What is the creepiest place you've ever been to?

[Hatchinganegg]

Was just talking about this with DH earlier. I remember going on a visit to Edgehill as a child and finding it really spooky. We'd been watching videos in school about the Civil War and there was talk of the phantom armies etc, so I think it was a combination of that and how strange it was that all these nice quiet green fields were once a battlefield

The second place was a ruined abbey in Ireland. Lovely sunny day when we visited, but my skin was crawling the whole time we were there and I kept feeling as though there was something peeping at me fron behind the walls

Nyamata Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda is the most disturbing place I've ever been. Brexity, ex-market towns in England are the creepiest.

Obviously I've never been but drone footage I've seen of Pripyat freaks me out.

Coombe Abbey in Coventry. A company I worked with many moons ago used to pay for an overnight stay for employees and their partners for their Christmas do. It’s an amazing medieval hotel. The first year we went, we stayed in an incredibly decadent 4 poster bedroom. However at night it was pitch black and the room felt very ‘heavy’. All night long we could hear footsteps walking above us - the next morning we mentioned it to Reception when checking out as the Receptionist enquired whether we had slept well. We told her quite honestly no, as the people staying in the room above ours kept us awake constantly walking around. She told us that there wasn’t another floor above our room, only attic space...!

Also, when I was young, my grandparents lived down a beautiful tree lined road with many large properties, leading down to a river. A few doors down there was an old big house that just had an ‘aura’ around it. My mum told me how when she was a teenager at home, she was interested in photography and one day had taken a whole film of pictures on her new camera of the area including this house, as although it was creepy, it was beautiful too. When she went to get the photos developed, not a single photo of the house had come out - they were all blank. Yet every other picture taken had come out fine!!

Brats that's horrible! Just given me shivers down my spine

Lindisfarne gave me the creeps, I couldn't get off it quickly enough.
Glastonbury- I have no idea why but it's got a really weird vibe, odd people wandering around.

Thanks for the clarification as well gryffen that would definitely freak me out.
I've been to the catacombs pittapatter I didn't find them freaky at all, they were quite peaceful and kind of made me feel a bit insignificant but not creepy. I didn't like that photography was allowed though.

@halfwit

The Silent Inn is definitely 'not right' - we live quite nearby. DM once stayed there with a boyfriend for an, ahem, romantic evening.

There was no romance. They got into bed and were soon 'joined' by a presence who sat on the bed at the end, and refused to shift.

DM is kinky I suspect, but possibly not kinky enough for that...

One of the buildings at St Fagans nr Cardiff freaked me out when I visited. I love history and find St Fagans very interesting, but went with my dad and stepmum (and dog Tessa) a while back. I went into one house on my own but could not go into the back room. I just felt like something didn't want me to go in and was forcing me out. I virtually ran out back to my family. A guy was there who worked at St Fagans and he told me that staff won't go in that building after dark without being accompanied.
I've also lived in a flat that I was convinced was haunted. Anyone who slept in the bedroom had the most horrific nightmares. My friend and I spent every night sleeping in the lounge on the Tony sofas as neither of us could cope with being in the (very comfortable) bed in the bedroom.
Oh and mum and dad had friends in Kendal in the Lake District who had a hotel. Both the friends and their daughter had all had unexplainable experiences, including coming down to the kitchen one morning to find all the vegetable oil drums (I think) stacked in the middle of the room. When they locked up the night before,the drums had been in a different room. One of the waitresses went to the toilet upstairs, after the restaurant closed one night. The toilet suddenly started flushing over and over, and the cubicle door was rattling hard like someone was trying to get it. She ran downstairs and quit that night.

Oh and I also remembered that when I was a child we stayed in the house next door for a few weeks, in which an elderly neighbour had passed away in the year before and was empty (ours was being refurbished at the time). There was such a creepy atmosphere there. We all ended up sleeping in one bedroom upstairs.

