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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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SendARavenToRiverRun · 03/06/2021 21:46

Wayland smithy near white horse Hill in Oxfordshire. Very eerie.
Sherwood forest had a lovely atmosphere. I could have sat and looked at the major oak tree for hours.
I'm not usually a fan of wooded areas. I always feel hunted and watched.
As above Famagusta. Not nice.

cortex10 · 03/06/2021 21:34

Another Lake District one for me: Wast Water - I find the slopes of scree oppressive and it's probably not helped by the stories of the hillwalker who slipped and died under it and the husband who disposed of his wife's body in the lake.

RulesRulesRulesRulesRules · 03/06/2021 21:31
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WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 03/06/2021 21:13

Buxton has an interesting history though. It has its own branch of illuminati, and the surrounding hills have a long standing tradition of witch craft so the fact that the PD kinda skirts around it almost makes sense. in the them us kinda way

Interesting. Have you any rabbit holes links to read more? I found one site where they said about a Bilderberg meeting there in the 1950s, but nothing more.

Burley is historically full of witchcraft. There is definitely something unsettling about it.

Boswell in Cornwall is the same and I experienced this fleetingly in a back street in St Ives, although generally St Ives is fine.

Is that a local variant name (or typo?!) for Boscastle, or a different place? Obviously, Boscastle has the witchcraft museum (I believe it originally moved there from the IoM?) - did they have further reasons for choosing to relocate it there other than just that they found a suitable premises in a place that gets lots of tourists, then?

TellMeMoreThanThis · 03/06/2021 21:10

@BillieSpain

The old port in Montreal. Creepy.
I love it there!
TellMeMoreThanThis · 03/06/2021 21:08

@HoppingPavlova

Rockhampton on the other hand.... one can feel the presence of murderers

I’ve never felt odd about Rockhampton, just couldn’t wait to get out as it’s boring as hell and people seem insular. Don’t like Cairns either as a place, doesn’t have an odd atmosphere just seems to have grown too quickly in all the wrong ways. People are nice there though in the main. Townsville, I’ve just never had the odd vibe people have described. It’s grown a hell of a lot over the years as well and in a good direction.

Yes I do agree with super boring 😂
Miljea · 03/06/2021 20:36

@BroccoliRob

Loads of people said Savernake Forest on another thread like this.

I suspect the Hungerford Massacre has something to do with it, but we went there on a school trip from Salisbury in the mid 79s and I just didn't like it. It felt so different to my own 'named' woodland, the New Forest.

Burley possibly excepted... 😂

ElsieMc · 03/06/2021 20:19

Lots will disagree, but in the Lake District it is High Dam. The name describes it aptly but I think it has a really uncomfortable atmosphere. Lots of families happily picnic there but I get a feeling of foreboding to do with drowning in the dark, deep waters. I am meant to be having a family meet up there and do not want to go.

I mentioned it to DH and he has refused to go because he says he gets a weird feeling about the place. He says he simply cannot settle there. Thats without speaking to each other about it.

lollipoprainbow · 03/06/2021 20:00

I find derelict swimming pools and lidos incredibly creepy too.

sayanythingelse · 03/06/2021 19:59

The only thing about Saltburn that gives me the willies is the crazy steep hill. Last time I drove up it, my car stalled halfway Blush.
There are a few suicides off the cliffs each year, including one of DH's friends. Maybe you picked up on some bad vibes.

LoveFall · 03/06/2021 19:52

@NewModelArmyMayhem18

Portmeirion -As soon as you leave the confines of the village, anyone with an English accent is treated with utter contempt, ignored and made to feel as uncomfortable as humanly possible. I mentioned Portmeirion upthread.

I've been to Ephesus and didn't get those vibes at all.

Perhaps my Ephesus vibe had something to do with our tour guide, who was very expressive. It made me imagine the Greeks or Romans using the rows of stone toilets, or going into the amazing library building. It was a seaport so there was lots of activity. I could almost sense it.
mybrainhertz · 03/06/2021 19:22

Betws y Coed was particularly miserable and had a bad vibe. All the places we visited around the National Park felt very unwelcoming and like visitors were barely tolerated. I couldn't wait to get away and I wouldn't visit again. Miserable and claustrophobic.

thelongwayhome · 03/06/2021 19:22

@QueeniesCroft Salisbury in general makes me feel a deep sense of misery, its horrid. Lived there for two years as an adult and as soon as I moved away I felt fine again. A friend still lives there and every time I've been back to visit her, that dreadful feeling comes back too.
A lot of the military house areas around/near to Salisbury feel like you've described, Ludgershall is the worst one I've been to though. Just an empty, bleak feeling.

NewModelArmyMayhem18 · 03/06/2021 19:21

Portmeirion -As soon as you leave the confines of the village, anyone with an English accent is treated with utter contempt, ignored and made to feel as uncomfortable as humanly possible. I mentioned Portmeirion upthread.

I've been to Ephesus and didn't get those vibes at all.

Anna727b · 03/06/2021 19:13

Maybe piers are just a bit weird?

Anna727b · 03/06/2021 19:11

I think it's probably more to do with the cliffs and the way things are positioned feeling a bit 'off' OP. I can get that about Saltburn from the pictures that you posted!

Weirdly I feel similarly about Llandudno!

I just don't think there's anything supernatural or odd about it really.

SamW98 · 03/06/2021 19:04

Portmeirion -As soon as you leave the confines of the village, anyone with an English accent is treated with utter contempt, ignored and made to feel as uncomfortable as humanly possible

LoveFall · 03/06/2021 18:55

Ephesus in Turkey. Felt a huge weight of history when visiting the ruins.

Also the ruins of Coba in Mexico. So very eerie and surrounded by jungle. Tulum is a bit the same.

Alcemeg · 03/06/2021 18:52

@partyatthepalace
I think that’ll be the skunk Grin

🤣 True story!!!

CustardySergeant · 03/06/2021 18:41

[quote partyatthepalace]@CustardySergeant If you Google savernake ghosts and mumsnet you should get a very creepy tale[/quote]
Thanks, I will. Smile

partyatthepalace · 03/06/2021 18:39

@ohnonotyetplease

Just for the record.. homeopathy is not to do with 'feelings' and isn't 'woo'.
Homeopathy is woo to the max. YABVU
partyatthepalace · 03/06/2021 18:36

@Toddlerteaplease

Glastonbury is meant to be a 'thin place' where the veil between earth and heaven is very thin, and you can see beyond it.
@Toddlerteaplease

I think that’ll be the skunk Grin

Springchickpea · 03/06/2021 18:36

Ohohoh, I completely forgot about one. On the edge of Loch Tay, on the Ben Lawers side, there is an abandoned village. Went for a walk on my own there once whilst DH was at a work retreat and it had a really foreboding atmosphere. It was a beautifully sunny late September day but I did not feel safe there at all.

partyatthepalace · 03/06/2021 18:34

@CustardySergeant If you Google savernake ghosts and mumsnet you should get a very creepy tale

Lightswitchesoffatnight · 03/06/2021 18:24

@LookToTreblesGoingTreblesGone

Definitely Saltburn!! DH and I went there about 30 years ago and still talk about that "spooky place". As we walked about, people would stop and stare at us, and honestly we're just ordinary looking! It had a Royston Vasey vibe to it. We stayed for about an hour and then legged it back to Whitby!

OP, have a lovely lovely time there!! Wink

We used to live not far from Saltburn. We often took the kids there for an afternoon and a pub meal. I loved it.

It must have been you @LookToTreblesGoingTreblesGone Grin