Places that make you feel uneasy

[BiggyJ]

Funfairs always make me feel on edge.

As for empty funfairs... 😱

Church bells. The sound makes me feel sad

Dds had a craze for creepy Victorian China face dolls. Glad that phase is over.

Deserted villages. We stayed in an airbnb in rural France. Don’t think we saw another soul the whole time . Both DDs were young at the time and said the place gave them the creeps

Yes! Any view of a boat taken from underwater makes me feel very odd. Also standing on a quay and looking down in the gap between there and the moored boat. All that dark, oily water!

@ChurchWindows

"Lobbies between two doors. One closes behind you then you're in some kind of air lock space before you can reach the next one. Often in art galleries."

You'd have loved the old Mersey Rail train of my youth. The trains would consist of either one set of three interlocking carriages, the end one of which contained the driver compartment, or two of these sets to form six carriages altogether.

Anyway, If you wanted to move from one carriage to another, you had to open the sliding door, then step into this small space with what looked like a sort of grubby off-white, rubbery concertina "floor" beneath your feet, which covered the links between the carriages, and which was wobbling about if the train were in motion, before quickly sliding the door behind you shut, and sliding open the door in front of you to enter the next carriage. All the while shaking from side to side as the train moved.

Some people wouldn't bother to shut the door behind them, so some pissed off traveller in the nearest seat would have to get up and shut it.

More recent stock allows people to see and walk unhindered all the way through the entire train, on solid flooring. But we were made of sterner stuff back then. 😅

The Gili islands. People raved about them and I should have loved them as like beaches etc. But it felt like we were at the end of the world and about to drop off. It was years ago maybe different now but they really gave us the creeps ,

I love that stretch of the M5!!

I visited Mablethorpe last year- the beach was lovely but the people were strange!

Yes, they're visible at low tide, serving as a memorial to the disaster, and a reminder of men's fallibility and the importance of safety standards and testing in design wrt bridges etc. I read that the architect of the original bridge died a broken man, unsurprisingly. I've not taken a train over the current rail bridge, but I've seen the old stanchions many times, when looking out over the Tay while walking along Riverside Drive. Love the sunsets over the river. 🥰

Yes! It was like stepping back thirty years into a time warp. I just mentioned this to my husband and he remembers Roy’s this and Roy’s that 🤣

I find it very creepy.

We have staircases around trees in our local woods - they’re called fairy stairs but why? They’re too big for ‘fairies’ and it makes no sense to have stairs leading nowhere up a tree 🫣

Exactly, obviously feel for the poor lad who died a horrific death and is entombed in there 😱😱 add to list sealed off caves at night

Agree with driving by lakes shudders

I found both Berlin and Derry deeply troubling and oppressive. Sorry to the arty city dwellers, it's not you, it's me as there's clearly a lot to like about both- but I just couldn't shake my own anxiety and was so relieved to leave.

I like empty or underused buildings, provided that it's daytime and they don't feel unsafe. Most places in England are far too crowded. Shops are crammed with displays, attractions are crammed with people, homes are crammed with clutter.

Every spare bit of land has been built on, with too many houses per plot of land, too many flats per converted house and too many bedrooms per HMO.

I love roaming around somewhere that has rooms and rooms of unused space. What a rare luxury!

I don't like them either. I blame those terrifying public information films from the 80s.

The sides of ocean liners when you are close up to them....used to go on large ferries from a very young age and must have some fear memory of embarking and me being small and them being big and alongside...msybe it's the fact they can start moving ...unlike a building

I think it's actually your brain's way of alerting you to the danger.

Perfume and make up counters in department stores.

Boutiques staffed by snotty sales people.

Car salerooms.

Some churches.

Crowded shopping centres.

A few years ago I did a 100k trek - part of the route went through the site of a fixed funfair. I hit that part of the route in the middle of the night - I was absolutely terrified!

Epping Forest. We often go for walks there and it’s just sinister knowing that there are probably lots of undiscovered graves under there

Argh you've awoken an old memory from when I was 8 years old. This was some 50 years ago. My Mum and I were on an overnight train trip between Melbourne and Sydney and had to walk through what must have been around 8 of those wiggling, noisy, terrifying spaces between carriages, with kind of concertina-like 'walls', as our sleeper car was much further back on the train. I was scared stiff and Mum had to practically drag me along and I thought the series of doors and spaces would never end! Horrible!

The Fens

I’m the same with my school. I’m a teacher and if I’m there after hours for parents evening or an event I feel I can’t leave the assembly hall cos it creeps me out.

Empty cinema auditoriums. I don’t go to the cinema because I worry I could be the only one watching that particular film at that time, then I’d freak and run out.

Spaces between doors. I wind the local church clock. One heavy door I have to unlock, go through and close behind me, then another into the building. I always hope someone has left the inside one open as I have claustrophobia.

Seeing buoys on land that are normally out at sea, the big round ones, I don't know why but they give me the shivers