Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Eerie

Eerie , adjective

[Scotch, from Anglo-Saxon earh timid.]

1.
Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories.
She whose elfin prancer springs By night to eery warblings. — Tennyson
2.
Affected with fear; affrighted. — Burns

Also: Eery