The Monsters Are Due . . . The Twilight Zone

A bright light flashes in the sky. Shortly after, everyone's power goes out, and cars won't start.

When the neighbors on a suburban street compare notes on what might be happening, a teenager says he read a story about aliens who take over earth by first sending spies who look like humans to live among us.

His mother says those are just silly comic books, but people start to speculate whether any of the more eccentric residents on their street could be aliens. Things do not go well after that. 

"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" aired in 1960 as part of the first season of The Twilight Zone. Many episodes are scary. I found this one disturbing because it seems so familiar: unusual events are "explained" by a far-fetched theory and people start hunting monsters.  If we re-wrote this to include social media, we would have a story from today's news reports.