Is there anything that gives you 'the creeps'?

I can no longer watch horror films or even murder mysteries and detective stories. Anything violent in fact.
Don’t like clowns either and would never go near a ouija board.
I once read a book on witchcraft and wish I hadn’t.

I’ve just remembered something that gives me the creeps now I’m an adult - masks. Not so much the kind we have to wear at the moment, but theatrical masks that are like faces. In Venice for some reason I bought a cat mask, a human-size cat face with empty eyes, as masks have.. When I got it home it gave me the creeps to the extent that I had to throw it out, and it was quite expensive.

I am just slightly freaked out even by the masks we have to wear now.

I would do none of things the OP listed and have been known to shout at the TV when anyone does anything stupid. Having said all that, I try and avoid any scary movies as something as innocuous as Dr. Who has me hiding behind a cushion.
I hate the dark and during lockdown when I was shielding my husband slept upstairs and I downstairs in our room. I hated every night and would regularly sleep with his bedside light on. Very relieved when he moved back into our room.

More than 50 years ago, we had just moved into what had formerly been a pub which had been severely damaged in a fire in the 1780s.....According to the news reports, it was well established then and I can only guess at its age.

It was in an isolated spot in the country but near to some crossroads

We had mattresses on the floor and no curtains up at the windows. My husband was working away and I was left alone with our children, all aged under 6

I was too tired to read but lay there on my mattress listening to the storm battering the walls outside

Suddenly, I was forced to open my eyes by a bright light within the room. I looked up and noticed a football of light which slowly circled the room just below the ceiling.I was petrified and watched it move, oh so slowly, for some seconds

It then struck me that it could be a burglar with a torch
who was looking for a means of entry into the house into which somebody had just moved

I ran downstairs and phoned the police who arrived very speedily. They examined the sodden ground around the house and said there was no sign of any footprints Their opinion was that the light could have been from the headlights of a passing car coming down the back lane.

My children were obviously safe and I returned to my bed feeling rather silly for having phoned them

The following day my husband returned and I told him about what had happened. That explanation could not possibly be true he said. All the windows in this house are Georgian style ie with several small panes divided by wooden glazing bars in each window...... any passing car could not thus produce a round ball of light. The glazing bars would have shown up on the wall like a noughts and crosses grid

It was several years before a physicist friend pointed out that this happened during a heavy storm and would be best interpreted by suggesting it was a form of ball lightning which had traversed the room internally

I accepted this idea thankfully but nobody was able to explain the other manifestations we became aware of in that house subsequently and which were observed by several people, both family and friends

Two films are beyond me.
1. The Shining
2. The Silence of the Lambs

My family think I am daft !

Just come in from watching a storm from our upstairs balcony. Once, years ago, I actually saw a ‘ghost’ of someone who had recently died. I wasn’t scared because it took me a while to realise he was actually dead because he looked the same as when he was alive. A young boy who had committed suicide. My daughter saw him, too, in the same place. Strange.

No not scared of any of those things. My dad taught me to be afraid of the living!

I'm frightened a living maniac might get into my cellar (even though I havent got one!)

Miss A - you are sooooo funny ????

None of your examples would not faze me. I Have a friend who has been a goth all her life, but has in later life brought that into every part of her life. She has a completely black home, full of skulls, coffins and macabre ornaments such as corpses.
Recently she moved and threw out anything that wasn’t macabre. She has just had a coffee table made that is a coffin and even opens. She has a coffin clock and shelves. Her dining table is shaped like a skulls. Her sofa is covered in a skull and coffin print. She is lovey but it all gives me the creeps. Its very dark and macabre as is the way she dresses.

I was and still am scared of Christopher Lee as Dracula. I can not leave curtains and blinds open at night and when I do close then avoid looking out in case I see someone looking in. I also often dream that I am awake after a bad dream but when I try and turn the light on nothing happens.

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No not scared of any of those things. My dad taught me to be afraid of the living!

Exactly, the living can be far scarier! Once you're dead, you're dead - and films or books are just that, films and books.

My new cat will suddenly sit up from a supposedly deep sleep and either sit and listen or go and have a wander around because he's heard something and I haven't ! It's most probably next doors cat that takes great delight in wandering around our garden after dark, just to prove he can, but a few times, my cat has launched himself onto me and sat there quivering as if I am supposed to do something !

No, I'm not a scaredy (sp) cat! I do go and investigate if I hear anything unusual. I'm not afraid of ghosts either. My grandmother used to say "there's more to be afeared from the living than the dead."
I'm not squeamish either, I'll tackle anything that comes my way.

Jacob Rees-Mogg.

Pritti Patel

I can't imagine the horror of finding Rees Mogg hiding under my bed!

I was a nervous child and now nervous adult as my 5 years older brother used to frighten me about everything: ghosts, mirrors, wardrobes , dark stairs, lit matches etc etc. So I grew up to be very nervous about everything. Not so bad now I'm over 70.

I'd do all those things OP but my answer to what gives you the creeps" is more of a who and its Kier Starmer?

Farage, Marine and Zemour. Fascists-racists.

Oh well......

Curlywhirly I've never understood why so many houses have forsythia bushes right outside the front door. They provide great cover for anyone messing with the door. Why not get rid of the bushes and replace them with something low growing and prickly? You can look for 'intruder proof hedging' on line at Hedges Direct. (Other garden suppliers exist.) Or just get rid of the bushes altogether. I have grass and a few pots in my front garden. No one could lurk there without being spotted.

Ah, MissAdventure! I know why the hangers in your wardrobe jangle around. It’s the calories that live in there. They are a nuisance, because they make your clothes shrink.

Ah, that explains a lot.

After watching the series The Fall, where a psychopath breaks in to the homes of lone women and murders them, I can't look in the mirror while washing my hands at night.
If I get up to go to the loo in the night I don't put the light on because it wakes me properly. My eyes adjust to the light or there is often some moon light. When I'm at the hand basin there is a mirror in front of me, I can't look up in case the psycho is standing behind me.
Irrational I know but that series really spooked me.