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Places that make you feel uneasy

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BiggyJ · 28/01/2026 16:15

Funfairs always make me feel on edge.

As for empty funfairs... 😱

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Paramaribo2025 · 29/01/2026 07:17

Zoos.
Heartbreaking.
Animals locked up from birth til death.
Disgusting.

MarmaladeSandwich7 · 29/01/2026 07:59

ninjaassassin · 28/01/2026 20:25

Curious why this might be- what history does it have?

I think it might be something to do with the ley lines? I went there as a child but can’t remember much about it really.

ninjaassassin · 29/01/2026 08:26

FireBreathingDragon · 28/01/2026 23:28

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 🫣

https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3iex1h/im_a_search_and_rescue_officer_for_the_us_forest/?share_id=2F6TnF4KqtOhClpKGLZMV&utm_content=2&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1

Enjoy!

PistachioTiramisu · 29/01/2026 09:01

GentleSheep · 29/01/2026 06:19

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!

Me too! When I was a child, my mother and I used to go to London every now and then by train. They always had those concertina connections between carriages and I was petrified of them! I really don't know why!

Alltheprettyseahorses · 29/01/2026 09:03

Ref several PPs - I love glass floors! The one in Blackpool Tower might be my favourite place in the world, shame the Ouch Man has gone though, or at least he had last time I was there.

WiggyClawsThe2nd · 29/01/2026 09:24

BiggyJ · 28/01/2026 20:38

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

I did try and find out why, but no one seemed to know........ maybe I was snoring 🤣

Dontlletmedownbruce · 29/01/2026 09:26

Ship wrecks. The underwater images of the Titanic for example.

Submarines, even photos of them. Terrifying

Dontlletmedownbruce · 29/01/2026 09:30

@BiggyJ did you ever see the images of Pripyat amusement park, the one near Chernobyl. So creepy

UnctuousUnicorns · 29/01/2026 09:39

GentleSheep · 29/01/2026 06:19

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!

Ahh you poor thing, I was a teenager and that was bad enough, at 8 I would have been petrified! No wonder the memory has stayed with you all these years!

gruit · 29/01/2026 09:48

Bristol. Has the most awful energy. I wanted to leave immediately. I’ve been back twice to see if it was me, but it was the same feeling. Don’t get it anywhere else.

UnctuousUnicorns · 29/01/2026 09:53

BiggyJ · 28/01/2026 22:09

Does anybody live near any of these
nightmare inducing traffic calming bollards ...

😱 Fuck me, they're the stuff of nightmares! I'm surprised some poor bastard hasn't crashed into one of them in sheer terror!

BiggyJ · 29/01/2026 10:07

@organisedadmin
@ThePrecisionsifthisislove
@UnctuousUnicorns 🤣

They are utterly terrifying aren’t they. I cannot imagine whoever thought them up would think - Yes, let’s place them by schools so approaching traffic will automatically slow down because there are “children” ahead! Because that is the purpose of them, and apparently you can get them painted to your school colours.
Honestly, they are like something out of a particularly freaky Dr Who episode 😬

https://www.barriersdirect.co.uk/bollards-ferrocast-polyurethane-billy-and-belinda-fixed-decorative-customise-to-suit-your-colour-p1319

Bollards Ferrocast (Polyurethane) "Billy and Belinda" Fixed Decorative - Customise to Suit your Colour

https://www.barriersdirect.co.uk/bollards-ferrocast-polyurethane-billy-and-belinda-fixed-decorative-customise-to-suit-your-colour-p1319

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RaraRachael · 29/01/2026 10:14

I never knew those bollards existed. Utterly terrifying. I'm glad there are none anywhere near here.

ninjaassassin · 29/01/2026 10:16

BiggyJ · 29/01/2026 10:07

@organisedadmin
@ThePrecisionsifthisislove
@UnctuousUnicorns 🤣

They are utterly terrifying aren’t they. I cannot imagine whoever thought them up would think - Yes, let’s place them by schools so approaching traffic will automatically slow down because there are “children” ahead! Because that is the purpose of them, and apparently you can get them painted to your school colours.
Honestly, they are like something out of a particularly freaky Dr Who episode 😬

https://www.barriersdirect.co.uk/bollards-ferrocast-polyurethane-billy-and-belinda-fixed-decorative-customise-to-suit-your-colour-p1319

Bloody hell those are horrific 😱

They remind me of those terrifying public information adverts they had in the 80s/90s which gave me nightmares for months (the ones with kids getting electrocuted by pylons or drowning in water or being abducted by strangers)

Blondiebeachbabe · 29/01/2026 10:44

Mine is a really recent one, and I'd love to hear if anyone else would feel the same.

