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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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Frazzled2207 · 04/06/2021 20:42

I’m on hols in Somerset at the moment and gonna have to go to Glastonbury to check out what you all say!!!

Workinghardeveryday · 04/06/2021 20:39

@RevolvingPivot I totally agree with you about Saltburn. A couple of years ago dp and I went for the day while kids were at school, was so weird. I had this weird feeling the whole time, the place is very very strange, I don’t know exactly why but it made me feel so uncomfortable.
Makes me think if something awful happened there in the past or something?!!
Never been back!

Ljcoolgran · 04/06/2021 20:38

Slapton Sands in Devon. I wasn’t aware of the history when we visited, many years ago, but I’ve never been back. Awful sad atmosphere 😢

elizabethdraper · 04/06/2021 20:34

BURNLEY in Lancashire
Couldn't wait to get out of the place

Catscrat · 04/06/2021 20:24

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.

Woollff · 04/06/2021 20:16

Gougane Barra forest in Ireland. Something really sinister in those woods, though absolutely beautiful.

VK456 · 04/06/2021 20:11

Shining Cliff woods in Derbyshire. Awful, almost sinister atmosphere there. Wouldn’t go again if you paid me!

TheWashingMachine · 04/06/2021 20:10

I visited Townsville in the 80s arrived in the middle of the night, (the plane was delayedfrom Singapore) my parents did not have much money and their friend who was driving us somewhere up the coast had gone home. We waited in the airport for hours with the Townsville chief of police who told us all about how he liked to wear tights. Completely surreal but nothing strange.

EmmaOvary · 04/06/2021 20:07

The Catacombes in Paris.

MrsMarni · 04/06/2021 20:05

@Tyredofallthis1

Bradford town centre. There is something very off about it, imo. Apologies to those from Bradford, but the town centre is just depressing, in soul rather than anything else.

Once went to an amateur play in Bradford town centre. We got there around 6pm, long before it started, so had a drink before finding the theatre. It was winter, so dark, with a full moon, and the place was utterly empty and it felt soul sucking. I've seen a few things advertised at St Georges Hall which I fancy but I don't feel like going back.

Me too! We stayed overnight coming back from a road trip to Scotland and went out for a dinner…..such a creepy feeling we had…couldn’t wait to go back to the hotel and leave in the morning

Seems I previously replied to wrong post ….

Elderflower14 · 04/06/2021 20:03

I'm the same about Saddleworth Moor.
I found Tyneham village in Dorset both sad and interesting. here

EthelMerman · 04/06/2021 20:03

Canterbury did it for me, we only went there for the day to see the sights but it just felt off and I was very happy to leave.

I’m not woo, but as a teenager of 13 or 14, lived in v old house (built in 1600s) had a weird moment. There was a big internal window in the bathroom wall, facing out onto the landing (guess the room was very dim tho why not at least put in frosted glass?!!) Anyhow, I’d got up in the night for the loo. About to open the door to go back to bed but something started tapping on the window. Nothing on earth would have made me open that door to see what was out there. Had to call mum to rescue me.

ConkerBonkers · 04/06/2021 20:02

Masham in Yorkshire, the whole area, including the forbidden gardens, there is something really dark and horrible, and wrong about that area.

Weirdly enough Glastonbury festival. I feel that the whole festival is possibly quite occult, and harnesses a lot of energy along the local ley lines which is used by druidic/ wiccan groups in the area to magnify their practice.

TheresWaldo · 04/06/2021 20:01

Not sure if "strange vibe" is the right word, but the "Nun's Graveyard" in the castle on Ischia well freaked me out.

BreakingtheIce · 04/06/2021 19:57

The Jersey underground hospital always comes up in these threads. I don’t know what went on there!

rc22 · 04/06/2021 19:56

@hamptonmummy

1st time I drove across the m62 in Yorkshire and got the most awful feeling it was a lovely summers day but as I drove past this area it felt like it turned to winter, I felt a huge overwhelming sadness and actually had tears rolling down my face and felt sick and cold that I simply couldn't explain as I had absolutely no idea what I was driving past. I found out later that day it was Saddleworth Moor.
It gives me the creeps every time I cross it. Particularly unnerving going westbound although that could just be because I'm a yorkshirewoman and feel upset to be heading into Lancashire!!
Chuck2015 · 04/06/2021 19:56

I lived in Townsville, it was like being in a parallel universe

Ashard20 · 04/06/2021 19:55

One of the upstairs bedrooms in True's Yard, an old fishing museum in King's Lynn. A really horrible atmosphere and a feeling that something was pulling at me.
Glencoe in Scotland - very bleak and oppressive.
On the Norfolk Broads at night - that might have been due to a story of a ghost of a skater, said to have drowned when the ice broke and frequently seen skating across the broads...

nopuppiesallowed · 04/06/2021 19:55

A few years ago we drove to Glastonbury for the first time to meet some new friends for lunch. I wasn't map reading so wasn't aware that we had nearly reached the town. Suddenly I felt completely spooked, and if we hadn't needed to have gone, I would have told my husband to turn right round and head away from the place. As we drove into the town, I saw that the street was lined with astrology shops etc. and I was even more uncomfortable. We met our friends and it was great to see them, but I couldn't wait to leave Glastonbury. I apologise to anyone living there for offending them, but it just, to me, felt imbued with evil.

Mrs08 · 04/06/2021 19:54

Stonehenge
Visited on a hot sunny day, bright blue skies
Loads of tourists about
I could not wait to leave!
It felt malevolent

hiccupgate · 04/06/2021 19:54

Bit late to this thread but has anyone mentioned the German Underground Hospital in Jersey? Urgghhh.

Saucery · 04/06/2021 19:52

@Davygran

Sizergh Castle in Cumbria. We went many years ago & there was one small room which both of us had a really strange atmosphere, but there’s also a room like a Great Hall. It didn’t have much in there but I didn’t want to leave it, I had never had such a euphoric feeling ever - it felt like I was at the very best party in the world ever! I kept expecting my husband to ask me to move to the next room because there really was very little to see or do compared to its size & other rooms there, but he didn’t. The feeling did eventually ebb so we carried on elsewhere & it was only when we got outside that he asked me if I’d felt the atmosphere in there as he’d felt exactly the same as me! We decided the next time we visited the Lakes we’d head straight back to Sizergh to get that feeling again, but there was absolutely NOTHING. It was totally flat, and we’ve been back again & still not got the same fantastic well-being in there. Has anyone else been to Spooky Sizergh Castle & noticed this?
Didn’t get that exact feeling, but it’s a favourite place of ours to visit. It just feels so lived in and loved by all the generations that have come before. All the family photos and mementos are there and the latest generation still live there, iirc. Did you meet Charlie, the garden cat? He likes to sun himself on the benches and is always up for a cuddle Smile.
Debbacat6 · 04/06/2021 19:44

Sellack Church in Herefordshire.
Frozen in 10th century time and with bird screens over the door

Harls1969 · 04/06/2021 19:41

Bodmin Gaol. I don't believe in ghosts but it was seriously eerie

LunaNimbus · 04/06/2021 19:41

I always get a weird creepy feeling at market stalls that are selling handmade 'Gypsy' style earrings. Has happened in the UK and when I've been on holiday abroad - if I visit a market and spot a jewellery stall this weird voice in my head starts chanting the name 'Carly'. I don't know any Carly's and the voice in my head isn't mine, totally freaks me out.