Remembering how in my earlier childhood there was more… spooky around. The X-Files; Unsolved Mysteries; Eerie, Indiana, that came out of somewhere. I remember casually reading several books compiling 2-page nominally true "weird stuff" events.
I took the Bermuda Triangle and spontaneous combustion as things I might one day have to deal with. (At least the idea of PSI pyrokinesis, as seen in Stephen King's Firestarter was pretty passé by then).
The Bigfoot vogue reflected in Harry and the Hendersons, The Six-Million Dollar Man, and the blue monster truck had tapered since the 70s too, but thanks to Communion "alien abduction" was huge.
And I mean I guess I file it separately with "the renaissance of fundamentalist Christianity" but there was a lot of serious prophecy and stuff about demonic possession going on, too
a big chunk of the decline of x-files stuff was the rise of cameraphones. bigfoot, loch ness, ghosts, ufos, all lose juice when after all this time no one can snap convincing pics or video.
We were taking pictures of crop circles all along and they dropped off too though