Places you have visited with a strange vibe

I haven't but my mum really struggles with walking on a pier at the coast anywhere, not one particular resort. She says it's seeing the water through the boards and swirling around the supports - she's convinced she drowned in a former life ( strange I know).

Years ago I visited York with my ex and we went to Margaret Clitherow's house - she was horribly executed for harbouring Catholic priests in the 16th century. My ex went very white and said 'something dreadful happened here' and rushed out and I found him shaking in the street. He was a strong level-headed bloke so it was quite a shock to see him like that.

Katoomba in Australia. It's nominally a tourist spot to see the blue mountains but it's just really creepy... had a very twin peaks vibe. I was travelling alone and felt really unsettled the whole time

Salisbury Plain and Stonehenge always give me a weird feeling - not just the history of the place but the sky feels too low and oppressive somehow! I am a townie though so maybe it's the wide, open space!
Also an old train station and beach on Kefalonia where terrible things had happened during the war. It really felt like the memories had been retained in the environment somehow. Terribly sad and haunting.

And photos were not allowed...

As a teen, my parents hired a jeep and we went driving around the hills in Cyprus. We came across a ghost town (not the well-known one, Varosha) that was a very small town square, empty but for some guards. We were evidently not welcome and left quickly. I don’t know where it was and what it was called but it was very strange. I’d like to know what happened there, but can’t find anything online.

Very amusingly I read a (joking) post on a Saltburn Facebook page today proposing the locals block roads against tourists and greet them Lord of the Flies style, naked with paint and spears and bows and arrows. Now that would give off a weird vibe 🤣

My sister had flat in Southsea, near the seafront.
It had an awful feeling in there. I was quite young then but can remember how it was decorated etc.
Its really stuck with me

"Winchelsea near Rye - deserted and has a Hot Fuzz/birds don’t sing there vibe."
I live a few miles away and I agree. It has a very strange atmosphere.

As a child we often went to Dartford heath and I always found it very eerie.

Another one for Aberystwyth here. Very weird not very nice vibe.

I like lots of these places...like Glastonbury and Glencoe. I even like slightly run down. " tacky"areas nowadays like Weston Super Mare. But i can tell when places are haunted.
My last hospital on placement was haunted...i loved it there but some students hated it and found it oppressive.
I once worked at a v famous religious private school...was beautiful but it creeped the fuck out of me...was like a cult.

We took our little dog, Benji, to Saltburn and he refused to walk on the pier - had to be carried. It seemed very gloomy to me, but I don't think it was completely freaky.

I've only ever driven through Glastonbury, but I got such an odd vibe, so strange that others on here feel the same, I wonder what it is about it!

I live in the Forest of Dean, the worst town is Cinderford, very depressing and deprived, most of the towns are not good but the countryside is beautiful and I can see why FoD and Wye Valley is described as places of natural beauty.

St Albans.

Avebury in Wiltshire.
The stone circles there are eerie but it's very peaceful around there.

Two for me:
Winchelsea near Rye - deserted and has a Hot Fuzz/birds don’t sing there vibe.
Avebury Stone circle - visited on a school trip on a bright, sunny day and had chills and an overwhelming need to leave it a.s.a.p. Talking about it years later it turned out that my younger sister’s friend had totally freaked out there too.

Townsville completely agree just off and couldn't put my finger on it.

Then a couple of hotels / bed and breakfast type places we stayed in around San Antonio. Really creepy and not pleasant.

I went to Saltburn last year and can't say it made me feel that way. In fact, we visited twice during the holiday. Saw a programme recently though about a man, in his 20s I think, who went missing there some years ago and I did view it differently after that.

My nan was in Worley psychiatric hospital in Essex briefly many years ago and that place gave me a very bad feeling

Love Northumberland, but Beadnell Why would you go - weird little place with nothing in it

@Lincslady53 I found Oradour incredibly sad and moving rather than creepy. The inhumanity was shocking and it really feels like you can connect with the poor people who perished there.

Ann Arbor in Michigan.

Perfectly pleasant on the surface but there was this underlying weird feeling I had, like I was in the Truman Show and the place and people were not really 'real'.

@RevolvingPivot the lift is a funicular. They have them at Scarborough too. The morgue might have been for deaths at sea ? Looks like an intriguing place. Would love to visit

And I'm laughing about Portmeirion, because I am English and have always been treated really well by the people in the surrounding area when staying there.

But Portmeirion seems to attract a clientele that is entitled and overly-demanding to the point of obnoxiousness. I suspect that no-one who isn't being paid to tolerate that will put up with it.

Westward Ho! Devon. We drove through it whilst on holiday in North Devon and couldn’t wait to leave. There is/was a ruined house on the headland that is rumoured to be haunted but we didn’t know that at the time.

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