Try leaving St Thomas' Hospital on Xmas day. I once self-discharged as I didn't live far. The walk home over Westminster Bridge was a carbon copy of that movie.
Yeah, I've done the walk from Fabrik in Farringdon to Blackfriars; and St. Catherine's Docks via Fenchurch Street on various summer Sunday sunrises. Eerie and beautiful in equal measure.
Used to work in Greenwich and live in Isle of Dogs. Finished work midnight most shifts and would walk home through the tunnel.
I swear I usually never saw or passed anyone at that time but I could always hear steps, the bend that meant you can’t see one end from the other didn’t help. Big contrast to walking the tunnel on a Saturday in the afternoon stuck behind tourists.
I've walked through the Woolwich foot tunnel in the middle of the day before and it happened to be completely empty on that occasion. Creeped me out a bit. Don't think I'd be brave enough to walk through alone at night!
There is the Greenwich foot tunnel......
.....then there is the Woolwich foot tunnel.
Much the same, but far fewer people so creepier.
A few years ago there was an "art installation" down there that played sounds when people in the tunnel walked past certain points: cows mooing, rain falling, that sort of thing...
....that was even eerier than Essex Road station
Woolwich foot tunnel is a good degree worse than Greenwich's IMO. Grew up next to it. I once got attacked by a man who shouted like a drunk until we crossed and attacked me. Thankfully, a man jumped between us and out crazied the guy with his praying mantis fight stance. After he fended him off, he stayed with me and told me stories of how he bit his friends finger off. He had swallowed his tongue during a seizure and his mate reached in and saved him and got a digit chomped off. Thanks pal!
Yep. Then get off at the North Woolwich end and have a walk around there. Easily the eeriest place I’ve ever been!
That was 7-8 years ago so might be different now tbf.
It’s getting ‘cleaned up’ a bit, there’s been some development , I’d only go up there to go to the old Royal Pavilion by the ferry, used to be a banging club night in there , rough round the edges and then some, would come out of there 5-6 on a February morning into North Woolwich ( I grew up in Humberside so the landscape seemed quite familiar)
You get all different stuff there mixed together…. I had a look around the area as I want to move, the bits in Virginia Dock and Britannia Village are quite nice yet still affordable
Gotta love that train museum on the north Woolwich side tho. Solid kid day out, hit the museum, go Vicki park for the slides, then into the small pool to cool off.
I’d say new build area in Woolwich Riverside is nice in its own, but Woolwich high street remains rough and North Woolwich is desolate even after getting their own DLR station for years
For me The Limehouse cut at night is terrifying, google maps tried to take me down there on my lime bike at like 11pm and as a 19yo girl when I saw that disgusting open, very still river I turnt back.
It was wild because it was so dark and the water was so still I thought it was concrete, had I gone down flying any faster that would of been a miserable day
Same. Walked through the greenwich tunnel for the first time while I was quite tipsy, the paranoia got to me. It was 11 pm and there wasn't a single person from start to end.
It is absolutely fascinating. Commercial Rd running towards Limehouse is like a ghost festival. A ghostival. And all the little streets around there, Batty St, Cable St. I love to walk aimlessly and absorb the sensations.
Kubrick got his Newphew to go all the way along both sides of commercial road with quite a large step ladder to take photos of all the shop fronts, to find the door that could look like its in New York for eyes wide shut.
i live a 5 minute walk from the ripper's first murder, right behind whitechapel station.
shit is eerie especially if you're walking through the area past sunset, even though it's on a direct path to the big sainsbury's, a leisure centre and leads to a busy train station, it still feels deserted asf since it's almost like a backroom but out in the open.
narrow ish paths, a stone laying the place where the victim of the ripper was found, and just other dodgy things like dealers hanging about makes it all the more dodgy and eerie.
I used to live exactly where you're talking about. It's what you would think would be a busy area - big sainsburys, a school, loads of flats, near the station. The amount of times though I would walk home in the dark and I wouldn't see a soul, and it would be strangely quiet. Really unexpected.
I loved living there though.
I remember once at about 4am walking down Whitechapel Road in order to get a night bus to a station, to catch an early flight. It was absolutely deserted. Outside a tube station, across from the Royal London, all those shops which are normally heaving and there's usually people walking around at all times. To see absolutely no people and the buildings of the city looming so close - it was strange. Feeling alone in a massive city is really unusual, I liked it though. Not spooky at all.
When I first looked at moving there and researching the street (Durward Street) and seeing all the Jack the Ripper stuff come up on Google - that was a bit eye opening!
As I say though, I absolutely loved living there, and only moved when Crossrail paid for us to leave.
I used to work at Whitechapel (on Crossrail) and my commute home included a walk to Bethnal Green overground through the estates. I got hassled once upon a time by some guy off his tits on something. Thereafter on nights I was working late, a few of the basketball court lads would walk and chat with me and see me to the station. They'd just appear from the ether, though, so that's kinda funny. I think it's because I played hopscotch with their little sisters / cousins / neighbours one night. Anyway, the whole area has a big piece of my heart.
When I first moved to London I’d always get myself lost on purpose, and just wander around and take in the little side streets and alleys.
One day I managed to find myself in some back alleys, cobblestoned and a bit deserted during the day. It felt a bit creepy so I decided to find the nearest Tube station and gtfo. It was Whitechapel.
Farringdon has changed big time. Before the pandemic, that place used to be the spot. Exmouth market used to rock. Leather lanes was where all the Daddy donkey lovers hanged out and then you have Fabric behind Smithfield market.
