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Creepy, odd places you have been

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JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 20/08/2017 20:40

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

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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Sanoffyhighstepson · 21/08/2017 15:28

Overtoun bridge/house in West Dunbartonshire. When dogs cross the bridge they jump to their death. Some have survived, ran back up and jumped again! It's a quiet and gloomy place with horrible weather due to the granite hills and steep valley. Don't take your dog 🐶

TreacleFarl · 21/08/2017 15:31

Just read about Oradour, so, so sad.

I have two but have no idea where the first one was because I was only about 7, somewhere on the route from Belfast to Kerry we stopped to stretch our legs. There were some old castle ruins there but mostly just a big sloping field. We all got out, my parents spoke to a man who sat in a tourist post and had mock armour while we played in the ruins. All of a sudden I had the most oppressive feeling. I haven't felt anything quite like it to this day. I needed to get out, far, far away from the castle. I remember running back and begging my dad to start the car and go. Wish I was old enough to know where I was!

The other was Boa Island at the Janus statue. The statue was fine but once you moved past a certain part of the graveyard it just felt wrong. Though I've never heard anyone else feel that way so maybe it was just me.

RaspberryOverload · 21/08/2017 15:44

I'm interested in the times lips. I recall reading a book many years ago about the Versailles one. Basically, the author debunked it, pulling the whole story to shreds, but it was so interesting reading about the backgrounds of the people who were involved.

LuLuuuuuuu · 21/08/2017 15:46

Stayed overnight, also in France oddly enough, in a garrett room high up in a house (Gite overnight stay) , cold . Was horrible

The place that I do not like are the Arches off Villiars Street , near Charing X . Now there is not much there , some shops, Heaven Nightclub and that's about it . Every time I had need to walk through them I shake, my head hurts my heart pounds and I feel what is possibly, terrified . No idea why but there you go

SilverySurfer · 21/08/2017 16:27

The church next to the Houses of Parliament - may be St Margarets, I was walking down an aisle with lots of memorial stones for the famous who were buried there. I suddenly could hardly put one foot in front of the other and by the time I got to the exit was gasping for breath. Never been back.

Rievaulx Abbey near Helmsley in Yorkshire. Not creepy, more atmospheric. Every time I have been there, no matter how many other people were there,it 's always possible to find a quiet spot, it always seems silent and peaceful, like a sanctuary.

One time I visited Lake Vyrnwy in Wales which was created to provide water for Liverpool and a village was submerged under the lake. This particular year there had been a drought and the water level had lowered to such an extent that the top of the spire of the submerged church could be seen. It was creepy as hell.

Therewere5inthebed · 21/08/2017 16:31

In Hall Place house there is a turret room, a tiny room that goes up three floors. You can only fit two people in at a time but both my daughter and I hate it, with no suggestion on my part. It is a cold room probably due to the stone walls and shape but I get a feeling of utter despair if I set foot in there.

I have had the same feeling only once before, in the bathroom at my fathers house, I looked in the mirror while washing my hands one evening and I felt as though all the happiness had literally been sucked out of me.

I know the house had a rather dubious history, it was a billet house during the war and was also reportedly a brothel for a short time too.

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 21/08/2017 16:31

A few years ago i went down to Hastings with ds and his friend. We had a lovely day and decided to have fish and chips tea on the beach before heading home. It was still lovely and warm and a few people were about. Children were playing and running about and I was dreamily looking out to the sea, suddenly there was one small dark cloud it appeared like smoke but it didn't darken the sky but was moving inland and then I had this awful terrible feeling of dread, other people on the beach sounded all muffled like they were far away. I felt that we really needed to leave just an awful menacing feeling and misery (not sure why I felt this but I did) we left the beach (I didn't say why) and it wasn't until we were about a 5 minute walk away the feeling left me. When I think of what happened I still have an uneasy feeling

Also where I work. I know the building has been used as a mother and baby home, an asylum it's an old hospital site made up of many smallish buildings. Just one area upstairs I feel as though I am being watched. It does not always feel like that but when I do feel it it's very very unnerving

FoofFighter · 21/08/2017 16:54

Mary Kings Close in Edinburgh gave me the proper shivers

Dowser · 21/08/2017 16:59

The druids temple at ilton near ,a sham not Yorks

I must admit the atmosphere didn't bother me although you wouldn't get me down there in the dark 😱 But we went back with our dowsing group and some wouldn't enter it.

It's a stone circle with a a few small caves.
One of more experienced dowsers said there was a very strong negative energy line that was practically bolted down by two of the big stones and earned us not to interact with it.

