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

[nuitdesetoiles]

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

[Weirdfan]

Cat in the Hat I can't look at it, nor the Grinch, no idea why but they make my skin crawl.

[hettyhooverdoover]

Oh and we stayed on Lundy Island, property was haunted I'm sure.

[tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz]

Empty swimming pools.

Those big chinnneys they have at power stations.

Quarry's filled with water.

On the opposite note I love a graveyard.

[Graciebobcat]

Agree re mime artists. Also not keen on actors acting around me. on the stage or in film it's fine, but not someone in character dressed up at a tourist attraction or something, just weird. All magicians and most variety acts are also creepy.

Can't stand the London Bridge area either, always feels like it has a negative energy about it and a couple of degrees colder than anywhere else. Near the station it's just massive freezing cold wind-tunnel everywhere and there is never a mobile phone signal.

[MustBeThursday]

Mouldy food creeps me out for some reason. Makes me shiver to look at it.

The underground hospital in Jersey.

And I can't remember where it is (possibly Jersey or Isle of Wight) but I remember visiting somewhere as a child that gets cut off from land by the tide coming in. I had many nightmares about being cut off from land after that!

[PopsicleHustler]

Camden town or Camden lock.
Full of drugs and scum.

Pretty sure in order to live there and get a rent agreement you have to be a hardcore heroin user with black teeth and dodgy piercings.

[Greenteandchives]

Forest of Dean
Glastonbury
Wind turbines, especially the noise they make.
The German Underground Hospital in Guernsey, and similar underground places.

[SpringerJS]

Bath really spooks me. I don't know why. Beautiful city but really creepy. Isn't it meant to be very haunted? Probably doesn't help that I was sent on a residential summer school there years and years ago and the older children kept doing ouija boards after lights out.

[MrsHugsxx]

Blackpool. Although I love it there and have been many times I get a weird feeling there. We went a few years ago and stayed in a B and B by the fair and every morning we would walk past to go down to the arcades and see the empty rides being tested, going round with no one on them and hear the machines coming to life and it sounds silly but it was creepy. I think it was just that far end by the fair that felt unsettling.

[Dugee]

I was on edge the whole time I was in Glastonbury town. DP was too, we argued about really small things. I thought I'd quite like it there but there was just a strange atmosphere.

I was on the mountain opposite Brothers Water and the mountain guide told us the story. He said years ago, he, wife and kids had been for a picnic there but when they got there wife had a panic attack and insisted on leaving. She's from out of the area and had not been before, or heard the story. They've never been back.

[TeaLibrary]

Mimes / clowns
Mannequins
Creepy dummies or old fashioned dolls
All freak me out

[PopsicleHustler]

When I am carving the sunday roast and touch bones or snap one, I want to hurl.

Surgery scenes in movies.

Dark dingy alleyways at night.

There was also a park I used to cross through to get back home when I lived with my parents. There is no way you could walk through it at night. It was known for rapists lingering in bushes and attacking women. Also, it was just rife with weirdos at night and young people drinking. It was a pretty big park but sometimes I would walk around it, even though it took twice as long, just to avoid going through it at night time. One time, I did, stupidly and literally ran through the park especially past the scary bushes. It was such a relief when you saw the cars and road ahead when you got to the gate of the park. I cant believe I did it by myself once on my own. It was pretty scary. It's even scary walking in a group of people. There were even massive statues that just looked awful at night time. You would be so scared and paranoid running through it. I hated it even walking with my dad at night, I felt so sick with nerves. Recently someone even gave birth there in the night and dumped the baby there. It's a pretty horrid place. During the day though its wonderful, with a skate park and gardens and so on, a nice new modern play area and a huge area for picnics and dog walking. But at night time its horrid.

[MrsHugsxx]

And another one. I used to work in a well known chain bakery with a small shop front, but it was misleading as the back of the shop and the downstairs area was huge. There was a huge room down there the size of a church hall that was completely empty apart from storing a few boxes and everyone hated going down there, it just felt like eyes all over you. Also there was a back door, that led into a tunnel and you could walk through and arrive at the back door of loads of different shops underground through this tunnel. It was so horrible down there.

