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'Normal' things that you find really creepy

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Sweetasstevia · 22/10/2014 17:43

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?

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Mrsjayy · 25/10/2014 13:01

Oh Oh we spent a few nights in Chertsey(we were going to thorpe park) on a campsite run by campers felt like Roysten Vasey I was terrified the owner campers were all in the middle and the paying was at the back

Daria01 · 25/10/2014 13:20

Yy to space being really creepy!! I watched Felix Bamgarnter (sp?) do his free fall live on the TV. It totally creeped me out looking at the curvature of the earth!! The light blue and greens against the black sky... shudders. Totally vile! And the fuzzy radio noise as well when he was communicating with people on the ground. The whole thing unsettled me for a day or two.

I don't like watching planes take off or land either. I'm not too far from Manchester airport, and there is nothing worse than driving along quite happily, when all of a sudden a big metal object comes hurtling towards the ground at high speed! It always feels like they're going to land on my car.

monostar · 25/10/2014 14:03

*Hugs and kisses.

I do not want random people I am just being introduced to to lean in and slobber on my cheek. It gives me the shudders. I find invasion of my personal space really really creepy.

I know it is unreasonable. *

no it isn't!
i totally understand you...now, hugs I can even get somehow, but kisses...urgh...yuck...

monostar · 25/10/2014 14:04

hmmm...yey for me for managing to write it in bold...not lolllllllll

HoobleDooble · 25/10/2014 14:51

Totally with anyone who mentioned boats in dry dock. Also trains, the gap between the platform and the train (had a reoccurring nightmare about it as a child), and when you go to the National Railway Museum and you're stood down where the wheels are, looking at the bits that should be covered by a nice stretch of platform. I once had to overtake a steam train being transported on the back of a low loader, I had to put my foot down and close my eyes for a second.

Any open machinery is going to drag me in and chomp me up and big metal bridges will fall on my head when I walk under them.

KirjavaTheCorpse · 25/10/2014 16:53

Holes.

PHANTOMnamechanger · 25/10/2014 17:09

I caught the hole thing from this place. It's no joke. Sad

Flappingandflying · 25/10/2014 17:10

Large machines like JCBs and road and building type lorries. Big lorries especially passing them on the motorway.

Eyes...yuck. I could never never be an optician.

Slurping and eating noises.

With lakes - which I like but I do imagine a giant fish just the back emerging.

ADamnedLambsBreath · 25/10/2014 17:51

YY to big machinery flapping! Particularly anything dangerous but currently stationary. Like combine harvesters sitting in a big storage shed.

Or WORSE: those big tall sinister corrugated-metal factory buildings where they crush aggregate or something, with massive conveyor belts and slag heaps. Heebie-jeebie central.

Gruntfuttock · 25/10/2014 17:57

MyCarHasBrokenDownAgainWhat is creepy about white cars? Confused

wickedlazy · 25/10/2014 18:03

From I was a child, the sound of the loo flushing at night has always scared me. It's even worse now I'm an adult and sometimes in the house on my own at night, when dp is out with his mates and ds is staying over night at dm's or mil's Blush Sometimes I will wash my hands, flush the loo then run as fast as I can downstairs or to the safety of my bedroom. The fear only lasts while the flush is happening, once the noise stops so does the panicky feeling Confused

KirjavaTheCorpse · 25/10/2014 18:21

Speaking of toilets, when there's a blockage and the water fills up the bowl - fucking terrifies me!

And any water leak. When my brother was fitting my washing machine the pipe broke off the old one before he'd turned the water off and it sprayed everywhere. I haven't screamed like that in a long time Blush

But mainly holes. I've had trypophobia since I was little. My mum thought I was deranged, destroying sponges and hiding the potpourri.

t3rr3gl35 · 25/10/2014 19:14

Driving behind timber lorries - the ones transporting freshly murdered forests...the trees never look secure and I always think they might spill off in front of me.

Also hate sticky labels - don't mind the plasticky ones that peel away in one fell swoop but the paper ones send me running for the hills!

CruCru · 25/10/2014 19:28

Polystyrene- gives me goosebumps even thinking about it.

Chewing gum - Singapore was right to ban it.

Armpits - particularly men's dark armpit hair if they have fair skin.

Very long hair on girls - particularly when it gets all stringy at the ends.

justiceofthePeas · 25/10/2014 19:32

Yy to timber lorries. Was just thinking that the other day as I was behind one

BlueBrightBlue · 25/10/2014 19:50

Lorries carrying hay bails.

Overly powdered faces.

Pointy fingernails that are all the fashion now.

Fag ends on plates of food.

Greasy collars.

Massive overhead pipes.

Stiletto mules, a rarity now thank goodness.

Bottom cleavages that have a "V" junction at the top ( sorry if you are afflicted)

Blackheads on old men's noses and necks.

Corduroy.

ElectricalBanana · 25/10/2014 20:22

"Big electric" aka large electrical substations where you can see all the workings

Electricity pylons

Wind generators - big ones

Can't look at them but feel compelled to look at them which makes me feel ill so I don't look at them but I need to look at them.......you know what I mean

ElectricalBanana · 25/10/2014 20:25

Can't abide anyone touching the inside of my arm or my neck (except husband)

Bones. - I was a theatre nurse and I would avoid orthopedics - even manipulations made me heave. Give me guts etc any day

ElectricalBanana · 25/10/2014 20:27

V necks on men

Men who are muscly and look like they spend more time on themselves than I do to get ready ( I take 5 mins)

thoughtsbecomethings · 25/10/2014 20:29

Old black and white films

Etihad · 25/10/2014 20:37

Kirjava you are so right about the toilet blocking and the water coming up!

Also, I really cannot stand that waxy paper bread comes wrapped in, even looking at it makes me shudder

Coumarin · 25/10/2014 20:41

Last of the Summer Wine and the Antiques Roadshow theme tune.

The horror. Sad

AliceMum09 · 25/10/2014 22:37

Holes, definitely the holes!

And toilet bowls filling up, I have to run away! Ditto seeing the inside of the cistern - if there is ever a problem and DH has to take the lid off I have to leave the house! And old-fashioned toilets where the cistern is right up above your head.

I seem to have a lot of issues with toilets!

girliefriend · 25/10/2014 23:19

Loads of things, I can't sleep with my arms outside of the duvet incase someone grabs them Hmm even very hot weather freaks me out - the last two summers have been a struggle!

starsandunicorns · 25/10/2014 23:45

Girlie im the opposite I must have one arm out of the duvet to ensure no one trapstraps and pins me down ( this comes from sister who pinned my sheets and blankets down when we were fighting at night one time ) when I was about 8