Places you have visited with a strange vibe

Edam

Thought it would be a nice cheese making tourist town. Turned out to be a very creepy little Dutch village.

The window display of taxidermy birds dressed and posed like some psychopathic sylvanian families set must about finished me off.

These photos are from a lake in Wales. I did a solitary walk and it was all rather eerie. The local tree surgeon told me to beware shapeshifters 😋

Generally, I think stagnant water and gloom are instinctively creepy.

I also think that what makes Saltburn so odd-looking is the shape of the cliffs. It looks as though they're burying you alive.

Puzzle Wood in the Forest of Dean gave me the spooks as a child. It's so beautiful but very...ethereal. I'd love to go back and see what it would be like now.

@purplebagladylovesgin id love to know which street in St Ives. I know it very well. And there are a few spots.

I do think Hotels should be made put things like this on bookings. Some people love it, but most people who are sensitive to these things would rather not pay and not get any sleep!!

@TellmewhoIam you might find the book ‘The Covent Garden Ladies’ by Hallie Rubenhold an interesting read.

Lancaster Arms in Lancaster...my son at University there and I had to leave the following morning because i was completely spooked ...girl in reception said that the room op mine was haunted! My son had already said he thought it was a film set for TheShining to look at ...spent the next two nights in his student house 😂

Dungeness does have a weird feel but I didn't dislike it as such or feel the need to get out. I felt more uncomfortable in Lydd for some reason and I had been quite interested in visiting because some of my ancestors came from there.

One place that really creeped me out was an apartment in Frigiliana, southern Spain which was built into the side of a hill. Lovely apartment and views, but the bedroom made me feel really uncomfortable. It was years back and I don't recall if I had a terrible nightmare or anything, but I only spent one night in that room and dragged the mattress out into the living room and slept there for the rest of the stay. I didn't have that terrible sense of impending danger in the rest of the apartment.

I walked up a footpath near Sidmouth, Devon and suddenly felt like bursting into tears - I've no idea why but I felt an overwhelming sense of sadness. However, it's a lovely place and I'd return in a heartbeat.

“Agree about marshes. Went in a moonlight walk in the Battlebridge area of Essex. Rotting old boats and sluggish streams. An old pub , the Barge , whose patrons were rather Dickensian. In fact we felt as if we were materialising from the opening scene of Great Expectations. Loved it”
@Abhannmor
I live quite near to Higham marshes where Great Expectations was filmed. A misty morning walk around there is fabulous.
Here’s a picture from another local spot that I took earlier this year, enjoy!

I stayed in a very old coaching inn once. It was a market town in the West Country. I had a really dreadful night's sleep and checked in the morning if it was known to be haunted. Oh yes. Very. Action was taken and let's say it was a lot less haunted by the time I left. Do not mess with a very tired priest in need of a quiet weekend.....

Went to a medieval school building in Marakesh. Not a woo person at all, but I just felt really really sad walking around it. Felt better as soon as I was out of the main gate. Spoke to one of the group afterwards and she felt exactly the same but didn't want to say anything to me as she knows I'm not a woo person!

@VeryLongBeeeeep yes, Lidos!
When I was 13 I walked with my gran on the Brighton pier and along the beach, I found it eerie.

So glad it's not just me! I even have nightmares set there.

Very much so! I've never been able to put it into words as eloquently as you.

Kamloops is fine! My Uncle used to live there, although its a long time since I was there. The place that creeped me out was Biggar in Saskatchewan (Biggar in Scotland is great btw). Very depressing place and the most expensive motel in Canada!

Strange but in a benign way: Shoreham-by-Sea. It isn't like anywhere else at all and I actually love it.

A friend's childhood home always felt very welcoming and as if I belonged there. She felt it even more strongly and she and her husband are planning on buying it if it comes on the market at the right price. She hasn't lived there since the 1980s and they live miles away.

Big chunks of Kent have a run-down, desperate vibe to them that makes them feel oppressive. I've never understood that "Garden of England" stuff.

Does anyone else find Covent Garden spooky? Even when the sun is shining and pre-pandemic there was a lot of touristy bustle, I felt darkness there. A desperation and sadness, as if Victorian or maybe early Edwardian women were trying to get by as dancers, travelling entertainers, flower sellers etc. in a violently masculine society. A sort of Toulouse-Lautrec feeling but grungier and more London.

I should of also said anywhere underground - I always think I won't get out. I had same feeing in a converted one storied farm building. All the rooms felt normal except the bedroom which had rough stone walls and curved ceiling all painted white - I felt like I was entering my tomb every night.

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

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