FilmmakeroftheFuture]

I have a fan theory that maybe the accident DID happen, but there was enough money to mend Engine 25. Afterwards, they just kept it on a short route from the Steel Mill to the city.

[@atljosh5622]

This episode is so classic. I forgot they threw Brainy out the fuckin train like that 😭😭😭😭

[@KichiMiangra]

I had a similar unsettling feeling specifically from and episode of the Wild Thornberries with a ghost in the woods. More specifically the part at the end where the trees look like a face. Another episode that messed me up is a halloween episode of Recess made up of three short stories. The Miss Finster graveyard/ Zombie attack was fun but the whole glasses under the desk proving it was real always messed me up. There's something about horror elements in normally down to earth shows (Gonna ignore the magic of Eliza talking to animals) the mess me up good. This ep of hey arnold too.

[@lile4life713]

Here we go again you just keep bringing me back to when I was kid

[@lile4life713]

A*

[@gurusheat3506]

This episode, headless cabbie, and 4 eyed jack !

[@DeerbrookSouthernRR]

I can relate to the whole “grandpa stretching the truth” thing. My grandpa always told me some wild stories

[@qhirinoramirez3897]

I love the 90s cartoon 🥺

[@jaelynn5950]

great vid! I also used to be so scared of the song at the end of the episode it always creeped me out

[@tigerwolf2243]

Praises be to the youtube algorithm, may you spread this video far in the recommendation boxes of the unsuspecting and the nostalgic. Glory be to you.

[@TymanTy-xl3wd]

Oh man I love this episode so much to this day. Thank you for making this video! Haunted Train was one of my favorite episodes mostly I love trains. But watching this episode now as an adult I get to understand it more along with questions. But what really got me the most was definitely in my opinion there is a Haunted Train. But yeah this episode did scared me from time to time as a kid. Still great to watch! Thanks for the video and keep up the great work.

[@Dilemma009]

Great episode !!

[@michaelbosket6510]

My thing is if the station been abandoned for years why a train still stopping at the station when the station no longer on the train route?

[@foxymetroid]

Where else is he supposed to pick up passengers destined for the fiery underworld?

[@michaelbosket6510]

@@foxymetroid I'm not talking about the story I'm talking in reality.

[@cen7465]

Arnold and Gerald's duet hits different

[@marktulo]

The only time I could watch this episode was in the morning, the singing at the end was just too scary.

[@elishavelez8746]

I only remember watching the weasing Ed episode as a kid, but I can tell this would’ve scared me just as much if not more . And forget all about it in 20 minutes. 😂

[@aaronbarber6238]

My mom always recorded a bunch of cartoons for me while I was a baby, and she always caught the scary episodes on tape, so I grew up drawn to these. This was the first episode of Hey Arnold I ever saw, and I always wanted more of these.

[@nickytembo4112]

If you thought that’s scary then you haven’t seen “What did I tell you Shortman?”

[@youngogquan49]

That damn song is the theme song of my youthful nightmares😵‍💫😵‍💫

[@saintkupo]

The headless cabby is scarier. Ernie was gonna die at the end.

[@90sDRgirl]

The Haunted Train and The one with the Headless Horsman

[@whiterose480]

Hey Arnold had a couple creep episodes. Like the one with the headless cabbie driver ... I think that's what it was.

[@videobenwhite3681]

Thank you for bringing the joy of my childhood to me again bro always feels good to remenis

[@breannavinson1694]

I love Hey Arnold and your videos! Brought back so many childhood memories😄🙌Keep em' coming😁 I also love the spooky poopy episodes that come out around Hallowen time. This episode mostly freaked me out bc Helga ran into those spiders. I'd have a cow, if that happened to me lol🕸👻

[@lavieestunsonge4541]

Yyyyeeeessss!!!! Thank you for sharing! The nostalgia is real! Love Halloween too! Just now we go to the bar instead of trick or treating! But, I love seeing people in costume! ^~^

