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

[nuitdesetoiles]

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

[nuitdesetoiles]

Would be interesting to research all of this and write a paper and what it is about all of this that gives us that creeping feeling... There are definitely themes emerging!

[Meh2020]

Epsom. Don’t go very often but always happy to leave.

[ShivD]

I agree with seaside towns but in a more seedy rather than creepy way. Brighton near the station, Margate etc.

[nuitdesetoiles]

To be honest a fair bit of the southwest (bar Cornwall strangely that seems lighter in atmosphere) feels intense and almost stagnant. Sorry to all the residents... However I loved Cirencester but found another place nearby very weird. Began with an L....Lulworth maybe?

[hadesinahalfahell]

Really, really amateur children's shows, the type done at caravan parks and places like that. The worse the singing and dance routines and forced jovial voices and waving, the creepier.

[Dugee]

Betswys-y-Coed. Now that's an unwelcoming place.

[stuffedforchristmas]

Discarded wrapping paper
Teak furniture
People with brown eyes
Shingle beaches
Books facing the wrong way
Park benches

[nuitdesetoiles]

People with brown eyes?! Really!! That's a huge proportion of the population!

[hadesinahalfahell]

Mickey mouse's horrible voice. And other cartoon characters with similar weird voices.

Second hand teddies/stuffed toys.

[Spied]

[quote DianaOfTheLakes]@Spied

The story is below. I know a lot of experienced swimmers and hikers who have had a feeling of shortness of breath come on suddenly when near Brothers Water.

A newspaper article dated 25th January 1786 stated that two brothers aged 16 and 19 had set out across the frozen lake one winter’s morning to visit a friend on the other side. Their father was working in nearby fields, and at the end of the day saw his sons start to make their way home. The father knew the ice had thawed somewhat during the day, and desperately tried to warn them. But sadly, they didn’t hear him, or misunderstood his signals and he was too far away to prevent them walking towards the centre of the lake. Under their weight, the ice fractured, and their father watched helplessly as his two sons fell through to their deaths.[/quote]
That whole area had me feeling like something bad was about to happen.
I couldn't enjoy any of the walks and felt 'off'.
DP thought I was nuts but I just couldn't take in and appreciate the beauty of my surroundings.
The actual site I was referring too was around 20mins away. The Quiet Site.

[nuitdesetoiles]

@ShivD a friend has already mentioned me and her going for a weekend in Margate once this is all over and I can already feel myself recoiling... It's that faded, lost dysfunctional seaside vibe...

I like coastal places that aren't attached to a resort as such like Formby or some places in Northumberland.. Wild and beautiful and far less creepy.

[stuffedforchristmas]

I know!!!

I have to ignore it!

[stuffedforchristmas]

My family have a split proportion of blue/brown/hazel and I love them all the same! Sometimes the brown eyed ones look at me very beadily, I feel!

[TheFormidableMrsC]

@Sallycinnamum

Apologies to anyone who lives there but Letchworth, Herts always gives me the utter shivers whenever we drive through it.

MiL leaves nearby and we often have to take her there as she doesn't drive. It just has the weirdest vibe about it and I always end up feeling nauseous. So odd.

That's really weird! I live near Letchworth but quite like it there. There is a village near Hertford that gives me the absolute creeps. Even the birds don't sing there

[LabCoatPocket]

It is strange seeing some of these places. I think some towns in North Wales, around Snowdonia have a sadness, but the people there have suffered terribly with the mines closing and a lack of work. The young ones are leaving, suicide rates were high in young men. I am hopeful that people being able to work from home will help places like those. The grey rock and slate also gives a bleakness that I find beautiful.

My DS sobbed his little heart out in the tunnels of Dover Castle, and said he could feel bad things there (he was 4 years old at the time), but he also saw things that no one else saw in other places, but would be very outing if I told on here. I was glad when he stopped seeing things, as it was unsettling.

I don't like dark green, or Victorian style tiles in bathrooms. I have nightmares that always involve that style . There are always too many big brass taps and I can't turn them off. There was a swimming pool, I think, in or near Berwick upon Tweed that we were taken to as youngsters that had dark old fashioned tiles, it was the stuff of nightmares.

[Lonelycrab]

There’s a road near to where I work in London, near the Millwall ground called cold blow lane. The name sounds bad but it’s even worse when you actually see it.

[TwoLeftSocksWithHoles]

Red Sands Fort - I've never been there but the photos make my feel very uneasy.

Spillway at Hoover Dam - i just think you could fall in and disappear for ever...

[humanbosch]

Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Birmingham, Carlisle, York, Blackpool, Liverpool, Manchester a lot of places in the North just gives me the creep. Let's go down south, Hastings, Portsmouth, Essex, Kent, Bognor Regis. These places make me want to cry when I'm there. In London- Hackney, Haringey, Lewisham, Enfield, Brent, Hounslow. There's probably more but can't think of it at the top of my head. These places just doesn't seem like happy places, maybe it is what it is or being deprived areas. I just feel depressed if I ever have to go there for work or for other reasons.

[EternalOptimist7]

Empty swimming pools - I often dream about them
Dolls, especially porcelain ones. Some are pure evil!
And I am very sensitive to atmospheres. DH & I stayed in an old cottage on Dartmoor before we were married & I absolutely hated going upstairs on my own. The hideous sculpture in the living room didn’t help either!
Pylons

[Daisy829]

This thread is fascinating. I love staithes & betswycoed. Places that have unsettled me are bath & also when I go over the M62 where the house sits I the middle of the motorway. The whole of that stretch just feels weird to me. My old secondary school used to have rooms that felt weird too.

[nuitdesetoiles]

This is contentious but really full on East end or Essex accents... Not often heard irl to be honest more that kind of my fair lady thing. In fact that song "wouldn't it be luverly" is nightmarish.

Maybe the East end thing is the gang connection. However I live in Manchester so can hardly speak!

[nuitdesetoiles]

@Daisy829 I drive past that house at least once a week... And it unsettles me every. Single. Time.

Even worse at current time of year when inexplicable snow storms just seem to come whirling out of nowhere and think I'm going to be smashed into the Moors in my little Hyundai by a massive lorry...

[LifeAfterBreastCancer]

We stayed in a holiday home in the Highlands last summer with my sister and her family. It was a lovely house but something so creepy about it. Strange fragrances appearing in one of the bedroom, the sense that there was someone else upstairs, shells shattering for no reason...all felt really spooky and I was quite glad to leave.

[Howmanysleepsnow]

A particular spot on the shore of Loch An Eilein. I’ve been 3 times and each time get crushing chest pains. No medical reason, and fine when I move on. Shame, because it’s a beautiful place.

[fightingirish]

Betws y coed in north wales definitely, bleak, dark and eerie, there is always a black cloud over it as you drive into the village,