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

[nuitdesetoiles]

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

@Historydweeb - oh, I think I've seen that one! Does it have a story about a chap walking the lines and meeting a workman with an old fashioned lantern?

www.google.com/amp/s/www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2019/06/what-makes-glastonbury-so-mystical/amp

I stayed in the Peak District in Worksworth with friends and associated children. We used to take it in turns when we went away who got the better bedroom (with ensuite). It was our Friends turn and they had the top floor. Me and my then husband had the middle floor with kids in the rooms on the same floor.
My friend one morning shouted me upstairs for something. I couldn't go up. There was something dark up there. I have no idea what it was.
Our friends left a day early. I tried to convince myself it was silly and to go to the top floor. Nothing would get me past the first step up. The rest of the house felt lovely, but that staircase and top floor just no.

Secondly. My mum lived near a country lane that had no pavements and the trees met in the middle. Probably two miles long, winding down hill. One streetlight half way down. I was having a lift to work with someone that lived In the next village and the lane was the quickest way to get there.
Had to walk down at 5am in winter. Mon- Weds all fine. Got my little torch, off I went.
Thursday, stepped into the lane. Felt like I'd slammed into a brick wall. I couldn't take another step. I was arguing with myself how stupid it was. But nothing could make me take another step into that lane that morning. Something oppressive and scary was there.
I ran the long way around to get my lift.
Friday. Turned into the lane, a bit apprehensive. Nothing. Was fine. Walked that way to my lift. Still to this day have no idea what it was.

I lived in Hadfield for several years. I always thought Royston Vasey (or 'Spent' for aficionados) was fictitious ... it's not.

My totally non-woo sensible dad refuses point blank to step inside York Minster - interesting to see it mentioned a couple of times on this thread !

Some is subjective but some is general. As pp have said, Glastonbury and Glen Coe pop up a lot.

I live a couple of hours north of Manchester. I love it, I class it as my home city (much nicer than the closer Carlisle - weird vibe in Carlisle too possibly because it's been the scene of many English v Scottish battles in the past). I feel at home in Manchester, even if I get off the train in to that driving, horizontal rain 😀.

The film Grease really unsettled me when I was taken to see it as a little girl. It was the fact the actors were clearly in their 30s, but were playing teenagers. I just found it so creepy, I couldn't wait to leave the cinema.

Dh is from Glastonbury and is baffled by the amount of people who are ‘creeped’ out by it .
I said earlier about the freaky swimming pool that made me uneasy. I don’t know how I feel about the place. I don’t much like the main street and will do anything possible to avoid spending much time there but the Tor doesn’t phase me. There’s just something quite forced about it all.

Has anyone been to Muncaster castle? Gorgeous peaceful gardens but inside the castle is spooky as hell.

Is the hadfield people are talking about the one on the flowery field, padfield etc train line? If so yes, weird my first ever placement as a student nurse was in nursing home there...weird place and people...

I used to work in the events industry. Empty arenas and the underground's of convention centres are very weird. I imagine they must be particularly strange right now.

Also - Cannock and Walsall - always feel like Ghost towns and where has everyone gone?

@DianaOfTheLakes

Has anyone been to Muncaster castle? Gorgeous peaceful gardens but inside the castle is spooky as hell.

That will be down to the mad Jester. We had a horrible walk around the wider area of Muncaster. Dead sheep everywhere. Not uncommon, we’ve come across the odd one before in other parts of the Lakes and Northern fells, but these were many and in various states of decay. Made a few Werewolf quips, walked as fast as we possibly could to finish the walk.

Yes, a mucky yurt, and down a slope was an ripped tent thingy over a rotten stage set up.

Spent 2 weeks in Cornwall for a holiday when the dc were young. Had a lovely time. But there was a bedroom upstairs in one of the cottages we stayed in that was terrifying. I couldn’t go in the room, and couldn’t go up to our bedroom on the same floor before my dh was there . Never had that feeling in any holiday cottage before or since

My parents house when I was a child/teenager. I would start to walk downstairs and something would spook me and make me run down the rest of the stairs then I'd slam on the light. Served me right for going downstairs in the dark.

As a teenager I also always had a fear when sitting on the toilet of a bulldog biting my bum. I never told anyone about that until years later my friend bought her own house, took me on a tour and showed me her bathroom, there was a white ceramic bulldog on the toilet cistern.

The colour purple.

Tiles, especially loose ones

Sandpaper

Savernake is beautiful, historic and atmospheric in parts. But I love it. Walk there most days, haven’t been chased by a ghost yet

Pylons, was having a gorgeous long walk with my beautiful dog up Cleeve Hill and walked through a field with a massive one in and it completely drained me, stinking headache and felt sick, never get too close to them now!

@Nicolastuffedone

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!

I've stayed there! Its a really odd place, I remember having a tour of the hotel and seeing loads of massive safes which they couldn't move because of their weight.

There were tiles everywhere!

Meant to say that it was called The Palace Hotel

Interesting that you say that, thechosentwo about the sea as I was told once that whether you are scared or comfortable with the sea depends on whether you perceive it as a flat surface or as having depth.

Punch and Judy

@lachy

It's been renovated and is now the Principal. It has a gorgeous restaurant/ bar called The Refuge. It's a lovely place now.

However, about 20 years ago (when it was still the Palace), a friend of mine was staying there and I went to meet her in her room for drinks. It was dingy, spooky and I got lost in the corridors - felt like I was in the Shining.

@lachy

It's always been attached to the theatre next door, also called the palace. I wonder if the spooky feeling is anything to do with that. The palace theatre is spooky, especially the top floor.

I found Culloden very unsettling as well, unsurprising thought considering the history.

Barrow in Furness is a very bleak sort of place, there’s quite a lot of places in Cumbria which feel very oppressive and unfriendly. There’s also a path I run up quite a lot which skirts a golf course then goes up through some woods, the woods completely freak me out so I have to go fast and get through as quickly as possible! Just a very weird feeling from them, like I’m being watched and something awful is about to happen.