Creepy Things In Skyrim

[Blarrgh]

I've yet to be creeped out in Skyrim, per se, but one time i metaphorically shat myself when i was walking around the Giant camp near Whiterun, going up a small hill, suddenly see GIANT FUCKING SPIDER COMING OVER THE HILL WHAT THE SHIT. It was more surprising than anything, i know of course there's giant spiders, but at the time it'd been ages since i'd been in Bleak Falls Barrow and the like so i'd clean forgotten about them.

[serPomiz]

the headless horseman was barelly creepy, but when your game get something wrong and the horse became headless as well, it give you the "creepy" kind of vibe

[Urek Mal]

the headless horseman was barelly creepy, but when your game get something wrong and the horse became headless as well, it give you the "creepy" kind of vibe

 

I was walking down the road from Riften when I first saw him. At the time I didn't even know he existed in the game.

I turned to  my man Inigo asd asked him:

 

Me: You saw that right?

Inigo (the talking purple khajiit with a former skooma addiction): Saw what?

 

...Otherwise the closest thing to scary I've run into in Skyrim was my forst encounter with Molag Bal in Markarth.

 

Walking through an abandoned empty house, expecting to kill a couple atronachs or something or another then BOOM! The voice of satan telling me to bash the guy next to me to death with a mace.

[Melviclilith]

For vanilla skyrim I think the creepiest event I ever had to deal with was the wrecked lighthouse on the north shore. I don't remember its name but you walk into a murder scene and start a small quest line from there. I hadn't run a fowl of the falmer or their bug pets yet when I first found it. So I was kind of freaking out seeing these new things and hearing other live bugs somewhere nearby.

 

A second one had me to a double take with the headless horseman, none of my coworkers had talked about him and most of them had logged at least double the hours I had into it one of them even thought I was BSing them. I still never figured out the riddle or story behind him though, he just stopped spawning in my game and I eventually stopped traveling at night time due to my enb turning the nights pitch friggen black.

 

Very little in skyrim got to me, most of my coworkers that played the dragonborn dlc told me that mora's realm got to them. But maybe its my love of lovecraft horrors, but for me his realm was kinda what I expected and hardly scary at all. Hell I mostly went through it with caution than creepy, it only takes being whacked by one tentacle to tell you maybe you are in over your head. But oblivion had the same problem, yea the hellscape of the oblivion realm LOOKS bad, but its not beyond what I expected out of Dantes Inferno, but the denizens demand caution to deal with rather than me fleeing out of abject terror. In oblivion the caves though would do a number on me if I hadn't gone them before, I would be on edge nearly every step of the way. In skyrim, the caves hardly seem any sort of threat even when carpeted wall to wall and strapped to the ceiling with falmer, spiders, and the chaurus. It quite literally takes Momod monsters to freak me out and really only the giant bone spider does that to any real degree.

 

Now there is a mod, the skyrim academy and the apartment world. I don't remember that ones name either off hand, but with the enb I have even the school setting become horrifying at night, and this is when I KNOW there is nothing that will jump out. In the apartment world (a dystopian future type setting) some places are horrifying with the lights on, I walked into one of the warren places dimly lit and full of rust, flooded with dull buzzing like some alarm is fizzling out and I find some alyeid ruins and some otherwise peaceful falmer. Had me on edge but otherwise I dealt with it. Next warrens, same dim rusted place, same buzzing. But this time I turn a corner and see what I think is a shape, a possible monster, a few feet away from me. I take a chance and fire at it with magic just be be safe....and sure enough it IS a monster. Blended into the darkness very well. I freak out, get killed by it and never go back into that section again.

[ratrace]

When I had rebuilt the Dawnstar Sanctuary at the end of the Dark Brotherhood questline, my follower went into the torture chamber, lay down on the ground in exactly the same spot where the wounded Cicero was when he tried to escape after the murder attempt against Astrid. My follower even curled up in the same position as if he was trying to reenact the event. I can't figure out whether this was scripted in the game or it was a bug. But it was very creepy.

