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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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NinjaPanda34 · 22/10/2014 18:12

Meringues that squeak.

LondonRocks · 22/10/2014 18:13

Eyes being touched - grim.

Dry sponges.

Dogs barking.

TillHammerZeit · 22/10/2014 18:13

Fractures. Since breaking my arm 14 years ago I have a horror of fractures. I'd be a terrible paramedic. Guts hanging out? Fine. Blood everywhere? No problem. A broken arm. You wouldn't see me for dust.

FrazzledFandangenstein · 22/10/2014 18:14

Cold soup or beans. I absolutely hate it.

That watery condensation you get if you put a plate over a bowl when microwaving.

Children with white blonde hair. Post-village of the damned I find them creepy.

YeGodsAndLittleFishes · 22/10/2014 18:14

OMG. Everything on this fucking thread is creeping me out and making me wince, grimace or clench my toes, in quick succession.

I have glass doors. I have to lock them in daylight and I really tense up if something has bwen left in the he car and we have to go out there. (Mostly when DH is home).

DD and I have had some clothes missing. ALL of our trackie bottoms have gone. It is playing on my mind how that could have happened.

Anyone I can't see who touches my back triggers my startle reflex and I jump in the air. That's more embarassing than anything. Mostly.

AnyFucker · 22/10/2014 18:15

long nails on men, especially manicured ones

YeGodsAndLittleFishes · 22/10/2014 18:16

Oh, and when I am out for a run and line men in big vans who I do not know wave at me...and I wave back! Plays on my mind. Especially if they slow down too much on the road ahead...or stop.

EmilyGilmore · 22/10/2014 18:16

People eating yogurt, especially when they start madly scraping the bottom of the pot to get every last bit. It goes right through me!

AnyFucker · 22/10/2014 18:17

people eating all an apple, including the core

TillHammerZeit · 22/10/2014 18:17

Giant babies. Enormous chubby ones.

David Mitchell. I'm sure he's perfectly nice,but he gives me shivers.

David Walliams is like the world's creepiest mannequin come to life.

Matt Lucas scares me too.

Dolls and dummies/mannequins give me the creeps.

EmilyGilmore · 22/10/2014 18:18

When someone drinks a fruit juice or smoothie from a glass and after each sip/gulp you see the little bits of pulp sliding back down the side of glass - yuk! Worst culprit tomato juice.

Narrowdog · 22/10/2014 18:18

Hulls of ships, submarines and actually any large 'thing' that should be immersed in the ocean that isn't! I can imagine a whale or similar sea mammal too with barnacles exposed... It gives me the shivers just thinking about it.

EmilyGilmore · 22/10/2014 18:18

Ok, we'll if we're going hardcore and bringing babies into it - I find bald ones oddly unsettling.

CQ · 22/10/2014 18:23

Keeping your baby's umbilical stump. Just read this on another thread and it's made me quite queasy.

Lock of hair, yes. Something fleshy that used to have blood pumping through it - heave.

MaryWestmacott · 22/10/2014 18:23

oh god, AnyFucker - yes, long nails on men.

FrazzledFandangenstein · 22/10/2014 18:27

High five Emily. We cam go down in flames together!

I thought if another:

Licking the yoghurt lid. Why? WHHHHHY? Are you really so desperate for an ounce of crusty yoghurt? Just throw it away. It goes right through me.

tinylttletrotters · 22/10/2014 18:27

Omg yes !
Baked bean juice and men with long thumb nails

TillHammerZeit · 22/10/2014 18:28

Nails. They're worse when long,on women and men, but just nails generally.

Controversial one perhapa,but Songs of Praise. When they show close ups of some of the church goers and they have this fanatical look on their faces. It's even worse when they're swaying,and clapping accompanied by guitars and tambourines.

Rollypoly100 · 22/10/2014 18:29

Clowns

wooooosualsuspect · 22/10/2014 18:30

Bricked up doorways and windows.

BreadForBrains · 22/10/2014 18:31

Submarines terrify me, as do vast expanses of open water. Particularly flying over the sea.
It's so creepy. Quiet and lonely from above, but deep underneath it's dark and sinister. Bleurgh.

BreadForBrains · 22/10/2014 18:32

Also, crabs. They're like giant shelled crusty spiders.

spiffysquiffyspiggy · 22/10/2014 18:33

Going to the hairdressers.

Snatchoo · 22/10/2014 18:33

This is so not what I thought this was going to be.

I thought it was creepy when the cousin of a friend of mine made a comment about how her 'girls' looked great in a bikini.

Yes, he was talking about her breasts.

lavenderhoney · 22/10/2014 18:34

Oranges, tomatoes, long nails on men, and the yogurt thing whilst looking at whoever is unfortunate enough to be there. Dumpable offence:) imagine spending your life avoiding someone eating a yogurt:)