Places you have visited with a strange vibe

We love Saltburn! Never had any strange vibes from it. It's just a small , old fashioned seaside town.

ThreeKneeRepeater I have also mentioned Kamloops on a previous thread like this one. Like you we were there on an overnight stop on the Rocky Mountaineer and all three of us (husband and adult daughter) found the place extremely menacing and couldn't get back to the hotel quick enough. In fact, my husband and I did another Rocky Mountaineer trip a couple of years later (different route, but still overnight at Kamloops) and this time we ate dinner in the hotel and didn't venture out at all in the evening.

The place whose atmosphere surprised me was St Peter's Rome ... because to me it had precisely none. Most cathedrals invoke^^ some sort of feeling - I'm very non-woo and non-religious, I think it's a sense of history and past meaning. But St. Peter's, which I'd expected to have something.... zilch.

Nearby was The Sounding Arch which I believe was just a structure like a Victorian railway bridge over a sunken country lane, just to allow access from one side of the road to the other, all part of the Embley estate (Florence Nightingale's family home).
The Sounding Arch was made into a bench which is still there (or at least it was the last time I went there!) I have never seen the Sounding Arch ghosts but never liked cycling/driving round there at night just in case!

Most of South London

Jerusalem - loved Tel Aviv but the vibe in Jerusalem was off, but an undeniably fascinating place, I would love to go back despite feeling uncomfortable there

Bangkok - a smelly, tacky, seedy, sordid, edgy, despairing, wretched poverty stricken shithole. In fact, most of Thailand has an oppressive dark vibe to me, I cannot see the appeal

Maybe not Saltburn but certainly South Gare that’s just down the road. That place always made me think of the Brad Pitt film Seven. I imagined finding a head in a box whilst there. The now closed steal works were a bit spooky too.

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.

I forgot about the Jersey tunnels. They were mostly fine - sombre, yes, but that's understandable - but there was one spot, right at one end...an archway blocked with wire looking out onto a shaded overgrown patch of ground, and I felt weirdly uneasy just in that one spot.

IEat, totally agree about Great Yarmouth! I took a detour there having been to Bewilderwood... I hated every second, couldn’t wait to leave and was absolutely gobsmacked by the sheer number of people in mobility scooters, this was in 2019 too! There was an awful vibe, like it was going to kick off any second and we frequently joke now that there’s nothing great about Great Yarmouth!

I also felt uneasy in Glastonbury and developed a sudden onset headache (very unusual for me), again I was happy it was a passing visit en route to our destination.

The tunnels in Jersey made me feel peculiar, uneasy and out of sorts!

So it must be the place not the people grin - Must say I am rather keen to see it now, I want to feel the atmosphere.

(Townsville) It was either the last time or time before I was there, a week before or after my visit, a large saltie had somehow managed to find its way into the cbd area and had to be removed. Hilarious. I’ve noticed it’s also packed with FIFO at times as I struggled with my usual accom the trip before last and they said it was due to FIFO and all the restaurants seemed packed with them. Just meant every night was a party. Townsville hosp is good, I’ve visited in a professional capacity and would recommend it.

Quite right; feelings are real.

Just for the record.. homeopathy is not to do with 'feelings' and isn't 'woo'.

@RuthTopp I was lucky to visit out of season, I was on my own and the feeling was magical , I didn't think of lying down ,that would be good 😁

I mentioned Kamloops on the previous thread. It’s the overnight stop on the Rocky Mountaineer train from Banff to Vancouver.
We arrived at dusk, and as we’d been on the train all day, went out for a walk and look for somewhere to get a drink.
Well, there was nowhere, the whole place seemed closed and silent, despite the many hotels around. As we went back to the hotel it was by then totally dark. We kept hearing things rustling in the verges as we walked along and seeing things out of the corner of our eyes. Couldn’t see anything. We couldn’t get back quick enough. So sad to read about those poor children.
(The train trip itself was amazing.)
Also going to mention Hallsands in Devon, and it’s tragic history. You can see the abandoned homes from the cliff top walk. Very eerie.
And quite randomly, Fort de France in Martinique.

