A terrible, frightening message that came in a dream.

Gangster rap, rap's equivalent of action-adventure films, offers frightening messages in abundance, for those who want to find them.

In 1987, for example, the federal government decided to blitz the American people with a frightening message: anyone could get AIDS.

Her father remembers coming home one day to find a frightening message on the answering machine: "Daddy, I don't know where I am."

Though they did not lead to counter violence, the events sent a frightening message.

Others said the move had sent a frightening message.

"It sends a frightening message to the residents not only of Essex County but the entire country."

"It demonstrates a frightening message," he said.

He would write cryptic and frightening messages in grease pencil on a plate just as a diner began to fill it.

I played the frightening taped message several more times.