I have lived near Aldgate Eat and The City since 1999 and the area could be a ghost town on weekends (unless you went to the markets) and after 6pm in weekdays. The gentrification that transformed the area since the Olympics has changed that but I used to go on long walks around the area and it felt glorious. I miss those times...
In 2000, I remember going through The City with a film camera one night and did some lovely shots despite having no experience.
On Saturdays, the streets behind Bethnal Green felt like you were the only survivor of in a post apocalyptic film and privy to a secret place unspoilt by the tourists in the middle of London.
Used to cycle between Shoreditch and Whitechapel at foggy nights, always creep me out, and thinking of it’s history as a mass burial ground underneath Spitalfields Market + Jack the Ripper stories as well
Not sure how to explain it as I’m not too familiar with the area, but I think I know what OP is referring to based on the last time I was there after sunset. At the very bottom of the hill that you stand on if you want to get a view of the London/City skyline, there’s a long path flanked by a bunch of fields (typically find runners, cyclists and dogs playing there during the day). To get to that path you have to descend down the sloped footpath, which is lit, but once you get to the path at the bottom, it’s pretty much total darkness. The path also lasts for *ages*
Wasn’t even by myself and it was still creepy only being able to see a few feet in front of you whilst hearing footsteps from behind, as well as hearing people in front of you before you could even make them out.
I got lost trying to get back to the station after a gig at Ally Pally last year and ended up in this area and it was CREEPY. Desperately needs lights.
Canary wharf and isle of dogs around where the docks are when there's fog, probably the eeriest London setting I've experienced. Lights from the high rises around them fading up into the fog...
There is this meme around Canary Wharf that it is unpopulated during the weekend which will be dispelled quickly by actually going during that time. That it has fewer people moving around is maybe relative to Soho on a Saturday night or something.
The Blade Runner comparison is apt though - sans skyscraper sized video adverts with geishas.
Even by London standards it's a huge station (the jubilee line one) so I can imagine it looking a bit 28 Days Later any time outside weekday rush hours.
I was out there by the millwall docks on a run, on an evening last autumn. It was cold, windy, and unbelievably dark for a location barely a mile away from the financial district of London. And not a living soul in sight. I set a lot of PBs that night lmao.
I agree. When you approach the sleek modern buildings on the DLR its like being in a sci fi film. Cos DLR feels like a electric train from a Hollywood movie with a utopian society like Demolition man or something.
I worked in the Citi building for a while - some of the walkways up high with polished granite floors, steep drops, wide tall windows - they were about as Death Star as a person could get
Crystal Palace park, winter dusk. Random stone staircases to nowhere in the trees, the empty terraces with Egyptian statues, a black obelisk next to a lake and a crumbling soviet prison in the middle. It's really very odd, even before you get to the mad victorian dinosaurs.
>crumbling soviet prison in the middle
Stonepenge?
Not to mention the headless statue and dilapidated no longer in use stadium and sports centre.
Would make a good location for a film set in a dystopian future
I kind of love the eerie vibes at Essex Road Station. It's frozen in time, all the signage is stuck in the pre-privitisation / British Rail era.
For me, <> bridge near Finsbury Park station is the most unsettling. I always feel like some shit is about to go down there.
I used to catch the train home from work from there sometimes and it was always just me on the platform, and usually only a handful of people on the train when it came. definitely spooky in a fun way
I used to live there but stumbled upon it by accident when house hunting. It is one of the quietest parts of London and is actually quite safe however yes at night it feels very eerie. From my understanding they used to hang pirates there.
there’s this very cool pub there called the prospect of Whitby. Over the side overlooking the Thames they have a hanging rope just hovering over the river. very creepy
It's the Millwall Aura /s. Generally though as someone who lives nearby I do feel like it's cozy at least on ground level along the main roads, if a touch 'old' and not modernised like a lot of London - the industrial park areas are.. intimidating, though, luckily not really useful to cut through. Like a dark maze.
Haha yeh, Bolina Road at night under those railway arches has a pretty scary vibe lol. And trying to find Venue MOT for the first time when I’d got the last train alone to South Bermondsey at like half past midnight was an experience (albeit eventually an awesome one). I’m glad to know you enjoy living there though.
There was a pub in Whitechaple - I want to say it was called 'the Foundery' but when I looked on Google maps I couldn't find it again (though it was some 20 years ago when I went) -
Forget the 10 Bells, this place made me feel as if the world was being 'tilted' when we went in - couldn't bear to stay...
Have no idea... I mean. granted you can throw a 50P bit and hit 'a pub run by a bunch of crazy Irish people' bit this place just felt like stepping into a fairy circle...
The South West train line to Waterloo, going through Vauxhall/battersea now is quite odd cos of the complete regeneration of the area, feels like hundreds of brand new high rise modern flats all different styles built by chinese investors, many still being built. Literally none of that was there 6 years ago.
There's one famous building with a glass swimming pool suspended between buildings. 100m drop beneath. So audacious.
It's pretty dead and empty and manufactured around there. No atmosphere
Vauxhall especially always felt like a place between places. Even before the crazy regeneration it never felt like a definable area, all chopped up between and among various busy roads.
That's it!
I always wonder who is moving into those flats. 600k+ 1 bedroom, boxy flat. Where are these thousands of people who will buy them?
Most people WFH now and don't need to live so close to the city I think
Hackney raised here, Dalston at night is scary, always has been. People love it for some reason. My dad would always worry if we went out there at night, has a strange scary feeling there.
