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)

There's a place a fair drive away from me called Drakelow Tunnels (they did a most haunted there) old bunker, huge cavernous tunnels with rooms basically rotting away. Anyway I did a couple of events there, and the first time I visited it that night I dreamt about it, not a nice dream at all. But strangely after that I was fine and dandy with it, never bothered me in the slightest going in there! Maybe I worked through any fear in the dream... the oddest thing that happened was there was a cannabis farm further on back and we had no idea!

The thing that unnerves me is when there's heat lightning and this (I think that's what it is) can cause everything outside to take on an orange sepia tone. It looks like the end of the world. I hate it, can't look at it. We had a couple of episodes some months back and I had to stay indoors and just not look out until it got dark.

As a kid I was terrified of Crystal Palace railway station. Really sinister place.

silent valley reservoir in County Down
Just googled @Kiffers - that overflow pipe

@Millie2013 I’ve tried many times to pinpoint the exact spot on a map, especially since streetview came about, but I can never quite find it. It was flat and bleak and windswept. Just felt like we were in the midst of a battle reenactment or something. Stuck in hoards of people.

@Kiffers god you mentioning those toilets has taken me back! Hated those Brighton ladies loos since I was tiny.
Did anyone go to the sea life centre before it was done up, I guess early 80s? I still have genuine recurring nightmares about that place - huge concrete holes that you looked down into and they were filled with water and sea creatures. So so awful when you were a small child!

And also the arches by Brighton beach - I think they’ve been done up now, certainly I remember going to a club there in the late 90s but in the 80s they were also really run down/Victorian style and gave me the “heebs” (great word).

@quirkychick

Stranger's Hall in Norwich, us indeed very strange. I can imagine why your ds felt it was creepy yafilthy - can't remember which room the Walnut Room, is though. Dd1 thought the Time and Tide Museum in Great Yarmouth was creepy, it's an old smokehouse set out like a museum, but every so often they have a room to show the smokehouse with mannequins on Ladders hanging up the herring. It also smells of kippers (I'm not selling it, am I).

On holiday in France as children, we went to visit the castle of Gilles de Rais (who inspired the Bluebeard story). I didn't know the story then and the guide was in french, but the most creepy bit was a very high wall outside with the path on top, no railings or anything to stop you falling down.

That Time and Tide museum? I was completely alone when I visited.Sea shanty playing on a loop.I gradually had an overwhelming feeling of sadness and uneasiness and I was sure I was not alone. Went into the Gift Shop, where the same sea shanty was playing, told the woman in the shop what I'd experienced - the shanty abruptly stopped! (and no, I didn't buy the CD!)She said it had never happened before. I had to exit by the same room and that was when I read the newspaper article of the time about the young lad who'd fallen to his death while hanging up the herrings to cure...seemed to tie in with what I'd be feeling.

It's very interesting - some of the places mentioned I love and feel perfectly fine about, eg York, Saltaire, Bristol, Brighton and Bath, but other things and places...

Pylons - from an early age would cry when near one. Particularly awkward as there was one at the end of our road. The noise of them still is unsettling

Culloden has a weird atmosphere. Even DP felt it and he is very un-woo.
High open spaces make me feel very uncomfortable - maybe it's feeling so small in the face of all that space.

There's a glacier in Italian Dolomites skiing area, called Marmalada. I think I'm right in remembering a biggish cable car up to the top and when you get there - hardly anyone around which is strange in skiing high season. Really oppressive feeling, like I was being squashed. Came straight back down. Actually DP didn't really complain about that, so maybe he felt something too.

Summer before last I was going to Aberystwyth and had a hell of a journey - lots of road works and diversions. Ended up crossing a moor (are they moors in Wales ?) Beautiful sunny day, clear skies and oh so very oppressive again. Saw no one for miles.

There's a lake in the Lake District (!) - quite small, easily walked around in a couple of hours; it's typical lake district lake - long and thing. At one end is a tall cliff and the other end looks towards the sea. Weather was wet and windy and as we neared the cliff end the pressure felt awful. Had to keep going as we'd passed the half way point. Did something really weird to my ear drums with the pressure

The Ask restaurant in Canterbury made me feel really weird- watched and oppressive. It's in an old building that's doubtless seen many, many uses.
I had to endure it as it was a family celebration and didn't want to spoil things.,
When I left I asked if it was haunted and was told it was.
Directly opposite this cafe is an old Parish Hospital from the 12th Century, which has the loveliest atmosphere.

And also the arches by Brighton beach - I think they’ve been done up now, certainly I remember going to a club there in the late 90s but in the 80s they were also really run down/Victorian style and gave me the “heebs” (great word).
It was the peeling paint & rust there that depressed me.

There's a listed part of a railway building in the centre of Leeds. Recently they've built some fancy offices and bars around it and it blends in quite well. I think it's had a good clean as well. However, in the 90s it was in the middle of the car park of a retail park. It's listed and they couldn't knock it down so they just built Land of Leather, MFI and Jolly Giant around it. It really, really freaked me out as a kid as it just felt really wrong and like it didn't belong.

Whitby Abbey- too many associations with Dracula.

Crosthwaite church in Keswick- grew up in Keswick and it was spooky down there.

Rievaulx abbey in North Yorkshire.

Kielder Forrest- it's so dark.

@SallyCinnamon3009 I live in Leeds and know it well. The dark arches used to feel creepy too.

Really exposed roads give me the heebs too. The sort where you have a few measly bollards to stop you crashing to oblivion. In the alps there are some road bridges that have horrendous drops

Level crossings 😱

Yy there’s always the thought that the barrier has failed and there’s a train coming

[quote lovelemoncurd]@SallyCinnamon3009 I live in Leeds and know it well. The dark arches used to feel creepy too.[/quote]
Glad it wasn't just me . It's strange as now I think it looks like a lovely old building. Must be that it blends in a lot better with wheats there now.

Always loved the dark arches though - it was better when I was a kid and it was just like Camden Market

@Bettina500

We used to live in Rutland. In a small village. It was very odd. When we went to buy a new washing machine the chap in Curry's, when he saw our address called it the village of the damned!
We aren't from Rutland and they aren't the most welcoming of people!

@Sallycinnamum me and a mate used to hitch from York to Leeds to go to gigs in the early 90s. We stopped when we got picked up by a lorry driver who took us on a tour of the Yorkshire Ripper's stamping grounds. I often wonder what that bastard was up to, because I'm pretty sure it wasn't just "scaring two twenty year old goths into not hitching". I don't like that part of Leeds....

One of the two offices I work in is an old children's home with a fairly grim reputation. It is as horrible as you would expect and NO ONE wants to be the last one in the building. You also have to say good night to "David" (not his real name because I've seen Candyman) or you tend to find files thrown off shelves etc in the morning. He likes to know you've gone, I think. I hate that office.

Clowns!

We once went into a pub in cinder Ford in the forest of dean. It was like riding royston vaysey

@annafivetowns I went in the summer and really found it interesting.

I get a creepy sick feeling about random people, the famous ones are Christopher Reeves, Oliver Reed and Michael Caine...they just give me the creeps for some odd reason.

I have this about the actor Dominic West - it's not just that I have an aversion to him , as I do to Jonathan Woss - I'm frightened of him. Happened before he played Fred West but seeing that didn't help. I can appreciate he is a good actor but there's something about his smile and his eyes - they are dead. He looks evil to me.

@Labobo yes to Dominic West! Haven’t even seen the West programme.

@OppsUpsSide - glad it's not just me. Don't watch Responsible Adult if he already freaks you out. He is Fred West.