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

[nuitdesetoiles]

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

Happisburgh in Norfolk, very strange and weird place experiencing coastal erosion.I just wanted to leave as soon as possible, very unsettling.

I also feel unsettled and low in mood when near pylons.

Strangely enough I feel happy and light when in Glastonbury and Camden which seem to be mentioned a lot in this thread.

Skaill House on Orkney has a very melancholic feel to it. I found myself coming over quite teary in one of the rooms.

Penny Pot Lane near Harrogate. Despite it's rather twee name, one particular stretch of this long country lane is like something out of a Jon Pertwee era Doctor Who story. It's flat, bleak and a bit dark and breezy, especially at this time of year. The enormous wind turbines with their whistling, swishing sails make the place even more eerie. The only things missing are a TARDIS and aliens!

YY to London Bridge, though I used to like Borough Market before the Shard.
The place that gave me serious heebie-jeebies is the St George's Wharf area in London (near Battersea). Luxury apartments, helipads, pristine walkways, and a crushing sense of terror that's even worse than London Bridge!
Grantham left me feeling uneasy as well, but not as bad as that.

@peaceanddove

A massacre at Glen Coe? Who knew

Oh no! 🤦🏻‍♀️

I didn't realise it was a well-known thing as I only came across it when researching my family history.

So yeah...definitely not taught in English schools.

@LaLaLandIsNoFun

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

I've been to Ladybower as a child but hadn't heard of the plug hole.

Just looked it up and it makes me want to be sick

Just looking at the places that have troubled others, I've had a few weekends away in Llangollen and like it. I can't see why anyone would find a rough pub creepy though. Also love Keswick and was quite happy on day trips to Brighton and Glastonbury .

What creeps me is anywhere with long corridors, eg in hospitals or hotels ; pub toilets where you have to go up or downstairs and when you go through the door there are several cubicles lined up. Especially if there is dark wood or tiles, overhead cisterns even worse . When the lift goes right down into the basement in a hotel or hospital . Empty changing rooms . Empty swimming pools . Old fashioned bathrooms.
People with animal heads or animals in clothes .

Cliffords tower in York. I felt an overwhelming sadness while I was there and then read the history afterwards.

Also a local industrial museum. I took the kids on my own and had a moment when I couldn't even walk through the door of one room, I literally froze with fear. Apparently there are a lot of overnight ghost hunt type things there!

THALASSOPHOBIA is freaky,i dont like that at all.

Boats on dry dock,they just look huge and weird.

Hotel corriders.
Staying overnight in hospital,its just weird.

The Phoenix Park i always feel like theres bodies buried in there,

Anyone in Dublin know the Bus Aras toilets are haunted.

Lady Gaga

@StormBaby

Had a weird experience driving down a bleak road in the middle of nowhere on the A51 somewhere near Kelsall very late at night, about 18 years ago. I said to my ex husband that it was creepy(he was never ever ‘woo’ at all) and he inexplicably stopped the car, turned all the lights off and just got out. We both stood there frozen, and swore we could hear and sense the sounds of a hoard of people all around us. We left extremely rapidly!

I used to live near there and think I know the stretch of road you mean, driving along it used to put my hairs on end, for no explicable reason

Another part of London that's nice but somehow weird is Barons Court.

Tewkesbury Abbey, I've visted twice and the first time I had to leave due to a panic attack and feeling faint and sick. The second time I started sobbing uncontrollably and felt immense sadness.

I believe during the Wars of the Roses soldiers were massacred in there despite claiming sanctuary. It has the most frightening, oppressive feeling.

The Forest of Dean also has a scary atmosphere, I wanted to get the heck out of there too.

TBH I don't think feeling creeped out in certain places is anything to do with what happened there in the past. Has anyone ever been creeped out by M&S in Marble Arch? That's right where Tyburn was - where thousands of people were executed in various gruesome ways from the Middle Ages till the Georgian period.

There aren’t many places in central London that aren’t a bit spooky in the early hours when it’s quiet; most of the rest of the time it’s too darned busy and crowded to feel anything other than an urge to get the hell away.

The Tyburn tree was further west than M&S. There's a plaque in the pavement on a traffic island about a quarter mile up the Bayswater Road not far from the Tyburn convent. ( where there is a shrine in the basement that has some relics from some of the Catholic martyrs hung there.)

