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)

Carterton, feels like Village of the Damned

Santa Barbera

Cows give me the creeps. They are evil.

@mustbethursday yes the underground hospital here is very creepy

As for cut off by the tide was it corbiere lighthouse or Elizabeth Castle?

The malmaison hotel in Dundee for some reason
Gardenstown and Cove in the Northeast of Scotland, had a full blown panic attack there and had to beg DH to drive away
Glastonbury, very oppressive

@ikswobel

The malmaison hotel in Dundee for some reason Gardenstown and Cove in the Northeast of Scotland, had a full blown panic attack there and had to beg DH to drive away Glastonbury, very oppressive

I used to live up that way! The sea wall at Gardenstown can be rather intimidating if you have to drive along it.

We didn't even get that far! I just completely freaked out before we got half way down. The malmaison was just creepy doesn't really help that it has wallpaper very like the Shining. Great food though!

Glastonbury always gets loads of mentions on these threads - I’d love to visit!
Me and DH got extremely freaked out in a ruined castle in Oban . Felt like we were being watched and had to run back down the hill! Was a creepy area in general as off season !
Snowdonia , I love it - I live nearby and it’s stunning obviously- but personally I could not live in a village in the shadow of those mountains- there’s some proper “old magic” there, amazing but oppressive.

@Sideorderofchips ah yes, I think it was Elizabeth Castle!

@mustbethursday yes it's creepy there and gorey Castle!

@Bettina500

I love these threads they're fascinating.

Bristol definitely has a vibe, I wanted to like it but found it strange. Parts of it felt quite intimidating and I felt uneasy walking round the docks.
Some of the small villages around Rutland have a very unfriendly vibe.
I find military vehicles, planes and freight trains creepy.

Not quite Rutland but I got lost in broad daylight on a back road somewhere between Great Easton and Dingley. I felt really creeped out, like something out of Deliverance. Never been so happy to get onto the A6.

Mad Bess Wood, Ruislip. There is a bend in the bridle path that all our horses always refused to take. You often had to dismount and lead them round. Apparently the woods are named after a 'demented old woman who prowled the wood at night looking for poachers'.

I meant Wirksworth not cromford both are off but wirksworth is the worst!!

What's up with Santa Barbara allycat4?

The early part of this thread reminded me of this children's TV series en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Stallion with Waylands Smithy. I grew up in the south and we often drove through the South Downs and all the chalk horses etc.

My sister just reminded me of another trip our grandparents took us on to a plague village. We both hated it on sight. She always said someone pinched her shoulder hard and she cried. Weirdly, I have no memory of that occurring.

When my DC was about 3 we visited Clonmacnoise monastery complex in Ireland. Everything was fine till we got to one small building, perhaps a monk's cell where DC just refused point blank to go in but had happily gone in every other building and wasn't at all "sensitive".

Someone mentioned the Isle of Sheppey - agree with that one. Went years ago & felt really creepy. The sea wall was higher than the houses which was terrifying.

@dottiedaisee which bit of the A21? There's a bit near Bedgebury that I don't like much.

Nunhead cemetery is full of gothic gargoyles, in a spooky overgrown woodland.

I actually found it quite relaxing on a sunny day, as it felt like a piece of the countryside but in London.

@SpikeyBaby thank you for sharing your experience, I really couldn’t have stayed there! I think you saying that it felt “wrong” is spot on.

Lizards!! Oh my god, they scare me stiff! I literally paralyze when I see one. Might be a psychological Phobia!

Lydford gorge freaked me out completely. Never have felt like it before, came home and slept like a baby after.

Looking at a Lundy Island from North Devon, It makes me so sad when I think of all those poor captured slaves looking the other way back at Cornwall and Devon being so so close to home before then being shipped off to North Africa. It's the thought of being so close but so far.

My sister just reminded me of another trip our grandparents took us on to a plague village.

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And I thought our day trips to Cleveleys were bad!