Another creepy place I found was when I first started dating my husband. We went on a bit of a recce to find a country pub for lunch. We drove through a dense forest before coming to a funny quaint pub off a beaten track. Similarly to another Poster, when we went in there was a hushed silence and the handful of locals all turned to glare at us. When we approached the bar this haggard looking woman croaked out “Yeeeees..? What do yooooou want???” It was like something from a fairytale book I kid you not! She told us they had stopped serving lunch and we legged it out with everyone staring at us like we might be served on the menu! The strange thing is, we couldn’t find this pub again when we tried looking months later either!!!!

Oddly enough, I've heard people say they found Lindisfarne gave them the creeps, but I didn't find that myself. I struggled at Conwy Castle, though, found it not creepy but oppressive.

Brats - no idea but body farms would normally be away from where Scuba takes place in a marked zone. I know America has them but UK doesn't (though the Tory party are walking zombies).

Only other creepy place I have been and felt something was in East Wemyss down the old street that has the blocked up toilets on it. A young boy was murdered 'done in' there and his murderer was finally captured near the caves. His spirit is said to stay there and I believe it - any animal especially dogs go mental down there and you feel so cold and sad as you pass the toilet block.

Think the wee man name was John and his story is there to read.

Steerage on the SS Great Britain always gives me the shivers,as does the captain's cabin.

Also a certain spot in Taunton Museum always leaves me with a blinding headache and feeling of sickness which goes as soon as I leave the area.

Still lolling at Redcar.

Maybe not creepy but I certainly felt on edge in Margate and in Dover. Both had a really depressing black cloud feel. I couldn't wait to get out of both towns.

Mevagissey harbour, cornwall. Smuggler heartland, I always find it creepy.

And parts of Plymouth, maybe less creepy, more draining and depressing. A few hours there is as much as I can deal with.

Sachsenhausen near Berlin. I've been a few times and almost threw up last time. It's a strong physical reaction. I had to stay in the cafe with a book.

For anyone who knows Leeds there's a really old building on the land between Wellington street and Whitehall road. It's currently in the middle of a load of new office buildings but when I was a kid in the early 1990s there was a retail park there with a jolly giant, MFI, land of leather etc - just as the out of town retail parks were staring to catch on.

My dads since told me it was something to do with loading wagons for the railway and is listed but it always really gave me creeps. Not sure if it was just Cos it was such a strange thing to have in the middle of a the carpark and was in contrast to the modern buildings but I used to get shivers every time I looked at it.

Funnily enough i now don't mind it but not sure if that's Cos it blends in better with the newer architecture

I went to Culloden battlefield and ......... never felt a thing. Was just like walking in a field. Obviously it was sad because a lot of people died there but I didn’t feel spooked or woo or anything.

Nessieland on the banks of Loch Ness. They have a playhouse for children with a few rooms with a ball pit and a craft table etc. I went there with my sister when we were about fifteen and I've never felt such misery in anywhere else. I felt like someone had truly suffered there, maybe a child. It was really bizarre. My mum reckons something bad much have happened on the land long before Nessieland was there. Although there was something dodgy about the whole establishment.

We drove from Alice Springs to Uluru and stopped at a roadhouse at Stuarts Well famous for Dinky, the singing dingo. It was such an eerie place - Twin Peaks-esque surrealness- that I cant really explain. When one of our party went to the loo I said to my husband "We're not going to see him again are we?" We did of course but I was so glad to get out of there!

I agree with pp re the German underground hospital in Jersey. I was only 6 when we went but have vivid memories of it and also of Gorey Castle, there were waxworks of some kind in the castle and a really creepy commentary about how prisoners died trying to escape etc. It all gives me the heebie-jeebies!

Beatty in Death Valley

Odd

Pendle, horrible history and always freaks me out when I pass x

Salem, Massachusetts was quite creepy for obvious reasons but there was a ‘witch house’ that was the only building that dated as far back as the witch hunts. It was very creepy.

The cell house at Alcatraz is creepy too.

Wigan.

Pendle also!