[DomDate]

First time I installed Bathing Beauties Luxury Suite, I had a weird glitch. One day I come out of the front door, and there is a dead fox lying there on the porch. I figured it must have been a wolf while I was on the other side of the building. A visit later there are a bunch other dead wildlife corpses lying about. Starting to creep me out. Then children. When the dragon bones appeared I realized it was a bizarre glitch.

 

None of this stuff ever cleaned up on it's own. I had to keep removing the carcasses with the console. Eventually I reinstalled BBLS and ran the save cleaner and never had it happen again.

[phoenixstorm99]

APOCRYPHA freaking aporcypha...

The darkness the weird tentacle water the weird stacks of books and floating eyes and tentacles. Its a hentai paradise. But still realy messed up

[Luminar]

Well I thought it might have been a easter egg in the Sounds Of Skyrim Wilds or something, because that would make sense I guess, but not sure. Seeing on google if anyone else has heard any weird things like this. Because theres one easter egg where I distant voice yells Vengeance!

 

Definitely from a mod. Though something like that isn't really complete until you hear the screaming of King Lysandus' spectral army as they come to hunt you down and slay you in the city streets.

[Firebird V]

Oblivion creeped me a lot more than Skyrim did. Then again I was way younger back then.

One time in Oblivion, I walked out a door and right when the loading screen was over a bear was mid jump, right in my face, attacking me. I fell out of my chair. 

Also fell out of my chair when I was trying to out run a saber cat and thought I had lost him so I turned around to look and he was jumping at me all in my face. 

[Shivalala]

I got Campfire mod installed, and this one day, me and my follower tired from adventuring, we stopped and made up camp just over a hill. Snow and wintercold was blowing *hard* on the other side, so we took shelter near this small alcove.

 

We set up camp, build tent, create a roaring fire to get warmth, and after sharing a good meal and a talk with my follower (interesting NPCs) we went sleeping. Then, the sound of bones clacking together. I woke up and our tent was full of bones.

 

That was creepy...no idea were the bones came from. We tried searching the area, but no graves or anything of the sorts nearby....

[Veladarius]

Found this little girl in the Midden of the College, she keeps saying she is cold.

 

In all the time I have played and the many times I have been down there I have not seen her before.

[carnifex]

Say what you want, but I think the draugr are scary as fuck. The way they look is unsettling, clear proof they're not just some desiccated corpses, but something more sinister, clearly of eldritch origin. (I don't know if their look was planned to be like that or if the artist simply went overboard with how wrinkly they are, but their anatomy is a bit off and the way you can count every single tendon on their bodies is unlike any natural or artificial mummification process ever discovered in our world, as if every molecule of water was perfectly removed from their corpses with no damage to the tissues whatsoever...)

Then, there's the fact that they're fucking everywhere, just waiting to march out of their tombs and serve their dragon overlords once more, which ties into some of my favorite scary myths from ancient times and cultures.

Not to mention, the noises they make are quite unsettling to me.

[Beagle2]

The surprise bear roar. You travel through the forest peacefully, when out of nothing a bear leaps at you from behind with that loud roar. The sound effect is so loud that it freaks me out almost every time.

[Cezul]

Maybe I'm a bit desensitized to the creepy (or lack thereof) in Skyrim, but one thing that still gets me to jump a little, even now are those damnable slaughterfish! Like water ninja or something. Ya cant see them from the surface and it the water is murky, I get this sense of dread that one is just going to charge at me from the depths. Often times.... I think that just in time to whoosh behind me and there it is.

