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

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Hatchinganegg · 11/01/2018 21:52

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

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SuperBeagle · 14/01/2018 02:46

Cellar I went to Mary King's Close last month. They mentioned that several people said they felt "something" in the particular part of the tour.

I personally didn't, though.

Cellardoor23 · 14/01/2018 02:52

It was just odd. No mention before, didn't know it was there. I had just walked from one side of the room to the other. I'm not sure if it was connected. If I knew about it, it would have made sense, to me anyway, which is what made it so bizarre.

Cellardoor23 · 14/01/2018 02:59

The second time I went I didn't get that feeling. Not sure if it's because I knew the room was there this time. No idea.

salsmum · 14/01/2018 03:06

Myself and another younger Carer were sent to do a night shift at an elderly clients house..we'd nev

salsmum · 14/01/2018 03:19

Sorry post went up before I'd finished Confused anyway we had to assess this elderly lady and I drove into this very grand looking gated place with gravel drive and a huge big building behind a large grassed area our resident was one of the gatehouses as we drove in... I mentioned to the client that there is supposed to be a an old asylum near there to which she replied this is it dear, they had closed the old asylum and made it into luxury flats. The garden to the rear of the gatehouse was all open and access was from the front as you can imagine we had quite a long night shift and almost got to the stage where we were scaring each other Shock of course the grass in front of the asylum on the hill could quite possibly have a few 'hidden secrets' under it. In the morning when we left it seemed a beautiful setting but in the dark.... I think we were both pleased not to be working on our own that night.

Pinky333777 · 14/01/2018 07:34

Ive just realised ive got my haunted houses mixed up 🙈

BattleCuntGalactica · 14/01/2018 08:28

Preston.

Lindah1 · 14/01/2018 09:18

A particular part of the Arkadi monastery on Crete, there was a massacre there and I got the chills on entering.
Also at Auschwitz, I found most of it to be just very sad, but the courtyard in which people were shot gave me the chills I had to leave immediately

goldengimbas · 14/01/2018 09:20

Why Preston? if you don't mind me asking battlecuntgalactica. I visit there often as I have relatives there

HulaMelody · 14/01/2018 09:49

Probably down to my imagination but...

‘Secret’ bunker tourist attraction in central Scotland. Hugely impressive nuclear bunker with an air system etc that was way ahead of its time back when built in 1950s. But despite it being vast I felt so claustrophobic and the air felt weird. They have a chapel there which gave me the chills. I blame this creepiness on my interest in post apocalptyic stories and movies though!!

We visited Gothenburg a few years back and had a boat tour to an island just out of the city, can’t remember but it was some sort of medieval fort with castle buildings etc with the usual staff in period costume. We took the last boat back to the city along with the staff in the early evening. Had a huge fear we’d be left behind on this island. Felt very isolated, exposed and creepy.

HulaMelody · 14/01/2018 09:53

Also Craighouse campus at Napier University. It had been a secure hospital back in the bad old days. I got lost there once and ended up in the lower floors, all winding corridors, with the remnants of hospital doors and features. I got very panicky and needed out.

They had the student bar in a section of the hospital which apparently had the most ‘restless’ of patients, named Asylum...it has been sold off to be turned into luxury flats...what’s the betting there are a few of those properties with a sense of unease.

FairfaxAikman · 14/01/2018 10:27

@HulaMelody I'm local to that bunker. A friend was manager there and when he signed up to the forces had a leaving party in there - at night.
The long corridor to get underground had me panicked and I bolted through it - I never run.

I was also at uni at Craighouse (after the bar had been moved out). I always found it quite peaceful. The impression I got is that it was more of a voluntary spa than an out-and-out asylum.

DF used to work in a psychiatric hospital. The really old part, where he was based, was the original Victorian district asylum.
All sorts of odd goings on in there - seeing people walking in to rooms, only to vanish.
The staff once decided to play with a ouija board once - the glass shot out from under their fingers and smashed against the wall.

