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

[Hatchinganegg]

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

Oh we had that yesterday here Inthedeep, freaky

The old prison at Lincoln castle has a replica courtroom and it's not until you go up some steps and stand where the judge would have stood that you see a load of waxwork dummies standing below you in the stalls, really freaky and macabre and I swear one of them was a real person trying to freak us out!

bingbongnoise Antwerp is a bit like that. I spent the weekend there with a friend several years ago, and all Sunday morning it was utterly deserted. Really weird and strangely oppressive - not like everyone was at church or having a lie in or whatever, but as if they had all deliberately closed their doors.

The Ardeatine Caves in Rome, the site of a Nazi massacre in 1944. Incredibly eerie. In comparison, the Roman catacombs across the road were positively cheerful.

Mine is like vicks30 Ireland and a ruin castle on the land.

I can still feel the pressure and the feeling something was watching I got goosebumps thinking about it.

I'm absolutely sure we saw a pooka too thanks I'm not sleeping now

Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk. There was a semi-famous UFO sighting there by nearby US airmen & is known as the 'British Roswell'. There's a definite creepy vibe about the place which may be down to the fact that much of the forest was replanted after the Great Storm of 87 and it has lots of newish trees standing in rows, unnatural for a forest. I've been a couple of times after dark as a theatre company used to do plays there in the summertime. It get freakishly cold there after dark, even in August!

Oh, the server room at my previous workplace. Only ever needed to go in there at night when the regular staff weren't around to deal with issues. It was an access controlled room in the basement of an access controlled building, so technically as safe as it gets. But something about rows upon rows of quietly humming machines and faint blinking lights in a very dimly lit room just used to scare the bejeesus out of me.

If I were to ever direct a horror movie it'd have to be set in a replica of that hellhole!

Pavlovian, some houses have very bad vibes!

Cold Christmas in essex, the old church in the fields. Honestly one of the worst places I have been! Such a bad feeling too it!

greensleeves I have grown up around wittenhan clumps in Oxfordshire and been frequently all my life, I love it and find it peaceful. We scattered our dog's ashes there. But it is apparently on ley lines or something so maybe you picked up on some energy?

Can’t think of anywhere creepy I’ve been too. But just came to say I love a creepy places thread!

these threads always have the same places and nowhere near me ...I want to go somewhere creepy! Isn't there anywhere in London? (not counting being alone on an underground platform as a pp said).

or do I have to lurk at the Tower of London at night and just hope?!

@inthedeepmidwinter

I've been reading these for the past half an hour or so (and other threads) and I just got up and looked out the window and the whole house is surrounded in fog! Now it looks like eerie fog. Haven't had fog so thick for ages. See what this thread has gone and done!

Have to say, I do feel much colder now, after reading through this thread!!!

@ARichVernacular

Antwerp is a bit like that. I spent the weekend there with a friend several years ago, and all Sunday morning it was utterly deserted. Really weird and strangely oppressive - not like everyone was at church or having a lie in or whatever, but as if they had all deliberately closed their doors.

WEIRD! Can't think of anywhere in the UK like this. (Maybe there is, but I haven't been anywhere like this personally.)

bingbongnoise

@ginswinger

Re Luxembourg. Went there in November for a few days, and me and DH walked around one Sunday morning (around Vianden,) and we didn't see ONE SINGLE PERSON in 2 hours of walking. Not one. Even though 2000 people live there, no-one came out of their house. It was very weird. shock

Did Xmas market trip to Luxembourg end November and we noticed exacty that... outside of the shopping areas, the streets were deserted - not a single soul to be seen (and this was a Saturday afternoon), no lights on in the houses, no sign of life anywhere..... just bizarre

@RickGrimesStoleMyHat

I'm sure it's fine to deviate slightly by telling us your haunted house story.....

Two different places.

A ww1 battle field in Verdun , France. They still had the trenches, forts and battlements. I apologise wherever I walked.

The 2nd is a field near us. It used to be a village. Nothing there anymore. We were going for a walk through the field and I just stopped, I couldn't go any further

atmospherichauntedplaces.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/wittenham-clupms.html?m=1

Placemarking to read tomorrow ...

Glastonbury usually comes up on these threads - lots of people have found it creepy.

Palace Hotel, Manchester. There was something in my room, no question.

ronswansonstache we were there last weekend geocaching. It was nearly dark by the time we left. Nothing creepy whatsoever but I might remember this thread next time we’re there.

The uniform rows of tree are pine that they plant for harvesting. There’s a lot of that along the Suffolk coast, lots at Dunwich too. They’re not indigenous but they quite harmless.

@sillysausage16, I know what you mean about the Drovers - all those animal trophy heads staring down at you are creepy enough (not sure if they're still there) but the place has a very strange vibe.
I hitch-hiked from Fort William to Glasgow once with friends and our lift stopped there for a drink . It was really late, all buses were off and we had to choose between getting back in the car with a driver who had just downed a couple of whiskies or staying there. We took the lift as the lesser of two evils.

The Italian chapel on Orkney. As soon as I walked through the door I felt chilled to the bone and got an awful feeling of doom.

@bluffingwithmymuffin

Did Xmas market trip to Luxembourg end November and we noticed exactly that... outside of the shopping areas, the streets were deserted - not a single soul to be seen (and this was a Saturday afternoon), no lights on in the houses, no sign of life anywhere..... just bizarre

You too?! Where in Luxembourg were you? We were in Vianden. In Luxembourg City it was quite busy, but in the small towns and villages, it was bizarrely quiet and deserted and creeped us out a bit.

What gives I wonder??? Why are these places like this?