'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?

Harbours with high sides. If I fell in, how would I climb out?
People paddling or swimming in rivers, lakes or reservoirs. It goes through me.
People touching their own or someone else's belly button, or God forbid someone might try and touch mine....... Makes me cringe.
A toast soldier, spoon or knife being dunked into a runny egg yolk.
A solitary bean left in the bottom of the tin can.
Basement flats where you can see only people's legs as they walk past up in the street.

Hot air balloons on the ground but not quite deflated. I was at an air show as a child and there was one on its side and people were allowed to walk into the balloon itself. I wouldn't and caused a big fuss by saying "what if it traps me? I'll be trapped!" According to my uncle I made other kids around the same age freak out too. I still think that though.

Lulabellarama - I'm nicking 'bad bath' because that is such a perfect description.

I had the Ladybird book of Little Red Riding Hood. There's a picture of the wolf, wearing the grandma's bonnet and night dress, sitting primly in the grandma's bed.

The fact it was wearing human clothes...the horror...the horror.

This picture shit me up for years, and I used to 'trap' the book under a pile of heavy books, so the wolf couldn't escape and get me.

Those painted human statues, they’re alright if they stay on their box but if they step down I hate it and have legged it away from one before. I suppose it’s like a toy coming to life or something? Just sinister and horrible.

Also silent toddlers. Especially when they stare with a completely expressionless face.

ginny if you shut the bedroom door they can't get into your drawers and wardrobes or under the bed .

Badcat my mil lives in Portishead and they have a lovely walk along the harbour bit that I just can't bear due to the drop. I have the same problem at Porthleven which is fairly local to us.

Canal locks cause me a similar concern.

Not creepy but I hate screwed up towels

Worm casts on the sand at the beach. I wouldn't have it that they weren't worms and refused to walk on them when I was little.

Very tall things I find threatening/creepy i.e. electricity pylons, the Eiffel Tower.

Sometimes find large lakes creepy.

Chinook helicopters. Sinister.

LaQueen, just for you

Pasta tubes stuck upright to the bottom of a saucepan.

Four poster beds just look creepy, like a murder scene, to me. The murder is yet to take place......the stage is set.

Why people want to sleep in a four poster bed and think it the height of luxury defeats me.

Fourposters always look dated as well as creepy. A bit like limousines.

Stuffed animals...especially in glass display cases.

The life sized model of a blue whale at the Natural History Museum. Just terrifying. Apparently the first time I saw it as a little girl I cried. Took our DDs to see it last year, and I could quite easily have cried again.

[runs screaming for the hills...]

Greasing baking tins. Makes me go all panicky until I can wash my hands.

TillHammer boak! Yes, holes with things in them! Did you see the photoshop scam going round recently about the boob bugs???

slightly less gross picture attached, if you like to punish yourself search lotus flower boob hoax

The sound of people eating. Can't bear it. I always have to have background noise if I'm in a room with someone else eating.

The thought of having teeth taken out. Shivers.

Loud extractor fans give me a panicky feeling, I read somewhere that they are a big fire risk but a lot of bathrooms in places like restaurants etc seem to have them on permanently and I've not seen one burst into flames but I still don't like them. I especially don't like shower units that have them built in.

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Dated hotel rooms circa late 80s, with heavily swagged curtains, pelmets and dark wood furniture with brass handles. Even worse if there's a dusty, wrapped bar of soap...and if the bath has a plastic shower curtain...that's me done. Simply cannot stay in the room.

Just find that whole look very sinister and depressing.

I live alone with dd. Tonight I heard a faint knock knocking on my back window. Freaky.

Then I realised it was our cat behind the curtain having a scratch. The cat freaks me out quite often.

Also, talking toys and talking clocks.

bad an extractor fan caught fire in our holiday cottage, and set fire to the bathroom. Smoke alarm failed, and within seconds the upstairs was full of smoke. Had to evacuate and call 999.

Toy telephones with faces on them (like the one in Poltergeist 2 that started ringing in the middle of the night with grandma on the line)

One of my children had one of those (the phone) and it DID ring in the middle of the night once! I think it had a fault. i hope There would be this 'ting' in the middle of the night sometimes.......and then nothing.

LaQ that makes sense to me, as do the empty pools etc. To me it's a sort of...fear of the passage of time.

There was a time when the hotel decor was okay. There was a time when the pool was filled and used. But not now. Time is impermanent and it makes us feel impermanent. And it's such a weird feeling...like we're not in our own time somehow.

I am making no sense.

But I get the slightly larger than normal thing, too. It's as if what you thought was real is suddenly thrown off. It's strange!

Argh, ok that's that fear well and truly embedded for life then.