[@JesEanes]

I love how the door was opened for Helga to chuck Brainy out! No Arnold morality speech, they all went along with it! xD

[@nicolazael]

As a kid, the only Hey Arnold 'spooky' episode that actually scared me was Four-Eyed Jack (yes, I know, the lamest one probably) but I freaking LOVED the rest of the others that were clearly more scary. The Ghost Bride, The Haunted Train, The Headless Cabbie... I remember looking forward to two parts of the spooky episodes: the amazing storytelling of either grandpa or Gerald (Gerald, you inspired a lot of kids like me to be storytellers), and the spooky end where the magical realism would happen and we'd be left wondering, or realizing, that the tale was real. Hey Arnold really never gets old for a 90s kid.

[@mariaeugeniaalvaradohierro9132]

“Wheezin’ Ed” has always been the scariest episode ever for me.

[@lionocyborg6030]

Why did Sid guess that the smell of the sulphur/brimstone was socks and not eggy farts? Surely that’d be a no brainer, especially as smelly socks don’t smell of rotten eggs.

[@googaboogaloo]

The song started to play and I legit got goosebumps. I’m a grown up what the hell.

[@michaelladarkangelsparkle9908]

Omg this ep was so scary! This and the are you afraid of the dark ep FIREGHOST!🙊😳

[@stevenfoster9402]

Hey Arnold would just randonly terrify us growing up and then go right back to being a regular nickelodeon show. The haunted train, the headless cabbie, four eyed jack, weezin ed, ghost bride, and it was always that part at the end of the episode where they were like, "Maybe this really did happen, you never know...anyway bye!!" 😱😄

[@me-thebusta610]

My homies t shirt is getting cracked up.

[@Hell-Rose]

I used to DREAD this episode. Those eyes burning at the end literally fucked me up for years. Even now, in my mid-30's I can still feel that strong punch of uneasiness. Watching that part with one eye open

[@galaxymew5138]

Oh man, this is one of my all time FAVORITE episodes of Hey Arnold!

[@ninamancuso8924]

Such a great episode! I would say this was the episode I remembered most from the series.

[@paullopez2021]

Same. This was the coolest episode Hey Arnold ever did. I’m really surprised to know how many people were freaked out by this. And I don’t even like scary movies/horror!

[@EthanDarke]

"I was a kid who was afraid of everything" xD that was me as well, and now I'm a horror junkie. Kid me would never have believed I'd become such a lover of the genre

[@hawkticus_duel_shack]

I love how Gramps knows they're all board and is, probably, embellished a real story to give them something to talk about and do the rest of the day.

[@raptor6012]

Please cover the scary episode of the wild thornberries

[@Irish_Ian17]

A train went by while i was watching this video at midnight and im FREAKING OUT MAN.

[@goblintechies4396]

I think its very easy to explain what happened. This episode and The Headless Cabby episode, both utilize similar tricks. Lots of spooky things happen, but they can be rationalized away. And the real horror happens toward the end of the episode. The train is actually haunted by the ghost of a mad engineer who makes the train go off its rails. The same woman shows up and asks a cabby to help her find her dog and offers him a scarf who laughs maniaclly at the end. Which implies there is a very real undercurrent of supernatural things that happen in-universe, but tend to be dismissed out of hand for how 'preposterous' it all is.

[@heather957]

For me, whenever the intro music played in the first scene in this episode (and other episodes used it as well, I believe), that always creeped me out as a kid. And the scariest episode to me was "Arnold Visits Arnie", particularly the scene in the cornfield lol

[@bluetreefiddy]

this will always be my favorite episode

[@professorivas]

This episode creeped me out along with Four-Eyed Jack. I used to be scared to open my eyes after waking up in fear that I’d see the ghost standing next to my bed staring at me.

[@Neos4500]

This one wasn't so bad. I could watch it just fine. But even now, 20 years later, I wouldn't voluntarily watch the Ghost Bride episode.