As for genuinely creepy... meh... nothing really impressive comes to mind at the moment. Now if there was content or mods that added certain events referenced from the book throughout Skyrim and Oblivion, then we'd be in business. The "Cabin in the Woods" one where the warrior cuts through a hunted forest trying to get home just to be harassed by a woman's spirit each night. The one I loved but cant remember the name of was from Oblivion which was a play, where two thieves were in an old burnt out house and one is seeing the spirits play out the night a werewolf killed the residence.

Things like that should be in game, just as fun little lore encounters. Folk and fiction that was based on more truth then people would like to admit too.

Dude, let me tell you about the water.

I have some minor issues exploring up north, especially at that deep sea trench. Like, for some reason it just really spooks me even though nothing is there.

To make my phobia real, someone needs to mod fucking giant eels or plesiosaurs stalkling the depths. You just take a dip, exploring some old shipwreck down there, and out in the distant fog you hear this echoing whale like sound, and suddenly some long necked, long oothed thing slowly makes it's out the fog into your direction. And you can't fight in the water anymore ( thanks bethesda! ) so it'd be the scariest game of cat and mouse with limited time ( oxygen ).

...Thalassophobia? I think I have thalassophobia.

 

[Shadowhawk827]

 

Maybe I'm a bit desensitized to the creepy (or lack thereof) in Skyrim, but one thing that still gets me to jump a little, even now are those damnable slaughterfish! Like water ninja or something. Ya cant see them from the surface and it the water is murky, I get this sense of dread that one is just going to charge at me from the depths. Often times.... I think that just in time to whoosh behind me and there it is.

As for genuinely creepy... meh... nothing really impressive comes to mind at the moment. Now if there was content or mods that added certain events referenced from the book throughout Skyrim and Oblivion, then we'd be in business. The "Cabin in the Woods" one where the warrior cuts through a hunted forest trying to get home just to be harassed by a woman's spirit each night. The one I loved but cant remember the name of was from Oblivion which was a play, where two thieves were in an old burnt out house and one is seeing the spirits play out the night a werewolf killed the residence.

Things like that should be in game, just as fun little lore encounters. Folk and fiction that was based on more truth then people would like to admit too.

Dude, let me tell you about the water.

I have some minor issues exploring up north, especially at that deep sea trench. Like, for some reason it just really spooks me even though nothing is there.

To make my phobia real, someone needs to mod fucking giant eels or plesiosaurs stalkling the depths. You just take a dip, exploring some old shipwreck down there, and out in the distant fog you hear this echoing whale like sound, and suddenly some long necked, long oothed thing slowly makes it's out the fog into your direction. And you can't fight in the water anymore ( thanks bethesda! ) so it'd be the scariest game of cat and mouse with limited time ( oxygen ).

...Thalassophobia? I think I have thalassophobia.

 

 

 

That's probably the closest anything comes to creeping me out too.   I'd wager it has something to do with a few too many dreugh ambushes in past Elder Scroll games.  Plus the water, especially at depths, is realistically dark and murky.

[Deemer]

 

 

Maybe I'm a bit desensitized to the creepy (or lack thereof) in Skyrim, but one thing that still gets me to jump a little, even now are those damnable slaughterfish! Like water ninja or something. Ya cant see them from the surface and it the water is murky, I get this sense of dread that one is just going to charge at me from the depths. Often times.... I think that just in time to whoosh behind me and there it is.

As for genuinely creepy... meh... nothing really impressive comes to mind at the moment. Now if there was content or mods that added certain events referenced from the book throughout Skyrim and Oblivion, then we'd be in business. The "Cabin in the Woods" one where the warrior cuts through a hunted forest trying to get home just to be harassed by a woman's spirit each night. The one I loved but cant remember the name of was from Oblivion which was a play, where two thieves were in an old burnt out house and one is seeing the spirits play out the night a werewolf killed the residence.

Things like that should be in game, just as fun little lore encounters. Folk and fiction that was based on more truth then people would like to admit too.

Dude, let me tell you about the water.

I have some minor issues exploring up north, especially at that deep sea trench. Like, for some reason it just really spooks me even though nothing is there.

