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?

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Pramvista was in an abandoned church on a commonwealth war graves site, a couple lived there who had travelled extensively. That was their hoard. Sad place.

Ive just been reading back on this thread and noted that a lot of people in the early posts were unnerved in Kamloops and am wondering if the recent discoveries there have made their mark.

I love these threads. Verv the photos are incredible. It makes me wonder what these places must have been like back in the day and then I think about all the horrible things that probably happened in these places. Such a weird mix of awe and horror.

I once spent a week on a small sailing vessel in the Atlantic with a couple of friends. I felt we were not alone. Especially at night when it was pitch black or extremely thick fog. I felt the fear. I couldn't completely relax and eventually someone said something and turns out we were all feeling the same being watched feeling and that we were not alone out there. Nothing happened and we all had a good time but I still have nightmares about it. I wouldn't do a trip like that again.

Yes.
Many years ago elwhen me and my hubby were searching for a new house to rent, estate agent took us to view one house.
As soon as I enter the house I felt such a heavy and unfriendly energy it makes me feel anxious.
When we enter living room I looked towards the window and had a very strong sense of an old man sitting in the armchair and looking from the window.
His energy was very angry and oppressive.

We went through the whole house very quickly as we both felt very uneasy there- constant sense of being watched a not being welcome.

The whole house had a bad vibes.

We went on holiday to North Yorkshire in the summer. We parked at May Beck on the moors and followed a footpath to Falling Foss.

We were pretty much alone. At one point we passed a forest off to the side. It was so dark and the floor was a carpet of fallen needles. But it was the complete silence that got me. I went to the edge and took photos. My DH and DD went in but l wasn't having any of it. They said it was a weird atmosphere. I didn't need to go in to sense that 😕

Photo of forest

Anyone been to Todmorden? Very odd there, I've always felt very unnerved.

I had an odd experience too on the A681 near Waterfoot, the most incredible sense of sadness. Really overwhelming.

Someone mentioned kamloops on another thread and it rang a bell with me as being one that seems to come up time and again on these creepy places threads. Had never heard of Kamloops before, just from these threads. Searched it and sure enough loads of threads/posts have come up mentioning the place. I've only just realised from pp it's the same place that was in the news recently for a horrible discovery....and it's sent a chill down my spine.

@immersivereader I live just down from Todmorden, in Hebden Bridge. It’s a lot better than it used to be, but it was / is a bit rough rather than spooky from what I can recall. What did you find unnerving about it?

Know I’m very late to the thread but I’ve found it fascinating - and scary!

I've been there and although I found it very poignant and moving, it definitely wasn't creepy.

I stayed at my Aunts house in Dewarton next door to Vogrie Country park. There was a nice farm track nearby so I'd take my dog walking down it some days and really enjoyed it. The last time I went down that track I got half way down and suddenly had the worst feeling of dread/doom/panic and couldn't fight the urge to turn around and walk as fast as I could home. Awful feeling of flat out panic but I knew I shouldn't run, just walk away as quickly as possible and never go back. Very strange.

Years ago I was doing some work at Hampton Court Palace. As our base where we kept materials and documents we were given one of the vacant apartments there (various honoraries and courtiers were allowed them as a sort of retirement home, known as “grace and favour” apartments, though few if any are still occupied on that basis, it’s something that’s been phased out).
Anyway, nothing specifically sinister happened, but no one would go in or stay up there alone. It was like being constantly followed around and stared at very hard. It was really unnerving.
It was a lovely apartment, empty except for our trestles and boxes, but with quite charming faded 1950s type decor. There was another room, like a broom closet, somewhere else in the building that had been procured by my boss so he could do office type work on his own without being stared at by unseen entities, and during lunch breaks it would be jammed with 5-7 people because nobody wanted to go in the flat. It was comical really but fuck me that place gave me the heeby jeebies.

I’ve actually had to stop reading this thread for now as it’s freaking me out so much - will have to return when it’s daylight!! 😲😳😱

I have a very specific creepy place.

On the A303, going westwards, there is a hill, not long past where the 2 lane/1 lane section ends and you get into the 50mph Blackdown Hills section. It used to have two wicker jumping deer woven into a hedge as a landmark. It is a fairly nondescript hill but it seems to tax cars going up it more than it should. It always reminds me of a Famous Five book where there was a lot of a magnetic substance in a hill and cars couldn't drive up it. It gives me the creeps as it feels like something is trying to get your car to stop.

Also on that section is a very steep and wooded hill with a near vertical drop on one side and no real barrier, every time I drive back up it returning eastwards I get the heebies.

