Places you have visited with a strange vibe

Nashville. It had such an oppressive feeling, I couldn’t wait to leave

Glencoe. As we drove into it I remember thinking 'how beautiful' then was immediately seized by a feeling of utter dread. I didn't know it was Glencoe until my husband said it was.

Take some sage with you is my advice! 😉

Townsville in Australia, weird place!

Ah, thanks - HillsBesideTheSea

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!

Personally, I love it there as an attractive small town, but I wouldn't have thought it particularly stands out as 'capital' material - especially as the lower part gets flooded so often.

The tower of london, there's a spot marked where Anne Boleyn was beheaded and it gave me a funny vibe

Mersea Island. Felt a very weird, off vibe and couldn't wait to get away.

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

Lanzarote, along with Mallorca, often comes up on threads where people thought they'd hate a place but then loved it.

In both places you just have to avoid the minority of areas aimed at people who want to get pissed and eat English food in the sun on the cheap and you then can enjoy the architecture, art, landscapes, warm sea, snorkelling, tapas, volcano park, watersports, cycling, hiking etc etc.

The corridor in Wigan hospital between the maternity ward and the special care unit. I had to shuffle there through the night when my baby woke for a feed. I was in a lot of pain with stitches but I shuffled as fast as I could as it felt like someone was going to rush up behind me.

Romsey marshes, such a sad desolate place.

Porthgain, near St. David's in Pembrokeshire. Rather a creepy and oddly shaped harbour and ex-industrial area.

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i stumbled across a website for the illuminati in Buxton on one very late night web search. It was equally fascinating and horrifying. I have no idea how i found it, nor how to find it again. It was also over 5 years ago so the page may no longer exist or just be better hidden from uninvited eyes. I would love to provide links but i am sorry i can't.

One thing i can promise is that i probably wasn't looking for the illuminati in Buxton.

I grew up in Lyndhurst, New Forest. Queens House, where the Verderers Court is seated. The building just gives me the creeps. No idea why, I know there’s a series of tunnels out but it’s not that I don’t think.

That's hilarious! I live here with my husband and young baby and we love it 🤣🤣 what part did you see?! To be fair I'm right by Monkon park and the river Avon so we are in a lovely part 🤷

OP, YABVU about Saltburn though. Very trendy these days too. And the pier is only half as long as it used to be. Can walk around the end of it when the tide is right out!

Now hop the other side of Huntcliffe to Skinningrove and that's a different matter... (though they do a cracking bonfire!)

A house I lived in with in the U.K. when the kids were small had a decidedly creepy vibe to one whole 'end' of it. Massive Victorian doer-upper money pit.

Dining room - spooky. Various efforts to get dc to use it for crafts etc completely failed...they'd just drift back out on any pretext.

Bathroom above it - also 'Nope'. It had an amazing roll top bath which we renovated around. No one ever soaked in that bath .

Bedroom next to the iffy bathroom - originally a study for me, because whilst it was a lovely, quirky room, which we thought then 5yo Ds would love, he was having none of it & demanded a box room at the other end of the house instead.

I used to work in there late at night. I'd generally be quite absorbed, but every so often I'd take a break & have a strong, & not entirely friendly, sense of Not Being Alone. I bolted out of there once or twice...

In the course of the renovations, dd1 took a fancy to the study & bagged it as her bedroom so she wouldn't have to share with dd2. She occupied it happily for a couple of years.

Chatting to dd2, now a teenager & several years after we moved out of that house, & apropos of nothing she informs me that 'oh yeah, that was when I had the haunted bedroom. I was mostly ok with it, it was the corridor outside I really didn't like. It was looking down towards that horrible bathroom.'

Me: 'what?! You're the least woo person I know!'

Dd1: 'yup, but that house didn't care that I wasn't woo. Right? You aren't either.'

Me: 'bollocks!'

Dd2: 'That bath, though.'

Me: 'well, ok...'

It genuinely was just creepy down that end of the house. We had people crash after parties in the dining room who really didn't sleep well & were quite sheepish about it.

No idea what the background was!