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

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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

A hotel in downtown LA. Stayed there three nights and felt skin-crawlingly uncomfortable the whole time I was there. It just felt wrong wrong wrong. Hated it. Never felt like that about a place before or since. I actually paid for a whole new plane ticket just so I could leave sooner.

Three years later Elisa Lam was found dead there. It was the Hotel Cecil.

Tinkerbec totally agree with you about the awfulness of Alcatraz, and I was very far from being a teenager when I visited

I'm nobody's lefty liberal, but even so I had to remind myself constantly that most didn't have to be there ...

I have no idea where I was but many years ago I was travelling along the east coast with a friend. We went to a place (not sure if it was the wash?) which was a good walk through some marshy type land to an open beach. It was well known for the tide coming in at enormous speed.
Anyway, my friend had gone off somewhere and I was the only one on the beach, It was grey and very windy and the absolute power from the sea combined with the dark sky and alone-ness was terrifying. The sea started to come in really fast. I felt like I was at the end of the earth itself.
I ran back, must have looked like an idiot!

Alcatraz was an odd combination. We went on the most perfect beautiful day. the sun was shining, pretty boats with white sails on the blue and walking up te hill to the prison, there were lilies and flowers blossoming by the path. A cypress tree grew at an angle and looked suspended out over the sky and the sea. For a moment it looked like Greece...till we went inside the building. I got as far as the reception area and bolted back out again.
Awful place. The shower heads in the ceiling looked like gas chambers. My daughter and husband trotted round, took pics of her sitting in a cell and throuoghly enjoyed themselves. I kept staring out to the city and willing the boat to come back pronto.

Interesting to see Wincanton mentioned. DH and I were driving back to south coast from Bath and Wimcanton one of the places we follow signs for it but just before it the Sat Nav freaked out , so we had to ditch it and we had a weird period of time where whatever we did we just kept driving past Castle Cary station (4 times) and it suddenly was much later than expected.

Have driven that way many times and never happened before . We ended up laughing but it was all a bit weird and we were glad the DC weren’t with us as they would have moshed about lengths of time trip took. Wasn’t creepy particularly but a bit weird and there was a low flying plane just around there at one point during it that kind of just vanished from view when it shouldn’t have and for a moment we thought it might have crashed.

Bodmin Moor and Dartmoor give me the creeps and I don’t feel entirely comfortable in Launceston. Glastonbury on the other hand does nothing to me.

@Killdora I had a similar experience in a very creepy flat I used to live in.

I was lying in bed, but I had kept the hall light on and my door open. I don't remember falling asleep, but when I opened my eyes my door was shut and I was lying in pitch darkness terrified. I closed my eyes again and when I opened them, my room was back to normal. Must have happened in the space of about 2 minutes.

I got up and stayed in the living room that night!

DMCWelshCakes I THINK it was Cilewent Farmhouse (having looked at the website). There were stables inside the house then the main room to its right, and then a room at the back. It was the back room that I couldn't go in.

A medical history museum outside Heidelberg Castle in Germany. It had all these creepy medical samples in formaldehyde taken from autopsies and lots of gruesome surgical tools on show. I’ve been to other medical museums but this one had an unpleasant vibe. We didn’t stay long!

I’ve been to plenty of sad places with a history of death and suffering - Jewish Museum in Budapest, Russian-German war museum in Berlin, former Gestspo HQ in Berlin with exhibit on the victims of Gestapo terror, gulag Museum in Moscow, Famine mass graves in Ireland - but they weren’t creepy, they just made me really sad. So much suffering for people who were innocent victims is hard to witness but not creepy as such.

@downsize , Blagdon House?

