Whenever her friends overreact over something This Troper finds trivial, she ''says'' dun-dun-DUNNN in a low, menacing voice.

When ThisTroper was in middle school, his class was divided into groups and each group had to create a skit on a different major group that settled the west. It became a running gag in the people who did the Mormons that whenever the word "Mormon" was mentioned, someone offstage would make a noise.

May this Mormon say that that is ''still'' funny? A little offensive, but RuleOfFunny is in full effect.

This troper's friend once did a scare chord melody when a teacher gave us an assignment. To this day it lives on.

There are a few instances where I wasn't scared by some event, but I was scared by someone else being scared by it. Funny how that works.

The Organist at This Troper's church does this every year at Tenebrae (a service done entirely by candle light) to represent the death of Christ. Even though I know it's coming, it gets me every time.

This troper's friend who is both an aspiring musician and a latin enthusiast made some OminousLatinChanting themes for some characters, the three most frightening are: Hellish Ladyits actually about someone causing the end of all life due to misery, Ballad of the Wolf Kingits about people worshiping a king like a god, and then sacrificing themselves, and lastly Ulqipadh Norkeinits about an ancient deity tentacle raping someone in front of its cultists, who are chanting.

Links or it didn't happen.

This Troper (first person hereafter) got one of these by accident. I've got an older computer that was programmed to play clock chimes on the hour (no good reason, I was just messing with the settings at the time). I was playing an old computer game on said computer, and during one cutscene, the ''exact same second'' that the antagonist made a surprise appearance and caught the protagonist "mingling with the enemy" in her words, the first of the 5:00 chimes sounded. Admittedly a grandfather clock chime makes a lousy ScareChord, but it deserves a mention for how hilariously perfect the timing was.

This troper had a bunch of voice clips of the Designated Antagonist Saavedro from Myst III: Exile speaking as her sound scheme on her old laptop. One time I was playing ''Myst III: Exile'' and I got to a point where I was in Saavedro's very creepy lair (and Myst fans will know precisely what I am talking about), before Saavedro leaves the Age or even the building you're standing in (he's in the upper levels of it). I was examining something on the desk, getting really into the game. Cue my computer notifying me that I had an email with a creepy response of, "Hello, Atrus..." Brix were shat.

This troper uses it whenever discussing ''{{FATAL}}'s'' Random Magical Effects (dum-dum-DUUUUMMM) table.

Due to her not being that sociable a person, whenever This Troper gets a text message on her phone, it acts as a {{Scare Chord}} for her. Cue moments when she'll be walking around in public, and will practically jump out of her skin as James MacKenzie commands out of her phone to "Let the challenge...begin!".

The school at which this troper's parents work, they recently did a musical based on the works of TheBeatles. One RunningGag was that every time someone said "Yellow Brick Road", there'd be a da-da-da-DUMMMMM scare chord from the musicians. The characters started referring to it as the Abbey Road, and the narrator repeatedly threatened to go down and sort out the musicians if they did it one more time.

This troper was in a play, and they literally said, "Dun dun dun!" offscreen at scary parts. Or parts that aren't scary. The characters in the play commented on it.

This Troper had one as part of a dream. I dreamt that I was walking in an empty street, surrounded by animals that had some very high levels of {{Uncanny Valley}} going on, and hearing a music from a radio in the distance. I come across a dog who is sitting on my path and seems normal. I kneel by it and pet it. The music from the radio is suddenly interrupted with a single, short burst of high pitched sound and I suddenly realise that the dog is just as wrong as the rest of the animals (it has no eyes). And that it is about to kill me.

This troper was in a play where at certain intervals, everyone backstage would collectively say, "Dun dun DUN!" And though the cord was often totally scattered, it was made funny by a character onstage saying, "Where is that music coming from?!"

When this troper was playing EverQuest, one of these played when he entered some area. It was the same sound as the one that plays when you die, though he wasn't dead. It freaked him the hell out.

Same troper as the last bullet point. The earthquake warning sound on the news (I'm not far from the Sendai quake at this moment). Holy shit.

This troper messed with some players in {{Dungeons and Dragons}} they were walking through a room with a bunch of torture equipment they remembered seeing a bunch of musical instruments where they came in. Than they heard the sound of a violin slowly being played.Vumm than nothing vvvumm than nothing. Something walks by them and they hear Vumm really loudly .