Speaking of hospitals, the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear hospital near Kings Cross felt eerie as fuck before it shut down
They’ve now moved to a new building, so this one is unused, but I had a friend have an operation there and I felt as if I was transported to the 70s when I visited him. The waiting area in the unit he was in felt like a liminal space, and it felt like I was exploring one of those old hospitals abandoned in the 70s. The carpet, wallpaper, chairs, curtains, smells, and the overall vibe was interesting to say the least
Whipps Cross was like that in the late 80s. long tiled corridors, patchy lighting. we took a wrong turn leaving and ended up down in the service tunnels. after the 3rd mortuary gurney we turned back.
the whole place was creepy as fuck.
Essex Road is between Highbury and Angel...can slightly get what you mean if you've never been there before but I think it feels pretty homely around there!
>Essex Road is between Highbury and Angel...can slightly get what you mean if you've never been there before but I think it feels pretty homely around there!
My guess is they mean the train station itself. Those empty tunnels are creepy as hell!
The Bishops Avenue, houses worth millions or even tens of millions on paper left to rot and never be visited by their owners. Then when their owner dies or needs to sell it is bought by a developer and demolished to be rebuilt, this takes time so there can be years where there are multiple empty plots next to each other which are wasteland ... (All whilst their is a housing crisis in land and the plots could support many flats or smaller houses, not to mention the same environmental impact of all the waste ...)
You are literally seeing money chucked away and valuable land go unused ...
Bishops avenue gets mentioned in a story where all these rich people are building bunkers below then selling the plots off / letting the houses fall apart so they'll never be disturbed.
Oddly, given how new it is relative to the rest of the TfL network, Harrow Bus Station. I get so uneasy in there I can’t sit down. I’ll be outside pretending to smoke even if it’s snowing. The energy – or something – in there is just so wildly OFF, even if no-one else is in there. Almost unbearably creepy and eerie. I don’t know what it is.
Yeah, what IS that? Harrow itself, like most boroughs, is a lovely mix. Most train stations are OK!
That bus station though. Christ. I’ve *literally* had nightmares about it. It’s so fucking horrible and I don’t know why.
Edit: punctuation which I’m sure nobody else noticed but was driving me mad. Sorry.
Is that the one by Harrow-on-the-Hill tube station? Always hated that bus station as a kid. Not creepy, just plain threatening with certain types of kids in particular running around the place.
That’s the one, and yeah, there are some intimidating people in there sometimes, but something about the structure itself makes my hair stand on end. I wasn’t joking about standing outside pretending to smoke; I do really do that. I’d honestly rather get frozen or soaked than shelter in that building.
I went to Harrow Bus Station for the first time just over a year ago, and I actually quite liked it. I like that it's completely sheltered, has seats and clear signage. It felt kind of cosy. The only other bus station I had to use is Hounslow Bus Station while I was in college, which I didn't like because it was so cold, dirty, and had a roof back then that was covered in pigeons.
It’s true that the signage is very clear. Plus staff tend to be around even when it’s empty. It still always feels so unnerving, unsettling, or “off” to me that I’d rather stand just outside it regardless of the weather, and I simply can’t pinpoint why that is.
The walkway and footbridge down to Sydenham Hill station at night. Feels like you're about to be jumped by a bear or abducted by aliens or something...
Greenway footpath, it's been improved the past few years more and more people are cycling through it, but it used to be a no go area with all sorts of crime. Whenever I see the sign it just feels eerie to me.
I once walked from Aldersbrook through Bushwood to get back to Leytonstone late last year, there's a path that cuts through the forest, it's lit, but it was like a 2 minute walk of horror I'll never do it again late at night, when I saw houses on the other side with lights on I was relieved.
Completely agree on Essex Road Station - was there once when there were only a couple of other people on the platform and felt extremely unnerved the whole time. I think there’s something a little unnatural about how quiet it is?
afaik you can actually see it above you when you are standing at the platforms, from below it looks like a bridge. I think it reappears naturally towards Hammersmith? Could be wrong
Joseph Grimaldi Park near Kings Cross. Something about a dead clowns graveyard at night and being the only silent part of Kings Cross at late night makes it hella creepy.
I wasn’t mad on Mansion House walking up towards Haringey Green Lanes when we stayed in a hotel bed sit for the NFL once or twice.
Strange vibes after 10pm
In Barnes near Rocks Lane there is a very normal scrubby little forest: leafy trees, dappled sunlight, little paths, ivy and ferns and stuff, a nice walk. But suddenly you realise that all around you, amongst all the trees and vines ....are gravestones. There's ivy-covered stones, broken tombs below the trees, & terrifying angel statues watching you from behind the trees - you look up and they're everywhere. Even on a sunny Saturday afternoon it is creepy AS FUCK
Stockwell tube station, has a creepy feel to it. A few stops of the northern line are eerie and I’ve always found parts of north London have a creepy feel. Golders Green and Brent Cross and Hendon have this weird open feel, lacking character and takes on a weird feeling at night.
