15 Creepiest Kids in TV History
Television has used child characters to power some of its most unsettling plots for decades. From classic anthology episodes to modern prestige series, young faces often sit at the center of stories about possession, cloning, time travel, and small towns with big secrets. These characters are written with precise details that drive episodes and entire seasons, turning quiet scenes in bedrooms, schoolyards, and living rooms into pivotal moments that push a show’s mythology forward.
This list brings together notable kid characters whose actions shape the narrative around them. You will find single episode standouts alongside season long arcs, with details on where they appear, what happens in their key chapters, and how their presence connects to larger series lore. If you want to revisit any of these stories, the entries include episode titles, season markers, and other factual touchpoints to help you find them fast.
Anthony Fremont from ‘The Twilight Zone’
Anthony appears in the episode ‘It’s a Good Life’ and is a six year old in Peaksville, Ohio with reality warping powers. The story shows how he isolates the town, controls weather and animals, and banishes people to the cornfield when they displease him. The character is portrayed by Billy Mumy, and the episode originally aired in 1961 during the show’s third season.
The character returns in the 2002 revival where ‘It’s Still a Good Life’ follows an adult Anthony and introduces his daughter Audrey, played by Liliana Mumy. The two episodes link the original premise to the revival’s continuity and detail how Anthony’s abilities pass to the next generation through scenes that mirror the first story’s small town setting.
Danny Glick from ‘Salem’s Lot’
Danny Glick is one of the local boys turned by the vampire threat in the two part miniseries. His most known sequence shows him floating outside a bedroom window, scratching through the fog as he tries to gain entry. The plot positions Danny after the disappearance of his younger brother, and his transformation connects the town’s missing children to the arrival of the new antique dealer.
The miniseries adapts Stephen King’s novel and was directed by Tobe Hooper for network television. The Glick brothers thread through the story’s investigation as the town learns about Barlow and Straker, and Danny’s scenes with Mark Petrie become evidence of how the vampirism spreads behind closed doors.
Jamie the Empty Child from ‘Doctor Who’
Jamie appears in ‘The Empty Child’ and ‘The Doctor Dances’, set during the London Blitz. A Chula nanogene repair swarm misreads his fatal injuries and replicates them across victims, leaving gas masks fused to faces as they ask the same question in every room. The two parter first aired in 2005 and pairs the Ninth Doctor with Rose Tyler while introducing Captain Jack Harkness.
These episodes received wide recognition, including a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation short form in 2006. The plot resolves when the swarm learns the correct human template and reverses the injuries, and Jamie’s connection to Nancy is confirmed during the reunion on the hospital rooftop.
Lilith from ‘Supernatural’
Lilith debuts as a white eyed demon that frequently uses a little girl as a vessel. The season three finale ‘No Rest for the Wicked’ shows her controlling a suburban household and confronting the Winchester brothers after orchestrating key attacks through the season. The show presents her powers as different from typical demons, including the ability to incapacitate hunters instantly.
Lilith remains central through later mythology as the final seal that frees Lucifer in ‘Lucifer Rising’. Across appearances she occupies multiple hosts, sometimes children, which allows the series to place major plot turns inside ordinary settings like family homes and hospital rooms while building toward the apocalypse arc.
Victor from ‘The Returned’
Victor is a quiet boy who attaches to Julie after the dead begin returning to the French town. He communicates by drawing images that anticipate danger and reveal events before they happen. Flashbacks describe a home invasion decades earlier that explains why he appears with the returned and why he hardly speaks.
The character’s original name and circumstances are clarified across episodes, connecting him to the larger mystery about water levels, the dam, and the recurring deaths around the town. The American remake of ‘The Returned’ keeps the boy’s purpose and visual cues, using similar scenes to anchor the adaptation’s timeline.
Minx Lawrence from ‘The Whispers’
Minx is the daughter of a high ranking defense official and becomes a key contact for the entity known as Drill. The series shows Minx and other children following instructions through games, hidden notes, and drawings that lead to dangerous outcomes. Her scenes link the domestic world of playgrounds and bedrooms to federal investigations and power plant incidents.
‘The Whispers’ is based on Ray Bradbury’s short story ‘Zero Hour’ and aired as a single season in 2015. Amblin Television produced the series, and the storyline frames the children as conduits for an energy based intelligence, with Minx’s access to government spaces turning her conversations with Drill into critical plot drivers.
Miles Wingrave from ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’
Miles is expelled from school and returns to Bly Manor, where he lives with his sister Flora and the new au pair Dani. Episodes reveal that he is intermittently controlled by the ghost of Peter Quint, which explains sudden shifts in speech, posture, and behavior during key scenes around the grounds. The narrative places his expulsions and letters in direct relation to Quint’s influence.
‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’ adapts Henry James stories, centering ‘The Turn of the Screw’ while drawing from additional tales. Miles features prominently in ‘The Two Faces, Part Two’, where the show lays out the rules of possession at Bly and connects his blackouts to specific events in the past wing of the house.
