8 Disturbing WWE Raw Moments You Totally Don't Remember

7. Stalked By A Dead Man (26 April 1999)

Everyone remembers the RAW on the night after the Backlash pay-per-view in 1999. Everyone remembers the culmination of the Undertaker/Stephanie McMahon angle, when the Dead Man - never more evil than he was in his cold, monstrous cult leader persona as the high priest of the Ministry Of Darkness - tried to have a Black Wedding performed in the ring on Monday Night RAW, finally tying Steph to his sacrificial symbol as he had so many victims before.

What people forget is the lead-up to this memorable moment: after all, this may have been the Attitude Era, with its notoriously attention-deficit style of storytelling, but there was a real build to this particular angle. The Undertaker had been playing the obsessive fan for weeks, essentially stalking Stephanie: the only pure, innocent McMahon (oh, how times change). When he'd kidnapped her before, it had taken Ken Shamrock (doing a great Jack Bauer impression, years before 24) to save her. Shamrock had paid for it when his kid sister Ryan had been kidnapped and sacrificed instead.

At Backlash, The Undertaker's grudge match with Ken Shamrock had ended with The World's Most Dangerous Man being tombstoned for the pinfall... but the Lord Of Darkness had then simply walked off, leaving the traditional post-match heel beatdown to Bradshaw and a baseball bat.

The reason for this? He'd taken the place of the McMahon's limousine driver, finally managing to kidnap Stephanie again. Forget the overkill of the Black Wedding itself, or the nonsense of the 'Higher Power' storyline that followed it: the Undertaker was never creepier than when he was threatening Vince McMahon with the loss of his sweet, innocent daughter, his voice like a gutteral serial killer's.

The phone call when he makes the ransom demand, in particular, is just a study in barely subtextual stalker/abuser metaphor, as the massive, Satanic bastard makes suggestive remarks about his kidnap victim to her own father. Somehow, it's actually worse that the revelation of later storylines retconned this moment to be nothing but collusion between the two men, and that The Undertaker's phone call was all part of Daddy dearest's master plan.