'Normal' things that you find really creepy

[Sweetasstevia]

When I look out of my window at the flat opposite I can see straight through their living room to a window which lets light in from their garden. When it's sunset I find this image really unsettling and eery.

I also get really creeped out by those pin and string pictures that were popular in the 70's:
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What odd things spook you?

China faced dolls
Socks being rubbed together.
Soft wool.
Wet jumpers.
That lotus flower down thread.
Shudder...

Years ago I lived in a crappy cottage which had a rat infestation. I actually moved out because of it.
I was too scared to sit on the loo in case a rat shot up and bit me on the bum!
I opened the cupboard to get some bread and a rat jumped out and clung to my leg.
So rats in general for me.

Thought of another - big industrial sized washing machines/tumble dryers. Their big round windows with clothes going round make me feel weird! There was a huge one shown in a few episodes of Breaking Bad and I went goose-pimpley. Even the ones I see as I go past a launderette make me feel bleugh.

Balloons. I'm completely terrified of them, even writing the word has given me goosebumps.

And when my dog looks at me and I just know she will bark any moment, but I can't pinpoint when, it always makes me jump!

DH is like that with balloons purpletamsin. He hates them. DD is the same with cardboard. She looks like she wants to climb the walls when I sort through the recycling and it takes me a moment to work out why sometimes.

*she's not terrified of cardboard, it's the noise of people touching it, or it banging and scraping against things that she hates.

Yeah I can see how that is disconcerting.
I can't touch wood or cardboard with wet hands. (Or indeed wet wood/cardboard)

I just found the abandoned chairs in swimming pool pictures. I think it'd be creepy if a horror movie was filmed there, but right now it's just terribly, terribly sad. I get stupidly upset about abandoned buildings, they used to be full of life and busy and now nobody cares for them.

Walking on floorboards in bare feet.
I have this idea that I'm walking on trapdoors that are going to open up.
Prominent Adam's apples.
Visible sweat.
The sound of people eating.
My neck being touched.

Walking underneath a pier.

I love beaches, I love piers ....but I can't stand walking on the beach underneath the pier.

I had to do it at the weekend and, as usual, had to leg it really quickly without looking up.

I think it's to do with the fact that it's dark, dank, sometimes dripping with water, all sorts of growth on there (seaweed, molluscs etc) and often roosting pigeons that suddenly appear flapping their wings and freak me out even more.

Loving this thread. Off to look for the swimming pool pic.....

Groups of nuns, find them oddly scary.

Thought of another. Closed doors in the home.

My husband and his family are raised to always shut doors. I however must have all doors open. This goes for the room I'm in, and for every other room in the house. If I go upstairs and every door coming off of our hallways is shut I instantly get uneasy and must open them all.

Buttons. Large buttons in particular. They give me the shivers sometimes and make me feel queasy.

Dams. There are a couple near me and they give me the willies.
Too high, too big and too intimidating!

On the radio if someone's talking and their clicky mouth spit is audible in between the words.

Ooh, agree with that one UriGeller. I just can't listen to or watch Sarah Brightman, she does it! Yeuch!!

We have had a very good friend for years and years, and as he's got older, he now always has a bit of spit joined to his top and bottom lips as he speaks. I was sitting next to him at dinner the other evening and I really couldn't eat my meal, as it was just making me feel so ill.

Does no-one else share my revulsion of beards? I haven't left the house for days - they're everywhere

Eggs

DS1 hates toys that move about when you press a button, or make too loud a noise. He got very freaked out by a remote control robot his aunt and uncle got him last Christmas so I had to hide it. He actually tries to climb over my head every time he sees things like that.

My Dad doesn't like the feel of cotton wool, or the scrapey sound of toast being spread with butter.

food that is weirdly dry like scones and crumpets.

roomba i also get the strange feeling when seeing things swing.

those ear stretcher things. ..morbidly fascinating. I have to look but then want to be sick.

I wear some sort of scarf every day. I pretend its because i am tres chic but actually it's in case anyone touches my neck accidentally. I would have to karate chop them across the throat if they did. It would be appalling for us both

DD gets absolutely freaked out by the German-style old-fashioned Nutcrackers. You, know - the painted, traditional wooden military-style ones with big teeth.

I hate the word belly too, Pike. Wife of the friend with the spitty mouth always says it. It makes life so difficult, as they are such lovely people and I have to really grit my teeth and smile (I probably look like a German Nutcracker)