Abigail Dudley from ‘The Haunting of Hill House’
Abigail is the daughter of the Dudleys who live on the grounds and keep her away from the main house after dark. She becomes a secret friend to the Crain children and joins a nighttime tea party that turns fatal. Later episodes confirm that she was not imaginary and explain how her appearances as a quiet playmate were real before she returns as a presence in the house.
The series uses Abigail to tie the Dudleys’ rules to Olivia’s declining health and to the Red Room’s shifting purpose. Her story clarifies why the caretakers avoided the mansion at night and how the family’s memories of a mysterious girl fit into the fragmented timeline that the show reveals across all ten episodes.
Michael Langdon from ‘American Horror Story’
Michael is introduced in ‘Murder House’ as the child born to Vivien Harmon inside the Los Angeles home. The season finale reveals a toddler who kills a babysitter, and later ‘Apocalypse’ expands his life into a central arc about a prophesied destroyer. His presence links two seasons and brings characters from ‘Coven’ into contact with the original setting.
Different performers play Michael at various ages, with Cody Fern portraying the adult version during the crossover season. The character’s timeline moves from the haunted house to the Outpost storyline, then back to the house for scenes that revisit earlier locations and confirm how his upbringing connects to events in both seasons.
Eve 6 and Eve 7 from ‘The X Files’
The episode ‘Eve’ introduces twin girls created in Project Litchfield with an extra chromosome designated to enhance intelligence and aggression. The plot opens with simultaneous poisonings of their fathers and follows the investigation as Agents Mulder and Scully learn about a series of adult Eve clones who preceded them. The twins’ use of digitalis and staged distress calls drive the case forward.
The story ends with the girls apprehended after a failed attempt to poison the agents at a motel. The episode threads in prior government experiments and confirms that additional clones exist, setting up a final reveal that places another Eve inside a secure facility to suggest that the project continues beyond the closing scene.
Helge Doppler as a Child from ‘Dark’
Helge grows up in Winden and becomes entangled in abductions connected to experiments with a chair built to force time travel. In 1953 he suffers a head injury after an attack by Ulrich Nielsen, who has traveled from 2019, and later works with Noah during events in 1986. The series shows Helge delivering victims to the bunker and repeating phrases that mark his confusion across timelines.
‘Dark’ tracks Helge at three ages and uses his movements to explain how missing boys end up in different years with burned eyes and ruptured eardrums. Scenes in the cabin and the power plant link his actions to the origin of the passage, and his storyline helps map how cycles repeat every 33 years in the town.
Millie Manx from ‘NOS4A2’
Millie is Charlie Manx’s daughter and appears in Christmasland, the inscape where children never grow old. She has sharpened teeth and encourages new arrivals to join games that center on taking souls, which sustains the world her father built. Episodes show her traveling to the real world and struggling with memories from her life before Christmasland.
As the series progresses she questions Manx’s promises and tests the limits of how long Christmasland can survive without fresh victims. Her scenes connect to the fate of the Wraith and to Vic McQueen’s Shorter Way, making Millie a link between the supernatural realm and the roads that creatives use to cross into it.
Chloe Webber from ‘Doctor Who’
Chloe is a schoolgirl in ‘Fear Her’ who is possessed by an Isolus and traps people inside her drawings. The episode is set around the day of the Olympic torch relay in London, and the Isolus uses Chloe’s crayons to abduct neighbors and classmates. The Doctor is drawn into a sketch and must be freed so he can help resolve the crisis.
The story ends when the Isolus gains enough energy to leave and the trapped people return. Chloe’s drawing of her abusive father becomes a final threat inside her bedroom, and her mother calms the figure with a song as the torch’s heat powers the pod. The episode aired in the second series of the revival.
Pierre Tremond from ‘Twin Peaks’
Pierre appears with his grandmother and performs simple magic tricks during visits with Donna Hayward. He demonstrates a trick with a dish of creamed corn that ties into the show’s symbol of garmonbozia and passes on messages that move the investigation forward. The grandmother uses the names Tremond and Chalfont depending on location, which becomes a clue about their connection to other forces in town.
The character returns in ‘Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me’ with different casting, continuing the association with mask imagery and cryptic gestures. His scenes help bridge the domestic world of the Meals on Wheels route with the mythological layer of the Black Lodge, placing a child at the edge of supernatural communication.
Henry Creel from ‘Stranger Things’
Henry appears in flashbacks to the Creel family’s move to Hawkins and is shown developing abilities before being taken to the lab. The story reveals that he becomes One, later known as Vecna, and his childhood scenes include the night in the family home that sets his path. The season uses his youth to explain the murders that frame Victor Creel and the origin of the Hawkins Lab program.
His connection to Eleven is established through the lab’s experiments and the Soteria device, and the confrontation in the lab explains how the gate opens for the first time. The show uses Henry’s childhood drawings and basement scenes to map his early powers, which then echo across the season’s later episodes.
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