BattleCuntGalactica · 14/01/2018 10:41

@goldengimbas i was being facetious.

goldengimbas · 14/01/2018 11:27

Oh ok

LaurieF · 14/01/2018 11:32

Cliffords Tower in York - can't even tell you the shivers that place gave me. Not sure if it was because I knew the history of it.
@Papa I work in the offices near the old wagon tower and it gives me the creeps!

Armley Mills Museum in Leeds was my most creeper out moment ever. I took the kids on my own a few years ago, felt creeped out and watched the whole time. They have a small cinema room where they were showing some educatuonal historical type stuff. Kids went running in and sat down at the front, i got to the doorway and literally couldn't move. Every hair on my body stood on end, my blood went cold. I tried to take a step forward but couldn't will my legs to move. I shouted the kids back but the wanted to watch the film. There was a really stramge smell of pipe smoke too!
Shouted them again and said please let's just get out of here! There were a few other rooms where I felt pretty uncomfortable.
Got home and investigated online, its pretty haunted... what really freaked me out was the ghost hunt report that mentioned the ghost of an old man who sits at the back of the cinema smoking his pipe.

Dontsayyouloveme · 14/01/2018 11:34

OMG I used to work at Craighouse Campus and often had to work late until early hours of the morning!!! Luckily I never knew it used to be a hospital until now 😱

LaurieF · 14/01/2018 11:43

Forgot to mention I also have the sleep paralysis episodes. I had one very recently where I had woken in the middle of the night and was trying to get back to sleep. I always know when it's coming on cos I hear buzzing and feel like I'm being pushed down onto the bed. I couldn't move and was then grabbed by the foot and dragged off the bed and into the corner of the room. Came round thrashing around with my poor husband trying to shake me out of it. Apparently I was screaming!

OliviaTheFox · 14/01/2018 11:44

@Greensleeves
The clumps? No way. Walked there loads with the dog and it’s lovely.....

BattleaxeGalactica · 14/01/2018 11:45

A pub in Devon.

We went in for lunch and the place was completely empty. They were playing 1920's music and when we asked what was on the menu the landlord replied 'pasties'. We left rather hurriedly convinced we'd discovered Sweeney Todd's country bolthole Grin

QueenOfTheAndals · 14/01/2018 11:49

Mary Kings Close in Edinburgh is getting mentioned a lot here. I visited it about 15 years ago but am disappointed to say that I experienced nothing supernatural there!

Kithulu · 14/01/2018 12:31

Scared myself silly reading half of this last night, finished the rest in daylight!
I'm sure somthing is 'off' about my house, turning lights off to go to bed terrifies me sometimes, i oftern leg it up the stairs. However when i cat sit for a friend going into her home in the pitch black is fine....
Odd things happen but i'm not sure if its just the kids mesding with me. Things go missing then reappear. We had gone shopping once ready for a camping trip and bought some pot noodles. Half unpacked shopping and left them on the side in kitchen. Came back later and they were in one tall stack. Kids swear stone faced it wasn't them.

maysiemay · 14/01/2018 12:37

When I was a little kid visiting family near Berwick Upon Tweed we went out one day. I guess it was the Berwick walls we ended up at the beach after. I distinctly remember walking up a dark stone staircase going up to the light like on the battlements I could see cannons. It was smoky and loud with men in uniforms about. It was quite exciting. I asked my mum a few days later could be go back again. She had no idea what i was talking about. I described it to her and she really didn't know. I was quite cross and insistent we had been there.

SamJ1986 · 14/01/2018 14:16

I second Lincoln castle! I hated it from the minute I walked in and refused to go in any room by myself! It was horrid! All I can remember is this smell and like a great big weight was pushing me down. The court room was the worst with the masks - it makes me feel sick just thinking of it. I can still feel the feeling of hopelessness I felt as I walked around! Even the cafe was really depressing

Glintysea · 14/01/2018 14:18

LaurieF Armley Mills is soooo creepy. Spent a day there last year with a group I belong to. We had a tour round and then had s workshop in one of the rooms. It felt so oppressive and nasty there. Such an interesting place but was very relieved when we left.

leftwiththedognow · 14/01/2018 14:18

@MummysMaison

Brilliant! Wonder if I know any of them Grin