In this scene from Dark Shadows episode 987, we suspect that each scientist left out at least one word in his line.  When you hear these lines spoken, as opposed to reading the subtitles, it’s even more confusing … especially because the actors’ faces are so deadpan, and they don’t stumble but smoothly leave out words.  They look as though they mean this nonsense and seem to understand each other.  Cue the eerie music, indeed!

Here's what it looks like when your strangler offers you a way to save yourself by inviting you to "Call on your false god!"  From Dark Shadows episode 999.

One of the few scientists in the world who can't subtract just happens to be in Dark Shadows (episode 997).

"Oh, it's fine, but I still don't understand why."  From Dark Shadows episode 1.

"The only way to bring these people back to the truth is to smile and lie just as they do."  From Dark Shadows episode 958.

It's why we let our subscription laspse, too: "Nothing in the papers.  Nothing about sudden horrible death or anyone seeing any mysterious animal."  From Dark Shadows episode 918.

We checked, and it's true that a house can be haunted by terror itself.  From Dark Shadows episode 764.

A "sense of something" at the profoundly haunted, cursed, and doomed Collinwood estate.  It's the biggest understatement in over a thousand episodes.  From Dark Shadows episode 1086.

From Dark Shadows episode 907.

Before House of Dark Shadows (1970) there was the House of White Shadows (1903)

"The moment anyone sends for me, it rains."  From Dark Shadows episode 475.

"Distrusting music."  From Dark Shadows episode 910.

Mr. Nobody, from Dark Shadows episode 910.

From Dark Shadows episode 892.

"What I don't understand, I run from."  From Dark Shadows episode 410.

Here's an answer to "What's wrong?"  "Everything that's happened tonight, that's what's wrong."  From Dark Shadows episode 1212.

A great exit line: "I shall not forget this evening.  It is a chapter in a book I intend to finish."  From Dark Shadows episode 475.

"'Must' is a word I do not recognize."  Actually, most everyone at Collinwood, like Bartleby, would prefer not to, as we proved here.  It's more like Collin-wouldn't.  From Dark Shadows episode 641.

"This isn't happening."  From Dark Shadows episode 769.