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Places you have visited with a strange vibe

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RevolvingPivot · 02/06/2021 21:59

Hi. I'm off to Saltburn (near Whitby) tomorrow and I feel sick. I visited last March. The weekend before the lockdown.

The place was so eerie. I was actually freaked out on the pier and had to run off it. I actually managed to sleep at night but I honestly didn't think I would.

The cottage was surrounded by cliffs and there was a Victorian lift and a small morgue by the beach. I'm not sure whether these have anything to do with it.

Has anyone else had this feeling from a place they have visited?

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TwinklingFairyLights · 30/05/2022 15:44

@ElsieMc

I went to that pool as a kid. Loved it. Very happy holidays in Grange. Hope they do regenerate it.

Can't say I remember the scary looking care home. I remember Grange as always being sunny and eating ice cream on the promenade 😁

Vicliz24 · 30/05/2022 15:33

Berlin me and DH both found it really full of sadness.

Eightieschildren · 30/05/2022 15:18

Every time I go anywhere near my local town centre.

Rustywheels14 · 30/05/2022 15:16

Warwick castle is a place I have got weird vibes from. Very interesting castle, but I had an experience there that made me bolt out of one of the tower rooms as a teenager. Would be interesting to see if I had the same experience again.

ElsieMc · 30/05/2022 15:13

Grange over Sands has an elderly vibe - large care home on the hill which looks creepy and has an odd vibe. Also the former open air swimming pool on the sea front is or was dilapidated and somewhat offputting but I believe there are plans afoot for regeneration. I don't find it scary though and not somewhere I would want to leave in a hurry. In fact property prices are surprisingly high and bouyant.

Millom has a stranger vibe but my family are from there and remained there most of their lives quite happily.

TwinklingFairyLights · 30/05/2022 13:50

thenightsky · 02/06/2021 22:27

Grange over Sands in Cumbria.

Why's that? My grandparents lived there, I loved it, thought it had a very relaxed vibe.

214 · 20/05/2022 21:41

Stirling2701 · 20/05/2022 07:38

Pocklington near York. I love York but Pocklington gave me the creeps.

Ooh, I live near Pocklington and would love to know why!

Stirling2701 · 20/05/2022 07:38

Pocklington near York. I love York but Pocklington gave me the creeps.

KisstheTeapot14 · 19/05/2022 19:36

What's up with the botanical gardens of west Wales?

Onautopilot · 19/05/2022 10:46

Culloden Moor...spooky even on a warm summer's day. And Larnach's Castle in Dunedin, NZ, especially the ballroom.

alphasox · 12/01/2022 14:54

On our wedding night we stayed in the bridal suite of the hotel our reception was held at, very old hotel, the Saracen’s Head in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, where they claim King Charles I stayed the night before he was given up to the Scottish. I did not sleep all night, kept my head under the covers, just felt something or someone was there, watching us. Not the best start to married life.

Madge2012 · 31/10/2021 14:20

National Botanic Garden in West Wales shudder

Amybelle88 · 29/08/2021 10:53

@RevolvingPivot

Hi. I'm off to Saltburn (near Whitby) tomorrow and I feel sick. I visited last March. The weekend before the lockdown.

The place was so eerie. I was actually freaked out on the pier and had to run off it. I actually managed to sleep at night but I honestly didn't think I would.

The cottage was surrounded by cliffs and there was a Victorian lift and a small morgue by the beach. I'm not sure whether these have anything to do with it.

Has anyone else had this feeling from a place they have visited?

I'm very late to the party but was just mooching on mumsnet and totally agree with you re: Saltburn.

Also had the same feeling in a place called Sledmere which isn't far - my husband said exactly the same, just felt so, so off.

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RevolvingPivot · 22/08/2021 20:40

Places you have visited with a strange vibe - Part 2 http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/4268590-places-you-have-visited-with-a-strange-vibe-part-2

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ToffeeNotCoffee · 17/08/2021 09:11

That dead flat landscape and the huge oppressive sky.

I can relate to this. Travelling by train from Cambridge to Peterborough there was several huge ponds either side of the train tracks not far out of Cambridge. It really gave me the creeps whilst travelling through it.

CovoidOfAllHumanity · 16/08/2021 23:56

Benwick in the Fens scared me silly
I had to go to pick up something that SIL had acquired from EBay
It just felt like the arse end of beyond. Like I was driving into nowhere and the road would just run out.
That dead flat landscape and the huge oppressive sky.
I was a nervous wreck by the time I got there. I irrationally felt like I was in a scene from Deliverance and was going to get lynched by crazy locals (sorry lovely Fen folk)

ReginaPhalangee · 16/08/2021 23:27

Tintagel. Won't out myself but suffice to say it was when I realised I'd lived a previous life.

Tony77 · 15/08/2021 11:19

Wow, what happened?

Tony77 · 15/08/2021 11:16

Yes! I went to Glastonbury expecting a comfy spiritual atmosphere but it felt like being in a horror film. It felt evil and I was glad to get away.

Tony77 · 15/08/2021 11:14

Yes! The dunes just south of Filey. I was walking there as night fell and suddenly they felt alive, like they were watching me. Not a person IN the dunes but the dunes themselves. Also, nearby Bempton, the nature reserve. It was hard for me and my son to stay, it felt so overpoweringly strange. AND Loch Ness. .. and even worse Culloden, which brought on something like a panic attack. Last was definitely Glastonbury, which might surprise some but for me felt totally evil.

MibsXX · 05/08/2021 23:24

@Lj8893

Dover. It was so depressing and I couldn’t wait to get out of there.

I live close to Glastonbury and do love a day there wandering round the hippy shops but I’ve never been on my own (despite it being 20 mins away!!). I also used to have a recurring nightmare which in my dream was Camden but when awake I knew it was actually Glastonbury. So even though I love Camden and Glastonbury I would never go to either of those places alone.

I once went to view a flat in Poole (I was already living in Poole) and even though the flat was lovely I just had a real sense of dread. My friend who was with me said she was relieved I didn’t take the flat as she didn’t ever want to visit me there as she felt the same!

would that flat in Poole happen to have been in Market Place?
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RevolvingPivot · 25/07/2021 20:20

Anymore? I enjoyed reading the thread.

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Bollingerknickers · 02/07/2021 07:11

@ChippyDucks150

There is a luxury resort in Portavadie in Scotland, near Tarbert. It was the most unsettling place I've ever been - we stayed for 4 nights and I never slept properly the entire time, I was up and down checking in the children's room numerous times overnight. It was so unsettling and off kilter.

The other place I've experienced that was the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow - I couldn't even use the bathroom, i was so freaked out. I showered when I got home the next day.

Yes the Grand Central Hotel! I love Glasgow, we’ve stayed in many different places in and around the city but that place really freaked me out, I hardly slept for the 2 nights we were there.

DH thought I was mad when I kept telling him that the place didn’t feel right - I’m now off to show him your post Grin

Shehasadiamondinthesky · 23/06/2021 11:39

Lindisfarne Island gave me the proper shivers. It was like a Dr Who set but there was something very off about it.

LadyofMisrule · 23/06/2021 11:34

@Spyro1234 There are two Chippenhams. The other is in Cambridgeshire. I can't believe they are taking about the Wiltshire one, as it's so ordinary; they must be referring to the other one.

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