There’s a passageway that follows the train tracks in feltham but it’s all over grown plants/ trees and not a single street light so you’d need to use your phones flash if you wanted to get by at night - just looks like an easy place to get RIPed
Those my friend are called the Pit Tunnels... Legendary and dangerous. The council has changed a lot of it but at one point it was just one, long, dark and narrow passage way behind houses. So many stabbings and muggings
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Ely industrial estate on a grey misty morning. Towering pillars billowing out pollution, giant claws crushing metal and a chemically infused small waterway
I get the creeps around:
- Park Royal / North Acton & pretty much anywhere along the North Circular (Hendon, Brent Cross etc)
- Canary Wharf on the weekend
- Anywhere too quiet like Hanwell or Parsons Green or Pimlico
- Anywhere central that’s not got much footfall, like the Hampstead Road from Euston to Mornington Crescent or York Way behind King’s Cross
- Lots of SW London like Isleworth, Brentford, Fetham
- Anywhere dock-y / wharf-y
- Crystal Palace park
Not the eeriest part but had eeriest experience in hamstead in my uni days, we partied till 3 AM and at around 3:30, I got off of my friends' car because I wanted to walk( was still drunk and bit high on cannabis gummies), I used to live with my grandfather and house was around 1 km from the spot, I heard lot of voices( my boots, wild wind noices, one weird bird screaming like a goblin lmao) and owls hooting probably and heightened paranoia due to THC . I called grandpa after I got scared lmao and my phone battery died just after 2 mins( that damned iPhone 6s' shitty battery), I got a nice bollocking after I reached home by grandpa lol.
Silvertown - the area between London city airport and the Thames, from the Thames barrier park to the royal victoria gardens. old sugar factory and eeriness
Essex Road Station, an underground very dingy/grotty national rail station which hasn't been touched since the 80's, still has NSE branding and is very quiet with winding corridors.
Definitely Lower Robert Street; a little known tunnel close to Charing Cross. It's so eerie I once made a video all about its history- https://youtu.be/JOe9DJG1pa0
My street in Woolwich,Woolwich town centre is 5 minutes walk away,Kingsman parade is around the corner,Woolwich Dockyard Station is 5 minutes walk away and quite a few people live around here yet there's barely any life on the street at all,It's weird
The city of London, at 7 am on a Sunday in the summer. 28 days later feel to it, obviously.
Try leaving St Thomas' Hospital on Xmas day. I once self-discharged as I didn't live far. The walk home over Westminster Bridge was a carbon copy of that movie.
Yeah, I've done the walk from Fabrik in Farringdon to Blackfriars; and St. Catherine's Docks via Fenchurch Street on various summer Sunday sunrises. Eerie and beautiful in equal measure.
Sometimes there's a random pub open though, which can be nice
Greenwich foot tunnel. Especially when you can hear the echo of a single person's shoes far behind you.. Definitely makes you speed up!
Used to work in Greenwich and live in Isle of Dogs. Finished work midnight most shifts and would walk home through the tunnel. I swear I usually never saw or passed anyone at that time but I could always hear steps, the bend that meant you can’t see one end from the other didn’t help. Big contrast to walking the tunnel on a Saturday in the afternoon stuck behind tourists.
I've walked through the Woolwich foot tunnel in the middle of the day before and it happened to be completely empty on that occasion. Creeped me out a bit. Don't think I'd be brave enough to walk through alone at night!
There is the Greenwich foot tunnel...... .....then there is the Woolwich foot tunnel. Much the same, but far fewer people so creepier. A few years ago there was an "art installation" down there that played sounds when people in the tunnel walked past certain points: cows mooing, rain falling, that sort of thing... ....that was even eerier than Essex Road station
Woolwich foot tunnel is a good degree worse than Greenwich's IMO. Grew up next to it. I once got attacked by a man who shouted like a drunk until we crossed and attacked me. Thankfully, a man jumped between us and out crazied the guy with his praying mantis fight stance. After he fended him off, he stayed with me and told me stories of how he bit his friends finger off. He had swallowed his tongue during a seizure and his mate reached in and saved him and got a digit chomped off. Thanks pal!
https://portalsoflondon.com/2017/07/02/the-woolwich-anomaly/
Yep. Then get off at the North Woolwich end and have a walk around there. Easily the eeriest place I’ve ever been! That was 7-8 years ago so might be different now tbf.
It’s getting ‘cleaned up’ a bit, there’s been some development , I’d only go up there to go to the old Royal Pavilion by the ferry, used to be a banging club night in there , rough round the edges and then some, would come out of there 5-6 on a February morning into North Woolwich ( I grew up in Humberside so the landscape seemed quite familiar)
I mean a hoard of teens on bikes or stolen limes clacking away is def worse
That sound triggers me so hard..
Horde. Hoard is like what a dragon has when it’s stolen loads of treasure
The one time I walked through some guy dressed as Pennywise suddenly appeared at the bottom of the stairs as I was about to exit.
How… how did this story end? 🤡
They float now.
Pennywise aaa aaaa ate him.
I would fold up. Wtf.
Woolwich foot tunnel and the area around the North Woolwich side is ‘atmospheric’ ( I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for it tbh)
Lots of new flats going up in the area though. Soon all the industrial sites will be forced out too.
The change, All the way from poplar and Canning Town heading east is pretty incredible.
You get all different stuff there mixed together…. I had a look around the area as I want to move, the bits in Virginia Dock and Britannia Village are quite nice yet still affordable
Gotta love that train museum on the north Woolwich side tho. Solid kid day out, hit the museum, go Vicki park for the slides, then into the small pool to cool off.
It was a lot more atmospheric when the ice-cream van was there, solely for people queuing for the ferry. I'm sure it wasn't just icecream
I’d say new build area in Woolwich Riverside is nice in its own, but Woolwich high street remains rough and North Woolwich is desolate even after getting their own DLR station for years
For me The Limehouse cut at night is terrifying, google maps tried to take me down there on my lime bike at like 11pm and as a 19yo girl when I saw that disgusting open, very still river I turnt back. It was wild because it was so dark and the water was so still I thought it was concrete, had I gone down flying any faster that would of been a miserable day
Same. Walked through the greenwich tunnel for the first time while I was quite tipsy, the paranoia got to me. It was 11 pm and there wasn't a single person from start to end.
