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)

@lachy

Not a place but a piece of music.

Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells, I can't bear it, I find it deeply upsetting.

That's not really inexplicable seeing as it was the theme to The Exorcist!

Oh and people on stilts I could scream when I see them

Glasonbury.

Visited a few years ago. Started off fine, excited to see the abbey ect. Felt a growing sense of unease and by the time i started home i felt totally out of kilter and awful. Once i was 10 mins up the motorway i was fine again. Like a fog had cleared.

Manchester - in the city. Used to hate having to go to the office there and that was usually only once or twice a year. As soon as I step off the train I feel like I'm in the wrong place and want to go home.

For me, the worst was cave dwellings in Malta. I had explored a couple and they were fine, and then I went into another one and it felt really, really weird and I couldn't get out of there fast enough. I felt like I was being watched as I left the area.

Another one is the Janus figure in Fermanagh. I have been many times without any odd feeling, but the last time I was there, I got a really creepy feeling as I walked down the lane towards it and I felt I shouldn't be there.

Scanned the thread now. Glastonbury crops up a lot.

Mimes

Stephen Fry

Avebury...visited once and couldn't approach the stones, felt I was being repelled.

Years later driving to collect something, had no idea that I was near the stones, absolutely killer headache came on. Collected the item, realised where I was, as soon as I was away from the stones my headache lifted.

I won't be going back!

I love Blaenau too! It is grey, and sad and bleak, but I just love it. Feel totally happy there.

Ilkeston on the Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire border is a really depressing place. I used to have to visit regular for work and I could just feel a veil of depression descending on me as I drove in.
Also Aswan in Egypt was very beautiful, but something felt off and I was glad to get on the train out of there.

Empty swimming pools. But also very full swimming pools!

The, actually very pretty, country lane outside my Auntie's house. Have always hated it, especially at night - it literally makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Hate it.

Never told a soul how scared the lane made me feel. Then one day, got chatting to a local taxi driver who mentioned (out of the blue) that he'd had to stop doing pick ups at the pub in my Auntie's village, because it had meant parking and waiting in the same country lane - and it had really creeped him out This taxi driver was built like the proverbial shit house and looked hard as nails. But he was scared of the same, totally mundane, country lane!

Interestingly, my brother who was a bit woo (encountered poltergeist activity when he was about 12, and saw ghosts) only visited my Auntie's house once, when she first moved in, but never went back. Said he didn't feel safe there

God only knows what is wrong with that lane. But something is definitely, definitely very wrong.

What's Birdie Thing?

For the people that said windfarms, google infrasound. Apparently infrasound can make people feels very anxious, feel like they're being watched ect. I watched a very good documentary called haunted underground which explains this theory very well.

Newhaven in East Sussex, didn't feel real somehow, like being on the set of a horror film.
Also the church in Stanton St. Quintin, Wiltshire. Normally love a good nosey around an old church but it felt as if someone quite malevolent was wanting me out of there. Only lasted 10 minutes before admitting defeat.

Glen Coe freaked me out. I've only ever been there once - never again. We were driving through and all the hairs on the back of my neck stood up and I had the sensation of what I can only describe as absolute dread. The place quivers with horror.

I really don't like Malvern either. There something sinister and brooding about those hills and the whole place makes me quite uneasy.

Glastonbury lies on a major ley line, apparently.
www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2019/06/what-makes-glastonbury-so-mystical/amp
I wonder if that explains why people find it uncomfortable.

Drove from a campsite in the Brecon beacons once via Malvern hills, river Wye and Shrewsbury and the whole drive totally spooked me...

Chesterfield felt strange and intense. I deliberately drove through there on a work trip once as thought I'd check out the crooked spire and get some lunch but ended up driving through it as fast as possible..

There is a campsite just outside Hay on Wye, advertises itself as a glamping place but it really is not glam at all. DH and I didn't manage to stay the night, we fled at 2am. Packed up and fled. Like frightened children. It is embarrassing when I think about it.

The place was spooky, there were no birds in the trees. The woman that ran it was nuts.

I have stayed on a site practically adjacent to there several times and get no bad vibes, but that place terrified me.

Bungalows! They make me feel uneasy.

@LabCoatPocket I wonder if the same place?! On the surface it was nice but had a strange atmosphere and I didn't sleep a single wink. We stayed in a glamping yurt...

@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.

Culloden Moor

A hotel we stayed in overnight in Manchester. It was an old insurance office (prudential?) it had tiled walls floor to ceiling, it was like being in a sanatorium.....eeewww! I hated it!

Some of the tube stations when they are empty are very spooky, stayed in a hotel next to Inverness train station which I found a bit spooky and couldn’t sleep.