Things/ places that inexplicably give you the creeps...

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Ice cream Vans
Mime artists
Brighton
Glastonbury
(Apologies to residents of the above 2 places)

@yellowsubmarines

Coming home from a three day conference late one night the SatNav directed me to drive down the A346 through Savernake. That gave me the creeps. I have never been there before or since and don't know the history of the area but it was definitely creepy. Something very dark there.

Have you read the infamous Savernake Forest story?

@Ozgirl75

I was in the Wye valley once near an area of caves and it was so so creepy. I was on a PGL holiday and we were a bunch of 13 year old rat bags and yet loads of people were quiet there, we were all pleased to leave. I told my parents about it when I got home and they said they had a creepy experience in the exact same place about 20 years earlier, where some odd things happened when they were there on a walk.

Was it Ross on wye??

I've spent many hours wandering around Savernake. Most of it is lovely but there are some areas that are really very strange. One area I remember the dog was really unsettled and glued himself to my legs. The air was thick and treacly somehow. I was glad to leave that part.

Glastonbury is just horrible - I always get a migraine when I take the dog to the groomer there.

Petworth House - I only lasted 5 minutes and had to leave. I waited for everyone else in the garden

The Savernke Forest story is copied here
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_unexplained/3695627-Where-has-the-Savernake-Forest-post-gone

see the post by MancaroniCheese Mon 23-Sep-19 14:38:03

I also hate driving over the A74, particularly at night, and especially the stretch just between Dumfries and Lockerbie. The hills seem to loom in a very malevolent way.

@tectonicplates

I've heard so, so many people say this stuff about Glastonbury. What is going on behind the scenes? It has to be more than the alleged ley lines (if you believe in that sort of stuff). What's happening in the background?

Glastonbury has a pretty dark history. The gruesome execution of Richard Whiting the last abbot on top of the Tor makes horrific reading.

Modern Glastonbury is full of very damaged people and has a bad drink and drug problem. Mix on a lot of odd vibes from all the (mostly harmless) new agers and the energetic mix is pretty toxic.

It's also a pretty efficient money making machine for those that prey on the tourists and the naive who think they can become a priestess by handing over large sums of money and those who are just desperate to believe in something.

Scarborough creeped me the fuck out.

The Old Operating Theatre museum in London. I visited as I was thinking of taking a GCSE class there. As soon as I went in I felt a horrible pressure on my head and a headache came on me. I asked a woman working there if the place was haunted and she said it wasn’t, as we were leaving, another woman who worked there followed me and said everyone else who worked there thought it was haunted, maybe with a poltergeist. In the morning, staff would find all the display bottles lying down they would have to be put up again. Weird.

Annie’s Song by John Denver makes me feel awkward and sad. Roy Orbison creeps me out too. I have no idea why.

@Ozgirl75

I was in the Wye valley once near an area of caves and it was so so creepy. I was on a PGL holiday and we were a bunch of 13 year old rat bags and yet loads of people were quiet there, we were all pleased to leave. I told my parents about it when I got home and they said they had a creepy experience in the exact same place about 20 years earlier, where some odd things happened when they were there on a walk.

Oh god. I know exactly where you're talking about and it's seriously creepy there. I went there as a kid and also worked there for a short period of time. I HATED it near those caves. Refused to take groups there.

I had a very frightening experience at a little church in Dorset, in a village called Whitchurch Canonicorum. I was a teenager on holiday with my parents and younger brother. I love churches and collected epitaphs as a hobby when I was young. I am also a Christian and churches to me are a place of safety.

It was a sunny day in August, the church and graveyard were lovely but I didn’t really want to go inside the church. However, I followed everyone else, I felt more and more uncomfortable. The church had a shrine to a saint and my mother and I looked at some of the prayers and notes that had been left. I felt utterly overwhelmed with a feeling of active evil and nausea, I said nothing but went straight outside. My mother came after me and said that the colour had literally drained from my face and she thought I was going to faint. Even in the churchyard something seemed wrong, it was only when I experienced a solar eclipse that I realised it was similar, the birdsong seemed muffled and the light was wrong.

Luckily my mother realised because she was used to my “feelings”, though normally they were not as strong, that the best thing was to go.

Only been to Aberystwyth once but it had a very creepy atmosphere when we were there.

Also had a weird experience in an old workhouse that's now owned by the National Trust. I was in a small room and suddenly felt pushed out of the room. It was very odd.

@52andblue just seen your reply ! Love Northumberland but Chillingham has such an odd vibe. It was weird - we were on the last day of our holiday in Alnwick. DH had left the previous day as he had to work so it was just me and my 2 ds'. It's supposed to be haunted so we went as a bit of a joke. The place just felt really off to the extent that I decided on a whim to drive home that evening rather than the next morning ! Only 1.5 hours away but never done that before ! Funnily enough I recall the owner being there and chatting to some other visitors...

