'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?

I was once snorkeling in hawaii, stealth boast it was all shallow and bright and lovely with colourful fish, then I just went out slightly further and suddenly out was pitch black and there was a massive drop/cave thing. I totally just imagined a massive sharky mouth zooming out of the gloom. Urgh!

Also wood in my mouth (can't eat ice lollies or chips with a chip fork) the idea makes my teeth feel gross.

DS and I don't like wooden sticks and chip forks either. Makes your tongue feel all peculiar.

Giant statues, especially ones from ancient times, and even more especially if there is just a foot or other remain left.

This place. I find it fascinating and terrifying. And I've never even been there (It's the coast of Namibia)

YY Narrowdog, I thought I was the only one that gets freaked out by that, no one IRL that I know gets it. In fact it's almost a scared sort of feeling, especially if i'm at the dock where a huge ship or something is moored and the bit that is underwater normally is right fucking next to me towering over me

Walking up the stairs at night. Because I think freddy Kruger will turn the stairs into mush and put his hands through my letter box and get me. It could happen you know!

Anther one...potatoes that have gone all sprouty. Long white dead fingers....aargh. The way theyve kept growing quietly IN THE DARK. Nooo!

Mugs that are black or coloured on the inside
Walking on someone's right side. I always have to be on the left or I feel strange.
Shins

On the subject of animated clowns / dolls, does anyone else remember that clown thing in the move The Game with Michael Douglas? It was awful ... awful. In fact I gave the DVD away, just in case it got out of the box, you understand

Stairs. And escalators.

I'm fine with my own staircase, and ones that look sturdy, but oh dear God if I don't feel 'safe' that's it.

I made Poor DH lead me back out of the dress circle at the ballet with an absolute death grip on his hand because I couldn't make it to our seats, I was convinced I was going to plummet down the stairs and over the balcony

And don't even start me on the sharks and rotting hands that live in swimming pool drains!

Oh! And wet cotton wool.

Ugh.

Oh holy shit why did I just Google images of abandoned swimming pools!

So so creepy.

Ipswichwitch check this halloween make up out!

I hate the look, feel and sound of polystyrene, and i'm like this with hard meringue too (i'm sure it's because it reminds me of polystyrene). Someone cutting in to it with a spoon makes me cringe, I actually sit there with my fingers in my ears. My family is so used to it that my 7 yr old says 'mummy put your fingers in your ears i'm going to cut it'. Listening to someone biting in to it makes me twitch.

I'm another one that hates the word belly, I can't listen to that new song by The Script as he says it a few times.

I hate flickering strip lighting, it fills me with foreboding. In films nothing good ever happens if there is a flickering light. I also don't like empty, echo-y staircases.

I was in the underground car park in my old apartment block a few years ago and there was a flickering light near my car, and also one at the bottom of the staircase. When I was about half-way up the stairs the door at the bottom slammed. I'm certain it was just another resident going from his car to his flat and not a zombie looking for my brains but I shot up the remaining stairs like a whippet.

Penguins ....... shudder

Pointy shoes on men. Or very very square toed ones.

DH got some of the latter for dress down Fridays once. They didn't last long in our house.

Yes to dams. And canal locks when the water is low, with the slimy walls and when the water starts to rush in.

Cotton wool in your mouth or in cuts.
Catching your teeth on silver foil.
Polystyrene.

Cats.

Changing light bulbs.

And the dark.

I also hate men with long finger nails, it really gives me the creeps.

I am probably going to upset a lot of people now, so I apologise in advance and stress that this is very much a personal thing.

The new trend for white, 'brick size/shape' tiles in kitchens gives me the chills for some reason. They just remind me of old fashioned public toilets which, for some reason gives me the heebie jeebies and makes me feel quite claustrophobic.

The kitchens may be beautiful, but the tiles can put me straight off!

I love abandoned swimming pools/cinemas/holiday parks/theme parks etc though!

Laying with my back to or laying facing the bedroom door when it is open. We have a long gloomy Victorian hall on multiple levels with the bathroom at the very end (other rooms go off from the passageway and at a dog leg).

The bathroom at the end tends to be lit up at night with the orange sodium glow of the street light immediately outside. All I can see is this doorway with a faint orange glow around it at the other end of the house. One of these days I know I am going to hear faint music and revelry (a la Shining) coming from my bathroom or clumps of ectoplasm oozing around the edges of the doorway. I have possibly invested too much time thinking about this :)

I am also creeped out by porridge- in fact I am positively phobic about the stuff and have to leave the room if it is being prepared or eaten. I never read Goldilocks or the Magic Porridge Pot to my kids. Even the name 'porridge' is fucking weird.

Other creepy things? The way your feet and body appear to move and get sucked forwards as the waves recede at the waters edge. I used to think I was being pulled down by a sandmonster into another dimension.

The bit at the start of 'Gimmee Shelter'- I get terrible derealisation when that plays although I love the song.

I cannot also bear to have my sternum touched. It feels bruised and makes me think I am going to be unable to inflate my lungs again.

DH cannot bear peach skin. I have been known to threaten to rub a peach all over his dick to torment tease him because watching his body go into a series of contortions is most excellent

I've got a large scar on my stomach that I can't have touched at all. Pregnancy was a nightmare, scans and all the feeling around that goes on.