Why do some songs/tunes (e.g. The X-Files theme) sound kinda eerie or strange?

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What is there in these songs that make us feel scared or tense, even when the person has never watched the X-Files before?

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Music theory is pretty cool. Generally speaking, dissonance is a harsh scary sombre sound while consonance is a pleasant mellow soothing sound.

Two notes that are adjacent on a piano or mashing all the keys possible on a piano is a very harsh example of dissonance but we can make it sound much more musically appealing such as in the X-files theme

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