The Nightmare Room

- Season 1

(2001)

When Danielle and her family move into their new house, she doesn't know that her annoying younger brother Peter hears voices calling in the basement. And she thinks his acting like he has trouble remembering simple things while their parents are away is just a joke after she tries "hypnotizing" him to turn him nicer. But when he continues to do it, and she starts forgetting things too, she wonders if something else is going on. All she knows is, when she finds everyone denying they know about him and he appears from the cracks in the basement floor covered in slime ...

Dylan is switching rooms and packing away all his toys from over the years. Then he is approached by a mysterious younger boy who acts as if Dylan already knows him...and seems responsible for his best friend's being slipped an allergen in his sandwich. Buddy looks and sounds exactly like Dylan's old doll Buddy, and Dylan's other good friend is attacked. The doll continues to approach and torment Dylan, not accepting that this part of Dylan's life won't include him.

Supernaturally-obsessed Spencer, his friend Vanessa, and new kid Charlie decide to try out a gadget Spencer bought in a novelty shop, The Howler, which is supposed to contact the dead. But it's when they're not using it that they see three figures in the light it sends off, saying something unclear. They think they're kids who disappeared in an abandoned hangout construction site, "The Pit". and get a message in their cereal prompting them to go there to communicate with them. When they do, a beam of light goes toward each of them, though the only effect seems to be ...

When Josh tells the substitute math teacher unfamiliar with his excuses that his homework was stolen by unique robbers along with his entertainment system, Mr. Farber seems to believe him. Afterward, Josh finds the science snakes he told scornful bully Patrick were in his backpack actually there, is robbed just like in his story, and a menacing boy shows up claiming to be his older military-school dropout brother Frank - a character he made up to threaten Patrick. Everyone suddenly believes that the things happening are the truth even when he admits they're not, and ...

On an island a group of teens play a Survivor-esque reality game show and must compete in island challenges and fight a psychotic witch who haunts the island.

Dex, Freddy, Todd, Alexis, and Janet have detention with stern Mr. Langley, who leaves them alone after a blackout, unsure of what they're doing there since they don't have him and never knew him well. After a while, four of them try to leave and find the school locked, and Freddy sees writing appear on the blackboard - then is confronted by Mr. Langley and disappears, leaving a note implying the others will soon follow. Dex does leaving behind a similar note after finding out more about Mr. Langley, and Alexis vanishes as the others discover he is a ghost. Janet ...

A cart crashes near Freddy, Janet, Dex, Todd, and Alexis holding invitations for them to come to an old creepy house. It turns out to be Freddy's new home, where he's invited them for a special Halloween party full of props - and an accusation that one of them is a werewolf who's been attacking people in town. He's determined to use this full-moon night to discover which one of them it is, with the help of some special werewolf-catching creatures...which themselves may be a reason to panic.

A boy Jeremy Clarke gets a new pair of glasses that gives him the power to see aliens secretly living among humans and ready to take over the world.

Superstitious Luke is miserable at the end of Friday the 13th when his until-then-perfect locker breaks, and he is assigned #13 instead. In it, though, he finds a mysterious charm with a picture matching a face he sees in the locker's mirror, saying it will give him good luck forever. He does win at wrestling against strong, tough Gomez, gets a congratulatory kiss and party-invitation from a girl he admires, and manages to win a radio-contest. But then he is dragged into the locker to meet the Fatemaster, who reveals that the luck from his charm must be repaid by life...

When Alex gets a new desk, it opens up to reveal a journal with the following day's date in it - and a recount of something that actually happens to him the next day. When he tests it by reading the next day's entry and it comes true for him again, he plans to get rich betting on the future. But he finds it's harder to predict or control than he thinks when his showing off in gym causes others to cheer him results so the bleachers fall apart and his best friend breaks an ankle, his trying to flee wood-cutting in shop almost sees the teacher cut, and he is hit by a ...

On good-natured Morgan's birthday, he and his friends go to a carnival where he is made a fool of by his pretty classmate Kristin...and declared evil by a fortune-teller. The next day, when his friend Jason is revealed to be going out with Kristen instead and she says she asked him before Morgan asked her, Morgan is angry and feels his arm itching just before Jason has an accident, and Kristin gets Jason to believe Morgan was responsible. The same thing happens when Jason sinks through the ground after beating him at track-team tryouts, but Kristen turns every student...

Russell is reluctant to go on Camp Hawkwood's seniors' experience "The Haunted Cabin", especially since he's heard stories of campers' disappearing there. The night before, a message warning against going is somehow engraved in his and Dave's cabin's floor. The night Russell, Erin, and Charlotte, and Dave go, Dave is trapped in his sleeping bag and almost sucked through the floor. The next morning the door opens then shuts on its own with a message heralding doom, and after they play a trick on Ramos, the counselor they know plays pranks for the Haunted Cabin, they ...

The director of the camp, "Uncle" Brian, explains it's another neighboring Camp Hawkwood and invites the group to stay while contacting theirs. But everyone but Dave is troubled by how the campers act as though they know of nothing from less than before thirty years ago. Charlotte and Erin start to be warned by a camper named Drew about something before he is interrupted by a counselor, Will, and they're led back to camp. Russell hears Drew locked in a barn, but he's unresponsive when Will investigates, but only indirectly. And Will's lied to Erin and Charlotte about ...