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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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PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks · 14/01/2018 14:53

I'm a Knotter, and, yes, Edge Hill.

SpringBlossom2018 · 14/01/2018 15:09

Loving all these stories.

My Father used to live very rurally, I have fond memories of my childhood going cycling for hours, or walking in the woodlands for hours, there was even a church on the top of the hill, none of this used to bother me. However my Father used to have to drive down a backroad to get to his village, me and my Sister would always get the heebie jeebies whilst he was driving down there. It was well lit as it was the only route into the village.

LavenderLemons · 14/01/2018 15:12

Mine wasn’t a place, but a thing. I worked in an office in a lovely old Cotswold market town and every lunchtime I used to go out, buy a sandwich and wander about the high street and shops.

One day a shiny, black old 1940s classic car was coming down the street towards me. I instantly felt complete and utter panic on seeing it, so much so, I started running and looking for somewhere to hide.

After it had gone, I tried to rationalise my reaction but couldn’t. I described the car to my DH later and he said the distinctive chevron on the radiator grille meant it was an old French Citroen.

Still have no idea what that was all about but the gut wrenching fear I felt at the time was totally real.

SpringBlossom2018 · 14/01/2018 15:14

I have noticed a few posts about ribbons and rags in certain places. I have been told before, apparently, that this is to warn people this is a resting place and it should be left undisturbed, I think it dates back to old pagan rituals (as in they'd try and lay the spirit(s) to rest) but I shall look and see if I can find anything.

troodiedoo · 14/01/2018 15:19

No logical reason, probably just me being a din but the fair at Southport made my blood run cold and I couldn't wait to leave. I'm not usually affected by such things at all!

FurryTurnipHead · 14/01/2018 15:21

Sheringham in Norfolk. No idea what it was about the place. Felt like my skin was crawling and there was just an awful atmosphere. Have been twice, felt the same both times.

I love the rest of Norfolk though!

Also hated Bude in Cornwall. I must get freaked out by down and out seaside towns out of season.

ImNotWhoYouThinkIAmOhNo · 14/01/2018 15:22

An old, deserted family burial crypt - like a tiny church - in a secluded clump of trees, big enough that the crypt couldn't be seen from any road. We used to dare each other to go there as kids, when we were maybe 10-12 years old.

SpringBlossom2018 · 14/01/2018 15:25

troodiedoo I had that on a visit to a Museum with my DM once. I'm fascinated by historical things yet I felt so uncomfortable in this place, and wanted to get out quickly.

A friend of mine had an experience in Newstead Abbey. It's a magnificent place. She was fine around the gardens yet felt like someone was watching her constantly once she was in 'the house'.

FurryTurnipHead · 14/01/2018 15:32

And I forgot to add Morecombe to my list. Couldn't get out of there fast enough. Made me feel terribly sad.

troodiedoo · 14/01/2018 15:33

@SpringBlossom2018 ooh interesting! A few similar posts so it must be an actual thing Gin

ArchchancellorsHat · 14/01/2018 16:12

Spring, i think it might be called a clootie stick, at least in Scotland. Some of my mother's friends did one when she died. It was a memorial rather marking where she died though.

ArchchancellorsHat · 14/01/2018 16:15

The rest of the world apparently knows them as wish trees. I tried to copy the link but only got the Wikipedia homepage

KirstieK · 14/01/2018 16:38

Berry Pomeroy castle in Devon. We visited on a family holiday, it was a bright summers day, but it didn't turn out to be the happy trip we'd hoped for.
My Mother still brings it up from time to time. I did a google search on the castle and it wasn't just us, turns out it's notorious. Shudder.

TooManyButtons · 14/01/2018 16:57

There's a wood in Doncaster popular for dog walking, it's always really busy, especially at weekends. Creepy as fuck. Every time I've been I've felt incredibly depressed and unsettled.