@LadyOfTheCanyon

The Tyburn tree was further west than M&S. There's a plaque in the pavement on a traffic island about a quarter mile up the Bayswater Road not far from the Tyburn convent. ( where there is a shrine in the basement that has some relics from some of the Catholic martyrs hung there.)

But there's a lot of controversy over the exact spot. At the very least, M&S was the site of horrible things happening to people as they were dragged along what is now Oxford St from Newgate.

Living statues
Clowns
Mime artists - totally agree

The upstairs of the old Woolies in my hometown, I swore I could see a face looking down at me and if I drive past now I refuse to look up.

People that walk like Liam Gallagher or Ian Brown - I know some places have a name for it but we don't here and I can't remember- really creeps me out!

@LadyOfTheCanyon

The Tyburn tree was further west than M&S. There's a plaque in the pavement on a traffic island about a quarter mile up the Bayswater Road not far from the Tyburn convent. ( where there is a shrine in the basement that has some relics from some of the Catholic martyrs hung there.)

Yes, this. I once stayed overnight at the convent on a form of retreat and despite the proximity of the gallows site and a crypt full of martryrs’ relics (hanging macabrely on a miniature replica of Tyburn Tree), I slept beautifully. No ghosts, ghouls or creepy atmosphere.

I think it's generally accepted that the gallows was at the junction of the Bayswater and Edgware roads. The Old Bailey stands where Newgate prison was - do you find that equally creepy? Or Tower Hill? Plenty of public executions there too.

Bedlam stood largely where Liverpool street station is before moving to the site where the Imperial War Museum is. Are they haunted by the tortured souls of past inmates? Maybe, I'm just not a big fan of the "woo defence"

@LadyOfTheCanyon

I think it's generally accepted that the gallows was at the junction of the Bayswater and Edgware roads. The Old Bailey stands where Newgate prison was - do you find that equally creepy? Or Tower Hill? Plenty of public executions there too.

Bedlam stood largely where Liverpool street station is before moving to the site where the Imperial War Museum is. Are they haunted by the tortured souls of past inmates? Maybe, I'm just not a big fan of the "woo defence"

It's definitely not generally accepted - it's a subject of ongoing controversy in the admittedly quite niche world of medieval criminal history .

But my point is a more general one: there are thousands of sites of massacres and battles in the U.K. We pass them every day and are not creeped out by them. I don't think it's history that makes some places creepy; it's something else about the atmospherics.

Sometimes when we are creeped out by a place, we then Google the location and discover that something bad happened there and assume that why it's creepy, but something bad will have happened almost everywhere that has been in continuous occupation for 3000 years, as most of the U.K. has. It's a post-hoc rationalisation.

Driving through Saddleworth Moor. I don't know if its the associations but it always looks gloomy even on a sunny day

Have just thought of another one as I've just seen it on a hike... derelict old farm buildings with abandoned rusty old cars outside...

The Blue Lagoon, Bletchley. Sinister and unnerving.

I often walk my dog down a little lane and at one point there is a break in the tall hedging for a gate. Behind the gate is a wooden garage which is always open, and inside are two vintage tractors that seem to glare out at one most malevolently as one passes by.

Can't explain why tractors give me the heebie jeebies so badly but they do😂.

Really interesting thread this...some of the themes (empty swimming pools, pylons, dams - I can identify as these also gives me the heebs). Also identify with the inexplicable fear/sadness/fright which can come over one in certain places.

The silent valley reservoir in County Down has one of those overflow pipe things which have been mentioned on here - took me months to get over the upset of seeing it when I was about 10 - just looked it up again and it is still horrific!

Brighton is mentioned a lot. Some might remember the old Victorian ladies toilets under the station which are now closed. There was a large room with cubicles round the edges. By the time I am talking about (early 1990s), most of them were out of order and locked but you could still see the bases of the toilets under the locked doors. It was a dingy old set up down there and I hated using them...the ones that did work were really old with dodgy high-levels cisterns (another thing which used to scare me as a child!! and if I'm honest still do a bit!

Cathedrals have also been mentioned a lot. I visited Clermont Ferrand in France a couple of years ago and the cathedral there is built from dark stone and looms over the town in a very unnerving way.