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?

We have a church locally....clophill church

People always come here as it's quite well known for haunting/sightings. We ventured up a few years ago and had a good look round but felt nothing amiss

2 things I found unusual were locals reluctance to talk about it ( villagers) and it felt somehow 'off' on the approach ( up a small lane)

@MumIsRunningAMarathon Clophill and Clapham Woods nearby are suspected to have been/are satanic worship sites. Google the places and 'Charles Walker' the bloke who has been investigating it for years and it is very creepy. Not sure how believable though.
Apparently there have been some unsolved murders connected to it.

Sadly, I've not felt creeped out by any place. I have the psychic feelings of a lump of cheese.

Clapham woods too? Might venture up there today as I'm off work today with a bored 9 year old to occupy!

If I don't come back it's been nice knowing you all!

The old house where my dh, then dp used to live. Really freaked me out , it was built in the 17th century and him and a mate were renting it cheap as it hadn't been decorated since the 1920's. Creepy as.

Apparently there have been reports of strange rustlings in the bushes and ribbons on trees. Get going and report back. It'll get me through surestart this afternoon

I find Bath really unsettling, which is odd because on paper it's right up my street as cities go. I even lived there briefly! I'm always desperate to leave and feel oddly oppressed while there.

The shop where I used to work was very creepy. I hated being there alone after everyone else had gone home, especially as my office was in the part which felt 'off'. It was an old Victorian town centre store and the staff area had lots of small rooms and corridors, all dark as the windows had been covered with steel plates for security reasons which didn't help. I frequently felt like I was being watched from upstairs when I walked past the bottom of the staircase and for some reason I felt that it was man watching. I never mentioned it to anyone but one of my sales assistants ran into my office one day and was shaking, she swore blind that a man had been looking down the stairs at her when she glanced up. I was in the upstairs stockroom a couple of times, with a light on, and noticed a kind of mist which disappeared.

I'm interested someone else found Blackpool creepy.

We were meant to spend the afternoon then stay overnight there (no reservations luckily, just a stop on the way to visit relatives) but the whole family felt uneasy the minute we arrived. We took a stroll along the seafront and everyone was sort of dragging their heels, until dsis broke cover and said she felt like something was off.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and said we'd been thinking the same but didn't know why and didn't want to ruin the trip. We dashed back to the car and iirc stayed at a nice, boring roadside chain hotel a few miles away instead.

I know plenty of people who love it, go back year after year, but I just got this overwhelmingly creepy, sinister feeling. I'd love to know if there's any weird history to the area that might explain it.

This was a sunny July day, by the way, and we certainly weren't looking for any woo by the seaside.

I used to work in a creepy shop too. It was a well known bakers but was in an old Victorian building with really creepy old windows upstairs which was empty. It was a smaller shop and down a side street so didn't have as many customers and staff as the larger branch. I hated being alone in there because you would always feel as though you were being watched and a strong smell of peaches used to come. One night we turned the lights off and went to lock the door and heard a girl's voice coming from the back of the shop going " woooo" as though laughing at us. Another time we came in to find the clock had stopped so we went to change the batteries and noticed that someone had changed them round so they were in the wrong way. No one had keys to the shop apart from me.

when I was at boarding school we had a poltergeist in one of the dormitories. Things would go flying, including stuff like boxes of pins, cans of deodorant etc. then visiting a friend (several times) in a rented flat in Acton: taps would turn themselves on, the kitchen would suddenly smell of frying bacon, and once we were all sitting in the living room and a mirror propped on top of the fireplace actually 'jumped' off, falling flat to the floor but leaving the things which had been in front of it in place...

My sister went on a school trip years ago to a Lancashire village where witches had been burned during the witch hunting era. They were shown a huge hollowed out tree where women accused of witchcraft had been forced inside and set on fire. It had a blackened hollow inside and the kids were crawling in to experience the feelings of the poor women. My sister crawled in and came out quickly. On the coach going home she said to her friend "Wasn't that screaming sound horrible that they played inside the tree? " None of her friends had heard a thing.She told me it was like a high, rising shriek of agony, and to this day, has never forgotten it.

Barley Hall in York! Last time I was in York we cut through the little alley that runs along side it, it was dark and the feeling the place gave me made me feel the need to run!

A few years back we stayed at Portavadie Marina in Scotland. The villa was gorgeous, complete luxury, complete with floor to ceiling windows and a huge bathroom with sauna. Except I never slept a wink the entire time I was there. I was so unsettled and uncomfortable, and constantly checked on my two dc when they were in their beds. We were right at the end of the row and it was pitch black at night - Coupled with floor to ceiling windows it wasn't pleasant. It's right across from a deserted town that has never been lived in, but strangely that never phased me one bit.

@IggyAce is the stately home in the north/north east?

I forgot about Ko Samet an Island in Thailand

It's absolutely beautiful but look at but I felt really uncomfortable there especially at night I couldn't wait to get away. It isn't (or wasn't) seedy like others areas that have been spoilt, people very friendly I just wanted to leave the place made me feel sad and down

@TuiMitcham yes it is in the North-east.

Did it begin with W? I've been and felt funny but could just have been because I was ill anyway It's beautiful but strange (if it's the same one).

It's the chapel at Wynyard Hall, I like the hall no ill feelings there. It's just the chapel that I felt weird in.

Yes that's what I was thinking of. Yes the hall and gardens etc are incredible.

I drove over the Yorkshire Wolds to visit a friend who lives in Lincoln. Was intending to go over the Humber Bridge but had borrowed a Sat Nav which was set to avoid toll roads, so ended up driving all over the place and ending up joining the motorway near Selby (I think).

As I dropped down from the Wolds, going along a main road, I passed a lay by on the other side of the road to me. People were parked there, picnicking, there were trees...and I got the most horrible prickly feeling between my shoulderblades. As if I shouldn't be there, something was just 'wrong' about the place. I drove like the clappers, eyes strictly front, until I reached the other side of the hill, where the feeling left me.

Drove back over the bridge, and have tried to find the place on a map but have no idea where the Sat Nav took me, so hard to pinpoint. Could have been an overactive imagination or a gone-off humbug, but it was a very strange sensation...

@TuiMitcham glad to know it wasn't just me that felt odd there.

ImListening "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."

I put a thread on here about Kamloops and its extreme creepiness. It was the overnight stop on a Rocky Mountaineer train journey and all three of us (husband, adult daughter and me) found it extremely creepy. We had arrived in the evening and went out to get something to eat and instead of walking round the town afterwards as we normally would, we went straight back to the hotel. It had such a creepy threatening feel about it.
It's never happened at any other place and for all 3 of us to feel the same was really weird.

Edinburgh - Mary Kings Close - the old plague street that was sealed up and buried. Totally "saw" something there. Tried to find a rational explanation, failed.

Culloden battle field - awful sense of doom and misery, couldn't wait to get away, felt odd for days after, really don't ever want to go back.

Also found Gracelands, Elvis' home in Memphis weirdly unsettling and melancholic. Felt like a black cloud hung over the entire place and couldn't breathe properly or relax until we were away.

The Helix/The Kelpies in Falkirk. Can't put my finger on why, it just felt so desolate and utterly depressing. I couldn't stop thinking about it afterwards and again i just can't say why. I would never go back there.

The tunnels and vaults underneath Edinburgh are definitely really creepy.