40 Hauntingly Eerie Liminal Places That Defy The Bounds Of Reality

The term liminal space is often used online to refer to long corridors, empty rooms or street stretches that look surreal. These places resonate with an eerie echo that, perhaps due to lighting or the objects around, often creates an unnerving ambience. These spooky surroundings have an other-worldly atmosphere which comes across even through a photograph, as you can see for yourself from the images in the gallery below. 

#1 Lovely Winter’s Day In Amsterdam

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#2 This Picture Of Moment Valley Always Felt Liminal

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#3 Movie Theaters Tell No Tales

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#4 Imagine Being The First And Only Person To Show Up Early To Work, Walking Down A Dark Hallway, And As You Walk Past The Break Room You See This From The Corner Of Your Eye

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#5 Iron Mine In Virginia That Was Abandoned In The Early 1900s

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#6 Standing Under The Avala TV Tower, Mountain Avala, Serbia

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#7 Our Apartment

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#8 The Toilet At My Work

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#9 A Bridge In Norway While Snowing

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#10 I Am Currently Working Construction At A New Amazon Fulfillment Center (650,000 Square Feet). This Is The Fourth Of Five Floor. That Is Fog In The Background

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#11 It’s Been 38 Hours And It’s Still Dark Out. Everyone Else On The Cruise Seemingly Vanished

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#12 Sky Parking

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#13 This Was My Neighborhood Today

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#14 This Does Not Look Real

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#15 Something Feels Off

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#16 Do You Remember Your Home?

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#17 Found A Portal To Elsewhere

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#18 Sinking Feeling

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#19 This Empty Beach Me And My Girlfriend Saw While Taking A Walk Last Night

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#20 Birthday Room In My Local Movie Theater

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#21 Crown Of Birds

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#22 Time To Take Your Exam, Pick A Seat

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#23 The Most Liminal Space I’ve Ever Visited

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#24 A Hotel In The Fog

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#25 Lonely Gas Station

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#26 Unsure If These Fit Here But It Was Quite A Walk Last Night

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#27 I Think This Belongs Here

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#28 The Creepiest Gas Station On Earth

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#29 The Building Next To The Hotel I’m Staying At

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#30 The View I Had From The Bus Stop At 5 AM This Morning

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#31 Escalators To Darkness

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#32 Virtual Learning

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#33 My Husband Sent Me This. It Was Taken On His Way To Work This Morning

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#34 My Mother-In-Law’s House Flooded Last Night. Took This Pic Before We Started Pumping Water Out, Thought It Looked Surreal

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#35 Abandoned Hospital, No Power, No One Inside For Decades. A Light Always On In One Window

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#36 A Liminal Encounter I Felt Compelled To Share

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#37 Took This In A Gym, Close To Where I Work

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#38 Amphitheater Museum, Lyon

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#39 I Took This Picture And Left As Quick As Possible This Room

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#40 New Fear Unlocked: Indoor Pools With Dim Lighting

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