My elderly neighbour died recently. I went to offer my condolences to his wife, and because she is blind, the flat was in complete darkness (it was night time). I walk by her flat at night, and I can see that there are no lights on (curtains are open), so I know that she is in there, just doing everything in the dark. Now I know that makes sense, but it also freaks me out, and I don't know if I'm being weird?

Other than that, I detest huge machinery, like cranes or enormous diggers. Oh, and an empty wine fridge makes me very uneasy! 😂

footballfan1963 · 29/01/2026 10:45

A village called Clovelly, I think it’s in Devon.

We visited a few years ago en route to our holiday destination. There was a cafe/gift shop at the top of a hill then you went down to the village. It all felt artificial and weird.

Katiesaidthat · 29/01/2026 10:52

Henry8thHoover · 28/01/2026 16:30

Weirs.
Also the workings of reservoirs, the pipes, channels and the plug hole things.

Oh my, those are terrifying. It is more than uneasy, I just want to teletransport myself somewhere else!
Also empty swimming pools, pools at night. Harbours. Large visible objects that have sunk in sea.
Also busy patterns in nature as in open pomegranates, empty beehives, sunflowers.

Dappy777 · 29/01/2026 11:01

canisquaeso · 28/01/2026 22:32

That’s just because people keep insisting on houses instead of just building up. I don’t know why it wouldn’t be better to have bigger apartments instead of depressing, crammed together small houses.

The real problem is the demand. There are just too many people crammed onto this small island. (Actually, there are too many people full stop; in 1900 there were a billion of us, today there are eight billion and we’re heading for ten.) Developers know that, and they take advantage - jamming together as many rabbit hutches as they can. I don’t want houses or blocks of flats. I want fields and trees and birdsong.

Katiesaidthat · 29/01/2026 11:05

Blingismything · 28/01/2026 19:44

Very often the gap in the middle is the same size and shape as a coffin, so if necessary, a coffin could easily be lowered from the upper floors to the ground floor.

Strangely, this doesn´t make me feel better...

midwalker · 29/01/2026 11:17

Dontlletmedownbruce · 29/01/2026 09:26

Ship wrecks. The underwater images of the Titanic for example.

Submarines, even photos of them. Terrifying

I’m so relieved that the Titanic is as terrifying to other people as it is to me. I’d rather look at images of absolutely anything else! Fascinated by anything Titanic-related that is pre-sinking though…

stollenisthebest · 29/01/2026 11:18

Quite a few people have said empty swimming pools. I don't understand that at all - nothing nicer than swimming in a pool all by yourself. Last time I went I did 15 lengths before anyone else got in. Bliss!

MaloryJones · 29/01/2026 11:34

organisedadmin · 28/01/2026 19:40

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!

Nor do I
Last Year I was on a coach holiday in the beautiful Northumberland. During the course of the tour there were many lonely dwellings (though viewable from a main road but still) and my first thought was not of how peaceful it must be with no direct neigbours, but How can they live there ? Every noise in the night would freak Me out.

MarmaladeSandwich7 · 29/01/2026 11:38

stollenisthebest · 29/01/2026 11:18

Quite a few people have said empty swimming pools. I don't understand that at all - nothing nicer than swimming in a pool all by yourself. Last time I went I did 15 lengths before anyone else got in. Bliss!

They mean with no water in - I find that scary too

MarmaladeSandwich7 · 29/01/2026 11:41

I’m very sensitive & often pick up emotions from certain buildings, not always scary.

Katiesaidthat · 29/01/2026 11:41

midwalker · 29/01/2026 11:17

I’m so relieved that the Titanic is as terrifying to other people as it is to me. I’d rather look at images of absolutely anything else! Fascinated by anything Titanic-related that is pre-sinking though…

Do you know what I find so unsettling about the Titanic? That voyage of the two huge pieces down to the bottom of that dark sea until they hit the ground. Just thinking about it makes goosepimples rise.

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