Places you have visited with a strange vibe

Not by Saltburn. It's a lovely friendly place with a fantastic beach.

Hellfire Caves, when I visited as a teenager, didnt feel bad. But revisited a few years ago and it didnt feel so good. I just felt heavier and heavier as we got further in. Maybe its because I knew more about the history than I did as a teen.

Craigievar Castle, stunning place, lovely inside but felt something pushing me away from the Castle as we started to leave, continued all the way back to the car park when it stopped just before we reached it.

Saddleworth too, whilst I have only driven over them, I never want to stop, they do have a bad atmosphere, and I usually love the moors.

Interested to read about West Kennett Long Barrow, I find long Barrows have a happy / at peace feeling. A celebration of the life of the people who were buried there. Had a very lovely feeling at Wayland's Smithy sitting on the top stone, did have the place to myself at the time but have never had the same feeling despite repeated visits.

There was a road I’d travel every day on the 137 on my way to work when I lived in Streatham and commuted to Battersea. I’d feel the weight of all wrong and evil on me as we trundled along the road. It was very strange. I also felt immense sadness in a place called Carna in Connemara. It was so beautiful, but the sadness was palpable. I couldn’t stop crying.

Bacup, just a really strange place

The Avebury stone circle is creepy!

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I live close to it and when it's quiet ( out of season ) I sometimes go and lay in the middle of it , I love it so much.

Haworth - very dark energy.

Hutton Buscel just outside of Scarborough - village of the damned.

There is an old hill fort site just outside Salisbury called Figsbury Rings, you drive up a track to a carpark and then half along fenced path and it opens up into the ring, I couldn't go ant further just the feeling of utter despair and darkness was over whelming, it was a beautiful spring day, but I just couldn't step a foot further, I drive past it most days and still cannot even contemplate going back there.

My husband got freaked out at West Kennet Barrow and he is not a woo person, he couldn't wait to leave and would get close to the barrow or go inside it.

Glastonbury Tor had an atmosphere, but I thought it was a good one.

Glencoe... very foreboding in some weather conditions, though IME that dissipates on a sunny day.

Castlerigg stone circle at Keswick in the Lake District.
It felt so eerie yet peaceful like you could feel all the people that had visited since it had been built , it's in such an amazing spot you could understand why it was built just there .
Standing in the middle there was a wonderful feeling of peace .

Old ocean Village in Southampton used to make me feel queasy!

Have been to Cyprus many, many times. Have always stayed on the Greek side usually in the Famagusta area, even right near to No Mans Land (the parts that separates to two sides) without issue.

Decided to take a tour across the border to the Turkish Side as we’d never been. Was pretty eery seeing the Ghost Town, interesting but with also great Sadness and sorrow at the same time.
But it was when we actually got off the bus to the (populated) Old town I knew I didn’t want to be there.The feeling of dread and foreboding hit me straight away.

We were not made to feel welcome at all, it was almost like the locals didn’t want us there at all. So much so we only browsed inside a couple of shops. We were stared at and watched as we were walking through the town and I was actually followed at one stage by two guys who thought I was alone (Dh had taken Dd to the loo!) We kind of just kept walking avoiding eye contact.
We eventually found a cafe owned by an English couple who welcomed us with open arms. So stopped there for lunch.

Last stop was the beach, only it bordered the Ghost Town, there were armed Guards lined up on the beach protecting the border and if anyone got too close, they were promptly chastised and sent back! It was a lovely beach but the vibe was awful. I couldnt get out of that place quick enough.
As soon as we crossed the border back to the Greek Side, The dread and foreboding left me.

I will never go back.

For me it was the Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield - the pit head baths - you could sense a presence - both me and my son felt it - we have been since and the presence had left.

Oh, and Savernake Forest. That's got a creepy vibe.

Port Arthur, Tasmania- well before the terrible events of 1996. It was a lovely setting but such a sad vibe.

And YY to the underside of piers; we holidayed a few times in Blackpool when I was a child and I hated having to walk anywhere near those awful rusted supports and wooden beams, all encrusted in barnacles and always in shadow and just...urrgghh

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

Eyam is an odd place. Sometimes it is welcoming, sometimes it is oppressive but there almost seems to be a correlation with the worst plague dates. Although if you speak to the locals they are very keen to be known for things other than being a plague village.

Burley is an interesting place too. It's almost like it has to accept you as being theirs. I have been mistaken for a local there in the past. But it is easy to lose track of time there. Does feel a little like home as adult but it used to terrify me as a child.

Dungeoness - god forsaken and oppressive. I hated it.

Glastonbury - oppressive and intrusive which is in stark comparison to the abby which was like a little sanctury of welcoming. It wasn't the place that felt oppressive and intrusive. it was the people. There were some people that just radiated malice in glastonbury it was very odd.

Salisbury - you may visit but never leave. Lost count of how many times I have ended up getting stuck in a loop going around and around

beer caves - there is a section that i wanted to turn around and just leave but once past and further in it was a better atmosphere

Culloden - oppressively sad and heavy atmosphere. ds had a massive nose bleed and couldn't get away from there fast enough

Some of the older tube stations - but i think part of that was reading the J. Herbert book '48 and his description of the rats running burning through the bodies in the tunnels of the london underground

One section of stone henge, couldn't wait to just move past that little bit. the rest was fine. very odd but both I and ds felt it.

I love Beamish

Auschwitz, not surprisingly. It was literally dreadful.
I got an overwhelming feeling of desolation and misery at Kilmainham Gaol, too.

I rarely feel fear associated with places, more related to situations within places.
For example, there was a run down warehouse on the edge of a small town nearby, which sold all sorts of second hand things, and sometimes there were good bargains for minority things.
I would pop in after work, to have a nose round before it closed.
This time I felt a wave of fear and apprehension as I got out of the car. It wasn’t because it was a dark winter evening, or even that there were no other cars about. I just knew that something bad would happen to me if I went in.
I went there a few times afterwards, before it closed and never felt it again. But I will always remember that absolutely sickening dread.

There was a post about Glastonbury and similar places a while ago, I think Whitby was mentioned. We love Glastonbury, feel really chilled out there (maybe the smell of weed) 🤣 but found the needle in the isle of white a bit odd.

Bridgenorth in Shropshire. We went after a recommendation . The market was on with one stall selling golly doll pottery, a stall dedicated to English cheese with anti french and pro brexit leaflets and my personal favourite the fella with hitler tattoo selling‘England’ merch.