20 Most Intense TV Scenes Ever

17. Keeping Mum - The X-Files

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An episode so horrifying it was banned, Home is among the scariest hours of television to ever grace screens. And there are a number of intense moments in there, but just about taking the prize is the moment Mulder and Scully decide to take a peek under the bed.

The tension builds as they head upstairs while the Peacock family are distracted, and it's there they find the mother of the murdered child they were initially called out to investigate, discovering Mrs Peacock, the mother of the sons who has been breeding with her own children for years, and is also a quadruple amputee.

It's a reveal so sickening, so disturbing that you'll wish you could unsee it, but instead it burns itself onto your retinas.

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