Creepy, odd places you have been

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I have been dying for a good creepy thread for ages so thought I'd start one

Two stand out for me -

Doing the Dales Way with DH, we stopped one night in a tiny Dales hamlet. 2-3 houses, pub, church. That was it. Not much to do and it was a summer evening so we followed a public footpath through a kissing gate and went for a dip in a deep stream.

When we came back the same way about 30 mins later, someone had nailed 3 freshly dead voles to the gate.

Also, on holiday in France, staying in a rural villa, I went for a run early one morning. Ran past a back road signposted to a quaint sounding village. Decided to take a look. Down a narrow wooded road for a hundred yards, quite a dark road, then out into bright August 8am sunshine in a naice little village.

It was the vacances and the place was deserted, but it was just.... off. The cars were on the drives in most cases, but the shutters were all shut. No dog or cat, not even birdsong, just dead. There was a local noticeboard where the most recent notice was from the previous October. It was a lovely day but the whole place just felt dead. I tried to be brave for about 5 minutes and then cracked and fled, back down the dark road, with the strongest feeling that something was right behind me, just like when you're a kid going downstairs in a dark house and you daren't turn round to look back at the landing.

Anyone else have a creepy place story to share?

cloud. Can I direct you to my time slip thread?!

There's a village under Ladybower reservoir

expat I found it just beautiful and we stayed an extra night as well! The Pilgrims Coffee House is one of the best coffee shops ever too

See, I never believed in time slips. Until I worked in this hospice and two of the biggest sceptics in this world got in the lift to go out for a fag on their break, and this place had been a burns hospital in WWII, and those fuckers got stuck on a floor that was live in what happened there and try as they might, they would not get that lift door to close for what seemed like an age to them. We had had other incidents in that building, most commonly a call bell that would go off in one room even if it was empty and try as we might to bring in sparks and inspectors, that bell was working fine but would go off when no one was in that room. The window would also be open in there when no one had opened it. NO ONE. You'd go in there, turn off the call bell, get back to the desk and the damn light would go off again. Or the damn door would slam shut because the wind from the open window would shut it. We thought. The window that no one bloody opened in the middle of night or swing shift.

'The Pilgrims Coffee House is one of the best coffee shops ever too '

YES! The food in there is terrific, too. I had a tuna bap. It was enormous and delicious. The whole place felt amazing. We are both bereaved parents and that route made our friendship even more special.

What is a time slip?

exemplore.com/paranormal/The-Liverpool-Time-Slips-The-True-Story-Of-Mysterious-Occurences-In-Bold-Street

expat that's lovely ❤️

Here it is, LoveMy, www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_unexplained/2982837-Time-slips?msgid=71369380

Hopefully this makes sense and doesn't come across as babbling
When I was younger my mum, my brother and I would go over and spend the summers in the countryside in Ireland where my mums family lived. Back then it was pretty isolated but lovely.
There was an old old abandoned house (low single storey white washed with once red wooden doors and window frames) in the cattle field next to my aunt and uncles house - they had this huge wall built but the house was probably about 10 feet away from that. My mum and aunt were inside and my older brother dared me to go in the old house. Being a fearless 9/10 year old I said I would. To get there you had to go right to the bottom of the garden, down the side of the shed and through a gap in the fence then come up the other side.
I called to my brother that I was there, he'd climbed up on the wall and was looking at me and said "go on then". The front door to this house was on the other side facing away from the wall so I went round and pushed it open a bit. It was gloomy but not dark and I remember the floor feeling spongy but thought that was because the cattle must go in sometimes. I looked to the right and saw old dusty furniture, I looked to the left (it was one long room) and I swear I saw a sort of pit in the floor and an old lady was sitting in a chair by the fireplace. I stood and looked at her for a moment, she looked at me then I legged it back to the other side of the house. My brother started to say something then saw my face and just said "come back, you have to come back" so I ran to the gap in the fence, back through and up the garden. He asked what I'd seen because I was white so I told him. He didn't believe me so when our cousins came home we went round again and had a look - there was nothing in the house at all. The floor was solid stone and there was no furniture, nothing but cobwebs. Looking back I don't remember feeling afraid, just freaked out as I wasn't expecting to see anyone.

A room at a place I worked which had jars with preserved foetuses in at various stages of gestation.

@IHaveCausedConfusionAndDelay
My best friend got married there and the ballroom, although spectacular had a really odd feel to it.
As kids we would play behind the waterfall in the grotto .
The Rotunda used to be used for stabling, and teaching children to ride and had a moveable wooden floor which covered a swimming pool.
It's horrible what Torbay Council have done to the place.

When I first started going out with DH he had a friend who lived in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere. To drive there you had to go down all these winding country roads with huge fields on either side and a long patch of woodland. DH never used to drink so was the designated driver when they were younger and would drop his friend off. One time apparently he was driving home and was convinced her saw a ghost. He told me this and I just thought he was trying to scare me. We'd driven there a few times during the day and I used to always love looking at the view out the window.

