Places that make you feel uneasy

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Funfairs always make me feel on edge.

As for empty funfairs... 😱

@BiggyJ 😁

I've seen them in Lynton, Devon. Mind you, this was a few years ago.

Yes very bleak. I would hate to live there.

I used to be a guide there when it was first raised.
it was fine then but when I went back recently I found it had an odd atmosphere.

OMG 😱

Omg running the gauntlet through the perfume hall at Selfridges in the Trafford Centre as you go to and from the car park (as there's no other reason to be in Selfridges!)

Zombies.

These housing estates are built for the benefit of a particular type of pesky human - developers and their profit margins .
No supporting infrastructure or community facilities. Terrible for wild animals , birds & insects who also need somewhere to live . Good luck surviving without an ecosystem, pesky humans !

I quite like Glastonbury and both churches.

But I agree on not liking flat places and big cities where you can't see any sort of geographical features (just flat with buildings everywhere).

DM and I walked through a very spooky near empty village once. It was lovely and sunny and completely silent (logically I know its because they are all holiday chalets and it wasn't during a busy time but still!)

Sorry I meant in Martock in Somerset - what I remember as very green, lots of fields and so on. (Can't seem to figure out how to reply to a post in the new layout!)

No worries @jamestiger150 !
I don't know if you are using the app (or even if there's any difference!), but if you are not, then you just press "quote button on the comment you want to reply to, and the whole comment plus poster should pop up in your message box.
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I'm not familiar with Martock, or Somerset but would also love to know why @Gwendolines1 feels uneasy.

Ah thanks I've got it now!!

Some parts of Somerset can be quite creepy or 'liminal' - like you feel there's something there that you're not quite seeing. Glastonbury seems to be a big one for a lot of people - I've been there a couple of times but the thing that struck me most was how crowded it was (and terrible parking)...

Great stuff, you've got the hang of it now 👍 @jamestiger150

Driving through Bodmin Moor was weird for us.

Blimey, I hate Somerset! Those ochre cottages and all that red earth like dried blood ☹️ We went to some NT ‘village’ sort of preserved but artificial. It was horrible (shudder).

Anywhere Elizabethan.
Love the history, but anytime I’ve been to an Elizabethan house or village, I've been overcome with gloom and despair with a side helping of panic. DP says the same.
Had a disturbing tussle with Dunster 🥺

Empty dark theatres. I used to volunteer in one small village one and if I was first I had to walk through the darkened corridors and into the theatre to switch the lights on. I used to scurry through looking at the floor as it was creepy AF.

Also in Covent Garden there is a restaurant that used to be called Livebait attached to the Lyceum Theatre. They shared their loos with the theatre and you had to descend several flights of stairs to get to them. You had to walk past some double doors to the theatre and the windows into it were just black nothing (no performance going on whenever I used them). You were so underground as well that it was deathly silent. You could hear a pin drop. No one ever came to use the loos at the same time so always alone in that silence.

I would only use them if I was desperate as it was terrifying down there. I’m not woo at all but it felt as though you were being watched by several things and I used to run back up the stairs as it felt I was being chased out. It makes me shudder even now.

Now you mention Dunster, the stables in the castle there give me the willies.

It doesn't help that they're completely empty of horses but the noises of horses scuffing the ground and whinnying is piped in.

@Bluebellsandwishingwells Oooh tell us about your disturbing tussle with Dunster!

Selworthy?
Bossington?

A very heavy energy, felt totally dragged down by it, it was really disturbing. Like a sense of doom but hiding great sadness. All those cottages with big wooden doors covered in metal studs and tiny windows stretching up the hill…to the creepy castle where @ChurchWindows ghost horses await 😵 It’s ostensibly Medieval but much of it is visibly Elizabethan. I wouldn’t go back if you paid me! 😦 Later googling revealed it as one of the most notoriously haunted villages in England. Surprised no one else has mentioned it!

@Bluebellsandwishingwells I have a friend who is an undertaker and is pretty much bomb proof with regards to spooky things. He said Dunster gave him the most oppressive, 'GET OUT OF HERE' feeling he'd felt anywhere ever.

I've been to Dunster, although not inside the castle and I liked it! It has some lovely little walled gardens and nice independent shops (my favourite is The Chocolate House). Maybe there's infrasound in some areas?

@benten54 I hear you re the underground loos.
Lots of pubs, bars etc in London seem to have theirs down lots of stairs and it really spooks me out. I hate it if I am the only one down there.

Some hospital settings I have worked in.
Bodmin goal- I felt awful in one of the cells and a part of Littledean Hall I didn't like. Also Littledean museum but that was just a really weird place with awful energy partly because of the so called exhibits.

Oh my goodness yes - Bodmin Gaol is awful!