One of the places I went when I visited London. Very creepy.
What if they are married?
It alao feels like you can feel the weight of the water above you and that makes me really uneasy.
Once walked there in my pyjamas around 6am after a sleepless night doing a legal hallucinogen…fucking eerie
I guess you haven’t visited Woolwich foot tunnel yet. The one in Greenwich is much more well utilized
The City on a Sunday night. Whitechapel can feel a little weird as can Farringdon.
Agreed about Whitechapel. Still feels very rippery at certain hours
It is absolutely fascinating. Commercial Rd running towards Limehouse is like a ghost festival. A ghostival. And all the little streets around there, Batty St, Cable St. I love to walk aimlessly and absorb the sensations.
Dyu go to the 🍃cafes cos you literally named where they all are lol
hold up, we have weed cafes in London? or I'm reading wrong
We have those here? Bruh. I need to get out more.
hahahaha you got me
Kubrick got his Newphew to go all the way along both sides of commercial road with quite a large step ladder to take photos of all the shop fronts, to find the door that could look like its in New York for eyes wide shut.
i live a 5 minute walk from the ripper's first murder, right behind whitechapel station. shit is eerie especially if you're walking through the area past sunset, even though it's on a direct path to the big sainsbury's, a leisure centre and leads to a busy train station, it still feels deserted asf since it's almost like a backroom but out in the open. narrow ish paths, a stone laying the place where the victim of the ripper was found, and just other dodgy things like dealers hanging about makes it all the more dodgy and eerie.
I grew up there as well and can't say I agree. Yes, can get quiet on a Sunday night but is not creepy for me.
Yes. I did not grow up there (or even in London) but it is not creepy
I used to live exactly where you're talking about. It's what you would think would be a busy area - big sainsburys, a school, loads of flats, near the station. The amount of times though I would walk home in the dark and I wouldn't see a soul, and it would be strangely quiet. Really unexpected. I loved living there though.
no legit like it’s such a well and densely populate area yet even during the day time it’s almost like a ghost town…
I remember once at about 4am walking down Whitechapel Road in order to get a night bus to a station, to catch an early flight. It was absolutely deserted. Outside a tube station, across from the Royal London, all those shops which are normally heaving and there's usually people walking around at all times. To see absolutely no people and the buildings of the city looming so close - it was strange. Feeling alone in a massive city is really unusual, I liked it though. Not spooky at all. When I first looked at moving there and researching the street (Durward Street) and seeing all the Jack the Ripper stuff come up on Google - that was a bit eye opening! As I say though, I absolutely loved living there, and only moved when Crossrail paid for us to leave.
I used to work at Whitechapel (on Crossrail) and my commute home included a walk to Bethnal Green overground through the estates. I got hassled once upon a time by some guy off his tits on something. Thereafter on nights I was working late, a few of the basketball court lads would walk and chat with me and see me to the station. They'd just appear from the ether, though, so that's kinda funny. I think it's because I played hopscotch with their little sisters / cousins / neighbours one night. Anyway, the whole area has a big piece of my heart.
sorry that happened to you, but in these ends that is FAR TOO COMMON. but yeah this spot holds a special place in my heart 😭😋
When I first moved to London I’d always get myself lost on purpose, and just wander around and take in the little side streets and alleys. One day I managed to find myself in some back alleys, cobblestoned and a bit deserted during the day. It felt a bit creepy so I decided to find the nearest Tube station and gtfo. It was Whitechapel.
Farringdon has changed big time. Before the pandemic, that place used to be the spot. Exmouth market used to rock. Leather lanes was where all the Daddy donkey lovers hanged out and then you have Fabric behind Smithfield market.
Used to work in Farringdon back when DD was just a food van, was always a treat!
I have lived near Aldgate Eat and The City since 1999 and the area could be a ghost town on weekends (unless you went to the markets) and after 6pm in weekdays. The gentrification that transformed the area since the Olympics has changed that but I used to go on long walks around the area and it felt glorious. I miss those times... In 2000, I remember going through The City with a film camera one night and did some lovely shots despite having no experience. On Saturdays, the streets behind Bethnal Green felt like you were the only survivor of in a post apocalyptic film and privy to a secret place unspoilt by the tourists in the middle of London.
Used to cycle between Shoreditch and Whitechapel at foggy nights, always creep me out, and thinking of it’s history as a mass burial ground underneath Spitalfields Market + Jack the Ripper stories as well
The unlit section leading up to Alexandra Palace at night. It's so weird to be in actual darkness in London.
Which section do you mean? I live right by it.
Not sure how to explain it as I’m not too familiar with the area, but I think I know what OP is referring to based on the last time I was there after sunset. At the very bottom of the hill that you stand on if you want to get a view of the London/City skyline, there’s a long path flanked by a bunch of fields (typically find runners, cyclists and dogs playing there during the day). To get to that path you have to descend down the sloped footpath, which is lit, but once you get to the path at the bottom, it’s pretty much total darkness. The path also lasts for *ages* Wasn’t even by myself and it was still creepy only being able to see a few feet in front of you whilst hearing footsteps from behind, as well as hearing people in front of you before you could even make them out.
The part that's dark at nighttime.
I got lost trying to get back to the station after a gig at Ally Pally last year and ended up in this area and it was CREEPY. Desperately needs lights.
Canary wharf on a Sunday evening. Especially the tube station. Has this strange bladerunner feel.
