Places you have visited with a strange vibe

Coffs Harbour in Australia really odd vibe!

Gillingham in Dorset.

There is an old farmhouse there at Lodbourne Green which used to be a bed and breakfast. It is surrounded by new development. It is as if the house is hemmed in and trying to escape back to its history. Guests have left as did I.

The obvious Auschwitz for me too!

Funny people mentioned Covent Garden and Ann Arbor. Those were the two places that first came to mind when I read the thread and seemed like such odd picks but glad I am not the only one!

Another two:
The church in Otranto in Puglia. Got goosebumps. Horrifying history and you can feel it.
Mount Nebo in Jordan is the other end of the spectrum. Just felt such an overwhelming and almost inexplicable sense of peace (and I am religious at all, let alone Jewish or Christian).

I live near Blackheath and don’t think it feels creepy. Atmospheric in the winter time, sure, but not creepy.

I love Saltburn

Oh and another one. When I was in junior school, we visited Bruce Castle Museum in Tottenham, Haringey. Once inside, I was sick and very emotional (I knew nothing about the place, we were there to look at the stamps for a project on RoyailMail). Never forgot and never went near it again.

Canvey Island.

Particularly when you go to the far end- I think it’s called The Point.

I’ve never known such a bleak and seemingly neglected or weather beaten place at the end of it. Almost stuck in time.

Then in other parts, seeming affluence.

So contrasting to neighbouring parts of Essex.

A suburb of Rome. Everywhere - literally everywhere - was behind massive high gates, and it was deserted. It made me wonder who they were trying to keep out with the gates! I wondered if there was a lot of crimes.... It gave us such a bad feeling

Ullapool is lovely. I love it there, just sitting at the beach and watching the waves.

I know it’s been said but Auschwitz and Birkenau are very heavy places. Like PP I also find Buxton to be very weird.
Recently we went to a ruined castle and my just 3 year old started telling me about the men that built it in weird detail. Then we left and she said ‘I remember when these roads were all just fields’.

I think many coastal towns can feel like eerie ‘ghost towns’ out of season, especially in the UK.

Warwick castle is another place I have had weird vibes in and a sense of disorientation. I was in one of the towers and all of a sudden I felt like I had to get out and I was pulling the door but it was locked. Then all of a sudden it flew open and I ran out of there.

My old house, which I have posted about previous. Two staircases, you always had the impression as you walked down one from the upstairs bathroom that there was something coming up the other stairs.
Not a human something but it was very, very angry.

Strangely enough my DH also picked up on it, but never mentioned it till we moved out. Our little cat also hated the stairs and refused to go outside till we moved house.

Never got to the bottom of it. Don't want to.

UWE's Glenside campus. Used to be a Victorian lunatic asylum, then a ww1 hospital. Very creepy vibes there.

This is a great thread.

When I was little my mum was always viewing properties and would take me with her. I was a very calm compliant child who would just go along with whatever was the plan. No meltdowns in the 70s!

However on one occasion she took me to see a property at Sutton on Trent. Apparently I screamed my head off and point blankly refused to go in.

She'd forgotten all about it til the 80s when a guy called Micheal Sams was convicted of kidnapping estate agent Stephanie Slater and locking her in a box at his home at Sutton on Trent for 8 days. He also killed another woman.

Mum saw his house on the TV when he was arrested ...and remembered it's distinctive living room as the place I completely freaked out at....

I have also had really odd feelings about Barrow Gurney in North Somerset ( before I knew it was site of a mental institution) and Blackstone Edge reservoir near Hebden Bridge and Wainstalls near Hebden too....very wierd vibe places.....

@Douchebaggette, I grew up in Osterley and never heard of anything spooky at Osterley house!

Only spooky place nearby is the old asylum, St Bernards.

The ammunition room at Hurst Castle, no idea why but got suddenly very cold and I left rapidly! My son was fine

YukoandHiro we loved Katoomba.

Went to a local restaurant by us for the first time around 20 years ago. Got a real feeling of dread as I sat down, had to leave.
Went again 10 years later - same feeling had to leave. Although now changed hands and refurbed I will never go in there again - almost feel like I would choke whilst eating or similar. No idea why ,

I live near Stonehenge and can never understand why people gather there I think it's a horrible desolate place full of despair!
Wilton in Wiltshire is a proper scary vibe place too you can feel the weight of history there.
Also savernake forest..just no.

Mine is very obvious, but Auschwitz. I’ve never been anywhere and felt so much sadness before. It wasn’t as much “creepy”, but just such an overwhelming feeling of pure depression.

It’s a shame the rest of our tour group (we didn’t know them) weren’t as moved, though. Maybe then the guy sprouting crap about the birds not flying overhead (as we saw birds fly overhead) due to the sadness of the place (he said wacky off the walls shit all day) and the man who purposely ditched the group knowing we had to stay together would have behaved better.

Or the woman who was genuinely annoyed because there wasn’t a fucking scheduled lunch break. She literally complained about this when we were standing beside the railway tracks. I couldn’t fucking believe it.