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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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Saucery · 26/05/2019 08:30

There’s a house near to us that has been up for sale a couple of times, a large converted chapel. I love that sort of building and although I wouldn’t waste their time booking a visewing in person I did look at the extensive range of photos on Rightmove. It was awful! Nothing to do with the photos as they were expertly done and in proportion etc but I got the creeps just looking at it online. It was oppressive. So I dropped that one from my Fantasy Premium Bonds Win Wishlist Grin

user1497863568 · 26/05/2019 11:13

I went to school for a year in an old convent. That was very creepy.

madcatladyforever · 26/05/2019 11:18

St Leonards forest outside Horsham in Sussex. Has a long history of angry spirits. I went there once for an evening walk and felt the whole place was screaming at me to get out. There is a really creepy graveyard there too.

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TheFaerieQueene · 26/05/2019 11:18

There is a county in England (I won’t say which so as not to offend people who live there), which makes me feel edgy. I just don’t know what it is, but I feel anxious and not comfortable at all.

WeeMadArthur · 26/05/2019 11:29

Agree with Glencoe having a strange feeling, the hair still on the back of my neck went up when we drove though, really weird feeling on a sunny day.

fourquenelles · 26/05/2019 11:40

Sonning in Berkshire. Weird place with a scarecrow festival that is taken VERY seriously viz a couple sitting in a parked car by the road and several hanging out on roofs. As PP says of another village, has a whiff of Wickerman about the place (despite the Clooneys living nearby).

beckyb123 · 26/05/2019 11:44

I once stayed in a very creepy holiday cottage on Skye. Dog wouldn't go into several rooms, the place was cold and quiet.

TakenForSlanted · 26/05/2019 11:48

The server room at my former workplace. Theoretically, it was the most secure room in the entire building but the low humming and blinking lights of rows and rows of machines standing there in the half-dark just creeped the bejeesus out of me. Hates going there on my own and would always kindly "offer" to take a trainee along to show them when a trip down there couldn't be avoided.

Drogosnextwife · 26/05/2019 14:18

A certain steach of path in the park behind our house. It gives me the creeps especially if I'm alone. The rest of the park is fine, even the stretch where someone killed themselves and another part where someone was found in the river, just this one spot that creeps me out.
My bedroom, not all the time but I've always had a funny feeling in there and when ds 2 was little he told me there was a lady in my room, he was terrified and when we first moved in ds1 told me there was a monster in the same spot that ds2 saw the lady. Ds2 was a bit younger so "a lady" was all he could describe.
A friend farm when we were younger. The bottom of the house was absolutely fine, the top was horrible, especially the attic room. Thank god they had a bedroom down the stairs for sleepovers 😂.

Drogosnextwife · 26/05/2019 14:18

Stretch not steach

Ohnotanothernamechange · 26/05/2019 14:44

Conwy Castle. Just looking at it filled me with terror and fear. It was really wet, miserable day so I don't know if that had something to do with it? I couldn't wait to get away from there though.

Ive been to Caernarfon, Harlech and Rhuddlan castles and have never experienced anything at those, but if I never see Conwy again it won't bother me!

CigarsofthePharoahs · 26/05/2019 14:51

Some back streets in Bristol.
Our old sat nav had an annoying habit of directing us to the goods inwards entrances of big shops rather than the main entrance. We were trying to get into IKEA and ended up negotiating some side streets to get to the right side of the building.
They just freaked me out. It seemed too quiet and there was a lot of very big graffiti designs. I only relaxed when we finally made our way to IKEA.

SpaceCadet4000 · 26/05/2019 15:02

When DH and I were looking for our first flat together we went to see one in Peckham. I have no idea why, but we were both so creeped out by it we could not wait to get out. We referred to it as the murder house as we were convinced something bad had happened there.

IggyAce · 26/05/2019 15:30

@Emerald123 glad you said
Portmeirion, we visited Wales last summer and when researching places to visit I instantly ruled it out as I knew it would set my hebie jebie alarm off.

There is a stately home hotel near us complete with chapel which is used for weddings (if you don’t mind paying the fee). I once assisted dh who is a wedding photographer and was on edge the whole time in this beautiful chapel, I normally feel calm in churches even though I’m not religious. I breathed a sign of relief when I could exit.

noblegiraffe · 26/05/2019 15:36

The Isle of Wight. God knows why but driving around perfectly normal country roads felt creepy and like an old abandoned fairground.

Rainbowknickers · 26/05/2019 16:19

York minster
for some reason it really creeps me out
I get the shudders just walking past it-the whole building just looks black to me-I start shaking and feel sick
I moved away a few years ago and I get the same feeling over a tower block at the other side of town but oddly the one down the road I’m fine with even though they look the same

oldclairdelaloon · 26/05/2019 16:27

A B&B in Bury St Edmunds. It was an old house but bright and nicely furnished etc but had the strangest and most unnerving atmosphere. Luckily only there for one night but I would have made an excuse not to stay a second night if I had had to have. I woke up repeatedly with the feeling that something bad was about to happen. Not pleasant.

Minkies11 · 26/05/2019 16:46

Creepy converted Church about 10 miles from my house. It was beautifully converted about 20 years ago but owner committed suicide some time later. Someone who lived nearby told me he had said to him that the grave markers still on the grounds had started to get hot at night. Always scared me and I don't drive past it anymore.

niceupthedanceagain · 26/05/2019 17:24

An ancient hotel in Clarkenwell, when I stayed there I was unwell with a bad cold and during the night I felt someone caressing my face with their hand. Obviously put it down to being feverish but it was proper creepy.

Cwtches123 · 26/05/2019 17:32

NHS finance - we were based in an old psychiatric hospital, the main office area had been refurbished and was lovely but we used an abandoned wing as archives. We all hated going down there!!! There was a corridor of "cells" with iron doors, some still had doorplates saying things like ECT Treatment Room. I swear I could hear the screams in my head - we always tried to go in pairs!!!

thenightsky · 26/05/2019 17:36

One particular ward in the psychiatric hospital where I did my nurse training in Yorkshire. The rest of the hospital was ok, but for this one bit of ward... the laundry shoot at the end of a corridor. I used to chuck the bag down and run like hell.

Its been turned it very expensive houses and apartments now, but I still wonder who bought and lives in what was Ward 3.

CitadelsofScience · 26/05/2019 17:42

There's a small market town near us, no idea why but the first time I went there shortly after moving to the area I had the most awful vibes about it, sinister and creepy.

POP7777777 · 26/05/2019 17:44

All of Walsingham in Norfolk. It's like going back in time; all religion and really eerie.

Muddledupme · 26/05/2019 17:47

We stayed in a guesthouse by the sea. I think it was Margate.There was an abandoned lido complete with changing rooms,turn styles and deck chairs. It was so eery and the saloon style changing room doors all blew open and shut in the wind and creaked. All around were boarded up houses. We stayed a night and left at 4am.

VerenaR · 26/05/2019 17:57

If anyone knows York, I felt so creeped out in the changing room of a shop on Stonegate. The shop was lovely and I was eager to try on lots of clothes, however as soon as I got into the changing room, I just wanted to leave. There was such an oppressive atmosphere in that one room. I think it was because the changing room was set up like an actual bedroom - complete with bed, chest of drawers, mirrors, chairs. Very spacious - but very creepy. Just felt as if I was encroaching on someone else's space - every time I changed out of a top and my vision was momentarily obscured, I felt as if I would see someone standing there in front of me!