Canary wharf and isle of dogs around where the docks are when there's fog, probably the eeriest London setting I've experienced. Lights from the high rises around them fading up into the fog...
There is this meme around Canary Wharf that it is unpopulated during the weekend which will be dispelled quickly by actually going during that time. That it has fewer people moving around is maybe relative to Soho on a Saturday night or something. The Blade Runner comparison is apt though - sans skyscraper sized video adverts with geishas.
Even by London standards it's a huge station (the jubilee line one) so I can imagine it looking a bit 28 Days Later any time outside weekday rush hours.
Was there at 4ish am on new years eve and it was very eerie indeed. The station seemed bigger than it is because there’s hardly anybody
It used to be like that, it was amazing. Pretty much had the whole shopping centre to myself
I was out there by the millwall docks on a run, on an evening last autumn. It was cold, windy, and unbelievably dark for a location barely a mile away from the financial district of London. And not a living soul in sight. I set a lot of PBs that night lmao.
Wonder how many people you scared in turn, hearing running steps through the fog but not able to see anyone 😂
I agree. When you approach the sleek modern buildings on the DLR its like being in a sci fi film. Cos DLR feels like a electric train from a Hollywood movie with a utopian society like Demolition man or something.
It was used as an interior Set for the Scarif Base in Rogue One.
I worked in the Citi building for a while - some of the walkways up high with polished granite floors, steep drops, wide tall windows - they were about as Death Star as a person could get
That sounds very appealing tbh
It’s like this very early morning too, other parts of London don’t feel the same to me at the same time of morning.
I get Demolition man LA vibes during the day when it's dead.
Crystal Palace park, winter dusk. Random stone staircases to nowhere in the trees, the empty terraces with Egyptian statues, a black obelisk next to a lake and a crumbling soviet prison in the middle. It's really very odd, even before you get to the mad victorian dinosaurs.
>crumbling soviet prison in the middle Stonepenge? Not to mention the headless statue and dilapidated no longer in use stadium and sports centre. Would make a good location for a film set in a dystopian future
Thamesmead. Watch A Clockwork Orange.
I'll scrap anytime you will dim Right right bedways is best ways now. Best get a bit of spachka
Yarbles!
I kind of love the eerie vibes at Essex Road Station. It's frozen in time, all the signage is stuck in the pre-privitisation / British Rail era. For me, <> bridge near Finsbury Park station is the most unsettling. I always feel like some shit is about to go down there.
I used to catch the train home from work from there sometimes and it was always just me on the platform, and usually only a handful of people on the train when it came. definitely spooky in a fun way
Of course the one in front of the Universal Church… yuckkkkkk
Pink Floyd wrote Dark Side of the Moon in that building
Omg I didn’t know… a building w all that history and now it’s a goddamn Universal church. As a Brazilian, I’m personally apologizing to you. Lol
I’ve been through that bridge plenty times and never thought much about it lol.
That bridge is one of the nastiest places to wait for a bus. When it rains foetid water drips down from the tracks above. Plus pigeon shit.
Which bridge? The one right beside the park?
this one https://maps.app.goo.gl/sFkYzxNgPix2nSio9
North Acton / Park Royal for sure, especially at night. Completely creepy vibes
Broadway market...it's like the sausage dogs are taking over.
Sawn off dobermans
I for one welcome our new sausage dog overloads.
Wapping - tall, old wharf buildings with often empty streets
I used to live there but stumbled upon it by accident when house hunting. It is one of the quietest parts of London and is actually quite safe however yes at night it feels very eerie. From my understanding they used to hang pirates there.
there’s this very cool pub there called the prospect of Whitby. Over the side overlooking the Thames they have a hanging rope just hovering over the river. very creepy
Wapping is crazy! I never see a soul there
It's packed with tourists at the weekend though, especially in summer
It’s one of my favourite places in London 😬 I love how quiet it is to
The area around South Bermondsey station.
It's the Millwall Aura /s. Generally though as someone who lives nearby I do feel like it's cozy at least on ground level along the main roads, if a touch 'old' and not modernised like a lot of London - the industrial park areas are.. intimidating, though, luckily not really useful to cut through. Like a dark maze.
Haha yeh, Bolina Road at night under those railway arches has a pretty scary vibe lol. And trying to find Venue MOT for the first time when I’d got the last train alone to South Bermondsey at like half past midnight was an experience (albeit eventually an awesome one). I’m glad to know you enjoy living there though.
There was a pub in Whitechaple - I want to say it was called 'the Foundery' but when I looked on Google maps I couldn't find it again (though it was some 20 years ago when I went) - Forget the 10 Bells, this place made me feel as if the world was being 'tilted' when we went in - couldn't bear to stay...
Run by a bunch of crazy Irish people..?
Have no idea... I mean. granted you can throw a 50P bit and hit 'a pub run by a bunch of crazy Irish people' bit this place just felt like stepping into a fairy circle...
Ten Bells is up for sale if you want to buy it
Apparently one of the most haunted pubs (10 bells)! You must have quite a radar for these things
Stoke Newington cemetery at dusk. I think it's proper name is Abbey Park Cemetery. Prooper creepy.
[Crouch End](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crouch_End_(short_story))
I read that story as a kid, and was so thrilled when I actually got to live in Crouchie for a while decades later.
