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)

I think there is something inherently a bit creepy about actors who are the children of famous actors, although I'm not sure why. I get that feeling from Jared Harris and Emilia Fox. Funnily I also fine Sean Pertwee distracting because I catch glimpses of his father, but creepy at all, in fact I quite fancy him.

NOT creepy at all

There was a room in my grandfather's house that I was terrified of as a young child. It was just an unused room with a few bits of furniture covered in dust sheets but I hated it and could never explain why. I got such a sinister, unsettling feeling from it.

I also hate pylons, and didn't realise other people felt the same!

Warwick castle
String puppets
Woods - day time or night time
Cellars

@Labobo It is something about his smile isn’t it? Almost plasticiney? And his eyes. I wonder if he’s ever played a ‘good guy’ or just does have one of those faces made for evil roles, like the chap who danced in Fat Boy Slims video (now him I love don’t find him creepy at all, but he does play a bad guy well!)

Aquaducts, canal locks. They just get my hackles right up.

God... aqueducts, I meant.

Passing dunblane I shivered and felt like crying

And water tanks... the huge silo-type tanks. Yes, to pylons as well. Creepy!

Punch and Judy. Really creeps me out.

Bodmin Jail.Took ages to persuade my dog to go in.Wow is it creepy!

Bath.

Blaenau Ffestiniog.

Certain sections of the M74 and A74(M), mainly southbound - found it unsettling even as a passenger, especially on the high sections and wide downward curve stretches.

Going over Thelwall Viaduct near Manchester, even as a passenger, fear of heights is never a good thing here...

Balcombe Viaduct viewed from the nearby road 😱

High narrow bridges over dual carriageways and motorways, especially the bridges. There's one on the A27 near Shoreham which I've luckily never had to drive over (and never intend to), but terrifies me just looking at it or going under it.

@Elderflower14-that name does sound familiar. The pub had jazz on and there was a trampoline and book shed in the beer garden...and a strange statue...we still talk about it today! We have camped everywhere- remote Scottish islands-Inner and Outer Hebrides, rough sites in Wales but we have NEVER been as scared as camping there...

Jaywick Sands.
Reservoirs.
Mime artists.
Barnsley.
Clowns.
Jonathan Ross.

Roundway Hill, Devizes
Spooky walk but pretty

Oh, Katinski, I didn't know about someone falling to their death hanging the herrings. That makes those manniquins even creepier. They have a kind of recreated underground street too, I think.

I was a student in Leeds and remember the arches when they just had the beginnings of Granary Wharf. You had to pass through a lot of deserted arches to get to it. One of the Yorkshire Ripper's victims was found just near our student flats, years before. No one wanted to walk that way on their own in the dark.

I remember the beginnings of Granary Wharf too. Loved it. So spooky.

I was also fascinated by that derelict building in the Jolly Giant car park - I was always asking my mum if we could go and look round it, because I was used to being taken to visit stately homes, ruined abbeys and other such old buildings all the time; I couldn’t understand why we couldn’t go round that one. I must have been pretty little - I can still remember the feeling of disappointment, and staring at it with longing.

Leeds had loads of amazing derelict industrial stuff when I was a kid. The Egyptian style mill was another one. I can’t remember the name or where it was - will look it up.

Indoor swimming pools (in houses, not leisure centres)
Big pipes in cellars for example
Baths full to the top
All give me the shudders!

@mossiemagnet there was an English Civil War battle at Roundway Down. Wonder if that's what you're picking up?

@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"

You have just reminded me that I find the Tower of London excessively creepy, always have done. I shudder to walk past it and always managed to avoid going inside despite being an avid historian and growing up in london, hateful place!

I've just been looking at Antony Gormley's iron installations on Crosby beach. All those men gazing blindly out to sea getting drowned by the incoming sea, then being revealed, then drowned again,some now with barnacles on them?
Nope! I'll give them a miss.
Anyone actually seen them all? I've read that they stretch a km. out to sea. Treacherous sands round there too.

The derelict Egyptian style mill in Leeds that I mentioned up thread is Temple Works, in Holbeck. Design inspired by the Temple of Horus. Fascinating history, if anyone is interested. It had a grass roof to keep the building humid for the linen spinning, and the sheep were lifted onto the roof by the first hydraulic lift. Those Victorians were amazing.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Works

@Sparrowfeeder yes, the Tower is an awful place! Remember being taken there as a child and realizing that other people thought the bad feeling was rather thrilling and exciting and enjoyed being told the stories of executions and tragedies. I just thought it felt utterly horrible there. Have been back since including for interesting behind scenes tour of the architecture when I was a student and not felt so overwhelmed, but many parts of it just are bad.

Venus, I didn't know that about Temple Mills. I have actually been to the Temple of Horus at Edfu, in Egypt, which inspired it. It had a secret underground chamber that you had to crawl into (more amazing than creepy, as it had great wall paintings. Iirc, the main temple had burn marks, as later inhabitants rejected the old religion.

Katinski, UEA (University of East Anglia) has Antony Gormley figures on top of its concrete ziggurats. They look as if they are contemplating suicide. Dd1 finds those creepy, too.

My parents house backs on to the South Downs/woodland. There's a little grove on a walk we always do where I was convinced fairies lived until quite an old age There's also one particular tree everyone loves/climbs.
I still love the walk but I don't get the "magic" feeling I used to get when I was younger. We take my DC now instead - I wonder if they'll get it.

I also really like going over that bridge on the A27 near Shoreham...DS1 always goes "wee"

Am tempted to get a book about magic and witchcraft in sussex off Amazon but worried I'll scare myself and not sleep!

I don't like places with too big skys (eg Norfolk), I like a hill/mountain behind me, I find it comforting. Probably because I come from the Alps. I loved Snowdonia when I visited with school - it also felt very magical in a nice way.