Scariest Teacher

Honorable Mention: Mrs. Gorf


I'm not going to lie. After reading Sideway Stories from Wayside School I may have spent an inordinate amount of time practicing wiggling my ears just in case you really could turn someone into an apple that way.

Winner: Mrs. Paddock


In this X-files episode (Die Hand Die Verletzt) we finally get confirmation about what we always suspected in high school: the biology teacher is the devil. When a Satanic cult goes soft Satan takes the form of a mild-mannered high school teacher to remind devil worshipers that if you plan on worshiping Satan you damn well better not half-ass it. Mrs. Paddock's snake eyes and gigantic python were creepy as hell, but her goodbye message to Mulder and Scully still gives me goosebumps: