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It's not super spooky, but like 7 years ago, I took a solo road trip to Ione, NV (an abandoned gold rush town).
When I pulled in, one of the first things I noticed was a flower in a pot on the windowsill of a house. Thing is: that flower was clearly alive and well, indicating that it got regular watering.
After about an hour of taking photos, I was starting to drive up the hill to the highest house in the town. That's when I saw a single wide trailer with the door open from afar.
That was it, just a single-wide with the door open, but I got such a weird, unexplainable, instinctual feeling of danger that I just high-tailed it out of there to Berlin just next door.
I never learned if someone was there in Ione; to this day it was just a weird feeling. But it was fucking weird.
Edit: the house I was driving to was top right of this beautiful pic taken by yours truly. And if I remember correctly, this was the trailer.
There are some houses that just radiate this feeling of danger. When you look at them, you just want to get away as far as possible.
There is a house I’ve seen in a neighbourhood that gave the same feeling as what you mentioned. All I saw was a house at the corner covered with surrounding trees in the garden, but with a single window in the middle of the house. It’s one of those post modernistic type houses.
The window showed the staircase area with soft warm light. As it’s the yellow warm glow, it should give you that inviting feeling. But instead, it did the opposite for me. All I remember driving past that house is I want to get out of there as soon as possible.
It’s so weird. All from a window. Just like the particular house you went pass.