Places that make you feel uneasy

[BiggyJ]

Funfairs always make me feel on edge.

As for empty funfairs... 😱

I don't like mountains. They make me claustrophobic.
Bridges, although it was worse when I was younger.

I walk through a Victorian cemetery every day, in the winter it's dark in the mornings, and it's never creepy. My friends are horrified by it though.

Blimmin' heck @WiggyClawsThe2nd
That is terrifying!
Did you ask why?

Flippin heck! I’d never heard of that, but after googling it, I think that’s what it was. Thanks @CreepingCrone

I’m so glad there is a word for this because I just thought I was insanely sensitive about shipwrecks my whole life.

@Rubyupbeat so spooky.
Are those houses still there?

@Blingismything 😦

@SeriousFaffing I get that. Especially when the playground had those teeter totter toys and a tricycle or two scattered around, but no children...

Reservoir plugholes TERRIFY me!

I think the third to last one is pretty universal!

Glastonbury over the years has attracted a lot of residents who are into magic, the occult and alternative religions etc. It all mainly stems from the festival being held there, the original having started in 1970. So a lot of people (me included) feel a very strange and unsettling vibe there. Without wishing to sound overly woo myself, I think it's because of the collective energy of it all. It has also been a place of pilgrimage for centuries with people coming to see the Thorn of Arimathea and because legend has it that Queen Guinevere is buried there. So it has always had a "mystical" element. The town has also attracted a lot of drug addicts too over recent years (mostly heroin) so on a practical note it can feel unsafe and unsavoury at times.

Submechanophobia - at last I have a name for my irrational fear of underwater machinery. Reservoirs give me the creeps.

Also, a bit niche (if that's the right word) but a place called Pleasley Vale, near Mansfield- it gives me the absolute horror. Specifically the old mills/factory buildings.

@BiggyJ

Exactly. I do worry it’s something from my early childhood though - I went to a nursery that was in a big Victorian villa building. Shiver…

Coupled with a bleak landscape..that would be a no from me and in true MN fashion I wouldn't answer the door.

The Lake District freaks me out. No idea why, as I can see it’s beautiful but I’m so uneasy and anxious when I’m there.

I am terrified of churches. I don't know why

I hated Paris because of the big open spaces

I do! You get that sometimes in old tenements in Glasgow

I am both attracted to and scared by deep water. I think it was because as a small child I was standing on a bridge with my father looking at water going over a weir in a pretty place, and my father explained the dangers of rivers to me, the strong currents and how children drowned in them. I have never been to the Scottish lochs but the pictures of them creep me out, they look so still and a bit sinister.

As previous posters have said, churches creep me out quite often.

My own shop after hours. If I have to return and collect something I have forgotten I get out as fast as possible. I feel as if I shouldn't be there, even though I love it in the daytime.

I can't go up a spiral staircase if there's no way back down without going right up to the top.
Also caves give me the creeps. I once went to some in Yorkshire and nearly had a panic attack so never again.

I am horribly afraid of heights and had to literally crawl across the glass floor at Tower Bridge with my eyes closed.

The employee on the other side told me good job and gave me a sticker like a child. 😂

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Farms / houses in the middle of nowhere- I have to home visit people and these ones freak me out, keep expecting Leatherface to appear and hang me on a hook.

I don’t understand how people live in these houses!

But... but...it's the MN dream - living rurally!

😄

In my job I go through a lot of access corridors in public buildings - back of house areas. They sometimes freak me out and often I'm walking around with men I don't know.

If anyone has read the book "what was lost" you'll have an idea of what I'm talking about.

I'm confused by this. Surely you just turn round?!

Also most religious buildings. All religious ones. Feel stifling. I can appreciate a stunningly beautiful church externally but that's about it.

Was that Frenchay? The asylum museum was really interesting (and terrifying).

There is an enormous derelict hotel in Lagos, Portugal that I found so unsettling, I resolved to write a horror story based on it. I never finished the story (as yet).

The taps in the bathroom would come on while in the toilet near the art room (which was usually during a class so nobody else about) it was freezing cold in there too , the pipes would start rattling and it felt very eerie like spirits were about (and I am the biggest skeptic going!) Apparently there were traces of blood seen on the carpets in the library too.
We would go there after dark as teens just to terrify ourselves. There was an ancient cemetery on the grounds as it was a religious order running the school. There were definitely some tortured souls around that place.