Places you have visited with a strange vibe

Amsterdam.

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

Arundel castle...creepy feeling and was lovely to get back out into the beautiful grounds. It was a lovely sunny day but the castle was just so gloomy with a feeling of history that was just so heavy. Can’t explain it but would be interested if anyone has felt the same there

Gloucester I thought seemed quite an odd place.

Mention of this thread reminded me that we drove through Winchelsea while staying in Rye - it was quite weird. It's basically next to an older town the fell away to erosion of the coast, which probably accounts for the odd atmosphere.

We loved Dungeness in it's weird, desolate way.

I don't think it was scary in any way, but one of the most offputting places I've been in is Yeovil, waiting for a coach connection. It wasn't ugly or sinister or terrible, it just felt really empty and bereft!

@Abhannmor. No he had no connection to Yorkshire at all, in fact he was a Londoner of Irish parents. Interestingly though he telephoned me completely out of the blue about 3 or 4 years after we'd split - our split wasn't acrimonious, just one of those things - and in the course of our chat he revealed that he and his partner had bought a house and were living in Yorkshire. Perhaps he'd felt drawn to the county subconsciously.

Not rtft

Lewes.

On holiday with my parents, brother and my 1st proper BF, driving home from Algarve Portugal through Spain. It had been a long journey with very heavy traffic, mostly lorries, through winding single lane mountainous terrain and we needed a break and a stop for the night. Ended up in a tiny hicksville place whose name I cannot for the life of me recall. The landscape was quite Swiss feeling.
Found what appeared to be the only hotel open, although there were others in the town. It seemed fairly 'well to do' on check in and we had 2 rooms, 2 bathrooms. Parents room was directly opposite ours.
The atmosphere in the bedroom made me feel ill but it was the bathroom that really did me in and made me feel I would rather hold it in than use it for a single minute on my own. My Mum completely agreed.
We went out to lie by the pool for a bit after check in and couldn't shake the feeling that the locals (staff) were really staring at us and muttering things. Reminded me of the feeling I had when watching The Shining even though it looked nothing like the Overlook Hotel. In fact, my parents who are not woo at all felt the same as did my BF and brother.

Having had a really long day and figuring it was just tiredness and only for 1 night, we got on with it.
Got in the car to find a restaurant for dinner but nothing was open so we went back to the hotel and were shown into the dining room. Every inch of the walls was covered with dead animal heads - deer, bears, wolves but also rabbits and birds etc. There were also shotguns, axes and various weaponry on the walls. It was clear we were the only non locals there & there was this weird muttering chant coming from a group of people on one side of the room. They all seemed to have teeth missing or a wondering/lazy eye, some form of disfigurement. Honestly felt like we were trapped in some nightmare!! My Mum called it The Village of The Damned.
None of us had much of an appetite but we ate something and then tried to sleep. None of us could. Left that place about 4am and we couldn't get out of there fast enough!! My parents & brother still remember it over 25 years later but none of us can recall what the place was called. Gives me the creeps just thinking about it.

I once visited a patient (NHS capacity)
Perfectly nice patient
Perfectly nice house . Unremarkable decor ( white walls /leather sofa/ wood floor)

I felt oppressed and like a physical weight on me . I couldn't wait to leave and left as soon as professionally possible (after treating obvs )

No idea why . The house just felt odd .

Thailand, stayed in Koh Samui and there was a creepy, not quite sure what's really going on here type vibe. Tons of scruffy stray cats and dogs in all the restaurants and hotels, just wandering about unchallenged. Birds tapping on the windows. Staff with fake smiles but very firm rules, scooters whizzing about too close to you, piles of rubbish in deserted beauty spots. Bangkok is the most depraved, soulless place I've ever been to. I was terrified just being at Bangkok airport. Never, ever again.

Weirdly, a multi storey car park at Lakeside Shopping Centre in Essex. I had a strange experience there where I swear my car was in the middle of a bay and when I returned it was in a far corner by a wall. A man with a broom appeared out of nowhere and asked if I needed help. Everything suddenly seemed sinister and I drove out of there like a bat out of hell. Can't explain it.

The Clerkenwell House of Detention. Old underground prison I visited years ago. I felt so unwell and overwhelmed by the sounds and smells they had installed... crying, muttering, sweaty smells and hot and cold air. Like the trench experience at the Imperial War Museum but so strong. When I got up into the entrance again and mentioned this was told there were none...
Anyone else had a similar experience when it was open?

Kinlochleven. Horrible place, with a weird eerie atmosphere. I've never been creeped out by anywhere like that, before or since.

Agree with pp on Ludgershall, Wiltshire - literally dread driving through it just feels so desolate, empty and weird!

Pretty gorgeous in Saltburn today

Yes, I agree. Horrible feeling.

It just sounds so bizarre! Somebody also mentioned Bridgnorth upthread and apparently, Hitler wanted to make it his new capital once he invaded and had taken over Britain

I thought he wanted to make Oxford his capital and that was why it wasn't heavily bombed during WW2.

Has anyone on here been to Lidice? It was the Oradour of Czechoslovakia.

Something else. I've buried it for years but this is fairly anonymous. I was 20 and was staying in a B and B. It was about 10pm. I was in my room, getting ready for bed, but kept having the feeling that someone was watching me. There was a painting of a head and shoulders on the wall. And the eyes were moving. There was someone on the other side of the wall. It was like something from a film. The B and B was in the middle of nowhere. I didn't have a car. I was absolutely terrified. The next morning, my boyfriend collected me. I didn't tell him. Or anyone. No one would have believed me.

The basement of Block 11 in Auschwitz when I saw the Standing Cells & just looking around... I felt panicky & claustrophobic like something was pressing on my chest.
Although I obviously knew about the gas chambers in Birkenau; I didn't know until later that the first deadly gassing experiments were carried out on 100s of prisoners in that actual basement.
I visited Auschwitz & Birkenau with a friend in 2019. Although we knew it would be sad, we didn't expect it to affect us so much as it did.

The Underground Hospital in Jersey was built by 1000s of slave labourers, many of whom died in the tunnels during the construction of the hospital. I visited age 20 & found it very depressing.