We were visiting the friend one day and drove there. It was winter and dark and I remember feeling worried that I would see something scary so I spent the entire journey staring at the floor of the car twiddling my thumbs. When we arrived at the house DH looked at me and asked if I'd been scratching my neck. I knew I hadn't because I'd been staring at my hands for the last half hour. I looked in the mirror and had scratches all over my neck and chest and a couple on my cheeks. I thought that maybe I'd had a reaction to something but I couldn't think of anything different that I'd had. And they weren't rash marks they were actual raised scratches.

The scratches went down as the night went on and when we left I'd put them to the back of my mind. As we were driving again I got the feeling that I was going to see something and I said to DH that I felt nervous and scared. As he was assuring me that there was nothing to be scared of I felt a really sharp, stinging pain on my cheek and then on my neck. I asked him to keep driving and told him I was going to keep my eyes shut all the way back to the main road. When we got back to the busy road I looked in the mirror and saw the faded scratches and then one bright pink across my cheek where it was still stinging and one more on my neck.

Luckily the friend moved shortly after so we never had to drive that way again.

However he got married last year and the wedding was in his old village. We drove the long way there and one of our pregnant friends drove us home after we both had quite a few drinks. I was quite drunk in the back of the car and was chatting away to DH about god knows what when suddenly I felt awful again and like I couldn't breathe. Pregnant friend and her DH were laughing at me saying I was just drunk and then I realised where when were. When we got home I had scratches across my chest again.

I have no idea what it was that gave me scratches but I will never drive that way again. Not even during the day.

My grandparents lived near Tyneham in Dorset. They knew some of the original inhabitants. In the late 70's and 80's I would go walking there with my grandfather, when the land was open, it was always spooky and deserted. Not many people knew about it then, the telephone box was still green. I went there recently with my children, it was full of tourists and had a car park so less spooky now.

Many years ago I visited the Isle of White with my exbf and his mum. His mum had arranged the hotel booking and I don't remember which hotel it was or where it is located on the island.

I woke up quite early in the morning at around 6.00am and felt compelled to walk to the window. The room had a sea view and was on one of the upper floors. When I looked down onto what must have been the hotel terrace on the back of the hotel I saw a gathering of people all dresses in Victorian clothes. It was very foggy and I just saw the men and women dresses standing around as if attending some sort of garden party. Really, really odd. The sight (vision? what? ) sort of came and went in as part of the fog. Not sure if I can describe it better but it seemed ghostly. It was a confusing sight, dreamlike.

When DH and I were first together, he said he had never been to Holy Island (Lindisfarne). I said my family lived there for over two hundred years in the 18th and 19th century. He surprised me by taking me away for a weekend. We went on the Friday night and came back on the Monday. Stayed in a pub in the market square. It was idyllic- sunny, peaceful, quiet, romantic. I have been many times and never felt anything but peaceful, safe and happy there.

@LinoleumBlownapart I live near Tyneham and go regularly. DS always refused to go in the biggest house when he was younger. He would drag his feet and say "my old old grandad is angry. He says go away! It's his house and he's angry."

LadyFlumpalot how spooky! The original inhabitants never got to go back, if I remember they were angry about that.

I was on LIndesfarne today.
Only atmosphere was MILLIONS of tourists.
I think every one in Northumberland must have been there.
It was busier than Parliament Square when I was there last week!
I prefer it in Feb :)

'I prefer it in Feb smile'

Aye, that's how I feel about here in W. Scotland . Mobbed here this weekend, too. We went to Lindisfarne at the beginning of May. It was lovely, well, the first day was pelting rain but hey, being from here, it was an improvement.

I like to do long ways once a year with a mate (hence, Lindisfarne/Holy Island), we take a week and do one every year, so I go out to hike as often as possible in all weathers.

Last year I found what I thought was this sweet little 10k in the Inverary area. I found it online but I can't find it anymore. I printed off the walker's detailed directions and plotted it on our OS map and I'm glad I did because it was like walking through a labyrinth. We found ourselves on this old Forestry Commission road no one used in donks and there was this dilapidated farmhouse off the road. So of course, I had to go explore it. You couldn't get all the way to it for the bracken, but you could get quite close and DH took three photos on his phone quickly. There were two 'people' in the windows of the first floor (no one there and stairway gone) and orbs and streaks of light across the house. He flipped out and deleted the pics and we ran off. Looking back we can laugh, but we didn't the rest of the way, which went through this glen that felt so weird I kept checking to make sure we were still en route. We went at warp speed and were sore as hell the next day.

We will not be repeating that walk!

has anyone been to Imber?

Tenpole not everyone, we weren't there today.

I hated Mary King's Close in Edinburgh- it felt very oppressive but I think it was because it is so enclosed rather than anything else.

expat, do you remember this thread www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/1823643-The-Ghhhhoooooooosty-beard?msgid=41035941 (you posted on it too)?

The OP had originally posted on a woo thread, which has long since disappeared as it was in Chat, about a strange photo of her when she and a friend were walking in some woods in Scotland. (You couldn't post photos on any old thread back in those days, so she started a new thread with photos in Have You Seen This with her ghosty beard!)

I forgot about that thread! I loves me a good woo thread.

It was when you were talking about walking in the woods in Scotland that I remembered helly's strange photo! I can't believe it was 4 years ago!!