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

[nuitdesetoiles]

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

Ha ha @OppsUpsSide I love North Wales but totally get where you're coming from!! Have family in blanau ffestiniog... It has a wild vibe

@nuitdesetoiles

Lowestoft felt very weird and intense when I was there briefly, I lived in Norwich for a year and found much of Norfolk odd. Then again I'm a northern lass and I like a hill or 2 so think it was all the flatness...

I have to agree, I am always unsettled around very flat areas.

Once stopped for lunch in a small village (think this was Cambridgeshire) called, I kid you not, Jack's Bush. It was like tumbleweed blew down the main road and the pub was definitely like The Slaughtered Lamb 'Don't stray from the path', very unsettling.

Car auction outside Stevenage ,full of really horrid people in leather jackets,dodgy deals in the car park - could not get home fast enough ,

Yy, to Lowestoft and parts of Norfolk. The big skies are spectacular but can be a bleak.

When I was little we used to drive past Glastonbury on the way to holidays in Devon. I was fascinated by it, drawn to the Tor, used to think about it and watch out for it. Long before I knew anything about its reputation. Not a bad feeling, but a weird one.

The hypogeum in Valletta, Malta. Amazing place archaeologically, but made me feel sick. Most awful atmosphere I've ever encountered.

Some places on Dartmoor feel very bad. Lots are lovely, most of it is wonderful, but a few spots not.

One place in the park near where we used to live. Felt frightening even in daylight. Just a small area of a few metres by one path.

Ladybower totally! Glad that one's not just me.

Ffestiniog
The tunnel in the gardens of Belton House
Flooded quarries
Open water
Empty swimming pools
Engines
The plug hole at Ladybower
Bala
Deserted shopping centres
Abandoned amusement parks
Clowns
Scare mazes

Erdington, Birmingham

Bleak, depressed, soulless, menacing, moody and very grim place.

The plague village in Derbyshire someone mentioned - shudder. I've been there a couple of times and know it's a story of courage and fortitude. But the feeling is very distressing.

Oh and there are some creepy spots in the hillfort near Cambridge.

I'm in Somerset and don't get the creepy vibe from either Bristol or Bath.

Can see Glastonbury Tor from the top of my road ( although it's a half hour drive for me ) and I've been a couple of times but I'm not keen tbh.

Savernake ... went camping there with some friends and didn't like it at all, couldn't sleep and I'm bloody glad I didn't read the 'Savernake story' before we went. I used to live in a nearby town and used to drive through it on the main road at night, it IS creepy.

Finally a friend of mine who is a bank nurse ( although now works full time at a big hospital in the area ) told me and some other friends about the time she saw a 'mist' or 'ghost in the rear view mirror in the back seat of her car whilst driving through the main road late at night in Savernake. She's not a bullshitter nor is scared easily but will go the long way around if ever she needs to get to Marlborough/Hungerford Ect. 😱

Guildford Cathedral!
(The cathedral in The Omen).
Even without that association, its mega creepy from the outside, but quite ok inside

Cartoons

Brilliant thread, thank you,a very welcome distraction right now x

Majestic Wine warehouse - only been a few times and felt cold and depressed each time - its all the signage saying buy 24 and save 12% etc .
Also carpet shops always creep me out ,think its the the carpet smell and standley blades lying about .

Badger is absolutely right about Barrow-in-Furness, I grew up there and had some very freaky experiences.

Winchester cathedral and parts of the university when I was there many years ago.

Not a place but worms on the pavement... well worms just in general 😂

Those big bows people decorate their front doors with. Absolutely give me the creeps and make me shudder!

21/12/2020 14:39 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.

But there are huge swathes of many of the areas you mention that are very far from ‘deprived’!

Maybe.

Years ago I was driving alone, late at night along the A41 towards Chester. There wasn’t much traffic about but I could see in my rear view mirror, the lights of a large lorry some way behind me. It really freaked me out. The road is quite bendy and I’d go round a bend and get rid of it for a bit and then the road would straighten out and it’s come into view again. A bit like the film ‘Duel’, which is about a menacing tanker chasing a man in a car along the desert road in California. Great film but don’t watch it alone late at night.

Similarly, after visiting a friend who was camping in Snowdonia, I was driving alone, again, on the A5 from Llanberis to Bangor to get on the A55,, when I was aware of a car quite close behind me, and literally no other traffic on the road. I was trying to go faster but felt like my car was struggling, plus being dark and on an unfamiliar road. Was so glad to get to the A55 junction and join other traffic!

Also creepy to me are half sunken ships, wrecks and such like. I went on holiday to the Norfolk Broads as a child and remember seeing a half submerged houseboat, and I had to close my eyes to walk past it.

@Phoenixrising2020 I went to school on Walney Island and lived there for three years whilst my dad did some contracting for Vickers, I don't recall a more desolate place ...

Seahouses....it just feels sinister for some reason. Cant explain it just a feeling .

Can’t remember who mentioned it now, sorry, but John Denver’s Annie’s Song also creeps me out, so much so I turn the radio off if it ever comes on.

Holyhead on Anglesey island. Last port of call when traveling to Ireland, but I find it a strange eerie place.

@partyatthepalace

Slightly shocked that Savernake is felt to be creepy, I just associate it with endless childhood barbecues. Haven’t been there for years mind you.

I’d half like to move to Bristol but am put off by city centre, but just think it’s badly rebuilt. Don’t like seaside towns like Brighton but find them seedy not creepy. And find Glastonbury town cheesy not spooky.

I am frankly disappointed by my total lack of sensitivity...

Bristol is a fantastic place to live, and so friendly and laidback.

Folks on here are chatting shit, it's very much not creepy. Getting lost trying to find IKEA and seeing some graffiti murals, oh the horror!

Yes to Brotherswater. My cousin went swimming in there and was totally freaked out by hands grabbing him from below. I’m hoping it was just the reeds. Very odd atmosphere round Kirkstone Pass altogether, especially as you go down towards Brotherswater.