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** And what's the very first thing you see after that? Piles of abandoned luggage, picket signs that say "Rapture is dead!" "Ryan doesn't own us!" "We're not your property!" and "Let it end! Let Us Ascend!" scattered all over, and finally, you come to an official looking notice pinned to the wall that reads "Attention! All Bathysphere travel is now denied." It sends chills up your spine when you realize what it means, too. Ryan is in so much denial about how secret Rapture is, he traps the population inside it in a vain attempt to hold onto a dead idea.
* The Lighthouse, which is more than a little creepy already. You just barely escape the plane crash in the middle of nowhere, and you see this big creepy tower just standing there in the middle of the ocean. You go in, and the first thing you see is this big gold statue, and big red banners with propaganda all over them. A very strong Fascist/Communist vibe just from that, and then you go down in the Bathysphere, and he treats you to a film containing an equally disturbing speech (something about "the great not being held back by the small", and the ''way'' he says it) and with similarly fascistic imagery (Look at all the old Nazi, or Soviet propaganda and you can see the exact same kind of imagery, with the barely human looking farmer, the big [[Strawman Political]] symbols in the sky attacking him). Also the sound the lights in the Lighthouse make when they come on is eerie. In fact, the brief [[Scenery Porn]] of you coming up to the city is probably the only break in the entire game.
** The lighthouse is spooky as Hell, but what else is Jack gonna do? He has to swim toward the bizarre building or drown. And if he was an [[wikipedia:The Call of Cthulhu|avid reader]], he'd be downright terrified. Equally creepy is when someone on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120524221403/http://somethinginthesea.com/home.html surface] discovers it too... This can become [[Paranoia Fuel]] and [[Fridge Horror]] when you realize that the ocean is REALLY damned big. So big, in fact, that, theoretically, such a light-house could exist without anyone knowing any the wiser, but without a conveniently placed underwater city to explain why it's there. Just imagine finding this place in the dead of the sea, with no logical reason why it was built there... or who built it.
* The voice modifying machine when being converted into a Big Daddy. Looks painful, and the fact that screaming would only intensify the pain. Heck, the entire Big Daddy [[Body Horror|conversion process]] qualifies.
* The Splicers in general are pretty creepy, but especially the Spider Splicers. The first encounter you have with the Houdini Splicers is also particularly terrifying.
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