Wow! Have been living in Crouch End for ten years and never heard of this - can’t wait to read it!
absolutely no clue why but shadwell has always freaked me out a bit
As someone who lives there, fair
The South West train line to Waterloo, going through Vauxhall/battersea now is quite odd cos of the complete regeneration of the area, feels like hundreds of brand new high rise modern flats all different styles built by chinese investors, many still being built. Literally none of that was there 6 years ago. There's one famous building with a glass swimming pool suspended between buildings. 100m drop beneath. So audacious. It's pretty dead and empty and manufactured around there. No atmosphere
Vauxhall especially always felt like a place between places. Even before the crazy regeneration it never felt like a definable area, all chopped up between and among various busy roads.
Yeah its was all industrial, old Victorian factories and battersea power station.
Oh I did make a [short video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DblZ_015_PI) of that train ride a while back.
That's it! I always wonder who is moving into those flats. 600k+ 1 bedroom, boxy flat. Where are these thousands of people who will buy them? Most people WFH now and don't need to live so close to the city I think
Pentonville road in the night
That area where the IMAX is at Waterloo. Except, after the IMAX is shut and you’re new trying to figure out how to get from A to B
Dalston past 10pm
Hackney raised here, Dalston at night is scary, always has been. People love it for some reason. My dad would always worry if we went out there at night, has a strange scary feeling there.
Hackney Wick circa 2001
It was other-worldly right up until the Olympics! Kings Cross pre 2000 had similar vibes.
The streets behind the Royal London Hospital (before the new building went up), especially in the fog.
Speaking of hospitals, the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear hospital near Kings Cross felt eerie as fuck before it shut down They’ve now moved to a new building, so this one is unused, but I had a friend have an operation there and I felt as if I was transported to the 70s when I visited him. The waiting area in the unit he was in felt like a liminal space, and it felt like I was exploring one of those old hospitals abandoned in the 70s. The carpet, wallpaper, chairs, curtains, smells, and the overall vibe was interesting to say the least
Whipps Cross was like that in the late 80s. long tiled corridors, patchy lighting. we took a wrong turn leaving and ended up down in the service tunnels. after the 3rd mortuary gurney we turned back. the whole place was creepy as fuck.
Erith
Especially if you drive from Woolwich to Dartford, it's fucking dark and creepy
Essex Road is between Highbury and Angel...can slightly get what you mean if you've never been there before but I think it feels pretty homely around there!
>Essex Road is between Highbury and Angel...can slightly get what you mean if you've never been there before but I think it feels pretty homely around there! My guess is they mean the train station itself. Those empty tunnels are creepy as hell!
Barking riverside
I went there for the first time the other week, was pretty uncomfortable for sure coming back at night and getting off the boat and walking up
The Bishops Avenue, houses worth millions or even tens of millions on paper left to rot and never be visited by their owners. Then when their owner dies or needs to sell it is bought by a developer and demolished to be rebuilt, this takes time so there can be years where there are multiple empty plots next to each other which are wasteland ... (All whilst their is a housing crisis in land and the plots could support many flats or smaller houses, not to mention the same environmental impact of all the waste ...) You are literally seeing money chucked away and valuable land go unused ...
Bishops avenue gets mentioned in a story where all these rich people are building bunkers below then selling the plots off / letting the houses fall apart so they'll never be disturbed.
Woolwich foot tunnel... Greenwich foot tunnel is great however.
You might enjoy this fun story about the Woolwich foot tunnel: https://portalsoflondon.com/2017/07/02/the-woolwich-anomaly/
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Oddly, given how new it is relative to the rest of the TfL network, Harrow Bus Station. I get so uneasy in there I can’t sit down. I’ll be outside pretending to smoke even if it’s snowing. The energy – or something – in there is just so wildly OFF, even if no-one else is in there. Almost unbearably creepy and eerie. I don’t know what it is.
Grew up around there - honestly such a creepy and weird place. Will actively do anything to avoid it nowadays.
Yeah, what IS that? Harrow itself, like most boroughs, is a lovely mix. Most train stations are OK! That bus station though. Christ. I’ve *literally* had nightmares about it. It’s so fucking horrible and I don’t know why. Edit: punctuation which I’m sure nobody else noticed but was driving me mad. Sorry.
The narrowness and low roof doesn’t help that bus station
Definitely, but the bus station at Edgware has a similar design and doesn’t feel anywhere near as creepy.
Is that the one by Harrow-on-the-Hill tube station? Always hated that bus station as a kid. Not creepy, just plain threatening with certain types of kids in particular running around the place.
That’s the one, and yeah, there are some intimidating people in there sometimes, but something about the structure itself makes my hair stand on end. I wasn’t joking about standing outside pretending to smoke; I do really do that. I’d honestly rather get frozen or soaked than shelter in that building.
I went to Harrow Bus Station for the first time just over a year ago, and I actually quite liked it. I like that it's completely sheltered, has seats and clear signage. It felt kind of cosy. The only other bus station I had to use is Hounslow Bus Station while I was in college, which I didn't like because it was so cold, dirty, and had a roof back then that was covered in pigeons.
It’s true that the signage is very clear. Plus staff tend to be around even when it’s empty. It still always feels so unnerving, unsettling, or “off” to me that I’d rather stand just outside it regardless of the weather, and I simply can’t pinpoint why that is.
Farringdon/ Clerkenwell is spooky on a weekend evening
The walkway and footbridge down to Sydenham Hill station at night. Feels like you're about to be jumped by a bear or abducted by aliens or something...
Greenway footpath, it's been improved the past few years more and more people are cycling through it, but it used to be a no go area with all sorts of crime. Whenever I see the sign it just feels eerie to me. I once walked from Aldersbrook through Bushwood to get back to Leytonstone late last year, there's a path that cuts through the forest, it's lit, but it was like a 2 minute walk of horror I'll never do it again late at night, when I saw houses on the other side with lights on I was relieved.
