Only a little creepy.
About a decade ago a friend and I drove down to Cornwall for a couple of days. After a 4 hour journey down and another few hours finding out hat there was nowhere with vacancies we elected to stay in the car in a carpark on a clifftop in Portreath.
After a fitful night's sleep in the car, interrupted by noisy trucks from the nearby airforce base, the sun finally came up.
We left the car and made our way to the cliffe top. After a while something odd happened: The sunlight took on a silvery quality and started to dim, until it almost dissapeared. The gulls went quiet for a second then started to make huge amounts of noise. Everyone on the clifftop was hushed and looking around in awe.
Sadly, the fucking clouds covered the sun at the crucial moment and my family back in Yorkshire got a better look at the eclipse then I did.
It really was a little creepy though.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 17:44, 3 replies)

You mean...
The biological warfare testing station at Portreath? And the sun creeped you out more than RAF planes dumping live virii over the Uk to monitor spread? You're wierd :)
(ceeej, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 21:58, closed)

If the missus was aware of this
she never would've agreed to go on our family holiday there the other year.

And neither would I.
( Ultimate Cakes & Sweets Why,what are you planning to do - photosynthesize?, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 9:31, closed)

They didn't get a better look
seeing as there wasn't 100% totality up North. I was at Lizard Point and it was fucking awesome. Didn't get to see the sun's corona (fizzy pop?) but it was still incredible when it went BLACK (not dim, like most of the rest of the UK).
(Rsoles, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 12:38, closed)