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

My husband used to lodge in a house in Edinburgh. 1940s dormer bungalow. Lived with landlord, who was young and two other young female lodgers. I used to visit on weekends. Physically, there was nothing spooky about the place. House had been built by landlords gparents and had always been owned by the family. My mood would always change when I arrived. I would drive for 200 miles and feel happy and look forward to arriving. When I arrived I would feel irritated and have a general bad mood. Don’t know why.

Anyway one night my husband had an experience. He doesn’t know if he was awake or asleep but “woke up” to sense someone standing by his bed holding his hand. He’s completely no woo so So thought little more. When he told a housemate about it in the morning, she told him she had had the exact same experience.

Sent shivers down my spine. Don’t think he lived there for much longer

Place marking - great thread OP,

The entrance to Dachau. Some of my father's family members were sent there and to Auschwitz. I couldn't go in. Just froze, turned around, and took the train back to Munich.

East Berlin, 1990. The wall was still coming down. My memory was how dark this sector of the city was in the evening. In my memory I was constantly walking underneath railway arches and through dark streets. So quiet. You could hear a pin drop.

Charleville Castle, Co. Offaly Ireland. Gorgeous castle. Creepy as hell. Haunted too.

LegallyBrunet absolutely agree about Auschwitz. The silence is the thing that I hated the most.

Abbey's are popping up quite a bit. I have no idea where this particular one was, but it was somewhere in northern France.
Drove up whilst on holiday hoping to find a quiet spot for lunch and my mum chose some abbey ruins that were local to this particular area.
Felt really claustrophobic despite not having any walls.
Then the chanting began. We found the speakers eventually but it put the shitters up my parents who are not 'woo' in the slightest.

The Magma Science Centre in Sheffield. What an unpleasant place!

When I was 14 my family moved down country to Brixham in Devon, the house was fantastic, three storey, garden, balcony etc but I never felt at ease in the house, especially the ground floor. One of the walls in the sitting room dated back to the 14th century and it was a dark cold room that I hated going in alone. Unfortunately it all went abit wrong after we moved in, the atmosphere in that house was toxic - my parents got divorced, my sister ran away and I developed psychosis and depression. I used to hear voices and screaming and it was terrifying. We moved out less than two years later and things settled down and we were alot happier in our new house. Years later my mum told me she had seen several ghosts in the ground floor sitting room, one was a child that she heard crying and screaming. I recovered from my mental health issues and since then - fingers crossed - have never had psychosis again, but I can't help wondering still if maybe all those voices weren't in my head who knows....

@harebellmeadow the chapel at Wynyard Hall has a black and white check floor as well, wonder if it's just a coincidence that we both felt uneasy in a church with similar flooring. I too usually feel at peace in church and I'm not religious.

Dratthecat
I've had a similar experience on waking in the night. Started with the sound of a key in the front door and ended with the 'apparition' of an elderly lady. I was in a very old building backing onto caves.
I realised some years later that I had experienced sleep paralysis. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

To the poster who said The Imperial War Museum, that is a horrible place. When I was young my mum used to tell me that they always ran past it as children because it was Bedlam Lunatic Asylum and there were hands at the windows and people crying. How sad.

A music hall in Edinburgh. My boss and I went early one December morning to set up in tables and such in one of the hall areas and to let in the caterers, as we were hosting a function there (we worked for the building's owners). She had the PIN to turn off the burglar alarm and her bus also got in about 15 minutes before mine, but I arrived to find her standing outside in her coat. 'What's up?' I quipped. Her face was like ice. 'It really is haunted,' she said (the hall's keeper and several of the academics had had, erm, experiences in there). She had gone in via the main entrance and disabled the alarm. It is pitch black in there, too, because it's down a hill surrounded by tall buildings. Turned the lights on in the downstairs hall to the right (to the left is a foyer and a stairway to the upper floor) and through to the kitchen. Got stuck in rolling out pallets that held the tables and chairs. And then heard music being played upstairs and people laughing and dancing. There was nobody in there and certainly not playing the bloody organ up there. So I went in with her and we went back to work. To hear the damn organ playing again and people. We both froze. It stopped and then didn't start back up again and the caterers showed up a few minutes later.

One of the academics, a well known organist, went in there on his own one evening to practise for a concert he was to give the following day. He de-activated the alarm, locked the door behind him, no one in there, and he went upstairs to play. He was playing away and paused to hear clapping behind him. He turned round to see teh shadowy figure of a man dressed in 18th century clothes with his lower legs missing - the floor had been raised a bit in the 20th century. He was shaking, but he simply turned round and continued to play.

Years ago we stayed at a hotel in Goathland, where the TV series Heartbeat is filmed. In itself I found that a creepy weird place. One night we got a taxi over the moor into Whitby. I had the strangest heaviest most uncomfortable feeling in that taxi, like a weight was pressing down on my head and I had rising panic that I couldn't keep a lid on. I kept thinking that the car was going to break down and we would have to get out and that would be the worst thing imaginable! I was completely fine when we arrived in the town but felt the same way on the way back home, but only on the moor itself. Never understood why.

On holiday with my parents when I was about 13,we stayed overnight in an old coaching inn in Worcester,the room I was given was in the old part of the building,but my parents was in the new extension.I was not particularly impressed at holidaying with them,but the room I was supposed to be sleeping in really scared me,I felt something horrible had happened there.I made my Dad sleep in my room & I slept in a double bed with my Mum (which at 13 was something I would NEVER have done!!)
My ex husbands house.If I was left alone there at night,I was petrified to go upstairs,even to the bathroom!!

