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)

Funny, I loved Edinburgh - I went there a couple of times and it was always cold and drizzly but everywhere seemed to have dealt with this by having twinkly light and candles, it was so cosy and nice.

I was thinking of booking Edinburgh as a city break when we're able to... Getting second thoughts now!

I've never had a problem with the place, but DS absolutely refuses to go into one of the houses in Tyneham. We live nearby and visit a lot (or at least we did) as we used it as a base for coast path walking to Lulworth or Kimmeridge.

DS absolutely hates one of the abandoned houses and refuses to step foot inside. He says he doesn't know what's wrong but that it feels unwelcoming.

What he doesn't remember is that when he was 2/3 we took him there and he had a fit of the terrors in that one house and said "scary grandad is shouting at us that we have to go away!"

Porcelain dolls
Saddleworth moor
The Chapel at Wynyard Hall, looks beautiful but to me has no soul and I was on edge the whole time I was in it.

Elisabeth Moss

@Weirdfan, thought that was only me! All Dr Seuss characters are creepy AF, freak me right out, can’t bear them!
Also empty swimming pools, very sinister.

Yes! Dr Seuss characters are all so weird, never liked reading those books.
When my kids were small they were petrified by the Wiggles too, thank fuck.

I feel a bit for saddleworth moor. I. A part of the world I feel has been so tainted.

@Calledyoulastnightfromglasgow yes it's a shame. I actually love the bleak austere beauty of the Moors but they'll never shake that legacy I'm afraid.

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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!

Agree, Mayfair is a soulless, odd place. I feel the same about Holland Park.

Years ago I visited Chillingham Castle with a small group of close friends. The first night, we had dinner together and got extremely drunk while playing cards and such. We all more or less passed out and thus slept like logs that night.
The second night, it got to bedtime and we retired to our respective bedrooms sober. I was sharing a room with my boyfriend, and as soon as we got into bed we felt uncomfortable. There were strange scratching sounds that seemed to move around the room, but seemed to be focused on the ceiling above our bed. We toughed it out for a couple of hours, before finally I said I was just too scared and I couldn’t sleep in there. We got up and crept down the corridor to the room where my sister and another girl were sleeping. When we went in, we discovered that the entire rest of the group were in there. The other boys, who had been in another room further down the corridor, had actually dragged their mattresses into my sister’s room because they were so freaked out sleeping in their room. We followed suit and fetched our mattress.
One of the days we were there we went on a ghost hunt round the castle, but my boyfriend didn’t come because he didn’t believe in ghosts. We saw/felt nothing, but while he was alone in the apartment doors opened and closed, and the TV went on and off, on their own. He was a nervous wreck by the time we got back!😂

goodness what it it about Glastonbury? I went with DH years ago pre-DC. It was otherwise such a happy holiday exploring that part of the country but a day trip to Glastonbury I lost it as soon as we arrived, struggled to breath, went dizzy, shaking and twitching, had a full blown panic attack in the car and passed out for a bit. This is not like me at all, DH had no idea what was going on. We'd intended to explore the town and walk up the Tor, he thought the fresh air would help or I was dehydrated so tried to get me out of the car, I couldn't and managed to tell him we had to leave, we left and I was fine so we went somewhere else.

I'd never been there before and remember a spectacular view and how pretty it was, I should have adored the place and was pissed off with myself and quite embarrassed. if anyone can tell me what the hell all that was about I'd really like to know.

Brighton. Supposed to spend a week there at a friends house, couldn't leave fast enough.

Swindon. I'm not dissing the town it just unnerves me. Everytime I'm there I have a feeling that something bad is about to happen and that feeling doesn't subside until I'm 30 miles away. The countryside between Swindon and Cirencester/ Swindon to Oxford whilst pretty also makes me feel very anxious.

My eldest son feels unnerved when he are in a very rural location. We live in a village so he is used to fields and cows but take him too far away from a major town and he says he has an odd anxious feeling and he is the most un anxious person ever.