[CoconutLassi]

Bedford town centre, bad vibes, couldn't wait to leave

[PopsicleHustler]

I hate dummies and mannequins too.

And places like chamber of horrors or haunted walkthrough.
Did the saw live at thorpe park once. It was horrendous. Was forced by a friend who kept calling me a wimp. In the end had enough and did it and bloody wish I had not. And lived up to the name wimp lol

[SymphonyofShadows]

I used to go to Avonmouth for work and it always creeped me out. I also really hate driving over level crossings, but that’s probably normal.

My band used to rent a school hall for rehearsals. I had a key and my own alarm code as I know the Head. If I was ever alone at lock up I absolutely used to shit myself. Once the lights were out I’d get a shiver up my neck, I used to set the alarm and run for the door. The shiver continued as I drove out and didn’t stop until I’d turned into the main road, it felt like something was behind me.

[EventOfTheSeason]

There's a place in Orkney where you go through a doorway on top of a small hill. You go down some steps into an excavation of some sort (my memory is rubbish). Anyway, I couldn't get out of there fast enough, horrible atmosphere.
Also Blackrock Cottage in Glen Coe, the one from all the pictures, I didn't sleep a wink all night I just hid under the covers.

[AliceMcK]

Dolls especially porcelain

Coldplay, their music grates on my it’s like chewing cotton wool, it’s so bloody whiny and depressing.

[pickingdaisies]

Had to drive through savernake forest eow to visit bf, very creepy. I always worried about the car breaking down in the middle of it.
Anyone dressed up in a character suit, like football mascots, or bloody Pudsey Bear. (And don't get me started on Mr Blobby!)

[Schonerlebnis]

At the entrance to blackpool pleasure beach there used to be a laughing clown. Scared me to bits.
Place in Nothumberland Chillingham castle, cold, damp and just an awful sense of foreboding. Staff unfriendly and the whole place seemed desolate. If I remember correctly there was a mock up of a dungeon/ torture chamber in the basement

[NaughtipussMaximus]

@Artus

Im not woo at all, quite the opposite, but Waylands Smithy , a prehistoric site on the Ridgeway. Something terrible has happened there a long time ago, I'm sure.

Someone once told me that birds wont fly over it. Nonsense I'm sure, but it feels very strange to me.

I live quite near here and we go often - usually on summers days when it’s quite busy with passersby. But once during the first lockdown, DH and I took DS up there in the evening - it had been a lovely day, clear skies and warm, but by that time dusk was falling and it was deserted and the wind was getting up. Five year old DS was being a bit of a beast and ran off down the path, and DH went after him, leaving me eating. They were only gone for maybe five minutes, but all I could hear was the wind soughing through the trees and oh my god I got such a case of the creeps. I was convinced they’d never come back, that I’d never find a trace of them. Urgh. Shudder.

[NaughtipussMaximus]

Leaving me waiting, that should be.

[Greenteandchives]

Alice I visit people in the community in my job and once went to a house where the owner collected those awful old fashioned dolls. They were everywhere; in glass cabinets, on chairs, shelves staring at me. It was properly freaky. Luckily I didn’t have to go back. I had forgotten about that.

[PopsicleHustler]

Oh yes , I can second porcelain dolls.


My husband brought some home from helping an elderly lady clear put her home thinking I would love them or we could sell them. I literally wanted to throw up. One was a nun and literally would make me scream if I I accidentally touched it whe going through old boxes of crap in the garage.

[MRC20]

Was supposed to stay at a place on Ilkley moor a couple years ago for a week. I lasted a night and then we had to go home. Nothing wrong with that the place, no bad experiences at all it just felt wrong as soon as we got there and I couldn't shake this horrible feeling. Nothing like that has ever happened before or since. Cost us a bloody fortune.