Page 10 | Places you have visited with a strange vibe

RevolvingPivot · 2021-06-02T20:59:12+00:00

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?

NotTerfNorCis · 05/06/2021 09:03

We had to sign a disclaimer I think, in case anyone came to any harm!

[Between 1999 and 2005] there have been 350 documented attacks. 170 people have collapsed.

www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/tourist-terrorising-mackenzie-poltergeist-2509117

Mumberjack · 05/06/2021 08:58

@NotTerfNorCis

Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh. I went on a 'ghost tour' there a few years ago. The tour itself wasn't scary at all. It was more historical, and in the Kirkyard itself they got someone to jump out at us for a cheap scare.

By the time we were leaving the Kirkyard I was chatting to someone else on the tour and had forgotten all about ghosts, including the alleged inhabitant of the Kirkyard, the MacKenzie poltergeist. Just as we reached the gate I stepped into an area of cold. It was like being hit by a freezing wind, but the weird thing was that it was cold inside, not outside. The evening was warm.

We went to the pub and things moved on. After a few drinks I went back to my hotel, where I was staying by myself. I went to sleep.

Then I woke up with a strong sensation of something being in the room.

It was such a powerful sensation that my heart was beating like mad. I even thought about going down to reception to tell them something was up. But of course I didn't.

I've never experienced anything like that before or since.

Later on, reading up on the MacKenzie Poltergeist, I've read stories of other people walking through cold spots, having a sensation of being watched and even finding deep scratches on their skin.

I remember being on that ghost tour! One of our group had to leave while we were in the crypt as they were going to faint. And as much as there was the cheap jump scare, the guides were a bit scared themselves while asking us to check later for any unexplained bruising or scratching.

MargaretFraggle · 05/06/2021 08:54

I had that eerie Fens experience while lost on Dartmoor once.

I also did that Edinburgh ghost tour and was terrified!

NotTerfNorCis · 05/06/2021 08:40

I've also been on that ghost tour - was absolutely terrified and clinging on to my friend.

Huh, just looked back at an old diary (14 years back!) and it seems that both entering and leaving the kirkyard, 'I felt a weird, cold and heavy sensation in my stomach and chest, and my heart sped up'... What could cause that? Some kind of magnetic field?

Barrequeen · 05/06/2021 08:35

I went to Santa Cruz once in America ( where they filmed lost boys) it was super creepy really freaked me out

HarriR · 05/06/2021 08:34

Banguor hospital Livingston. Felt like someone was watching you the whole walk round g.co/kgs/gzrRmN

BroccoliRob · 05/06/2021 08:24

@NotTerfNorCis

Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh. I went on a 'ghost tour' there a few years ago. The tour itself wasn't scary at all. It was more historical, and in the Kirkyard itself they got someone to jump out at us for a cheap scare.

By the time we were leaving the Kirkyard I was chatting to someone else on the tour and had forgotten all about ghosts, including the alleged inhabitant of the Kirkyard, the MacKenzie poltergeist. Just as we reached the gate I stepped into an area of cold. It was like being hit by a freezing wind, but the weird thing was that it was cold inside, not outside. The evening was warm.

We went to the pub and things moved on. After a few drinks I went back to my hotel, where I was staying by myself. I went to sleep.

Then I woke up with a strong sensation of something being in the room.

It was such a powerful sensation that my heart was beating like mad. I even thought about going down to reception to tell them something was up. But of course I didn't.

I've never experienced anything like that before or since.

Later on, reading up on the MacKenzie Poltergeist, I've read stories of other people walking through cold spots, having a sensation of being watched and even finding deep scratches on their skin.

I've also been on that ghost tour - was absolutely terrified and clinging on to my friend.

Chocaholic9 · 05/06/2021 07:55

@Pericombobulations

Glenn Coe beautiful place but just wanted to leave as fast as possible.

Trerice, NT House in Cornwall, the rear upstairs corridor, both my son and I wanted out of that corridor asap.

Like a poster above, London Dungeon, fainted in there due to the atmosphere.

Personally found Men An Tol fine and lived in Bradford for years, but I guess different things weird different folks out.

There was a massacre at Glencoe in the 17th century, wonder if that explains the weird atmosphere

year5teacher · 05/06/2021 07:55

I’m an absolute idiot and get creepy feelings with great regularity, but once DP and I stayed in a beautiful cottage in Herefordshire and something was up. I felt like I was being watched the whole time. We went on a walk and as soon as we stepped into this one field my skin was crawling and I felt like there was someone behind us. I barely slept at night because I just couldn’t relax.

I never normally feel it that badly, and DP always dismisses it, but he said he felt the same - and I’ve never heard him say he felt like he was being watched! One afternoon we got back and the gate was wide open when we’d left it shut. We packed our stuff and left a night early 😂

Sparrowsong · 05/06/2021 07:54

Tower of London, also grim there.

Sparrowsong · 05/06/2021 07:50

@EstuaryBird

I’m not easily spooked, I live next to a cemetery, but I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned The Colloseum 😳.

I’d already found Rome a bit ‘uncomfortable’ but put it down to too many people but when we went to the Colloseum I never felt a feeling like it.

Went in and all OK, quite interesting. Had a wander about, went early so not many people, then as we were walking across the middle it felt more and more oppressive. I couldn’t even speak to DH, just pointed to a way out and legged it.

We went to Ostia Antica next day which I quite liked but spent the whole time dreading going back to Rome.

We’d been to Italy several times and always loved it but weirdly that one moment has now to an aversion to the whole of Italy and I doubt I’ll ever go back 😢

In other news I love Dungeness and Romney Marsh 😊. I love bleak, flat marshland with endless skies and very few people.

