atmospheres

I've always been fascinated as to why attics always seem so damn creepy. I knoe they're generally unvisited spaces in a house, often full of old things (or even sometimes empty) but for some reason some just seem really unnerving and I can never quite work out why. I've lived in houses with...

Over the summer I visited my old home town It's got a a lot of really old buildings. I decided to visit the old flea pit which has been restored to its 1911 glory. There was only me and a woman in the ticket office in the building. I sat down in the middle row of seats facing the screen admiring...

I'll get right to it. I wonder if any of you forteans can connect with this. Over the years I have always enjoyed woods and forests whether it be walks, mucking around with my kids or just being in nature as a change from city life. But not all woods have the same feel. I lived near the...

I've been looking at houses to buy over the last couple of months. Does anyone get the feeling that they can or can't live somewhere as soon as they enter a property. One of the houses I viewed which was a new build felt so horrible I made my excuses and left Mr Wombat thinks I've lost it he...

I don't mean in the social sense of not fitting in. I'm more concerned with the place itself, the combination of landscape, water, location - and the feelings that we have about them. I do believe that we have a tendency to anthropomorphise (or personalise) places in the same way that we often...

As a reformed believer in all things paranormal it surprises me that, when I’m alone at the allotment, I often get weirded out by the feeling that a presence is near me. I’ve never seen anything there, or if I have, it’s a pigeon or similar flying by that I catch in my peripheral vision. It...

I gotta theory that places with a lot of earth disturbance are creepy - ex-mining villages, ironstone extraction, china clay, quarrying. They don't get any better when slagheaps are reassimilated into weirdly smooth grass hills. Strange villages got worse since they lost their railways IMO...

http://weburbanist.com/2008/07/27/abandoned-buildings-property-and-other-places/ Brilliant.

There is an old abandoned church in south/mid Bedfordshire in Clophill that has all sorts of weird stories attached to it. Allegedly it was built the wrong way round, so now people hold black masses there. When I was at school my friend said she went there at Hallowe'en with a bunch of other...

Last weekend I visited my folks. While we were there we went to Poundbury. Poundbury is essentially a housing estate, but rather than being rows of Barrett homes all the houses are different. They follow a number of design styles right though the ages. What they have tried to do is to create a...

I used to live in a rented house with a friend of mine, and he'd often go away to visit his girlfriend on a weekend. I really didn't appreciate this, since whenever I was alone in the house, whatever the time of day, I felt genuinely afraid. I have no idea why, but the house would just...

After reading the Skinwalker article in the most recent FT I was wondering whether there were any other similar places of extreme strangeness on record? What about places of partial strangeness? Also, what theories to people here have as to the causes of this type of oddness explosion, if...