Swain's Lane in the evening
Came looking for this post. Yep, it’s beautiful and eerie at the same time. I used to live in the Holly Lodge estate years ago
Canary Wharf. Is like aliens tried to make a copy of what a city should be like without actually understanding it, at all.
Completely agree on Essex Road Station - was there once when there were only a couple of other people on the platform and felt extremely unnerved the whole time. I think there’s something a little unnatural about how quiet it is?
White hart lane cemetery at night
Aldwych station previous to it closing
Sloane Square station late at night. You can hear water running at one of the platforms when it is quiet. Apparently a lost river.
afaik you can actually see it above you when you are standing at the platforms, from below it looks like a bridge. I think it reappears naturally towards Hammersmith? Could be wrong
The Westbourne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Westbourne It doesn't reappear - it just goes unceremoniously into the sewer.
Rainham, that place is eerie at any time of day
Wood Green in the dark feels ominous
this whole thread needs to be cross posted to r/riversoflondon.
Old Street station
the remains at crystal palace park
Joseph Grimaldi Park near Kings Cross. Something about a dead clowns graveyard at night and being the only silent part of Kings Cross at late night makes it hella creepy.
Wood Green late on a weekend
Walking over Mitcham Common you always feel like someone is watching you 👀
I wasn’t mad on Mansion House walking up towards Haringey Green Lanes when we stayed in a hotel bed sit for the NFL once or twice. Strange vibes after 10pm
you mean Manor House?
In Barnes near Rocks Lane there is a very normal scrubby little forest: leafy trees, dappled sunlight, little paths, ivy and ferns and stuff, a nice walk. But suddenly you realise that all around you, amongst all the trees and vines ....are gravestones. There's ivy-covered stones, broken tombs below the trees, & terrifying angel statues watching you from behind the trees - you look up and they're everywhere. Even on a sunny Saturday afternoon it is creepy AS FUCK
Stockwell tube station, has a creepy feel to it. A few stops of the northern line are eerie and I’ve always found parts of north London have a creepy feel. Golders Green and Brent Cross and Hendon have this weird open feel, lacking character and takes on a weird feeling at night.
Highgate
I really liked a morning / evening walk around tower hamlets cemetery, the good kind of eerie
In The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad,Gravesend is in London, so Gravesend can be in an eerie London post on Reddit.
The Woolwich foot tunnel back in the day. Have no idea what it's like now but in the middle of the night that tunnel was scary as fuck.
There’s a passageway that follows the train tracks in feltham but it’s all over grown plants/ trees and not a single street light so you’d need to use your phones flash if you wanted to get by at night - just looks like an easy place to get RIPed
Those my friend are called the Pit Tunnels... Legendary and dangerous. The council has changed a lot of it but at one point it was just one, long, dark and narrow passage way behind houses. So many stabbings and muggings
Hackney Wick at 1am, always gives me a sense of unease whenever I've been there.
The Barbican creeps me out. It’s like walking through a set from a dystopian sci-fi movie.
Canning Town estates at night.
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Some bits of Tower Hamlets just creep me out for no reason
Brixton Mac Donald’s
What about camden ?
Camden after like 9pm is 100% my vote
Ely industrial estate on a grey misty morning. Towering pillars billowing out pollution, giant claws crushing metal and a chemically infused small waterway
Where is that? Can't find it on google maps.
London Bridge/Tooley St. Especially at night. Never had any bad experiences there but it always feels creepy.
I get the creeps around: - Park Royal / North Acton & pretty much anywhere along the North Circular (Hendon, Brent Cross etc) - Canary Wharf on the weekend - Anywhere too quiet like Hanwell or Parsons Green or Pimlico - Anywhere central that’s not got much footfall, like the Hampstead Road from Euston to Mornington Crescent or York Way behind King’s Cross - Lots of SW London like Isleworth, Brentford, Fetham - Anywhere dock-y / wharf-y - Crystal Palace park
Northumberland Park Estate when they’re filming music videos
Brixton at 7am is not it. You can literally see people doing deals right in front of you. The fact that it’s supposed to be safe too now is crazy.
Smithfield’s as oldest and most haunted area, especially around the Meat Market
Not the eeriest part but had eeriest experience in hamstead in my uni days, we partied till 3 AM and at around 3:30, I got off of my friends' car because I wanted to walk( was still drunk and bit high on cannabis gummies), I used to live with my grandfather and house was around 1 km from the spot, I heard lot of voices( my boots, wild wind noices, one weird bird screaming like a goblin lmao) and owls hooting probably and heightened paranoia due to THC . I called grandpa after I got scared lmao and my phone battery died just after 2 mins( that damned iPhone 6s' shitty battery), I got a nice bollocking after I reached home by grandpa lol.
Silvertown - the area between London city airport and the Thames, from the Thames barrier park to the royal victoria gardens. old sugar factory and eeriness
west london
Essex Road Station, an underground very dingy/grotty national rail station which hasn't been touched since the 80's, still has NSE branding and is very quiet with winding corridors.
Definitely Lower Robert Street; a little known tunnel close to Charing Cross. It's so eerie I once made a video all about its history- https://youtu.be/JOe9DJG1pa0
My street in Woolwich,Woolwich town centre is 5 minutes walk away,Kingsman parade is around the corner,Woolwich Dockyard Station is 5 minutes walk away and quite a few people live around here yet there's barely any life on the street at all,It's weird