Is there anything that gives you 'the creeps'?

My friend and me used to watch the twighlight zone short stories on a weekend night.
I'd babysit her son while she worked, and when she got in, we would munch on toast, drink tea, and watch the programme.
There was one that scared us stupid, about a locked wardrobe in a rented house, which had a horrible monster thing living inside it.
It was only small, but oh boy was it ugly!!!

I find the whole concept of Halloween creepy and macabre. I don’t like this time of year at all. I just don’t understand why it’s caught on like it has - send it back over the pond!

grammargran It originated here in the first place!

I find nd vintage fairground stuff, like the horses on the carousels frightening for some reason, and very old dolls. Maybe the style of the painted faces perhaps?

I used to be terrified of the cybermen on Dr Who, again possibly because of the blank expression on the faces.

The thing that most creeped me out though was when I was in the Rangers (post Girl Guides) was going to our meeting place, which was a small room deep in the depths of the churchyard, and being terrified of having to go past all the graves in the dark. I used to take a torch but was frightened to use it, in case it showed up anything creepy or grisly looming at me out of the dark!

Nowadays it's slugs which creep me out, horrible things.

MissAdventure

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

Could be worse......he could be in the bed!?

When I was late teens early twenties I went to watch Poltergeist on my own, one of the scenes scared me so much I walked out, on the way home I go round a double bend automatically tooting as I went round - nearly jumped out of my skin .

Many years later, in my house, sat at the table writing something and noticed my cat staring at something behind me - looked but couldn't see anything. However he kept staring, creeping me out a bit although I did say to him it was only Ricky (my late husband) - yes I talk to my pet and he talks back sometimes.

Loads of things creep me out Miss Adventure!
Every night I check walls and under pillows and duvet for spiders.
Getting up for the loo during night I darent look in bathroom mirror in case of what I see in the darkness as know it'll be ghost. (not keen on what I see reflected in daylight either!)
Actually sitting on loo in darkness I find scary as once yrs ago in old house there was a huge slug type thing in toilet bowl. Nightmares most nights.
Nervous wreck Miss Adventure.

Sweetpeasue - I’m glad I’m not the only one with the mirror phobia! I can’t bear looking in a mirror when it’s dark in case I see something behind me - it’s so irrational, but my heart gallops every time ??

Lolo81 My son tells me there's a horror film that has the mirror as it's whole theme of spirits appearing in mirror and taking you into the spirit world!! ?

Shelagh6

Scones -what is a ‘benny’?

Oh, perhaps it's a Bristolian word...it means to lose your temper and be angry.

HannahLoisLuke

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 don't like clowns either.
We frightened ourselves silly with a ouija board as students - we were really terrified and the padre warned us against meddling with the unknown.

I used to be rather frightened of spiders but have conditioned myself now.
There was a fascinating item about spiders on Autumnwatch tonight. Remarkable creatures.

The sea or oceans in fact I am not good in water. Terrified of heights and tunnels and clowns too.

Clowns and ventriloquist puppets ... they've always freaked me out. I like a good creepy film but I wouldn't watch a film with them in and wouldn't have them in the house. Very creepy ;-(

My cat when she just sits staring at the same spot, I expect a spider to come running across the floor!

While DS1 and family were staying here, I got up in the morning to let little pooch out in the garden. It was dark and I went out with her.DS1 was up and didn’t know I was in the garden. As he pulled back the curtains , I was waving to him through the window, in my white dressing gown. ?. He literally jumped back 2 feet with his hands on his head, terrified.
I laughed til I cried. Everytime I think if it , I get the giggles. ??. Poor love!

That must have been terrifying for him!

When I was a child I used to walk through a cemetery to go to brownies. There was a fair amount of woodland too. I was never scared and would happily walk through but now I would be terrified to do that walk !!

I had one of those Victorian type china face dolls sitting on a chair but have had to put it in a box. Just too freaky. They look at you in that unblinking way!

My friends living room was full of them.
In prams, strapped into highchairs, horrible!

I have always loved dolls, I have a collection of porcelain ones but over the last 10 years or so I have really come to dislike them to the point I am on the verge of being phobic.

They are now boxed up in the attic for the AC to deal with when I pop my clogs.

I couldn’t go in the attic on my own, and if I am in the house on my own I am extremely aware of all external noises.

I don't think I'd even like them in my attic (which I also don't have)
It's the stuff of horror movies..

Forestflame

As a Christian I would never have a ouija board in my home or attend a seance.

Same here....heard some awful things that have happened to people after using one of those...

Confession warning!
As a 13 year old French exchange staying with a stupidly rich family in Auneuil near Paris, my room was an attic loft in a huge 4storey French c18th villa, with skylight windows! The heating was ancient, animal skins strewn on bed and floor, scary or what?! I was so frightened that I peed into my Chocolat chaud cup and emptied down loo in a.m. ....! I stayed 2 nights before being flown in private plain(yep!) Down to villa in Cassis, more scary still! Bedroom windows overhung white cliffs over sea, what should have been an amazing experience was ruined by my fear of the dark in a country in 60s that still used old gaslights in old homes! That's the rich for you!

Since experiencing some life changing things, mortal illness, bereavements etc., I seem to have lost that edginess.
A couple of weeks after my husband died, (alone) in the middle of the night, I heard a big crash in the house. The worst had happened as far as I was concerned and I turned over and went back to sleep. In the morning, I saw that a large Victorian oil painting had fallen to the floor in the sitting room. The old frayed string had finally given way.
Something which did make me wonder recently, again in the middle of the night, was the sound of people talking in the house. I got up and found the voices coming from the TV. No picture. My son had fixed up loudspeakers and I hadn’t turned them off, or something similar and they came on all of a sudden.
I like the noise of the freezer, dishwasher etc, living alone, it’s almost like something alive.