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

Where I work at the moment is pretty creepy. I can’t say exactly where but it is an old University. There is one room that I have to lock up at night once everyone else has gone. It freaks me out. You just get a sense like there is someone else in there looking at you.

LearnFromThePast we had a lecturer at uni who was the old school 'take no nonsense' kind. So not easily scared.
They used to tell a story of how they went to prank the students one Halloween by hiding in the old bits the students wouldn't necessarily know and making ghostly noises. Only problem was, a lot of unexplainable scary stuff started to happen whilst they were all in there and they scared themselves witless instead!

A little flat at the very top of a house that we looked at to rent in muswell hill, London. It was horrible. I didn't want to spend more than 30 seconds in there. This was 25 years ago now, but yuck I remember. It's probably been bought out as a whole house now, and all refurbished and fancy. I wonder if it still feels weird tho.

When I was quite small (I think seven or so?) and on a holiday to the UK (lived o/s), DMum and DBro went off to do something boring, so DDad and I decided to visit the tunnels under...I want to say Dover? I don't think they've been open that long though?
Anyway
Exactly the kind of secrety-spy thing little me loved, I remember vibrating with excitement in the ticket line.
Off we toddled, and everything was great and really interesting, and I pestered Ddad with All The Questions, until we went into the old operating theatre. It felt so wrong, like it wasn't meant to be there. I kept checking for the door and eventually made Ddad carry me until I felt better.

More recently, DD and I were in London by ourselves for the day and waiting for the tube at Old Street. Middle of the day, completely empty station. That was weird in itself, but when the train pulled in, nobody got off and the carriage was empty...yeah that was creepy. Creepier still, we pulled in at Angel, nobody got off, nobody on the platform. Was quite relieved to see the multitudes at Kings Cross!

expat from what I read about Borley, the Bull sisters faked or exaggerated some stuff but other sightings, etc were independently claimed.

Car park at Lakeside Shopping Centre. Before Christmas there was extensive building work going on so lots of access areas closed off and had to park in a multi storey car park I have never used before. First level was full so went up to level 2 and it was fairly empty. Parked almost slap bang in the middle of car park, middle of the row with a white car to our right and loads of space. Had to enter Shopping Centre through a temporary entrance through a department store. Coming back we followed the same route through the shop and out same door into car park.

Got to car park and my car was nowhere, literally walked round and round which was pointless as my car had been in the middle so easy to spot. Panicking now we went down a level to check we hadn't made a mistake. My car is not the kind anyone would bother to steal. A male cleaner came up and asked if we were ok, he was friendly and i told him the situation. He offered to come with us but I declined as I felt a bit off about him. Went back to our level and there was my car. In the furthest corner, next to a wall, nose to the barrier. I had parked it in the middle - no wall, no barrier. I felt so weird and vulnerable and creepy, doubted myself and was afraid of actually getting in the car in case some one was in there or had tampered with it. My amazing DD was really cheery and practical but I felt absolute dread in that car park and could not wait to leave. All the way home we puzzled over it, cannot explain what happened but we both know that car had been moved and that car park felt like a dark, oppressive place almost mocking. I have never and will never go back.

I'm loving that the M50 and the Lakeside shopping center car park have joined my M40

Dogmum2017 - sounds like Tuffins at Craven Arms. The rest of Shropshire thinks that’s an odd place too!

Fucking hell, I've been to Tuffins at Craven Arms! Tuffins is the supermarket, yes, not the cafe? I find the supermarket OK although I feel glared at for buying the Guardian rather than the Mail, but do remember seeing people sitting outside the cafe who seemed to be scowling at me/at the world in general.

SisterMortificado the tunnels under Dover have been open since I was about 19, definitely. So about 1986.

@Fenellapitstop - interesting you say that about Donnington Castle (I'm assuming you mean the ruins near Newbury here) as that is one of my favourite places. I find it calm, serene and can lose hours just sitting and reading.

However. Just once, not long after the bypass kerfuffles, I was up there with my Mum and it just felt AWFUL. There was definitely a feeling of something telling us to get out and that feeling followed us down the path, into the car and down almost as far as the pub.

Also the A34 feels very glum to me. It feels like the longest road in the world and I'm always on edge and feeling like I'm about to have an accident on it. Especially the bit where it kind of seems to narrow around Witney.

Just read the post about Armley Mills. I went there with friends on a beautiful sunny day. One of the staff started up the first machine to show us how it worked - after a minute I went freezing cold and my ears started ringing as if I was going to pass out. Had to sit down and drink some water - didn’t feel right at all. It was horrible. Once the machine stopped I started to feel a bit more normal but not a comfortable place at all

@ladyflumpalot
Was worried folks would think me bonkers about that bit of A34! Always think car is going to ditch with an unseen helping hand! Go that way to Dorset all the time and love it down there, but dread that part of the journey.

@olbndansmummy I live in Dorset and go up and down to Milton Keynes a lot! I'm always so pleased when I see the sign for the A303 coming up!

A building that used to be an orphanage in communist era Romania - I visited with someone who had grown up there as she described the horrors she and others had endured - the moment we got out of the car all around was silence except the constant cawing of crows circling overhead. You could literally feel the anguish and suffering oozing out of that place and I am also not woo at all.

@ladyflumpalot
We're always glad to pass Witney, whichever direction we're going! Just an odd stretch of road, so jealous of you living there! Love Dorset

@GrumpyOldMare YY to Taunton Museum! I get it in the room with the fireplace, I have to leave immediately!!!!

@LaVieEstBelle159 that's the spot!

The German Underground Hospital in Guernsey - much creepier than the Jersey one in my opinion because much less touristified (and also virtually deserted when I visited some years ago).Also the Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire - again deserted when I visited - completely freaked me out.

Oh - and just remembered the Hellfire caves at West Wycombe - went years ago with my mum. Incredibly creepy.

@lady flumpalot, it was the Newbury one, it’s always felt ok, I know it was involved in the battle of Newbury in the civil war. It didn’t even feel that creepy just that an invisible thing was prodding my arse

zeezeek I know that Telegraph Hill bit and I've not driven down there for years now. Bloody scary. I think there have been murders up there although that could be hearsay.

lilian what ARE the hellfire caves? Went past them on the train once and saw that big weird building on top of the hill and my whole body just went ‘nope, don’t like that’.

@GrumpyOldMare bizarrely I used to get the same feeling when I worked in Hammet Street (storage of files in the cellars) and the attic rooms of then Stead & Simpsons. Taunton is full of spooky places.

@LaVieEstBelle159 that's Somerset for you. Another spot is Shute Shelve tunnel on the strawberry line. Always gives me the shivers.