Places that make you feel uneasy

[BiggyJ]

Funfairs always make me feel on edge.

As for empty funfairs... 😱

Empty as in no water in!

Oh!! Misunderstood, sorry.

Don't whatever you do watch "The Neon Demon".

Old churches. Specifically St Mary’s & St Finnsn church in Glenfinnan. Haunted. Absolutely haunted. Makes me want to weep.

I don't like heights and I am mildly claustrophobic too, so stupidly agreed to go beyond the viewing platform in The Empire State Building, right up to the tiny observation room at the very top.

I don't know what I was thinking? I took one step out of the elevator, froze with fear and collapsed. Had a full on melt down, snotty tears, hiccups, everything. DH had to actually pick me up like a baby and hold me until the elevator could go back down again.

The guard was lovely and assured me it happens a lot.

WTAF? They look like actors from 'Children of the Corn'.

I've been out on the ramparts of particularly high towers in castles, which of course are often built on hills so you can see for miles around. The views are incredible, but I've had to sit down on the floor, because I couldn't look out from that height and trust myself to stay standing. The fear is very real.

@saveforthat @DogsandFlowers the hospital was in the North East of England.

I can't remember if it's in the USA or Canada, but there's this really long road bridge on stilts over a big lake, which I'm told feels like you're driving forever with nothing either side of you but water. I believe it's not uncommon for some drivers to completely flip and have to be rescued by recovery, because they can't drive another inch, and can't turn back.

I lived there as a child, can I ask why you felt it was strange?

Swimming pool with no people in it….bliss….swimming pool with no water in it…stuff of nightmares. I’m another victim of the aquamechanophobia and the submechanophobia thing…delighted to find words for those as it is good to know I’m not alone. Deep locks on canals, those plug holes in reservoirs, the underwater workings of the wave machine at our local pool…shudder.

I hate service areas of buildings….when you have to walk through low corridors with pipes and machinery above your head. I also have a fear of old fashioned lifts…the kind with a staircase working their way round them that have a set of doors and a set of gates that you need to close.

My Dad and I were once visiting my Mum in the old Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh…a fairly creepy place at the best of times…and it had exactly that kind of lift. We got in the lift…I was already uneasy and then instead of going up as commanded it descended into the bowels of the building and then stopped. It wasn’t for going up again….we opened the doors and we were in a basement full of pipes and wires and random piles of old hospital beds and equipment. We looked at each other in utter terror…Dad pulled the doors shut and thankfully it started again and we were carried up to the wards. I never got in one of those lifts again.

Fear of Pylons seems to be more common than I used to think. I hate even passing under the lines.

Were you a child of the 70s? I remember:

Public Information films, I think there was one where someone got electrocuted because a fishing rod touched a line and also one with a kite (did a kid climb up a pylon to free his kite and get electrocuted)?

Seeing "Earthquake" at the local cinema as I was with my brother who was old enough to get in (A or AA Cert)? and all the fallen over pylons with the broken lines snaking everywhere and sparking.

A scary kids TV programme called The Changes where electricity was trying to take over the world or something.

The clip of Watership Down in the video for Bright Eyes, where the rabbit looks up at the pylon and it goes all twisty.

My DM telling me to never, ever climb a pylon, even though our nearest was about 4 miles away.

Is it any wonder pylons freak me out to this day?

I think they might be talking about swimming pools with no water.

Manchester city centre

I'm in the West country and it's very much a thing here.

Worst one ever was a scarecrow in the disused phone box book swap.

YES! Ours looks like Alan Bennett.

Another vote for bridges and high buildings because of the "call of the void" as a pp mentioned.

I got the heebie jeebies climbing up the inside of a campanile in France, Amiens maybe. The first half was a lift but then you had to climb a wooden spiral stair to the top and could see right down the middle, and that's before I looked out the louvres into the square below. People coming up behind me had to press themselves to the rail to let me back down. I bet that made me popular.

I used to hate driving across the Forth Road Bridge, I always had a fear that I was suddenly going to veer to the left and crash off the bridge. I'm OK with the QFC, I think because you can't really tell how high up you are.

I still hate driving across the Friarton Bridge near Perth and if I'm on my own will drive through Perth rather than cross it and risk tumbling into the Tay. I also once very nearly fell to my death from the cliff that overlooks that bridge. I'd gone for a walk up the hill and it was only seeing the folly that alerted me to where I was. There wasn't even a fence.

Where @jamestiger150 ?

@ChurchWindows what part of the country are you in? You are the only one so far to have seen these in real life.
Are they freaky as heck? Alan Bennett 😆

@organisedadmin there's a village near us that hosts one every year. It's quite a big deal.
It is very Midsomer 😅

@BiggyJ I'm in Somerset. I saw a boy and girl bollard strapped to railings outside of the school at Slimbridge in Gloucester last week. Absolutely terrifying. They're on streetview if you want a sleepless night.

Exmoor loves scarecrow festivals. Here's the late HM The Queen at Withypool seen on a remote moorland walk 😧

Thanks @ChurchWindows I will take a look later when I'm not alone 😂
I just can't get my head around how they are supposed to be traffic "calming" measures!
Just saw this pic on the link I put up earlier.
Just when you think they couldn't get any creepier... 😱

Imagine finding that in your shed!!!!!

Bedrooms with sloping ceilings especially when the bed ends up with ceiling right above your head - if I’m browsing estate agent photos and see one it makes me shudder.

Also quaysides with chains/ropes near the edges to tie boats to - ever since i read a book as a child about a boy tripping over a chain and falling in to the water!

It is a very unique place. I personally love it and get a strange overwhelming urge to visit Glastonbury tor. If I’m in the area and I see it, it’s like it calls me. It’s so hard to explain.

I think the town centre can be unsettling to visitors not expecting to see the sights it offers. You don’t normally see a man dressed like Jesus, wondering about the place in a normal high street. Most conversations you over hear are not the run of the mill either.