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** The Silence of series 6 are an excellent example of this. They're almost an opposite of the Angels in that they only seem to exist when you are looking at them. As soon as you look away, you forget they were even there. This can get really creepy when the viewer knows where they are and what they are doing but the characters act like everything is normal. It is especially creepy when the scene is progressing as normal and all of a sudden a character turns around and tally marks all over their arms (each tally mark means they have seen a monster) or have their palm glow red (the Doctor put a device in their palms which lets them record messages. It then glows red until the message is played back).
*** Case in point: Amy and Canton Delaware visit a creepy orphanage. At night. During a thunderstorm. They split up so Amy can explore on her own. She enters a room, doesn't see anything (and neither do we). She walks over to a window, looks out, and sees her reflection in the window {{spoiler|revealing that she's seen dozens of Silence in the room that we haven't}}.
** Possibly the monster in "Listen", assuming there even was one, and the ambiguityof its existence is what makes it scary. This strange episode starts with the Doctor pondering the existence of a “perfect hider” - after all, he’s encountered perfect predators and perfect survivors, could there not be a being who is perfect at hiding? Such a monster might be impossible to combat, as it could be anywhere, [[The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You| it could be right next to you as you are, say, reading an article on a webpage]], and you wouldn’t know it until it was too late. “What would you do?” he asks out loud. Then he sees that something has - without him noticing - scrawled the word “LISTEN” on his blackboard with the chalk he had been holding a moment ago, implying this perfect hider was there the whole time. This leads to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQvLgO-yMyA&t=9s an encounter with… something]; whether this was indeed the monster he was thinking of or just a kid playing a trick is never explained. Possibly it is an embodiment of [[Primal Fear]]. One thing is certain - this was one of the few times in the ''entire'' franchise where the Doctor himself is shown to be genuinely afraid of something.
* In one episode of [[Psych]], a killer is stalking a woman in a cabin, and at one point, she is talking on the phone, and you don't notice the killer is standing behind her until he moves out of frame.
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