Strange, eerie, and otherworldly in a way that's a bit unsettling or spooky.
A variant spelling of 'eldritch,' which comes from Old English 'ælf-' (elf) combined with '-riche' (kingdom or realm), originally meaning 'elf-realm' or relating to elves, but evolved to mean anything strange and ghostly.
H.P. Lovecraft popularized 'eldritch' and its variants in horror fiction to describe cosmic horror so alien it defies human understanding—it's become the go-to word for describing things that are wrong in ways science can't explain.
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