I live close to Saddleworth Moor and while I’ve never found it to be unpleasant or creepy - in fact it’s a beautiful place - I had one night driving home where I became more and more convinced that someone was sat in the back seat of the car. I could feel them behind me but couldn’t see anything in the mirror. It was cloudy with barely any light at all outside and the headlights seemed to be getting dimmer and dimmer by the second. There were no other cars in sight at all, it was very strange! I ended up with the radio on full blast and my fog lights on going as fast as I could just to get over.
When I got closer to home my phone rang, it was my Mum who had been trying to get hold of me and I realised that on top of what I felt my phone had also lost its signal which is something that has never happened over there.
Been over the moors plenty of times since and there’s been nothing.
The area where the coin clippers operated is definitely creepy though, there’s a cottage that's now a holiday home that’s supposed to be connected to them and there’s no way I’d stay there!

Great thread!!

The Glasgow Necropolis is, frankly, shit-your-pants scary. Me & some uni chums decided to have a wander about on a Saturday afternoon and couldn't get out of there fast enough.

I suppose it's meant to be morbid but, bloody hell, Victorian cemeteries are a whole different level of spooky. Every statue or stone angel looks like it's about to turn and look straight at you...

House of Terror Budapest
Bodmin Moor
Oradur sur Glane

But for me it's got to be The Valley of the Fallen, near Madrid, where Franco is buried. It feels like the Spanish don't really want you to go there. Poorly signposted with the grounds unkempt and the finicular railway to the cross never repaired. The day we went the sky was grey and forboding and the place was deserted. Stunning but as creepy as hell.

Also, a Native American sacred woodland somewhere on Cape Cod. We saw a small sign and decided to take a look.

We definitely didn't feel welcome. We plodded on and found a huge cave in the middle of the woods and then we realised that we couldn't hear a single bird. It just felt wrong. We scarpered to find civilisation in the town down the road.

Didn't then help that the town we then stopped at looked exactly like a Stephen King location. Clapboard houses, totally deserted in the middle of the day and menacing clowns staring at us. Except not that last thing. Probably.

For my birthday a couple of years ago we went to Bath & stayed in a gorgeous pub, real fire, proper ales etc, it was built in the 13th century & has rooms, very old rooms that you can stay in. Lots of history to the place, lots of heavy old wooden furniture.

We were asleep that night, not freaked out at all, had had a lovely day when I woke up because I knew something had just walked round to my side of the bed, had put both his hands on the covers and leaned down over me watching me. I couldn't open my eyes as I knew I would see him silhouetted against the window, as there were lights on outside. I just knew someone was there & it was not a living human & it meant me harm.

I can tell myself now it was a dream. Interestingly we stay in a lot of old places, but this is the first & only time I've ever felt threatened or countenanced a ghost.

Pendle, horrible history and always freaks me out when I pass
I live in Burnley, near Pendle and my house has an amazing view of the 'Nick'. I also visited the 'witches cottage' that was found a few years ago (now reburied). Fascinating stuff.
I LOVE the place - horrible history but stunning. I actually feel very peaceful on and around the hill.
Shit, maybe I'm a witch (husband nods sagely)

I went on a ghost hunt to an old pavilion in the middle of the night, that was pretty creepy.

Castello Eurialo, in Sicily. It's a ruined Greek fort. The upper levels are OK but the lower ones...

I really couldn't get of there fast enough and I don't scare easily. I wasn't happy til I was back in the car and a mile down the road. It was so bad I actually deleted all the photos I'd taken from my camera and nothing on earth would get me back there.

Before DH and i were married we stayed the night in an old inn in Brackley, Northants. We've stayed in loads of hotels together - some 'sterile' like Premier Inn ect, and lots of 'cosy' style old inns with original features - but they've all just felt the way all hotel rooms do: ie a bit souless.

This room however felt like 'someone's' space. I felt an odd atmosphere as soon as we walked in. Looked luxurious. Lovely bed, spotless bedding, wool throws, massive pillows ect. The fire place very near the bed and was enormous. Way too big for the room which showed the space was made by partitioning up a much much bigger room. Very fancy plaster work at the top of the external wall but not the internals ect. The proportions were all off. The floor wasn't level. Creaky floorboards. I wondered if these things were causing the odd feeling. During the evening i asked DH if the room felt weird and he said yes.

