'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?

There are so many things wrong with the Polar Express. The children are constantly in perilous situations (a bit of danger is fine, but it's relentless), the conductor is grumpy and sinister and the hobo ghost and Santa's elves are flat-out terrifying! That and they all look like reanimated corpses.

Further to my terror of drained fountains, I think what bothers me is exposed mechanisms. For example, when escalators are being repaired and they take the stairs bit off. Walking past makes me feel sick! The underside of cars too.

'And when other eaters bite their cutlery. Eww.'

OMG YY. I used to work with someone who did it. She ate lunch at her desk and I could actually hear the fork clanking against her teeth. I'd be mute with horror.

Also flickering strip lights mentioned earlier and deserted public places. Ie a tube station at night.

Or when we went camping once, the brightly lit deserted toilet/wash block at 2am. Terrible. All those cubicle doors half open...Actually I blame Stephen King for this. He's the master of juxtaposing normal stuff with terrifying and I've read too much of it.

This thread has done me no good. I now have another 200 things to look out for which will now upset me

Wind turbines
Huge ships
The ocean in general - I will never swim in it and hate flying over it. I am especially freaked out by the Mariana Trench - it is 35,000ft deep - the same height as a commercial airplane flies at. Who knows what is down there!

The bit at the end of the Polar Express with all the elves is the worst. It reminds me of the Nuremberg Rallies.

Oh my god hushabye, that's horrific. I can't stop looking at it even though I want to scream . I keep waiting for it to turn and look at me

Sponge/sponges....in fact, any material that feels 'too' dry like velour or velvet,certain sofas are a no go. Just the idea of rubbing something that dry on my skin makes shivers run through me !

hudyerwheesht - thank goodness it is not just me!

Portrait Pictures were the eyes follow you
Refuse to walk under piers
Quays/ harbours
I have to close my eyes if driving on to a car ferry....!
Deep still water/ lakes huge rivers esp if there is a suspension bridge crossing it
Old quarries full of water and dead machinery

The sea.. I hate the waves and have nightmares about the sea often.. it makes me feel so small and powerless and dark.

I also hate patterns. When I lean on something and my jumper pattern is imprinted on my skin for a while I feel sick to my stomach.

Dogs noses if they have patterns on. Holes, tiny cluster of holes.

Shadows in my room at night

Odd numbers

The number 7. If I turn over the TV I have to keep turning it over until it gets to 8.. minutes and seconds only. It gives me a panic attack.

The sound of my husband itching his skin.

Ahh see... that post was submitted at 20.57 and it makes me feel really uneasy. I was busy talking about it I didn't check the time!

Pungent food smells while walking past cafés and restaurants.

The world 'poorly'. IT'S NOT A WORD.

Thick roll neck jumpers. Aargh

Dolls have always creeped me out and the one doll I had as a child had to be put away in a cupboard!
Fortunately DD never really liked dolls and I didn't encourage them she preferred teddies

Sticky labels make me feel ill...

Microfibre things - cloths, towels etc.

Clowns.

Books lined or piled up on windowsills when you see them from the outside.

Buttons and coins.

hard, cracked and yellowed skin on heels

those weird bumps on upper arms

The spaces between keys on a keyboard. Whether clean or dirty under the keys I'm just freaked out by seeing that grid type space underneath.

I hate the appearance of hair partings/scalp/hair roots. I have a recurring image of a millipede type bug that fits along the length of my side parting, its legs disappearing into the hair each side. I dread the idea of ever dealing with nits. I will want to shave heads!

Deep water of any sort, but only with regard to the children. I have an intense horror of one of the DCs falling in/being swept away. I actually love the seaside but the thought of living within walking distance of the TIDE BEING IN... Aiee. And the ferry- I love standing on deck and looking down the sheer sides at the crashing wake etc, but when DH took DS, then 1, up to the observation deck I nearly chewed the furniture to bits.
Someone posted a photo of the world's deepest manmade hole on fb yesterday and it was FULL OF WATER with completely sheer very high sides.
Gaps in curtains at night.
Bare feet, especially when people put them up and they have bits of muck/fluff/detritus stuck to the bottoms. That is just foul rather than creepy though.
The rough texture of the trays we had to use when waitressing- just recalling having to wipe them makes me shudder. A dreadful vheeep sound, like corduroy in miniature. The same texture as those red hymn books we had at school. And those lenticuar pictures. Ugh. vheeeep

*lenticular :)

This thread is completely totally brilliant, it makes me feel normal. People have set the bar very high with some really fantastic ones.

I hate watching someone stroking themselves. I saw a man I know recently at a do and he was waiting to speak and he was running his hand over the back of his head like a contemplative primate, ewwwwwwwww, self sooth in private please ya freak!

Any kind of nose picking - oh god have mercy upon us all.

And sometimes on cookery programmes when they're tasting the food, that sound, that can make me heave.

Derelict asylums

I had to stop looking at these photos they are just too awful to look at.

Churches.

I never look into my living at night. It is inky dark and I'm certain something lurks there

The sound of a train whistle piercing the night bother's me

Sometimes cat's fighting sounds just like a woman screaming, scares me silly

There is a location in Wyoming called Crater Lake. A huge landslide cause almost half of a mountain to slide into the lake. Several houses were carried into the water and remain there half a century later. It is so spooky to walk along the shoreline and peer into those dwellings, knowing they were homes to people who died in the tragedy.

Really big statues like the Statue if Liberty. She utterly freaked me out when I went to NY. Couldn't look at her. Especially all lit up at night.

Also, deep/dark water. Things under the water like ship wrecks or that big statue of Christ that is somewhere - too scared to google! - all covered in seaweed and barnacles. Uggggggggggh.

Also, steam trains, weirdly.

Narrow spiral staircases that seem to go on forever, the sort you get in churhces/cathedrals/castles where you can't see anything else but stairs and walls. I have this idea that what if it carried on forever and all you had were stairs to go up and down! Think it stems from general claustrophobia. I've had dreams about it before where the staircase shrunk as I went on and I ended up stuck in it.
I had the same feeling when going down a water slide in Portugal called The black Hole, it was totally enclosed, pitch black, and you're in a rubber ring. Awesome ride but what if it suddenly decided to carry on forever and you had a life of a waterslide and total darkness?

HangingBasketCase I always found churches creepy because they seemed so cavernous, dark and soulless but I found out that that only applies to the Church of Scotland ones I was forced to go to with Brownies/primary school . I went to Rome in April and the catholic churches there are absolutely stunning, we spent hours wandering around every church we came across. They beautiful and packed full of really interesting artifacts.

Something you won't encounter every day, but plants, Virginia Creeper in particular, that's grown from outside, through the exterior wall's ventilation bricks; under the carpeted wooden floorboard of the living room then found a slither of light where the floor meets the skirting, then grown up the interior wall; appearing as white, dead-finger 'tentacles' above the back of the sofa...

1900 rental bungalow with a lot of damp! The thought of the cold, white, searching, silent tendrils of creeper exploring its way under the entire floor of the large living room, maybe for weeks before finally exiting into light.

Ugh.

Though a couple of snips of the secateurs where the creeper entered the ventilation bricks sorted that out!