'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?

And when other eaters bite their cutlery. Eww.

hallways
dolls
clowns
people with tiny piercing eyes behind their glasses

Those inflatable blood pressure things they use in the GP surgery. No idea why

When you knew something was going to happen...but you didn't say.
And you look daft saying it now, so you don't-which leaves you with a weird other feeling.

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Check this out for creepy.

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And this.

When hairdressers massage your head during a normal wash and cut. I am sitting there waiting for them to start moaning or something- some of the massages feel lascivious.

lovesabadboy, thank you! I was convinced I was the only person who felt repulsed by public toilet tiling in kitchens.

Also that sort of lined plastic that vibrates when you run your hands across it. Don't know if anyone will know what I'm on about but I can't touch it. I used to work as a waitress and some of the tables had that as a tablecloth and wiping them with a damp cloth used to break me out in a sweat. It makes a sort of 'ziiing' sound when you wipe it so I didn't even like being within earshot of someone else doing it. I'm sure the other staff were convinced I was just trying to get out of clearing tables.

Crumbs. Anywhere at all. I have a special "couch hoover" and once a week I take the sofa apart and hoover every nook and cranny because the crumbs between the cushions make me boke. (We also have a dog so I need to hoover the dog hair anyway... is my excuse ). Starting a new job and being presented with a crumb-y keyboard at your new desk should be made illegal.

YY to long nails on men. My DP is weird about cutting his toenails and they're really long. I make him wear socks at all times because looking at them make me want to cry.

No-one can touch my feet or touch me with their feet. It started when I was really little and I get really freaked out and panicky.

Polystyrene. Shudder.

Someone walking up the stairs behind me. DP likes to whoop and cackle and chase me up the stairs from time to time, which always results in me terrified and breathless and him taking a verbal beating!

Glass eyes in things. Dolls, teddies, stuffed animals and especially bloody clowns.
Witches under the bed who will reach out and grab your feet in the night (feet are always tucked in and duvet folded over)
Knucke cracking
Big still puddles (could be 100 feet deep)

When I am on the loo at night, I worry that an alligator might be in there. Interestingly my friend has the same entirely reasonable and rational fear so we think there must have been some story or tv thing when we were kids.

Hadn't thought about pillar boxes before but now have weirdly itchy arms and am sending DS to post the letters in future.

Oh and putting a bra or sicks on before pants. It is just wring and horrible and probably illegal.

Socks

Bloody hell

Earth worms. Ever since my friend in junior school told me to close my eyes and hold out my hand, then put half a worm on my palm. I opened my eyes, screamed and tried to throw it off, and it stuck. Trauma!

These days I'm trying to encourage DS to be kind to all animals, including rescuing worms that are stranded on the pavement. I think my message is slightly hampered by the fact that I still can't bear to touch them, so I end up poking the poor little buggers with a twig, trying to hook them and fling them in to the grass without getting too close.

When I get up in the night to pee I have to pull back the shower curtains round the bath, so they're open and I can see in.

Otherwise there might be a ghost or a zombie in there, which would get me while I was peeing.

I also loathe:

Attic hatches

The fact that my carpets are up and there are gaps between the floorboards into the cavity beneath, so when I stand on them something horrible could be underneath looking at me

Vents in swimming pool floors or sides

Cuckoo clocks
Masks
People with eyebrows shaved off
Google 'uncanny valley'

Oh, and when people leave one chair not pushed in to the dining table properly.

I call it 'leaving a chair out for the devil'. I have no idea where I got this from. :(

Also, water towers.

Coming downstairs at night with the lights off, then seeing my reflection in the window. Going back upstairs with all the lights off I think if I don't look back as I go up someone will be following or chasing me up.

Men in short sleeved shirts. Just looks odd.

Swimming pools that have a pattern on the bottom, like a huge colourful octopus or something, it's like they've disguised the floor so the moment sharks come out to eat me I won't see them coming.

I'm aware I'm probably a bit loony,

Some of my neighbours!

I live in a no cold calling area so answering the door is a reasonably safe option. I answered the door recently, when I was home alone, to an elderly woman with really large pupils saying "Ah, you're in, when I came last time you were out." She had not yet got my attention because I had a cold and had been asleep. Turns out she works for a community event but fixed me with her large-pupiled eyes and I felt freaked out. Wasn't there a Dr Who in which a village of older folks had become possessed?

Likewise I was out in the garden recently when there was a knock on the gate by a middle aged man. He was dapper but oddly (see 1940's American references to the man with a guitar at the crossroads who sold his soul to the devil) dressed man who said, "some people find it offensive to receive visits from Jehova's Witnesses. How do you feel about it?" I was so struck by his appearance and unexpected wording that it took me a minute to find appropriate words.

Both times I felt oddly vulnerable and somehow in too close proximity.

I can at times become afraid of the dark so I always make myself look in mirrors and walk without the lights on if I'm up at night in order to keep it in check!

The uncanny valley theory is exactly why I hate the Polar Express so much. It is the Zombie Express! Unfortunately my 3 year old loves it.

Puppets, especially ones with strings.
Chewing noises.
Rumpling sweet bags in the cinema
Slugs
Furniture made from dark wood
Patterned carpets
Soggy cereal

Ooh and lifts
And cellars

Patterned loo roll or tissues

Baby hippos or dolphins or piglets - any baby animal that is shiny and/or rubbery-looking.

Long fingernails.

Yes yes to the Polar Express! It's too trippy AND has Tom Hanks in it.

Koala, that phrase is going to stick in my head, I am forever moving chairs back under the table! I've no idea why it bothers me so much but it really does.

I find Bungalows really creepy. No idea why, I've never lived in one or known anyone that does. I can't walk past a row of bungalows without feeling slightly sick