During the night i woke up and lay there thinking 'something's different'. Couldn't pin point the feeling. Felt as if something had woken me up. I craned my neck up and looked down the bed and across the room to the door of the en suite. And bugger me i thought i could see a figure! I blinked and sat up a bit and it was still there. I poked DH but he just grunted. The shape was upright but shorter than an adult and see through. The room wasn't totally dark and this shape was a darker grey than the dark of the room if that makes any sense at all!? I sat up fully and leaned forward and really looked, frowning. I felt no fear. Which is odd in itself. No malevolence. Just that things weren't quite right. The room was freezing cold and the figure gradually faded away over the space of a minute roughly and i was left sitting bolt upright staring at a door wondering weather to wake DH.

I lay awake then till morning. This must have happened at about 4am i guess. Told DH and he was jealous!

leftwiththedognow I used to live in Burnley too and always felt fine on and around Pendle Hill itself. There was an abandoned house set back in a field on the road there from where we lived though and it totally creeped me out. I used to make dh drive the long way around just so we didn’t have to go past it.

Haven’t had time to read the full thread yet and am interested if anyone else has mentioned my creepiest places.

First one is the soldier barracks part of Edinburgh castle. Felt very uneasy and couldn’t get through it quick enough.

Similar feeling at Inveraray Jail. Found the place had a horrible atmosphere and I was on edge the whole time. This wasn’t helped by the lifelike waxworks and sounds of prison life. We went into one cell that had a waxwork of a prisoner making fishing nets and were reading the displays on the wall. Suddenly the waxwork coughed and moved - it was a guide in period dress - but we were so terrified we just fled! Out of the cell, down three flights of stairs, out the building, out of the exit and didn’t stop running until we were well away from the place.

Don’t think I would ever go back there if you paid me!

I think Bristol had one of the biggest collection on mental
Hospitals - called bedlam s?
If you are into energies .. etc .. I guess that you would be picking up on the things that may have happened there ..?
I went unknowingly to a site of a battle and I had to leave . I felt utter terror . The other incident was in a cottage and it looked lovely . By the first night I felt uneasy . The second I felt really really bad - as if there was a pressure on me . The next am I felt as if I was under a massive physical weight . We left at lunchtime . We lost the money on the cottage - I cdnt explain it - the relief when we left was physical !!! What's that about then?' ! In my past profession I have been in some pretty horrible houses , old Victorian psychiatric hospitals were I know from my training people were in straight jackets etc but this is the only time this feeling was so very marked !

Creepy doesn’t seem adequate but Dachau.
My and my friends went en route to camping in Italy from Berlin with their parents. Being 11/12, we got nervous giggles a bit in the car park as we knew it was a really serious place. All concern about controlling ourselves disappeared as we left the car and made our way there. The atmosphere was leaden, terrible. I don’t think we talked about it afterwards.
Less gravely, I found Port Merrion creepy, is really looked forward to visiting it but I didn’t like it at all.

Not rtft but Bodmin Jail. Went when I was about 15. I didn't get very far, atmosphere was so oppressive I had to leave. Several other family members felt the same. Still makes my hair stand on end thinking about it.

I love history and really enjoyed visiting places and learning about them. One of the scariest was in Belgium in the location of some trenches and tunnels. It was incredibly eery and I felt like we were being watched constantly. In one of the tunnels I swear I felt someone touch my ear.

I also stayed in Ravensbrueck which was a women’s concentration camp north of Berlin. They turned the old SS barracks into a youth hostel and there were doors being banged at night and some very strange noises. I stayed one night before being asked to be moved

Bodmin gaol

Was having loads of fun walking around when mine and my nans dog (you were allowed to take dogs in) suddenly started barking at one particular cell.

They were staring really hard into it and hackles up and everything

Creeped us out just a little bit