[@Skydro478]

This was by far my favorite episode of Hey Arnold

[@m.hreels9822]

Bro not even going to lie this episode stuck in my head all the way until I was like 28 😂 this episode freaked me out as a kid.

[@steamandsmoke97]

As a Steam Locomotive Connoisseur I have to really give it to Hey Arnold's animators, since for the close-up front shots, the detailing of the Engine is spot on, with the exception of the rods and valvegear but still, good overall. Engine 25 is actually based on the Norfolk & Western K-1 Class 4-8-2 Mountain type Locomotives. Look them up and you'll see for yourself. This Episode never scared me, I absolutely loved it because my Grandpa told me similar stories as a kid, and my favorite part of the whole episode aside from when Engine 25 stops at the station, is the end when Grandpa says "Well... I wouldn't say that..." and it pans to the Engine rushing by and showing that the story was true and her Original Engineer is still with her. And man that's a catchy tune. This whole episode appeals to my sinister side. The only spooky episode of Hey Arnold that scared me was another steam-related episode, 4 Eyed Jack. The part where his huge Boiler explodes in the basement is what got me. (BTW, just so you know, they're called Engines, not *trains*, the Train is the line of cars it pulls behind it. So just call it Engine 25 when referring to the Locomotive itself, and the Train when you're referring to both the Engine and the Cars/Coaches it's pulling. Hence Freight Train or Passenger Train, Second, Conductors DO NOT Run the Locomotive. I cringed every time you called the Engineer a Conductor. The ENGINEer runs the ENGINE. On a Passenger Train, the Conductor stays in the coaches, punches tickets, yells all aboard, and keeps things behind the Engine going smoothly among many other non-engine related things. He coordinates with the Engineer about arrival and departure times, sees to the comfort of the passengers and keeps the peace, etc. A Freight Conductor keeps track of the Waybills for his consist).

[@uremat2913]

3:27 (Ghost Train Theme Starts Playing) And Every Year On Th Date Of The Accident, It Runs Again, As A Warning To Others, Crashing Off The Line, Shrieking Like A Lost Soul!

[@devinpaul9026]

The crazy part is that brainy probably had no idea the connection of what he saw at the end, IF HE EVEN TRULY SAW IT, and that even if he had, nobody would ever know to ask him. And yet it was real and actually out there. But it's engineer, not conductor, the conductor's the guy that takes tickets back in the coaches, answers questions, what have you. Freights have one too, but I'm not entirely sure of their roll. Steam locomotives typically had between two and three guys up in the engine, the engineer drove, the fireman fed the boiler and handled some of the specific functions, and there may have also been a brakeman, but I'm not sure about on passenger trains. On freights the brakeman typically rode in the caboose along with a signalman.

[@SaintDiaz]

Whats more suprising is that in ALL of the episodes that have a scary story tied to it, they always end up true in the end.

[@LilyLovecraft]

9:07 - The fire ignited after the drips from the container, which does commonly happen in overflowing metalworks

[@meganshaw1949]

Maybe when he worked there it was a story that was circulating around or maybe he knew someone who road the Haunted Train, but was somehow able to escape or maybe he was one of Engine Twenty-five’s luckier victims. A third option is that Grandpa worked there when that engineer went nuts and even knew him.

[@WolfNamedBear]

Pretty sure this episode is why I have a general dis-ease around trains still today lol

[@jjj6854]

Great video as always! I hope you cover the other spooky episodes of Hey Arnold like the scientist ghost of the boarding house (one I forgot existed until I saw the episode last year), the haunted mine, the headless cabby, and the ghost bride! I think I'm forgetting one but those were legit scary ass episodes even to this day.

[@denamerritt7339]

“And straight up yeet his ass out of the moving train” lol wow

[@joeshadowman]

My theory is that it’s an old folks tail that the town has been passing on for a few decades at that point.