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Ordinary places that have creeped you out.....

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JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 25/05/2019 00:29

I love to hear stories of these and need some distraction!

One was a house I used to babysit in as a teen. V "arty" parents, walls painted oxblood or black, real animal skulls on the walls and great vast black French windows with no curtains.

The first English dept I worked in. Dark wood, stained glass, coupled with modern "emergency" lighting at floor level as only source of light..... I was always so relieved to get away on a quiet weekend evening and shut the door on the spookiness behind me.....

Yours?

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DrBuckles · 25/05/2019 00:31

There’s an old hospital near us that still does extra bits aside from the new shiny hospital.

It’s so creepy, it reminds me of that old show eerie Indiana. I hate it!

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JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 25/05/2019 00:34

Oooh abandoned hospitals are creepy!

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BarnabasTheMaineCoon · 25/05/2019 00:42

A flat I lived in located in Edinburgh. Fucking place was creepy as hell.

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Oliversmumsarmy · 25/05/2019 00:43

Hampstead.

The place I am sure for every other person is really nice but to me it has an air of death about the place and gives me the creeps.

Even though it is usually the quicker way to where I need to get to I would rather sit in a jam on the Finchley Road than go through Hampstead.

Also a cul de sac, I can’t remember where.

Pulled off a main road when I realised I was going the wrong way. Thought I could do a U turn immediately and get back on the road to go in the opposite direction.

As I turned off the road someone was behind me so I turned into the first road I came to which was a cul de sac. It was so physically oppressive. It felt like all the oxygen had been sucked out of the atmosphere

Tavannach · 25/05/2019 03:00

A road in the village where we went on holiday. One side had houses but the other side was not built on and overgrown. It always felt dark, even in sunshine, and there was a definite air of what? Doom maybe. The dog used to put its tail between its legs and pull on the lead to get passed it.

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JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 25/05/2019 22:08

Oliver I have been to a place like that. It was a tiny French village during the vacances and there was no one there at all, to be expected of course, but it was so creepy!

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Stravapalava · 25/05/2019 22:25

My old house - really really nasty vibe to it. DBro and I would not go up the stairs on our own, even in daylight.

I don't like a certain road near me, something bad must have happened there and I avoid it like the plague.

Flyingsouthwiththeswallows · 25/05/2019 22:25

A bend in the road near to Arger Fenn in Suffolk.

The Fenn is an ancient woodland and is gorgeous, especially in Spring.

The bend in the road is also wooded but as creepy as hell. I used to be filled with a terrible sense of foreboding when approaching it, especially at night. I was convinced that historically it had been the site of witch activity.

Was not alone in being spooked by it either.

IncognitaIgnorama · 25/05/2019 22:28

The upstairs in a school friend's house: I used to dread staying the night and having to be there in the dark--there was just a horrible atmosphere that was at its worst in the spare room. Her parents must have thought I was neurotic, as they'd always find me in tears of fear when they checked on me Blush

Bunnybigears · 25/05/2019 22:30

My in laws house in Wales is creepy as hell. Especially the stairs I have to run up or down the stairs spending as little time as possible on them I can feel a presence or something and I'm not in the slightest bit woo.

Nameisthegame · 25/05/2019 22:54

I used to work in a care home ding night shift and going round at night was creepy asf with the fluorescent lighting and it being pitch black outside one night I went into this woman’s room to help her and she kept saying she could see a young man at the end of her bed, freaked me right out!......until a couple of days later when I realized I was the young man! 😂

Other workers were creeped out as she would mention me I never told them that I was the young man....(she had dementia I did try to explain to her)

PatriciaHolm · 25/05/2019 22:59

Coventry cathedral. Went there as a teen, couldn't go in. Now, I spend most of my time in churches trying not to burst into flames (devout atheist) but this was weird.

BishopofBathandWells · 25/05/2019 23:05

An old house I lived in. Bog standard new build but the upstairs was creepy. Friends stayed in the spare room and didn't like it. My DP at the time thought I was nuts, until his sister's dog refused to go upstairs. It was just...wrong.

I was there alone one night and just felt this rising sense of dread. I literally bolted from the house in a panic. We only managed another month or two in it after that.

Gertie75 · 25/05/2019 23:05

We moved several times when I was a child and I was always fine, it was exciting having a new bedroom etc, the one house though felt horrible from the day we moved in, I was always terrified going upstairs on my own and can still remember vividly the feeling of lying in my bed trying to sleep but being too scared.
We only stayed there 18 months and I was shattered with lack of sleep, the day we left was such a relief the new house had no bad vibes and I slept like a log every night.

I don't believe in ghosts or woo of any kind so can't explain what it was about that one house that was wrong.

MrsCatnip · 25/05/2019 23:19

The historic building we went on our honeymoon. It was soo creepy: DH both spooked ourselves silly every night!

Omzlas · 25/05/2019 23:28

A school we viewed for our DC, it had this weird 'sad' feeling. It took me days to shake the feeling it gave me

A house / B&B we stayed in once, we found a box of ashes in our room (I think they were from an animal, not a person) and I asked DH to put them in the hallway. There was something about the house, it was as if we were staying in their spare room, bank statements in the bureau etc..... I would never go back, weirded me out

rareappearance · 25/05/2019 23:33

The village/town of Newburgh in Fife. Very, very weird place. Stayed with a friend one night, and the next day it felt like the Wicker Man. A real evil, foreboding atmosphere

squashyhat · 25/05/2019 23:46

A b&b in Gloucester. I don't think it was associated with the Wests but it was around that time and so horrible DH and I decided very late at night to leave and drive home. We intended to leave the full fee and a note but the owner appeared just as we were going so we came up with some lame excuse, dropped the cash and fled.

Emerald123 · 26/05/2019 02:39

Portmeiirion in Wales. Strange, oppressive atmosphere even on a sunny afternoon. Even the chdren were glad to leave and said it felt wrong.

MrsPear · 26/05/2019 07:51

Gjirokastër in Albania. I just felt on edge the whole time. I remember going to a cafe and wondering if I’ll get out again. Even h who is a native but from the north of the country said it was strange. The whole atmosphere was menacing.

bibbitybobbityyhat · 26/05/2019 08:12

Any country road or footpath where I'm walking on my own. I just feel extremely nervous and vulnerable.

MoobaaMoobaa · 26/05/2019 08:12

Many years ago we stayed in a tourer caravan in Hutton le Hole.

During the day it's was beautiful but had an slightly odd feeling about. The night we stayed was just awful we both felt creeped out and actually scared, the hairs on the back of our necks kept tingling. We tried to sleep but the night seemed to never end, we kept waking up after what felt like hours of sleep only to find it was still the middle of the night and we still felt creeped out . At first light we up sticks and left without looking back. It honestly felt like the night was 3 or 4 nights rolled into 1 with no daytime.

MrsJackRackham · 26/05/2019 08:20

Glencoe. I find it very oppressive, as if it's pressing down on me. I've driven through it myself and with company in every type of weather Scotland can muster and I get the same feeling of dread every time.

TammySwansonTwo · 26/05/2019 08:23

Looked round a former vicarage when we moved down south when I was a kid. This place was so creepy. I don’t believe in ghosts etc but the house was just so echoey, drafty and... odd. Never felt like that in a house before.

DaddysGirl36 · 26/05/2019 08:26

A flat we lived in years ago. It just had a creepy vibe, mainly in my mother's room. She downplayed it to us but now she says she slept with the light on & hated the room.

Years later during a renovation, a hidden staircase was found behind that bedroom wall. I shudder every time I think of it

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