'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?

Omg yes ipswichwitch, those pointy toed shoes with the squared off end that always turn up slightly like jester's shoes, they give me the absolute willies.

Toe-post sandals. I just can't wear them. A message goes from my foot toy brain saying 'wrong wrong wrong - get them off me'.

I am stuck with old lady sandals all summer.

Clowns.

Dolls

Curtains open when it's dark.

Badly drawn curtains. I have been known to furtively straighten curtains in public / other people's houses. I can't settle if they are not neat.

Totally agree about the hulls of boats- the way they loom out of the water -aargh!! I don't know why, but there is a certain colour of pale green that makes me feel really unsettled and cold inside.

Lucymill - haven't you missed the point of the thread rather? Most people would be grossed/creeped out by long and dangly bogeys.

On the radio if someone's talking and their clicky mouth spit is audible in between the words.

Teal. The colour. Horrible. Horrible

Something about driving over the moors at dusk. I can't help but imagine being stood alone over there Braced against the wind and looking at the me who is looking back at the other me (and so on). Spooky.

Windchimes, the sound of them day or night, creeps me right out!

Watching an aeroplane take off!

Someone accidentally scraping their fork or spoon on a plate

Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Empty swimming pools (drained, as opposed to no one swimming in them) and drained fountains and water features where you can see all the pipes. [shudder]

Oh yes, thisghost, resevoirs, there is something so sinister about them.

I love a lot of things mentioned.

Pointy toed shoes on men OR women creep me out. It reminds me of the witch in The Wizard of Oz. I hated the fashion for them about 10 years ago - point toes poking out of floor-length boot cut trousers. BOAK.

Ear has to be covered by the duvet when I go to sleep on my side.
Can't sit with a window behind me at night.
If I am watching a scary film my feet have to be on the sofa where I can see them.

Yes - empty swimming pools - horrible!

There's a picture you can google of an empty swimming pool filled with chairs. It's like a horror film!

Oh yes, thisghost, resevoirs, there is something so sinister about them.

A resevoir where whole towns have been flooded.
Especially at the height of summer, when the water is a bit low - and you see the tip of a church steeple poking out of the water.

Clockwork orange, where clamps are holding his eyes open. It goes right through me.

Mrsfrumble Empty swimming pools (drained, as opposed to no one swimming in them) and drained fountains and water features where you can see all the pipes. [shudder]

YES. They are the devil's work.

And amphibious vehicles like those bloody Duck Tours. I mean, things that drive on the road then drive into the water and float. What sorcery is this? They have wheels

Cross-posted MooseyMouse. Always thought it was just me...

Knuckle cracking

This is perfectly rational I think but I work in a converted Victorian maternity hospital, that itself was a part of the old workhouse.

It is pretty much the same as it was and still has the tunnels under it that used to lead to the morgue. I'd kill to go down there

Its creep as fuck.

In winter it's pitch black and freezing and I'm always terrified something will come and get me when I'm working late.

Yes clowns and dolls. I had a talking doll when I was little and out of the blue after over a year she 'suddenly ' learnt a new phrase. Totally freaked me out.

Lots of jewellery on people. Especially lots of rings on one hand. A wedding ring, plus engagement ring I can cope with, but anymore than that makes me shudder. Pinkie rings on men as well. Shudder.

I hate swimming in very deep water; like if you're swimming off a yacht over what you know is seriously deep water (I'm talking oceanic trenches, here!).

No.

MooseyMouse I've just seen the swimming pool filled with chairs picture. Horrifying! Imagine wandering around the university where the photo was taken, late at night, and unsuspectingly opening a door to be confronted with that sight....

A scab on a bald man's head

The under-stairs cupboard, the one under the sink and the glove box in the car. Hate having to rummage through them. Even on the odd occasion they are not in total chaos.

DH has more of these than me though. Eg he cannot lick things. Especially a nice cream. He has to bite them in a way that looks almost aggressive! He can't bear it when I lick the lid of a yoghurt, like a PP. I agree it's a bit wrong so try not to nowadays. There used to be a yoghurt ad with the immensely crap/slightly bizarre tag line 'lick the lid of life' and even that would make him retch!