Not specifically creepy, but special atmosphere:

• Glencoe - Felt like I reached the end of the world somehow. Absolutely mesmerising. When I went, the weather was quite horrendous, dark clouds and everything (which suits well with the place) and there was just a single ray of light coming from the sky. That was amazing.

• La Pointe du Raz - Brittany: Another place which worth seeing with bad weather.

• Hiroshima: It's a very relaxed city, compared to many cities in Japan. We went to the memorial, and there was a special feeling of hope and kindness.

• Prypiat - Ukraine: Well, it's a ghost town that nature is claiming back for the past 35 years. It's pretty amazing to see. I didn't find that creepy at all, but was really at peace there

• Auschwitz: That was quite something. I'm happy that I've been there, but I was happy to take the train back to Krakow. Even the train journey was quite scary on the way back. I think I didn't relax before exiting the Krakow train station. On the other hand, I really really enjoyed Krakow, despite the horrible weather we had for the whole time we were there, felt really good in that city.

Also, when we were kids, we spent several summers in the south of Spain because we had family there, and we were going there by car, from Paris, which took something like a million years (2.5 days actually). I remember vividly the desert in Central Spain, the giant Osborbne bulls on the side of the road every now and then, that was quite creepy.

Agree about Pendle Hill. I've not been for many years but I felt very uneasy around there.

Worst place for me was Fersfield, tiny hamlet in South Norfolk. It's literally just a church and a handful of houses. The first time I walked up to the church it felt like I was pushing through a crowd of people even though there was no-one there ....

@81Byerley

I agree about some NT places. Again I think it is the history and somehow being in a place where real people lived their lives suddenly brings the reality of the history home.
When I visited Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk, I felt a panic attack coming on when I saw the Priest's hiding hole there. It wasn't just the feeling of claustrophobia it was the sense of fear people must have felt being cramped up in those small spaces wondering if they would be discovered. I had to get out of that bit of the house quickly.

I've been to places with weird vibes but only one that was frightening to me. It's in the region where I live. There used to be a big hall there. The owner ditched his wife for his mistress, an Italian singer. The wife killed herself in the property. The owner had a chapel built for his Italian singer mistress. Eventually, however, she also killed herself. The hall caught fire multiple times and ultimate burned entirely. The chapel is still there. It's really hard to find and locals won't tell you exactly where it is. I was out looking for a well that's nearby with a priest hiking friend. We came upon the chapel which had a small graveyard that had a metal low fence round it. His dog was going nuts, growling, barking, try to turn round and leave/pulling on his lead. It was just bad. Just very, very wrong. Even he was like, 'This place is really unholy'. We didn't go in it or in the yard. I can still remember how awful it felt.

Time and Tide Museum, Great Yarmouth.
I'd been invited to visit a friend who lived nearby for lunch, but with time to spare, I came across this place. I'd read, in the hotel, about the women from the North who followed their husbands down and who gutted the herrings their husbands had fished, both this story and this Museum seemed interesting.
I was the only visitor, but in the gift shop at the back there was a woman selling souvenirs and playing a sea shanty CD on a loop.
The museum has high, high ceilings with wires stretched from one side to the other on which the herrings are/were hung to cure after the women had gutted them. A boy was employed to scale the vertical ladders at the side of the room to hang them. Reading about it later,seems he'd fallen to his death.
So I'm there, alone, when suddenly got overcome by a terrible overwhelming feeling of sadness and the sense that I'm really not alone at all. But I was!
So I went through to the gift shop and started telling the woman about it....and the bloody CD cut off mid-shanty.
She said that had never happened before.
So now there's both me and the gift shop woman thoroughly spooked - but at least I could leave, so I did!