To make my phobia real, someone needs to mod fucking giant eels or plesiosaurs stalkling the depths. You just take a dip, exploring some old shipwreck down there, and out in the distant fog you hear this echoing whale like sound, and suddenly some long necked, long oothed thing slowly makes it's out the fog into your direction. And you can't fight in the water anymore ( thanks bethesda! ) so it'd be the scariest game of cat and mouse with limited time ( oxygen ).

...Thalassophobia? I think I have thalassophobia.

 

 

 

That's probably the closest anything comes to creeping me out too.   I'd wager it has something to do with a few too many dreugh ambushes in past Elder Scroll games.  Plus the water, especially at depths, is realistically dark and murky.

 

 

I hate the slaughterfish too. There's just something creepy about things in the water that you can't defend yourself against. And yes, the areas up north... I rarely if ever go there. Usually put on waterwalking Two reason; My character would freeze to death in minutes, and the dark depths freak me out.

 

Chaos Dragons or Elemental Dragons (mod) actually adds water dragons, if you need something to come after you in the water. I have yet to meet these guys as the areas up north are deadly for my lowbie character, but might be worth checking out

 

As for scary things;

Coming out of Bleak Falls Barrow I thought I'd stop by the sunken ruins across from the hunters camp by the standing stones. Can't see shit for what's in the water, but I know there's slaughterfish in there from previous playthroughs. Jump in to try to get them to aggro me, and what do I see? I frikkin' shark sitting in the water! Not only is this a lake, but I had never seen a shark before! (Monster Mod or Immersive Creatures added this one). I got out so fast and stood on ground just shooting this thing until a bloody corpse floated to the surface. I jumped in and got the treasure after that, slaughterfish not really comparing to the initial scare.

 

Creepiest enemy I've met are the rag draugrs that spawn spiders. Not only is the sound so frikkin' loud because it's either a bug or the game plays a sound for EVERY spider it spawns, but he spawns an entire swarm! The blast is enough to make you save->quit, after that you have a tanky draugr with some spiderswarm coming after you. Same mods as before add these guys as well.

 

And last, but not least, Daedric spiders and the Skeleton Horrors... fuck these guys

 

[Veladarius]

I have been tinkering with an ENB and its lighting and got it to the point that in dungeons there is almost no ambient light, it all comes from light sources. I ended up fighting some Falmer in a Dwemer ruin (Mage Guild questline) and had been staying close enough to light that I could see but not in it directly. Once I got to the last chamber where there are 4 of them I ended up in a face to face fight. On the last one he rushed past me to one of his fallen fellows to get a better weapon and when I turned around I could not see him anymore. I had to run back to a lit area so I could fight him again. Falmer are just creepy when you can't see them.

[Chicken 0 Nine]

 

Now there is a mod, the skyrim academy and the apartment world. I don't remember that ones name either off hand, but with the enb I have even the school setting become horrifying at night, and this is when I KNOW there is nothing that will jump out. In the apartment world (a dystopian future type setting) some places are horrifying with the lights on, I walked into one of the warren places dimly lit and full of rust, flooded with dull buzzing like some alarm is fizzling out and I find some alyeid ruins and some otherwise peaceful falmer. Had me on edge but otherwise I dealt with it. Next warrens, same dim rusted place, same buzzing. But this time I turn a corner and see what I think is a shape, a possible monster, a few feet away from me. I take a chance and fire at it with magic just be be safe....and sure enough it IS a monster. Blended into the darkness very well. I freak out, get killed by it and never go back into that section again.

That's Aether Suite.

My favourite location/resource mod. REALLY good in my opinion.

 

I want you to update it and play it... Two of the new areas are called "The Nightmare" and "Abandoned School". I thought the latter would be like the school that's already in the mod, so I went there to calm down after the nightmare. NOPE.

(Also sorry if someone has already said this, I'm still going through the thread )