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

[nuitdesetoiles]

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

[Heartofglass12345]

Nursing homes at night

[ExpensivelyDecorated]

There is a stretch of road not too far away from where I live, it's a single carriageway A road and it has a farm either side, opposite each other. I drive past about once every couple of months and it always seems creepy and oppressive. I have absolutely no idea why apart from that it's in a bit of a valley and because of the angles of the hillsides and the bends in the road it feels very shut in. The farm buildings are dingy and unattractive and there never seems to be anyone around, the sun never seems to shine there, there are no animals in the fields.

I also agree about Glastonbury.

[tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz]

Twoleft I've just googled Spillway ... bloody hell, it's horrible! Like a mouth waiting to swallow you forever.

I'd also like to add superglue. Scares the shit out of me, I have this irrational fear I use it for something small and mundane but trip over and it goes in my eyes and glued them shut forever. I think this started after watching House of Wax (horrible film).

I have a reoccurring dream that I'm lost alone in sewer tunnels which get more and more narrow until I'm squeezing through tiny ones trying * nor to get stuck. > shudders <

Great thread btw OP, a spooky distraction from a shitty day

[coronafiona]

Dunstable. Utterly, utterly depressing. Poverty everywhere, awful traffic and right on the M1. Absolutely god forsaken.

[TinselToedElf]

Like a previous poster said, still water, particularly canals. So creepy and the poor people who had to see me panicking alongside the Worcester and a Birmingham canal must've thought I was off my rocker.

A few years ago we stopped off at the town of Faringdon for a loo break and to stretch our legs, seemed nice enough. Until we went near the Folly tower, I was back in the car straight away, it just felt so oppressive and creepy.

[midlifecrash]

Hotel corridors

Holborn tube station. Hundreds of people filing through in silence. This must have been the case in other rush hour tube stations (pre-COVID) but Holborn always felt eerie/nasty, I always avoid it

[ExpensivelyDecorated]

@TinselToedElf

Like a previous poster said, still water, particularly canals. So creepy and the poor people who had to see me panicking alongside the Worcester and a Birmingham canal must've thought I was off my rocker.

A few years ago we stopped off at the town of Faringdon for a loo break and to stretch our legs, seemed nice enough. Until we went near the Folly tower, I was back in the car straight away, it just felt so oppressive and creepy.

Is that Farringdon in Hampshire? Yes, that tower is a bit creepy.

[crochetmonkey74]

Definitely the Forest of Dean. My best friend lives there and when I drive in I feel a depression coming over me

[NOTANUM]

My whole family - except me - got an off vibe in Froome.

[Diddumz]

Baldock in Hertfordshire.

I used to visit an ex boyfriend there, years ago and the place was oppressive.

[Toddlerteaplease]

Driving through Rural Staffordshire one night. In the pitch black. Diverted off the A50. I've never felt so
Isolated and very creeped out by it.

[xmasfairybuns]

Pontcysyllte Aquaduct. Been over it twice and I am never doing it again.

[kennypppppppp]

bill bailey. the whole of the way through strictly i thought he was creepy and eurgh.

[Lonelycrab]

Hotel corridors

Went for a summer holiday in the French Alps, it was a huge hotel complex that was probably rammed in the winter.... completely deserted when we were there. Had visions of the shining with the child on the tricycle😳

Surprised so many don’t like Betws. Been many times and never felt a spooky vibe. Bleaneau festinniog down the road on the other hand; urgh!

[xmasfairybuns]

Driving through Rural Staffordshire one night. In the pitch black

It's like that when I drive home from work each day, I hate it. There are no street lights and it's all fields or roads with woods either side and to add to the creepiness there are deer, foxes, badgers and sheep who all have eerily glowing eyes in the dark.

[StanfordPines]

Glastonbury so often comes up in these threads. I grew up near there and never found it that creepy.

I find industrial estates creepy as all hell. I think it’s the emptiness of them.

[Mistymonday]

Some village near Cambridge/Royston that we drove to by accident, was really creepy and off but have never been able to find again since.

Lancaster, specifically the Castle/Prison where they burnt all those ‘witches’.

Ilkly Moor, Leeds itself.

A house on a road in Hackney used as a spiritualist church, made me sick to my stomach as such a dark vibe emanated from it. I couldn't walk past it.

[nuitdesetoiles]

@tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz it's because I saw an ice cream van the other day and got the shivers at the sight of it....(an ice cream van in a park in the North west in freezing December rain, why?!)..

[debwong]

@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.

Was Birdie Thing with you?

[xmasfairybuns]

@farawayplanet

Alston is depressing because the locals aren't very friendly. It feels like Royston Vasey 😱

We had our car stolen when we stayed there.

[motorcyclenumptiness]

Norfolk

[StarFriend]

SpringerJS I came on here to say exactly the same about Bath. Felt very sad there and found it oppressive. Particularly in the crescent shaped streets.

Also feel the same about Edinburgh.

[motorcyclenumptiness]

Also Cornwall

[InTropicalTrumpsLand]

Not a place, but the easiest thing a series or film has to do to get me all creeped out is get someone wearing those sclera contacts that completely cover the white of the eyes. Not seeing the whites unsettles me so profoundly that I wonder if there's a biological reason for it.

[effiehabb]

Personally I love the town of Stroud, but I know it creeps a lot of people out.
Completely agree about Savernake forest area.
Personally, I always got a weird vibe from Exeter and Crediton area. Had a very freaky ghostly experience in a tiny little village nearby called Whitestone as a 12 year old and the whole area makes my blood run cold.