@fuckedandbombed

Re savernake forest . Anyone remember the lady who posted in one of the spooky threads about house sitting for a friend - went into the forest at night thinking one of the dogs had got out ? Torch light bounced back from the dark , dog went nuts , and laid down growling. She said something like "Jesus Christ " and a voice gurgled in her ear "he won't help you now " before she fled back to the house , falling over as she went . ? That story still shits me up to this day ....

Yes! That's the one I mentioned! I for care if it was totally made up, it was an excellent scary story!

@humanbosch

Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Birmingham, Carlisle, York, Blackpool, Liverpool, Manchester a lot of places in the North just gives me the creep. Let's go down south, Hastings, Portsmouth, Essex, Kent, Bognor Regis. These places make me want to cry when I'm there. In London- Hackney, Haringey, Lewisham, Enfield, Brent, Hounslow. There's probably more but can't think of it at the top of my head. These places just doesn't seem like happy places, maybe it is what it is or being deprived areas. I just feel depressed if I ever have to go there for work or for other reasons.

Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham are huge cities, deprived areas they have absolutely, but they are not totally deprived. I remember moving to London in 2000(I’m from Manchester) And living around Southwark and Lewisham and I was shocked at how rough it was. And I certainly was from the rougher working class areas.

Kamloops in Canada. Dh and I spent one night there when we drove across the Rockies, couldn’t wait to leave.

Empty swimming pools especially that photo of an empty pool filled with chairs.

Abandoned fairgrounds

Abandoned hospitals especially where they have left equipment or bathroom fixtures

The laughing clown at Blackpool Pleasure Beach scared the shit out of me as a child.

The basement of the main library in Manchester. No idea where but I always felt uneasy there.

A corridor in my grandparent's house when I was little. It always felt very cold and very unfriendly to me and my siblings. We used to run through it as fast as we possibly could. It used to be the servants wing of the house and had also housed an elderly relative at one point. Really really horrible place. I was actually glad when I didn't have to go down that corridor anymore.

Warwick Castle. Awful sense of grief and despair, Don't think I could go back.

For those saying Glen Coe...there was a massacre at Glen Coe that killed 30+.

A long time ago, like 300+ years.

The soldiers that carried out the massacre had stayed with the clan they killed for 12 nights before the massacre and it supposedly inspired the 'red wedding' scene in Game of Thrones.

All men under 70 were killed but more died (women and children) who fled into the mountains and died of exposure.

Gosh this is fascinating. I love these threads

I love Alston! I spent them there years ago so have happy memories. DH thinks it’s a bit odd though.

Also find Skye depressing. There are no trees.

I found Chillingham amazing but creepy

I used to live in Edinburgh. There are some creepy little places in the old town. The graveyard at greyfriars Kirk is one - many odd stories about that place. Lots of the buildings in the old town- make me jittery. But I also love it

Cellars - just imagining what could be down there...
Those water towers on Reservoirs/ bodies of water. It just makes me feel uneasy.

@thebabessavedme

My dd had a meltdown on Dunwich beach, said it was the most horrible feeling ever. (we had to leave!)

Wonder if that's because half the houses that were ever there have been swept into the sea

i went through a phase in 2007/8 of exploring a gigantic derelict mental hospital. it was amazing, had operating theatres, dentist, hairdressers, a morgue with body fridges, endless corridors and lots and lots of little rooms with no handle on the inside. some of the bathroom areas hadn’t been updated since the 60s. we found a treasure trove one day tucked into a mantlepiece on one of the wards of christmas cards and letters to patients from 1960 (some were dated).

so far, so creepy, right?

i was with a group of people one day, walking behind everyone else. we were in the laundry/kitchen areas and there were little side corridors off the main one we were on.

as i walked past one of these side corridors i looked down it and the fluorescent lights on the ceiling were on. they were clean. this hospital closed down in 1993, there was no power supply in any of it. i stopped and backed up, looked again and they were off, covered in peeling paint from the ceiling and in no way lit. unsettling, to say the least.

i dream about the place sometimes, it was like another world in there and i mostly loved it.

as i am a terrible old hippy i was excited to visit Glastonbury town on our way down to a festival in Devon in 2007. the Tor was fine, the Gardens were lovely but the town gave me the proper creeps. we were staying overnight so decided the only way through it was to get drunk. we drank a lot that night, and could not get even remotely tipsy. the whole place just felt wrong, and like someone up-thread said, a bit flat as if it were all a facade.

i drive through Savernake Forest when i visit family in Wiltshire and it’s beautiful. never felt anything off, but then i’ve never been actually into it.

I had a really horrible oppressive feeling around Porlock and couldn’t wait to get away. I felt the pressure lift as soon as we were far away from there. I hated it.

I’m from Shropshire and adore my county but the area around the Stiperstones gives me major creeps.

Bizarrely I had a good feeling at Glastonbury Tor. Granted I was a 13 year old hippy at the time and felt I ‘belonged’ there, but I definitely did feel very peaceful.

Dunwich was once the largest trading port in England. there’s a whole drowned town there, not just swept away houses...

Submarines - never been in one or even near one but I find them really creepy