I get the Luxembourg thing. It's a funny place, really empty? Went on a train ride around the place and it was done as if the mountains were talking or something? Freaked me out a bit. Other scary things, underground hospital in jersey, old prison in Melbourne, my mums friends house, an old pub or two we use to go to. My mum saying I use to say things as a child I never would have heard, or talk about people that we didn't know, she thinks I've lived before. The hall I use to go to as child to play group, use to cry, still don't like it now, apparently they use to hang people in that area where the hall was built. Also not sure about this but I remember being at the bottom of the stairs seeing my sister crying at the top of the stairs by the stair gate one night, when I was a baby asleep upstairs? Also remember showing my 5 th birthday card to someone in my room who disappeared as my mum came upstairs? There's other stuff too, but I'm aware I'm sounding a bit crazy. Maybe my memories are distorted!

Cabnock Chase.

My bf had just moved to Staffs for a job and I was still studying, he was at work I decided to go for a walk on such a beautiful day and have a break from studying.

A beautiful line of silver birch trees, in bright sunlight.

I suddenly had a feeling of overwhelming evil. No one in the vicinity. I ran back to the car park, I felt dreadful.

That night at dinner with some of his work colleagues I described what happened. Apparently young girls in the 1960's had been murdered and buried on the Chase.

I knew nothing about the area and had never even heard of the murders.

Cannock

A walk in the cliffs near Charlestown harbour in Cornwall. Just a strange feeling. The dog doesn’t like it either.

Also a derelict house near us that I find both fascinating and petrifying at the same time. I want to know more about it but I’m a bit scared!

We went to krakov a few years ago prmarily to visit austwich which was a creepy as everyone says it is, but my creepiest experience there was at the hotel we were staying in,
they have a small museum in the basement with nazi memorabilia, we went down to the basement to have a look , fine, then they took us through the back to two rooms that were used by the gestapo to torture people , even now the pure sadness in that room was overwhelming.
As we walked out through the gates to the street, there was no wind, no air moving but the huge gates (around twelve foot high )at the sides of the exit clanged once very loudly, i jumped about three foot in the air and said they are still here, but walking past these gates loads of times during our stay those gates never moved or made any noise.

On a ghost hunt night at Beaumaris goal i heard footsteps and a lock being opened, the atmosphere in there is electric at night, had a little boy following me all night, holding my hand, and saw a lady in my mind who most people dont pick up on, went to the loo before leaving in daylight and it was like the whole place had gone to sleep totally different atmosphere

greypaw

I have also had a weird experience in Mary Kings close, I was really looking forward to it and was interested in the history etc (rather than it being creepy) but when we got to the room where the cattle were kept it all went wrong, I felt dizzy and sick, my head was pounding and I thought I might collapse but managed to do deep breathing to keep it together (as my sister would have taken the piss for eternity) but I have never felt like that before.

I couldn't wait to get out the place and felt ill for a few days after, I would never go again, I can only describe it as the atmosphere felt all wrong.

Bonsall in the Peak District. It's picturesque in a dark, steep sided valley, dank sort of way but it has the strangest feeling. I hate going there.

When we were in New Zealand, we were driving down the North Island to Wellington and needed somewhere to stay. Ended up at a motel in this tiny village. It was those ones with a row of rooms each with their own parking space outside and a sliding patio door. We got in the room and it was almost like a bedsit - small kitchen, double bed and a single etc. We were in room 6 and when we walked last room 4 the guy in there looked like it was his home.
Our room looked and smelt like it hadn't been used for years. The rest of the rooms were empty.
We were both woken up at about 4am by the most hysterical male screaming - almost high pitched and pure terror.
Then silence.
We dropped back off to sleep and woke up early to get back on the road.
When we packed up the car and locked our room, we noticed a red smeared man's handprint on our room door, quite low down. It definitely wasn't there when we arrived the night before.

Really creepy place, felt like the back of beyond even though it was on one of the main roads through the north island.

The basement in the Victorian house we just bought.... it has the most enormous spooky cellars and a weird winding passageway - someone has installed a light in just the very last room - why? What were they doing down there??! 👻

Hack Green Nuclear Bunker in Cheshire (Nantwich I think?). I was out one day with my parents and we saw a sign advertising it and decided to have a look. Creepiest place Ive ever visited by far. Full of horror film style dummies in bad wigs, dressed in dated military uniforms and radiation proof suits. It's terrifying.

A disused hospital. Closed due to Tory cuts. Beautiful old buildings, which were quickly abandoned. The site is still open but it feels like a post zombie apocalypse.

I'm convinced one of the houses I lived in as a child was haunted. My sister and I had a bedroom each on the second floor and my parents slept downstairs. Nothing bad would happen when out parents were around but if they weren't we would hear all kinds of strange noises and lights and the tv would turn off and on randomly. I once saw the figure of a woman stood at the end of the bed, my sister saw similar. The house had a horrible atmosphere.

Years later I told my DM about all the things we had seen, she said she knew that a woman had died in the house and the neighbours had told her she hated children. She wasn't sure about buying it but it was dirt cheap. It was known locally as 'the dark house'.

I forget the name of the place but my ex took me to one of the lakes in the lake district, I had this overwhelming feeling of sadness and an urge to walk into the lake to drown, no history of depression etc and felt fine before. I told ex we had to leave immediately and the feeling went away as soon as we got in the car. I never told ex how I felt that day so I don't know if there are any local stories attached to that lake.