It's weird how places can make us feel this way.

[quote Ozgirl75]**@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.[/quote]
I reckon it was the cave near Symonds Yat which was where you went if you stayed at Court Farm. I think it's called King Arthur's Cave.

I feel the same as your son @GreekOddess

I like villages but put me in the middle of fields alone and I'm totally freaked out. All those people on MN who want to move from urban areas to be darked on shudders

I love the countryside for a hike and a stomp out but feel very unnerved spending too long out of an urban environment. DD can't stand the countryside, most definitely a city chick! I love being by the sea however.... As long as it's not in a creepy resort!

Seen a few on here mentioning empty swimming pools. They really freak me out . Looking at pictures of them makes my skin crawl

Either swimming or being on a small boat like a rowing boat on really deep water. It’s even worse if it’s really still too.

I guess that’s actually a known phobia, I forget it’s name.

@Lonelycrab I had a full blown panic attack on a rowing boat when my youngest was 4 years old. It was not my finest moment! He was stroking my hand telling me that everything would be alright and not to worry. That was one of my parenting fail moments I could have mentally scared him for life. In my defence I had suffered a shock bereavement a couple of days before and I'm a poor swimmer so not sure if the two were linked but I still feel terrible about behaving like that.

I don't really get creeped out by places I don't think? Lol at 'Bedford Town Centre' and I won't have a bad word said about Betswys-y-Coed, it's one of my favourite places in the whole world!

The only one I can think of is Dungeness, its pretty weird. There is a steam train that goes through it, and you can just see these weird little houses/buildings dotted around. And also the nuclear power station there but they are always freaky anyway!

As a child on holiday in Yorkshire, I found RAF Fylingdales really creepy. Probably as there were lots of anti-nuclear stuff on telly at the time.

The area around Dounreay nuclear power station in the very North of Scotland is super creepy too. Bleak & desolate

My favourite creepy place is the Necropolis in Glasgow. I mean, I know it's meant to be spooky but me & my friends didn't last an hour there on a warm, sunny day. Terrifying. Full of Victorian angels.
Statues loom at you....it's brilliant.

Isn't Glastonbury on a leyline? That might explain why it has a weird vibe to it, for me it At Leonard's Warrier Square in East Sussex, in fact the whole of East Sussex has a strange feeling to it, it feels totally different to West Sussex and I have no idea why.

I went on a work trip to somewhere beginning with W near Hastings last year and it was totally odd. Couldn't wait to leave. One minute I was at Charing cross with all the hustle and bustle 40 mins or so later in the depths of the countryside, no phone signal, pitch black and just the one taxi...I'd had a sense when it was being booked it may be like that so I pre booked the cab after much difficulty trying to find one that would be willing to take me to my b&b. Arrived at the b&b all very strange and they'd forgotten to put the heating on in my room, it was a freezing night in November and I didn't sleep at all. Put me off that part of the UK for life!

Some of the places mentioned here I absolutely love...Walsingham, Ilkley Moor..,I also love the feeling of being out in the fields or woods with my dogs and there being nobody around - the wilder the better.

However as a child I was very sensitive and easily unnerved by things like my Nannas toilet (tall black overhead cistern) and any kind of costume model at all, like the ones you get in museums or stately homes, terrifying.

I had a very frightening experience at a little church in Dorset, in a village called Whitchurch Canonicorum.

My mum's cousin used to live in WC and sang in the church choir there. I went to stay with her when I was a teenager and she took me to choir practice one evening in that church - I agree it's a weird and unsettling place. She also lived in a house that had been converted from part of a chapel. It was really pretty but spooky as fuck at night. Her dogs used to sit at the foot of the stairs and growl at the same time every evening. The room I slept in had no curtains on the windows and weird cold spots everywhere. The whole place had an odd vibe.

St Ives is another place that freaks me out. Just an oppressive feeling, everything felt 'wrong' when we were there and DH and I argued constantly the entire week!