Ressurecting this thread for Halloween 🎃

Anyone been to Bamburgh? I found it very creepy, it just seemed too isolated

Also, this is a bit niche, but Howarth as well. The Old Silent Inn gave me the serious creeps. We had odd unexplained knockings on our door overnight

Been to Bamburgh Castle it was really good (if you like castles) the view out to see was fantastic.

The little village was nice, we had lunch in one of the pubs and seriously thought about booking there for a few days over Christmas.

The monument to Grace Darling which is her grave was interesting. We also looked around the church and ok, I'll give you this. There's a life size tableau made out of roughly carved wood, of pallbearers carrying a coffin. For some reason I found this as creepy as fuck.

The small village of Zennor near St Ives is notoriously witchey, there’s a pub called The Tinners Arms which we drove to one summer and ended up surround in the car by a local Morris dancing troupe that had a rather strange look to them.

Again in Cornwall the townsfolk of Lizard can be an odd bunch, a very pretty village but there’s something off about it and it’s people yet I’m still drawn to it every year.

That whole area of Cornwall has lots of folklore and fairie stories linked to names of places and historical events, some of which can be creepy.

Love Haworth. Very atmospheric and full of history. We've stayed there countless times and never felt creepy. We even went on a ghost walk around the graveyard once!

Forgot that we did have a weird - but not creepy - experience at what was The Old Silent Inn.

What was your weird experience there? Have you read the section of their website that is about their ghosts? theoldsilent.co.uk/our-history/

I've just finished reading this thread- got to one post and my stomach dropped, scared the shit out of me, then I realised it was one I posted years ago under a different name😅

Have another to add. BIL owns an old house. Used to be a pub, and apparently before that a monastery. It has two entrances, and the front formal entrance and front garden definitely have an old church sort of atmosphere. That end of the house has an odd feeling, the other entrance onto the driveway is relatively normal.
DH and I popped over to cat-sit for BIL not long ago and checked around the house for mice, as the cats are in the habit of leaving them around. MIL was there and she gave us a little guided tour (she doesn't like going there alone so wanted to show us the rooms to see what we thought).
The "odd" end has a games room to the left as you come in, with the original pool table and decor that the previous owners left. I stood in there a minute or two but then had to leave- it felt like there was the noise of a large crowd of people, I suppose as a pub would have, but I couldn't hear it, it was just in my head. It felt busy and crowded and cold, so I stayed outside.
Upstairs there's two bedrooms on each side of the house. The guest room above the normal side of the house didn't feel unpleasant, but I had to stand with my back against the wall while MIL was talking as I felt like someone was stood just behind me. Had one eye on the room and one on the corridor outside.
The two bedrooms on the other side are directly above the games room. The first room is now an office. Very, very cold, but just felt empty and sort of sad. The other bedroom is long but to the right of the door, so you sort of look round into the room as you go in. I put my head round the door and couldn't go in. I said to MIL, it felt sick.
I don't know if she's told BIL, she laughed when I told her but I think that was nerves. DH said it felt creepy, apparently our other SIL and BIL won't go in that half of the house at all. She's said it felt like something didn't want them there.
To go into more detail, it was like if you were to walk into that room with your eyes closed and had to guess what was in there, it would be someone ill or dead in bed, and you could smell the illness in the room. But also that the person was angry and malevolent with it, and were furious that you were even coming in.

My creepy place is a room in Christchurch mansion in Ipswich. The house is lovely to walk around but there was one room which had a four poster bed and a wooden cradle in it I couldn't even force myself to step over the threshold. I felt like my entrance was being barred.

Langenhoe Church - Now demolished

I felt the same about the London Dungeons, I've never read about anyone else feeling the same before. I've never done a tour and only went for an evening party/event. I feel queasy, a crushing sadness and a suffocating atmosphere. Stayed about an hour, couple of glasses of champagne and chatting to people did not alleviate the feeling. It was only after I left and had a whisky in a pub that I started to feel a bit better. I've always felt quite negatively/sad about that area around Tooley St/London Bridge though and have not had that feeling anywhere else.

I did read (afterwards) about a particularly bad bombing of an air raid shelter around there with dozens killed and injured by one blast.

southwarknews.co.uk/history/in-depth-history/the-incredible-story-of-one-mans-war-pictured-in-the-ruins-of-london-bridge/

Langenhoe is north Essex, near Colchester, but might well be the place meant.
Interestingly it is very near the epicentre of the Colchester earthquake in the 1880s which was the worst earthquake in England for 400 years.
Poltergeist activity? Weird feeling of unease? Seems quite a good chance there’s a connection, and I mean in a ‘not yet understood by science’ way rather than a supernatural way.