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)

Pylons. I once refused to even view a property as the photos showed that there was one literally the other side of the garden fence.

Windows at night with no coverings. Nope. That's what horror movies are made of.

Glenside Campus, in Bristol. It's now home to Health and Applied Sciences through UWE and I went there as part of a midwifery open day. The corridors were so creepy. It was built to be used as a 'lunatic asylum', had a stint in the First World War as a war hospital before becoming a 'mental hospital'. Bad things happened in that place. You could feel it all around.

Clowns
Mr Blobby
There was a dam in Scotland that gave me the heebie jeebies (to be fair we were driving at night, it was a bit foggy and this thing just loomed out in a menacing way). Can't find where it was now, other than it was 'in the Highlands'.
The radio masts with the red lights on the top (possibly telecomms towers) that loom over houses.
I really hated walking over the aqueduct in Telford too. One side was fine, with a railing but the other, with the canal and then...nothing - made me shudder.

No problems with anywhere else - have visited haunted vaults, walked through parks on my own in the dark and not been scared or creeped out.

Brighton I absolutely love and no negative vibes ...empty hospital wards and hotels!! Too spooky for me !!

My sister used to live in a naval base near Portsmouth. On the journey there, there was little town we used to drive though near the devils lunch bowl. I'm not sure what it was about it but it had weird shopfronts that didn't appear to have been used for years. It just had a really eerie uncomfortable vibe as you passed through. It's giving me shivers just thinking about it

*punch bowl

The A21 ...I haven't actually driven along there for 7/years ..too many accidents !!

The basement of my old college. The washing machines were down there so you had to go there. It was vast and full of pipes and boilers. Lights were dim so very gloomy and had a weird red painted floor. I always felt it was the kind of place you would get murdered in. I used to stuff the washing in the machine and run out as fast as I could.

@stuffedforchristmas

OMG! I completely get the brown eyes thing. Freaks me out! It's not all shades of brown eyes.. hazel are fine, but it's those sort of beady dead looking brown eyes. It's usually emphasized if the person is fair skinned and fair/red haired.

Mia Wasikowska is a perfect example (photos attached)

[quote PeachesBright]@stuffedforchristmas

OMG! I completely get the brown eyes thing. Freaks me out! It's not all shades of brown eyes.. hazel are fine, but it's those sort of beady dead looking brown eyes. It's usually emphasized if the person is fair skinned and fair/red haired.

Mia Wasikowska is a perfect example (photos attached)[/quote]
My exhusband has eyes and colouring like that. It weirds me out now when I look at him.

Wind farms. They give me the creeps.

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct absolutely terrified me. We were doing a walk that should’ve taken us over there, but I just looked at it and NOPE. Couldn’t set foot on it, all the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end.

A strange abandoned farm type place near Ilam in the Peak District. Walked for about 45 minutes from Ilam Hall across the fields and came across this little bunch of derelict houses and a barn, inaccessible by vehicle and with no power or anything tinning to it. Of course we had to have a look round, and, upstairs in one of the cottages was a painted pentagram and a sheep/goat skull. I got such a bad feeling abs couldn’t get out of there fast enough! My two dogs flatly refused to even go in.

Wind farms. Awful oppressive feeling.

Also my youngest DD hates being inside our local B&M, says it makes her feel sickly and anxious.

Horsey gap. Although I love it in one way and have been often to see the seals, it also seems to bleak and creepy.

Oh and yes to Savernake Forest. I’ve driven through there several times late at night on the way home from sales conferences in an old job and I used to hate it. I was terrified of breaking down on that long, bleak road and always had a fear of looking on my rear view mirror for some reason.

@pollylocketpickedapocket and @callistography i can’t remember exactly where it was, I believe it was the Brecon Beacons somewhere and we were staying near Ross on wye so I guess it was around there somewhere.
It was about 30 years ago so my memories are a bit hazy but I know it was such an odd and eerie place.

The underground tunnels at work at night, I've got to go down there and I will only go with a colleague.

An abandoned ancient quarry on Dartmoor.

The town of Walsingham in Norfolk is hands-down the creepiest I’ve ever been to.

It has a holy shrine and the whole place just feels steeped in misery and forlorn hope. Couldn’t leave quickly enough.

Ilkley Moor absolutely hate the place creepy as hell. Also a nature reserve next to golden acre park walked in with DS in the pram and had to walk straight back out got a bad feeling.

Also used to get really creeped out by Towton battlefield between York and Leeds especially driving past at night. That might have something to do with my dad telling 6 year old me in great detail about the battle that happened there and how the river turned red with blood and that it was haunted.

Victoria train station - depressing, soulless place

Brighton - has a feeling of shabbiness and sleaziness about it, like many Victorian seaside towns

Edinburgh - some parts of the city are beautiful but there is a heavy, miserable feel to the place, populated by dour people. Very strange considering the fascinating history and architecture. (it always scores low on 'happiness' surveys which explains this vibe I get when I have to go there)

Some parts of South London, Penge, Crystal Palace, Tulse Hill, just soulless, dreary and edgy

Absolutely love visiting Edinburgh but I find parts of it really unsettling at night round the castle, the castle terrace car park and the Kings Stables road tunnel in particular - also round Carlton hill steps freak me right out.

Can't believe people saying York minster! I grew up in York and absolutely adore the minster! Remember singing carols there with school as a child!

Always feel calm when I'm there!

I used to hate driving down Handcross Hill on the A23. Even in daylight it would make me feel like something bad was going to happen, and I always slowed right down. At night it totally gave me the heebie jeebies and I could imagine it in the days of highwaymen.

They recently cut back all the trees and widened and straightened it, so although it’s still quite steep it’s lost its menacing atmosphere.

I get an empty, soulless despairing feeling in certain parts of London. I no longer enjoy going there, I just feel it has no atmosphere. Particularly the north Brent, East Finchley. Lewisham also creeps me out. I used to love visiting London but I avoid it now.

Alderley Edge (the village not the actual edge) has no atmosphere at all and is completely lacking in vibrancy and life. Don't know why it's so popular in the world of wealth. All those Cheshire life type towns are similar, Hale etc. Slightly sinister, foreboding undercurrent. Probably to do with all the protection racket/gang stuff that goes on...

Mayfair. Weird as hell. Hated staying there one time, strange oppressive hotel. Couldn't sleep as was getting intrusions about someone breaking into our hotel room!