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

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nuitdesetoiles · 21/12/2020 09:15

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

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SallyCinnamon3009 · 29/12/2020 14:20

@VenusClapTrap Temple Works!!! It's near water lane and getting a lot AIC regeneration at the moment. I'm sure it's the one that my dad told me used to have a grass roof and sheep grazing on top of it years ago.

SallyCinnamon3009 · 29/12/2020 14:22

Aaah cross post 🤣🤣🤣

Gobolino80 · 29/12/2020 14:47

DP and I went to Budapest for a long weekend. On the Saturday we went for a mooch around the city and walked through a nice, vibrant area with lots of bars and cafes. It was a lovely sunny spring day and I wanted to stop somewhere and get some lunch so we could sit outside and people watch. DP was insistent we kept on going, so we did and ended up in another area of the city for lunch. DP said the area we were in previously had been freaking him out. It felt oppressive, claustrophobic and although it was warm he was cold and just generally felt there was something 'off' about it. It was only when I was doing some research about what to do that evening that I discovered the place he had taken against was what had been the Jewish Ghetto. His face went white when I told him and he said all the time we were there he knew awful things had happened there but didn't want to say it out loud in case he sounded silly. He's a very sensitive soul bless him and I'm not remotely surprised that he picked up on something so awful.

tisonlymeagain · 29/12/2020 19:56

Surprised at the Warwick Castle comments. What specifically do people get from it? I've visited dozens of times since being very small and I love it. Never had a bad feeling ever.

SidVisk · 31/12/2020 10:39

Ferngully

WildRosie · 31/12/2020 19:49

Middleham in North Yorkshire used to have an aura of doom around it a few decades back. Especially on cold, overcast days when all the town's coal fires were burning and scores of jackdaws were circling and squawking above. I haven't been for a few years and I guess the jackdaws are still hanging around but there probably isn't as much coal-burning going on. Plus, the bloodstock industry can't have hurt the town and neighbouring Leyburn.

OVienna · 01/01/2021 19:58

Middleham is one of my happy places!

WildRosie · 01/01/2021 20:58

I'm sure Middleham has improved. When I was a bairn, our family had a weekend cottage there for a few years. I remember there was a children's playground there, somewhere near the castle (I think).

Teddy1970 · 02/01/2021 23:52

Camomila Sussex has a rich pagan history, did you know it was the last county in England to convert to Christianity? The South Downs has a mystical feel for me too, especially on frosty mornings, having said that, Chanctonbury ring and Clapham woods are meant to have Witch and Devil worship activity, I must admit those places do have a slightly threatening vibe to them..

quirkychick · 03/01/2021 16:59

I can see why the South Downs could feel creepy. We used to drive through them to see an elderly relative on the coast. I agree they seem more mystical, than creepy. There used to be quite a few New Age pagans in Brighton (might still be the case).

AlecTrevelyan006 · 03/01/2021 17:25

Leominster

PatsyStone39 · 04/01/2021 13:47

Savannah, Georgia in the US. Jesus H Christ, the amount of paranormal stuff we encountered there. It's pretty much one big graveyard that they have built all of the city on top of, and there is also a quite a deep history of voodoo in the area. I'm not woo at all but there's some bad juju there!

In fact, come to think of it, so many places we visited in the States were really off. An old 1920's hotel in Chicago was eerie to the point we upped and left. And a motel room in Orlando...i kept getting the mental image of a chalk body outline on the floor. So odd.

Crazycatgirl08 · 04/01/2021 14:00

Port Sunlight in the Wirral, I don't know why but I find the area between the Lady Lever gallery and the garden centre really unsettling, it feels like a film set.

Lake Como, I cannot work out why I felt so unsettled here as it is one of the most beautiful places I have been however the whole trip I just wanted to leave.

Thunderpants5138 · 07/01/2021 22:13

Last week my partner and I I took a walk in the Peak District to the Overexposed plane crash site. I had such a horrible feeling once we reached the site. It's almost as if everything else stopped. Couldn't wait to get back to the car!

TurquoiseDragon · 08/01/2021 00:43

@tisonlymeagain

Surprised at the Warwick Castle comments. What specifically do people get from it? I've visited dozens of times since being very small and I love it. Never had a bad feeling ever.
Many years ago, I went with ex to visit Warwick castle. Went up some steep narrow spiral steps in one tower go and look out from the top of the wall and got such a feeling and panicked. I had to go back down straight away. Not a feeling I normally get.
youvegottenminuteslynn · 08/01/2021 00:45

This thread number was 666 when I looked at it just now... so appropriate for a creepy thread!

Things/ places that inexplicably give you the creeps...
MeowPurrGrr · 08/01/2021 00:52

Not a place, but still shallow water.

When I used to go swimming as a kid we’d have to walk through the disinfectant pool to stop verrucas I guess. But there was often big dead spiders floating in there so we’d jump over screaming! I still can’t go in the shower if the drain is a bit dodgy and the water isn’t draining quick enough shudders

PefferMary · 08/01/2021 12:13

I've NC, years ago went to Edinburgh and stayed in an apartment on the ground floor of a house called Peffermill house. Ended up sleeping in the lounge as the bedroom had a four poster covered in porcelain dolls. Bathroom was the other side of the bedroom (en-suite) and I just couldn't cross the bedroom doorway to get to it so used the WC on the other side of the kitchen. Never slept so badly in all my life - took my dogs with me, and the puppy was utterly shaky most of the time. He ended up scratching the floorboards in the hallway really badly one night, I didn't hear him but it really looked like he was trying to dig downwards to something. Makes me shudder just thinking about it. Having looked at the stories associated with the house I wish I hadn't stayed there after all.