A Druid who was part of the group said it was no druids temple, they use groves not temples.

It was built about 300 years old by a local landowner to give the locals something to do. That's the official story. We Dowsed differently .

We felt it had been constructed for a completely different purpose and that more sinister things had been happening.

We all had our auras checked before we went home to be sure we weren't taking any negative attachments back home with us..

A very pretty spot.

Exam village. Creeped me out and my daughter couldn't get out quick enough. She certainly didn't want us to eat there.

outofmymind26 · 21/08/2017 17:00

Haha fair & scrappy. This is all too close to home & I get chills every time I drive down there (a lot). I kind of want to see her, but then I really don't want to see her either. There's a homeless man who sleeps there too & I always wonder if he sees her. Freaks me the hell out Shock

Dowser · 21/08/2017 17:03

Masham.
I'm writing in the sunshine

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 21/08/2017 17:41

I know the Druid's Temple quite well. The landowner who built it is said to have tried to hire a hermit to live in the cave (it's a very nice cave) but couldn't get anyone to stay.

FairNotFair · 21/08/2017 17:41

Fru - thanks for that; I'm going there on Wednesday! Grin

drudgewithagrudge · 21/08/2017 17:42

I visited the German underground hospital because so many people had told me how spooky it was. Didn't feel a thing, not a flicker. Very disappointed.

HippyChickMama · 21/08/2017 17:42

Tregaron in Wales, no idea why I just found it really strange, almost oppressive.
The tower at Warwick Castle, horrible feeling of sadness in there.
A cemetery in Dunkirk, not the military bit, the ordinary bit. It has a big mausoleum thing in the middle and dh and I had a horrible sense of foreboding and decided to leave very quickly.

Ledkr · 21/08/2017 17:46

Checked into a hotel room in Mexico and felt utter panic and a need to get out straight away.
I literally marched back down to reception with dh and dd behind me and asked to be moved.
Have no idea wtf that was all about.

pickledparsnip · 21/08/2017 17:50

Madron Well and Baptistry in Cornwall. Have been twice, and both times felt like we were being watched, and it makes me feel very uncomfortable. It is a very weird place.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 21/08/2017 17:58

I was very creeped out by Chapman's Pool in Dorset. It was the sense of being trapped between a hostile sea and the black, landslippy cliffs, but it felt like bad things happened there.

SuburbanCrofter · 21/08/2017 18:27

A pretty obvious one - several places on the old front line of the conflict in Bosnia. I was not at all surprised to be told of the horrible things that had happened in these places. Sad

DontTakeItForGranite · 21/08/2017 18:58

I read the thread title and immediately thought of Oradour.

stalkingfred · 21/08/2017 19:08

I went somewhere years ago that had a monument of some kind. I can't remember anything about it other than it may have been wooden carvings and was either in Cumbria or the Scottish Borders. Anyway, got out of the car and was looking at them. Suddenly felt short of breath and my head started aching. Felt sick. Feeling of dread. I had to get back in the car but my husband was unaffected. Wish I could remember what it was.

Also Castle Rising castle. Felt like I was being followed and only felt ok once I'd left. I still felt like I was being watched from the castle though.

Millie2013 · 21/08/2017 19:08

I went to Oradour as a teen, on a school trip. It's a chilling and sad place 😢

There's a road near here, the cut through between two A roads and it always makes me shiver, no idea why. I always intend to go the long way around at night, to avoid it, but I seem to end up on this road

Dudley castle/zoo made me feel v odd too, can't explain why

custardcreamplease · 21/08/2017 20:15

Why is it that some places have this effect on people? I'm really interested in that, to be honest. I'm not woo at all, I don't believe in ghosts or the afterlife, but I do think there is a reason behind the strong physical /emotion reactions that result, often in an area that has been somehow defined by tragedy. Tapping into some sort of primal folk memory perhaps? I've heard that the birds don't sing at Auschwitz, and a possible reason being that because it was so huge and barren for so long, plus the constant smoke/scent of death, that the birds sort of deleted it from their flight path, and despite the years that have passed, they have "remembered" it as a place to avoid. I wonder could the same apply to humans in some way?

*disclaimer, I'm about as scientific as a Mars bar and have no idea, but am interested nonetheless

bertsdinner · 21/08/2017 20:24

I found Montacute House in Somerset very atmospheric, in a melancholic way. I think because the house is/was falling into some disrepair.
Also, Chambercombe Manor near Ilfracombe, I went there as a child and again a few years back. Its a lovely house and reputedley haunted. I dont really believe in ghosts but I thought the kitchen was a bit creepy.