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

Hygge Well that's me never going there again! It's the entire place. It's just so depressing and creepy. There are several derelict buildings in and around the wood, including this terrifying old pumping station, which is in a clearing on the edge of the wood. I literally can't walk past it. shudder

When I was in my last year at university, some friends and I rented an apartment that was part of an old castle. There was a huge wooden door into it, then a creaky staircase to get up to the actual living space. I loved it to begin with, but gradually we stayed there less and less.

One night I was there on my own and asleep in bed. I must have had a waking nightmare, because I ‘woke up’ in the absolute darkness of my bedroom and heard someone coming up the stairs. I wanted to scream, and of course couldn’t move. Eventually I must have woken properly, but had no idea whether it was a dream or real. Spent the rest of the night with the bedside lamp on....

Loads of places round here but the one that stands out is Snowshill Manor- fantastic property but there is a room at the top of the house I just can't go into - feel an overwhelming impression of sadness and the floor feels like it's moving like the deck of a ship. I end up really panicky and like I'm going to throw up but the feeling goes as soon as I get to the stairs - most peculiar

Hygge - completely agree with you on HMS Victory. Horribly oppressive and claustrophobic, but more than just the low ceilings and tricky stairs. There was definitely a feeling of horribly injured people being very close by.

I saw the offer midnight tours MERLIN
Not in a million years!!!!!

There is a mediaeval house near Porthmadog that I went to with my daughter. We only stayed a very short period of time before we both looked at each other and said 'this is creepy' and left again.

Also a village in, I think, Oxfordshire called Stanton Harcourt. It's got a grave in it for a young couple in the 1700 or 1800s who were engaged but were struck by lightning whilst working in the fields. Nothing happened to me or anything, I just remember finding it really inexplicably eerie .

Also the house I grew up in. Totally uninteresting 1950s house but creepy as hell. Although my parents have never found it creepy, but I hated it and still do.

Theresienstadt concentration camp in Terezin in Czech Republic. It was like Auschwitz, but 15,000 inmates were children. It was just awful being there and seeing where these poor people were executed simply for being born. It was so peaceful there in an eerily calm way, especially knowing that there had been so much death and torture right there. I've been to Auschwitz as well (both on a huge school trip through these camps).

In the collections of the Jews' belonging, I found a suitcase with my mom's maiden name on it, and as I had family who were murdered in the Holocaust, it could've been theirs. Just so unnerving.

Crikey madeyemoodysmum, nope nope nope!!

NeedsAsockamnesty - I have a relative who worked for Gloucester County Council during that time. My relative had profesional involvement with deciding what to do with the site and the resulting demolition schedule. This relative is the most down to earth, skeptical person you can imagine but they hated (as did everyone else working on this) every second they had to be there. My relative remembers feeling constantly anxious almost in a terrified childlike way during that period and he drank more during that time too. He's never been professionally involved with anything remotely like this before or since, they had plan for every last bit of all fixtures, fittings and building materials to be destroyed completely and quietly disposed of. There are no words.

...with Bolsover Castle being voted the most creepy by EH staff

Gosh, that's interesting. I've been there so many times, when it's quiet, following the passageways and so on, and let my young DC explore and it's always felt very calm and 'okay.' Actually, the only bit that feels a bit different is in the coldroom underneath. The DC never like to linger there.

It's a remarkable place.

NeedsAsockamnesty - I have a relative who worked for Gloucester County Council during that time.

I'm trying to find socks original post referred to but can't (woo?), can anyone point me to it?

Got the most intense feeling of dread going through The holloway road area in London. Had been having a pleasant morning then utter utter dread until I was out of that area. Found out some time later about the women's prison and some of the awful things that had happened there. I hadn't been aware of these stories and I thinks that's maybe what had been bothering me so much that day. Awful feeling.

