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?

I remember a taxi driver telling me there was a haunted church somewhere in southish Essex (was in a Basildon taxi) wish I'd remembered the name to see if anyone else had heard of any spooky goings on there

Oooh some great stories!

Name I didn't think the dead voles were woo, just that it was creepy that someone with an apparenr penchant for nailing rodents to a fence was in the vicinity! Why would they be killing voles out of interest? I can see moles ruining fields but these were deffo not moles.

I went to Llancaiach Fawr as a kid on a school trip and it was so creepy in the main house, felt like I was being watched the whole time

I've been reading this thread alongside the one in the Unexplained topic "Have you ever felt the presence of evil?"

Quite interesting, there are people and places on both threads, and some interesting theories.

We stopped off in a little town somewhere in New England: there was a sign for a local site of interest so we went to have a look.

It turned out to be a woodland that also claimed to be an ancient Native American burial ground & sacred place. It was bloody creepy. There was no sound and nothing moved. It was completely still and very creepy. We couldn't leave fast enough.

But we then carried on into the town centre and that appeared to be deserted too. It was like being in a Stephen King novel. I would not have been surprised to have seen an evil clown holding a red balloon on the sidewalk...terrifying.

Hesterton it wasn't the children's dormitory. It was a small room just off one of the dormitories. It overlooked the yard. Just a horrid sensation in there.

Someone mentioned a mausoleum. I wouldn't go near the one in greyfriars cemetery in Edinburgh.
Also the black pyramid in Stirling cemetery near the castle.15 minutes and I had to leave. I also didn't like the sculptures of the girl and the angel. The young girl was drowned in the river for refusing to change her religious views. She was only about 18 and then there's a monument placed in the cemetery in her memory.

Weird. Even on that lovely sunny evening, I felt oppressed and just wanted to take some photos and leave.

Driving from Banff to Vancouver & stopping off on the way for a night in an out of way hotel in Kamloops. Felt like hotel California. No phones. Could not wait to leave early the next morning. Creepiest place.

Galleries of Justice Nottingham.
Went with a group of adults and 'something' the atmosphere, or the misery of the place got to one group member. It was a hot July day but once in one particular cell she kept rubbing her arms and saying how cold she was - down to her marrow. She also just kept saying 'dispair' 'dispair' it was alarming to watch.
When we went up to the exercise yard, she refused to step out into it saying there were too many souls for her to meet.

As her persona had changed so much (normally a sensible, bubbly outgoing woman in her 40s) we had a chat about it the next time we met. She said the only way she could describe how she felt was that she was draped in misery.

I also once attended a training day at a hospital, still in use at the time (90s) that spooked me. It was Victorian and built so that long corridors of wards radiated out from a central area. Although lit and bright, I found the whole day there really oppressive and mood altering. No way could I have ever worked there.

2 stand out for me.

Years ago we went to abandoned soviet era prison, it was very very weird, it was as if everyone had just fled the building and everything was just left, lab coats, instruments and other medical items left in the operating room, the padded cell, prisoners cells still with some clothing and old blankets, stuff on the floors drawings etc.. Lots of the old type of telephones and paperwork. It was quite a hazard as ceilings had fallen in and floors were disintegrating. Hate to think what went on in there.

Visited the Okinawa underground tunnels from the 2nd world war, thankfully we were there on our own so no tour groups. What those men endured down there was horrific.

Another one who found Boa Island uncomfortable. It was a lovely June day, we were driving from the ferry to to Dh's relatives in Enniskillen for a wedding. All happy, laughing, excited, got out of the car and it just darkened. No noise, no other people, it felt oppressive.

Kitty Jays grave on Dartmoor.

It was the local squire's son who was the father. She was then pregnant and her family threw her out, so she killed herself as the man didn't want anything to do with the peasant girl once she was Pg.

As that used to be a crime, she couldn't be buried in the churchyard so was buried outside the village boundary.

Always fresh wild flowers there, all year round.

St Briavels Castle. Particularly staying overnight. In the prison. :-/

My DH is a wedding photographer and I assist from time to time. As a result we often cover several church weddings per year I'm not religious but feel comfortable in churches get a sense of peace. However we covered a wedding in the chapel attached to a stately home and I felt awful the atmosphere was wrong. The chapel was beautiful and I see why people choose it but I couldn't wait for the service to be over so I could leave.

A quadrant in Oxford, on a sunny day, it had an awful menacing feeling as soon as I walked into it and I refused to go further. I felt something bad had happened there.

Tintern Abbey, going along a passage towards kitchen the feeling of dread go worse the deeper I went in.

A hotel in Torquay, had a very disturbed, frightening night there and left in the morning....after the owners told us with a smile at breakfast that everyone says the place is haunted.

A hamlet near Hereford, a dank gloomy grey and dead place, I couldn't wait to get away from.

A rented holiday bungalow near Bude, my companion swore she heard me call out to her when she was in another room....I hadn't said a word, I'd been reading. Neither of us would go into the dining room, it felt strange and very unwelcoming. Very odd place.

Just remembered there is a part of Wells Cathedral which doesn't feel right, as if something had happened there. There is an odd feeling which passes when you leave the area. The rest of the building feels fine. A friend felt the same way when we were there together.

Was out by some fields with my kids few years ago. We were geocaching.

Walking down the side of a field past a wooded area and I just suddenly felt we needed to leave. And quick! So we did

I was really freaked out and started a thread here on mumsnet about it!

Frith we stayed in that room in St Briavels. Felt absolutely no 'woo' at all!

Dowser what's dowsing?

custard I felt your fear reading that! Very interesting

I've visited a few creepy places and this one is going to sound really odd but I find Blackpool creepy. Im not sure why. A few years ago I took my kids to stay for a long weekend and we were in a hotel by Blackpool fair. Whenever we walked past in the morning, before opening time they used to test out all the rides while it was empty and I honestly would get a weird feeling and go ice cold there. Could hear strange noises too when it was locked up at night, like rides going off and faint screams.

Our local library, small backwater affair, 60s built with two floors. It is all open shelves, glass and open wooden stair case

However, there is one area upstairs that makes you feel uncomfortable as if
Someone is standing behind you and watching you.
Never see anyone linger there and the staff do not like being alone in that particular area. No explanation why though.

I went on a company offsite thing to Fawsley Hall in Northampton- it was supposed to be a big treat and we all had beautiful rooms with four poster beds. I had been in mine for about 30 seconds when I started freaking out - I could feel someone behind me pushing me towards the window. I went to reception and asked if I could move room; fortunately there was a very modern room in another wing. I'll never forget that room though - terrifying. A member of staff told me next day that they'd had people leave in the middle of the night when using that particular room!


Valley of the Fallen in the Madrid region of Spain, the site of Franco's tomb is the most sinister place I have visited but it is amazing. The Spanish don't really want you to go there and some want to exhume Franco's body so sign posting is quite poor and the entire area outside the Basilica is unkempt and falling into disrepair. For example, the finicular railway broke down some years ago and has never been repaired even though it would take you up to the highest cross in Europe. On the day we went it was pretty deserted and very grey which made it even more errie. The Basilica is built into the rock and is huge. It's very dark and the floor us black marble so it's like gliding on oil. A stunning place but chilling nonetheless.