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

[JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff]

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?

Koh Samat in Thailand

It’s a beautiful paradise island not the most beautiful in Thailand but still lovely and has the whitest sand I have ever seen and at the time not very touristy but not too quiet should have been perfect

But has the strangest feeling I couldn’t wait to leave felt so oppressive a very strange place it felt something bad had happened there

Flodden Field in the Scottish Borders. The place has an odd, still, eerie feeling to it. We stayed at a cottage very close to it when I was a child and I used to wake up screaming every night. It had such a flat still atmosphere. Can't really describe it, it was very creepy.

When I was 13 or 14 we stayed in a family friend's holiday house in Winchelsea. It was so creepy, even my parents were scared. in my room, at night I noticed fluroscent yellow slime running down the walls, which added to my general terror.

Happisburgh in Norfolk really creeped me out and not sure why, just felt oppressive and as if we shouldn't be there, I was glad to leave.

Henrietta Street, the Haggerlythe and St Mary's church in Whitby at night time. I find this area fascinating but it creeps me out at the same time.

We once stayed in a beautiful B&B near the Uffington White Horse. Lovely four poster, beams etc. I woke suddenly in the night feeling a weight on my chest. No, there was no cat!

One place I find a bit odd is Leamington Spa, not exactly creepy just.....not quite right.

Great topic, Johnny !

@keepingbees -
It was just a few terraced side streets. I just had a very strong feeling that we should not be there and that we were trespassing into something dangerous. It was a Saturday morning and in those streets we didn't see another car moving or anyone walking around. Not until we found our way out of that estate and found the way into IKEA.
I've never been back there and I don't ever want to.

The house I grew up in creeps me out.

Yet my mother loves it and doesn't find it remotely creepy.

There is a medieval house near Porthmadog that I went to on a beautiful bright sunny day, just me and my daughter. We only lasted about two minutes before we just looked at each other and turned on our heels and ran for the car. I love ancient buildings and don't usually get creeped out but that one just felt creepy.

Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire is really eerie.

Rhyl.

Brading on the Isle of Wight. Possibly something to do with the creepy waxworks that used to be there but if I wasn't mostly driving I'd close my eyes when I go through it! Makes me shiver.

The sagrada familia in Barcelona, went on my own and was fine for most of my solo tour but towards the end went down below.
Felt oppressed and ill very quickly, had the urge to leave as quickly as possible. Quite natural when Ill but I felt absolutely fine once I got outside.

I was musing on that a couple days ago, wondered if it was something to do with the materials/stone type used. Rational and random.

I was at the High Rocks in kent yesterday and found the atmosphere to be weirdly oppressive.

I absolutely loathe Bath and Paris - both places which on paper should be right up my street. Paris because I felt so unwelcome the entire time I was there and felt threatened by the constant pickpocketing/mugging/fraud (and I’ve travelled in Asian cities so I’m not some naive little flower when it comes to that kind of thing )
Bath is harder to explain - lived there for six months and even now I can’t wait to leave when I visit. Something about it makes my skin crawl.
Perhaps less surprisingly, Milton Keynes - soulless and weird.

Portmeirion. Yes i also found it oppressive.Love the quirky architecture but something on a deeper level did not feel quite right about the place.

Mineral Wells, Texas. We drove through there on a road trip last summer, and stopped for coffee. The abandoned Baker Hotel looms over Main Street. It was deathly quiet; no cars or people walking around, and we were the only customers in the coffee shop (which doubled as the video rental place. Videos. In 2018). DD needed a wee, and we were directed downstairs to the toilet. We had to walk through the office, which had a dressed mannequin sitting in an office chair behind a desk, and a creepy basement full of junk to get there; DD has never wee’d that quickly in her life, we were so desperate to get back upstairs!

I should say the people who owned the coffee shop were perfectly nice and friendly. The place just had such a weird vibe!

Our old house, built as part of a new town on top of what would have been plague pits. Apparently a previous occupant had hung herself and we noticed when we moved in that the bedroom doors all had bolts on the outside. The ceiling in my mum and dad’s room had a dark shadow that wasn’t damp and it came through all paint jobs. There was always a feeling on being watched and I hated being alone or going upstairs alone. I used to sit bursting for the loo but be too scared to go upstairs. The dog used to bark and raise her hackles at my dads wardrobe a lot. When we left my dad said he never felt quite right about the place, we lived there from 1984-2003. It was a council house and my parents bought it in the mid 80’s housing boom.

@twosoups1972

I've heard that quite a few times about Kamloops, it always comes up in these threads.

Glad it's not just us then drogos

I grew up in York! Never really felt spooked by it apart from the bathroom of my nanas house. Dont know why but it freaked me out!

York Minster is one of my favourite places ever! Love it!

Ive had lots of scary dreams about being trapped inside the castle museum though!

I love York, we are going there soon, I can't wait!

Bognor Regis at night scares me and so does Brighton I'm not sure what it is just does

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

Oh that's a shame. It is on my list of places to visit. Desperate to!

Gjirokastër in Albania

Oh? I have been there on a tour of the country. I did not feel 'spooked' but it was certainly a 'different' place. I was there 2 years after Enver Hoxha died. I just remember the lovely countryside, soldiers everywhere (preventing locals from talking to us!) and the stooges in the hotel, listening in on all our conversations!!!!

Oh and the poor lighting (though the guides boasted that they export electricity etc etc. Every home has a washing machine apparently. As the guide said this, we passed some women washing clothes in a river!!!

anitagreen interesting you said Brighton as most people love it. I think it has a very strange and uneasy, edgy vibe to it, and a kind of claustrophobic feeling.

@MaxNormal Yes that's exactly it I felt trapped weirdly enough