Chingle Hall near Preston. Very creepy house, now a vicarage that used to be a hide out for catholic monks during the reformation. Seriously eerie atmosphere. I went with my Dad in the 90's when they did tours of the place; there were about 10 people in our group, the rest of whom were people we didn't know. The tour guide was telling us that, standing on the landing, some people feel as if they are on a boat as the floor feels like it's shifting beneath your feet. I said that I felt that just before she started saying it, and she said "where is it you are doing your nursing training?". I was most freaked out about this as I hadn't mentioned being a student nurse or anything to do with that. I just told her where but always wish I'd asked her how she knew I was a student nurse! Floor moving beneath my feet also very bizarre.
I believe the place is no longer open to the public for tours but has a long history of ghostly sightings and spooky goings on.!

I'm trying to find socks original post referred to but can't (woo?), can anyone point me to it?

Someone upthread mentioned Cromwell Road (or is it Street?). I can't find the post but I suspect that might be what is being referred to.

The site of the battle of Towton between Leeds and york always used to give me the creeps- but that might have something to do with my dad giving me a gory description at the age of 7 of the river turning red from all the blood. Still don't think I'd fancy driving down there on my own in the dark

oooh love this - placemarking to read at lunch.

A holiday home we stayed in a couple of years ago on the Isle of Man. As soon as we arrived it just felt odd (not helped by the fact that I have never seen so many spiders all in one house, each room had about 20 or so. Not woo, more eww). I can't really explain but I felt really upset when we got there and didn't know if I could spend the night let alone six. It was a big old detached house with 5 bedrooms but none of us felt we wanted to take the attic bedroom so we left that empty.
Anyway some odd things happened over the week, such as hearing keys being pressed on the old grand piano in the lounge even though none of us were in there. There were 3 separate occasions where there was a knock at the front door and when one of us went to answer it there was nobody there. This also happened to me in the middle of the night - there was a knock at my bedroom door which woke me and I got up to answer it but nobody was there! Then the next morning my mum told me that during the night she had this overwhelming feeling that there was a presence in her room and she felt it was standing over her but she kept her eyes shut tightly.
Oh and in my room there was a window seat that I just felt I couldn't look at. Weird.
Oh and finally when we went to leave I had a nose through the guest book. There were several comments left at different times by different people saying 'where do the rugs go at night?' and 'who moves the rugs at night?'. Well that freaked me the fuck out. I mean there weren't any rugs at all when we were there as clearly they kept getting moved! Couldn't wait to leave!

TisConfusion have you looked it up on Trip Advisor?

I've looked and it's not on TripAdvisor! Can't find any reviews on it anywhere. There was definitely something going on though!

This is the place though

Tis I think I’d have left fairly sharpish.

Been to both Blackpool & Sheringham & not felt a thing! In fact quite liked Sheringham....

Looks very pretty

Borley Rectory was demolished in 1944, according to wikipedia.

Mine was at Edinburgh castle. Stepped down into an area and felt like a heavy, wet/cold blanket had been dropped over my shoulders. I actually stooped under the weight of it. Couldn’t get past the people coming in and went into a panic. Pushed my way out and spent the rest of the afternoon afternoon flicking something away from my shoulders that wasn’t there. It genuinely felt like I carried it around all day with me. Mid August too so it was hot but I was freezing cold and it took me ages.
Stranger still that dh had had the same feeling in the same place years before and told me but not where it was. I expected it to be in the dungeons so when it hit I wasn’t expecting it. Apparently the story is what the Red Wedding from game of thrones is based on. Awful feeling.

My ex stepmothers mums house was supposedly built on an ancient burial ground. I would have been about 14/15 years old. I hated visiting. It had the most oppressive atmosphere and a really odd layout. It was a bungalow with a tiny bedroom built into the roof area. Everything else was downstairs including the loo. I never went anywhere on my own and even mad my brother stand outside the bathroom when I went to pee. My dad once took me up to show me the bedroom and there was an obviously dint on the duvet and mattress as if someone was sat down but no one was there. It was so much more oppressive upstairs. It felt genuinely evil and like it wanted us all out. She apparently knew she had ghosts and welcomed them all.
Was so glad when dad and step mum divorced !