Mum2mischiefs · 14/01/2018 17:05

My first job was a kitchen assistant in a nursing home. The building was an old building with new extensions stuck on either end of it; a few centuries previous the original building had been a school for naughty boys. There was one corridor upstairs which went through the middle of the old building and even thinking about it now makes the hackles on the back of my neck go up.

Lots of the old people would mention talking to the 'little boys' and in particular, one called 'Joseph'. After a while there, I'd occasionally work a night shift as a care assistant and I would hate it when, in the wee small hours, one of the call bells upstairs would go off. I never saw anything but there was definitely a presence.

I grew up down the road from Edgehill and there were lots of stories about being able to hear the sounds of battle in the dead of night.

IslaMann · 14/01/2018 17:10

Anne Franks house, and the reception hall on Ellis Island. Both places, while not creepy, filled me with such intense feelings of sadness, despair and oppression.

olbndansmummy · 14/01/2018 17:12

Not my own experience, but my old workplace was a very old factory, and my then boss used to swear he had seen a chap in the ladies when he locked up in the dark. Anyway this went on for about 5 years and the chap only appeared in the winter months. Once it got dark there were odd noises and things getting moved. Got someone in to ask the man to move on and he did. We decided to do some investigation and found out that there was a dies chap who used to work away during the summer months, come back to his family business during the winter to help out, then he hung himself in what was then the office, but became our ladies! Looking back it was always cold in there, but factory toilets always seem cold. Never saw him myself, would have bobbed myself if I had!

Vanillaradio · 14/01/2018 17:14

A few people have mentioned Edinburgh and the underground vaults and the pagan temple. Went on a ghost tour there a few years ago and one room just felt wrong. Like someone didn't want me there and it wanted to harm me. The tour guide then said that a presence in that room didn't like women and could all the women go and stand on one side of the room as the presence would be less likely to go that side. That is the only place I have ever felt anything like that.

Placeboooooooo · 14/01/2018 17:24

The Cage St. Osyth Essex. There was something pure evil in tha house and a harrowing sense of despare

InsomniacAnonymous · 14/01/2018 17:30

KirstieK "Berry Pomeroy castle in Devon."

What happened?

Dizzylin · 14/01/2018 17:40

Little cottage in the Lake District. DH and I stayed there one Halloween, before DC came along. It was down a little dirt road on the shores of Windermere, lovely spot but inside just had a eerie feeling. One afternoon DH had gone for a sleep, I heard him yelling so went up to the bedroom to see what was wrong. He waz drenched in sweat after having a nightmare. DH and I were feeling very unnerved when all of a sudden we heard "wa ha ha ha ha" both of us absolutely crapped ourselves before realising it was my phone - I had it as a txt tone with it being Halloween 😂

IslaMann · 14/01/2018 17:41

Meant to add to my earlier post, that I lived at Glenside (mentioned very early on in the thread), I never experienced any bad feelings. In fact there were still psychiatric wards open there when I lived there, and the in patients were freely roaming the grounds. None of them were threatening though, just a little inappropriate at times.

MissClareRemembers · 14/01/2018 17:44

My BIL used to have a house on Bodmin Moor. Lovely house but so isolated. It was also incredibly dark as obviously no street lights. We were staying one Christmas when DS was a baby. He had a tummy bug and I was up with him in the night. His travel cot was at the end of our bed. As I laid him back in, bending over the cot, I felt DH brush past me presumably on the way to the toilet.

I turned around and DH was fast asleep in bed.

FluffyFerrets · 14/01/2018 17:57

Mine has to be Treblinka (Nazi death camp in Poland) Arriving in the middle of a huge forest you see what's left of the train tracks, which was used for transporting the poor souls. The feeling is awful, eerie and made me feel quite nauseous. I couldn't shake it off and it stayed with me for many hours after I left.
Another is inside Edinburgh vaults. Depending on the quality of guide you choose to go with. Ours was really good and gave lots of information and historical facts. You get a real creepy and uneasy sense of what the people had to endure while underneath Edinburgh.