I love Italy but I have had a lifelong inner shudder at the Colosseum. Age 3-7 I used to have really vivid nightmares about the place and awake in terror although I’d never been there (not convinced I even knew it existed). I couldn’t even go inside it when visiting Rome as an adult. That place has bad juju.

I felt the same but less in a similar smaller place in Tarragona.

Chocaholic9 · 05/06/2021 07:50

@plominoagain

A lot of people I know think that the Fens where I live can be decidedly eerie . Particularly if you have to drive through them at night . I scoffed at them until I hit a deer at 2 in the morning and wrote my car off , and was there waiting for recovery alone in total darkness with not a single house nearby and the mists rising because of all the water around us. I was bloody glad when the truck arrived , I can tell you , and I’m not easily spooked .

I got lost late at night driving through the fens and I agree.

Lazydaz · 05/06/2021 07:39

@kimmsutt

Cuba! Absolutely loved it but our group (3 females) had men openly w**king over us, in groups or lines, in broad daylight... on 3 separate occasions.

🤮🤢

Keepyourdistance000 · 05/06/2021 07:20

Devizes

Norfolk

East Grinstead

Lewes

FedNlanders · 05/06/2021 07:15

@Elderflower14

Leiston in Suffolk is a depressing place!

Agree. And Shotley. Just very end of road

CakesOfVersailles · 05/06/2021 06:00

I used to work in boarding (as in boarding schools). When I was a teenager, not long out of school myself, I had a residential role at a school that was in Victorian era buildings. I quite liked the place, it was very beautiful, and I never had a problem with it when it was full of children. There was an attached chapel that some of the children said was creepy. They claimed they could hear the organ play even when the music mistress was away but I never heard anything like that - I think the chapel was just colder than the rest of the building which gave it a bit of an atmosphere.

However one half-term I was going away to meet friends working at a different school but we had slightly different schedules. To save a night's accomodation I was leaving the Saturday instead of the Friday which meant staying one night alone in the school. Holy moly the place was different with all the other staff and children gone. Creepy as anything! I had gone down to the boarders' lounge on the bottom floor to watch tv before dusk, and when I went back to my rooms it was dark and I had to will myself not to sprint. My rooms were not much better. There was nothing ghostly or anything happening - just long, dark corridors and rooms and rooms of empty beds. Same vibes as an empty hospital I think. Was very glad to be leaving the next day.

Not any particular building but I also find churches - particularly old churches- to have a strange vibe after dark. I love churches during the day, they usually make me feel very peaceful. And I don't mind a busy church after dark, for example I like a candlelight service or midnight mass. But quiet churches after dark have an unsettling vibe to me. My local parish church was wanting volunteers to sit overnight vigil in the run up to pentecost - each person would spend one hour alone in the church. I would not do that if they paid me!

P.s. @Mylittleponysuperfan I searched "cannock chase black eyed girls" on a search engine that brings up images as well as links and gave myself a huge fright. Exited the tab immediately so will never know anything about them.

BlueDucky · 05/06/2021 05:52

Jamaica Inn

Dartmoor Prison (it was reaaallly foggy at the time)

Elderflower14 · 05/06/2021 05:38

Leiston in Suffolk is a depressing place!

Bjarnum · 05/06/2021 03:27

Years back we went to a group viewing of a house. There were loads of people as it was for sale at a really good price. Within a few minutes of entering I felt sick with dread - and apparently I was not alone. Everyone rapidly left - most not going further in than the front room.

orangetriangle · 05/06/2021 03:11

Kings Lynn Norwich horrible place apart from 1 lovely restaurant but wont be returning real dead end vibe about it

HoppingPavlova · 05/06/2021 02:05

Coober Pedy in Australia. Really uncomfortable. Full of rough men and post office had pictures of a lot of missing women

Yep. All of these sorts of areas have a Wolf Creek vibe for a reason. There’s a LOT of strange solitary people in the vast outback areas.

wheresmymojo · 05/06/2021 02:00

@HillsBesideTheSea

Actually can i clarify it for you.

The fact that joe bloggs thinks they can use aromatherapy without training and understanding is what it makes it so dangerous. Along with herbology. People rush into it thinking it is safe because it is natural so they give no head to contraindications or safety precautions and have no concept of how dangerous it can be if applied wrong or incorrectly. How many products that have the smells are actually problematic to pets? How many people know that tea tree is actually a neurotransmitter inhibitor to ants and that if inhaled can be an irratant to the lungs. Or that if you have a heart condition you shouldn't consume tumeric at medicinal levels because it will interact with conventional medical meds and potentially be very dangerous.

Anyway. end aside

Homeopathy is a world apart from aromatherapy and herbology!

BreakingtheIce · 05/06/2021 01:11

St Austell in Cornwall
Cromer in Norfolk and Norfolk generally
Several places in Wales
Some areas of North Devon

BreakingtheIce · 05/06/2021 01:08

@Catscrat

Another vote for the Underground hospital in Jersey....I visited it when I was a child some 20 years ago now and still remember the feeling of unease and claustrophobia.

Tewksbury and Gloucester both creeped me out, the atmosphere felt oppressive.

I agree about Tewkesbury and Gloucester. Both have very unpleasant vibes.

WalkthisWayUK · 05/06/2021 01:06

@70sWarmTomatoes

The Fens. Long straight black stretches of water that seem to go on forever, I can't bare to drive on the roads alongside them. I thought the whole area had such a strange threatening atmosphere and was so flat and creepy, I can't even bare to look at photos of the area now!

The Fens are a strange place with a long history. Many died getting lost in the fog if they didn’t know the place well, hundreds of years ago.

I went to a teenage party in a town in the Fens and it was raided by older locals, and felt quite threatening - there is an odd small town feel to the area that isn’t welcoming to outsiders.