During that visit, I went down into Mary Kings Close, and joined a guided tour. At one point we walked into a children's bedroom off the underground "kitchen" of a family home. The atmosphere immediately became so oppressive for me I couldn't breathe and the guide caught me and walked me back out of the room. It was filled with toys and teddies and dolls - apparently tourists bring them for the children / for a little girl who died there. Fortunately I was guided back out quite quickly to the room where the first toilet was - I can't remember the name of it but it was there where the guide made us all laugh and I was able to breathe again.

Dunno what came over me to be honest - I love the city of Edinburgh and I will return, not to those places though.

PefferMary · 08/01/2021 12:35

@allycat4

Santa Barbera
Is that near Carmel? We had a road trip with my family (5) when younger, stayed in a motel - parents in one room, 3 kids in the other. My folks ended up pulling a mattress into our room overnight as nobody could sleep. We left the next day. Eerie eerie place.
CleverCatty · 08/01/2021 12:44

Have mentioned this before but I'm not that bothered by places that most people find spooky - e.g. Bath - visit a lot and not freaked out. Yes, some of the back streets are darker and narrow and you might get scared but isn't that the case in most places with dark, narrow back streets?!

Seaside towns - same - they must have history but... not much woo there - maybe a bit in old town Hastings.

Rye - I love Rye - been a few times but last time we went we went to the jail/gaol and learned more about the history, it is actually quite spooky only because most of Rye is so pretty, chocolate box type yet there's the smugglers undercurrent. Been in pub which is haunted (Mermaid Inn) there.

I've been to Conquest House (upstairs toilets) and Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub (toilets downstairs) and both I got distinct feelings of dread - could be due to electrical/other work etc who knows?

The other weird one for me was Smithfield - worked there approx 15 years ago - didn't know much about the history - but one lunchtime was walking around and got this strange almost ethereal/heaven type emptiness there - turned the corner, saw William Wallace plaque, went back to the office and was told about burnings there. Had no idea re latter!

I've got a friend who's Catholic and she won't set foot e.g. in Canterbury - bad vibes apparently.

Can't think of anywhere abroad that's creepy but a few years ago parents were viewing houses in France (for holiday homes) - one my DM said had a big butchers hook on some outbuilding and was eerie, to her. DM also lived in a flat in Lavender Hill when she was younger which she thinks was haunted and had a few experiences.

CleverCatty · 08/01/2021 12:48

@PetertheWalrus

As a kid I was terrified of Crystal Palace railway station. Really sinister place.
That's near where I live and also where I was brought up near there - moved away and moved back near it.

I don't find it sinister at all! Even coming off trains late at night after a night out!

CleverCatty · 08/01/2021 12:55

ah - there is one place I recall as being a bit spooky - Saintes in France - but the gladiator arena there - not the other parts of the town.

It's strange when you actually walk there - you go down some stairs off a road, past various chapels etc and then to the gladiator arena - as you walk through the main tunnel to get to the arena there is a definite feeling of gloom and in the arena on the seats etc.

Another strange thing which happened - a few years ago on holiday in Malaga, Spain - so this must've been in countryside and is on the coast near a town called Guadaranque - but wasn't there - so guess it's Cadiz. On the way to I think Bay Plaza Shopping Centre. So was there with a boyfriend - we would go out for the day and end up coming back via shopping centre for food and drink. One day we got lost and ended up outside a big house/farmhouse. I suppose just off the motorway or nearby - countryside nearby. Anyway we got out - to ask directions - around the house/courtyard area/front of house were dead rats - lots of them - and sort of placed near the house - like someone had shot/killed them on purpose and laid them out. No one seemed to be around and we decided to leave. Boyfriend and I just looked at each other - shuddered and got the creeps and ran back to the car and left!

PefferMary · 08/01/2021 13:01

[quote SecretWitch]@lachy, a couple of Halloweens ago I bought Tubular Bells as a ringtone. I dreamt of evil beings for three days in a row. Took it off my phone quickly and never had any of those dreams again.

My grandparents took me on an underground (?) tour of Edinburgh when I was 12. I felt frightened the entire time.[/quote]
I've just a couple of posts above mentioned the same - Mary King's Close....

Dugee · 08/01/2021 15:35

Last week my partner and I I took a walk in the Peak District to the Overexposed plane crash site. I had such a horrible feeling once we reached the site. It's almost as if everything else stopped. Couldn't wait to get back to the car!

Which one is that? There are a few - Bleaklow, Allport?

On that note, I find Bleaklow a bit scary, the mist can come out of nowhere and it's difficult to navigate.

CleverCatty · 08/01/2021 16:14

Anyone had been feelings in Carcassone? The devil like figure in Rennes-leChateau spooks some people... didn't bother me

Montsegur Castle where the Cathars were burned for refusing to renounce their faith in 1244 - yes - this is spooky - although a bleak, heaven like spooky rather like I experienced at Smithfield - and as I knew the history of Montsegur Castle not surprising that I felt strange!