Places you have visited with a strange vibe

What some would consider a paranormal experience follows.

Cannock Chase, beautiful day. I was a student at the time visiting my boyfriend who was working that day so went for a country walk alone.

The feeling of utter dread about 15 mins in to walk was overwhelming, it’s something I have never felt at any other time of my life. It was on a sandy quite light coloured path with birch trees down one side. I have never ever been so scared and ran back to my car. I was shaking, felt sick and couldn’t actually drive till I calmed down.

Told BF but he was mystified, he hadn’t lived in Staffs long and had just moved away from Birmingham post graduation, I was still living there.

We had dinner the next day with some colleagues of his. The story was relayed. They told us about a series of murders of young girls that had taken place in I think the 1960’s and the murderer had buried their bodies on Cannock Chase.

I sometimes think people can wind themselves up when they know a place has a history. I had no idea and the place itself was very pretty. It was 25 years ago but just thinking about it even now feels awful.

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!!

York Minster. It does have a feeling of peace but the atmosphere can change quite suddenly. I went in to wait for dh after an afternoon's shopping and it had turned very dark and stormy. The choir were practising and I sat down to listen to them. Such a strange mixture of peace and trepidation hearing the wind whipping up with darkening skies. It reminded me of an episode of Inspector Morse.

I went down into the vaults area where they were working on certain areas. You could have your children dress up in religious/period clothing down there at one time. There was classical music playing and the workmen said they had often worked into the night to complete works on time and with the music echoing around they said it was one of the most creepy supernatural experiences of their lives.
I feel no fear there at all but I would not walk around there alone at night!

I saw the Reverend there who is often on TV walking around and I understand the late Peter Lawrence (Claudia's father) worked there as a volunteer. The search for the truth seems to have ended with his sad passing.

This thread is right up by street I've spent the whole morning looking up all the places and then going down a rabbit hole looking up the history of netley hospital !!

Ravenglass. Don't get me wrong - it's surrounded by beauty but gosh I was shocked by the creepy bleak nuclear feel. The railway journey from there however is another matter. Stunning.

Maybe the reason for all the unexplained unease is that something bad happened to us in these places in a previous life

Agreed. I have a thing about churches. Not all of them, but a majority. I have always felt something must have happened to me in a church/near a church. Perhaps as a child, but I love the idea of having lived before and carrying some of those past lives with us.

Sandakan memorial park in Borneo. Commemorates a POW death march, so not surprising I suppose. I’ve been to other places with grim histories, but this felt other level like all the energy and feelings had been sucked out. I was also chilly in there, even though Borneo was, unsurprisingly, hot.

[quote Lairymary]The Hellfire Caves in West Wycombe. The actual website won't tell you the extent of why it's so creepy but this link will, for anyone that's interested.... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfire_Caves[/quote]
Wow, that’s fascinating.

I love standing stones and stone circles but there is a single standing stone near my home that I really don't like...its not "friendly". I don't even know what I mean by that and I'm not generally superstitious but there it is.

The Hellfire Caves in West Wycombe. The actual website won't tell you the extent of why it's so creepy but this link will, for anyone that's interested.... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfire_Caves

Fascinated by India and its history, I visited Lucknow (where the famous siege took place during the Indian Mutiny). The site of untold horrors in the mid 19th Century. The site is now a memorial park (with some of the Victorian buildings still there, gently decaying in the hot and often humid climate). It just feels really peaceful now. I didn't feel any negative energy at all.

Recently we took the backroads and if you go the coastal road behind sea Palling its loads of woodhuts that appear to be permanent houses. You are next to the sea but can not see it due to huge sand dunes. People sat out on verandas just staring at you driving past. Its like the end of the world place!

I visited a former slave fort in Ghana. It was just awful. The atmosphere was really oppressive, like you could feel the weight of all the awful things that had been done there.

I was expecting it to be pretty horrible given what it was (it's a place you visit because it's important to recognise the dreadful things humans do to each other rather than because you're looking for a nice day out really) but the atmosphere was so palpable. I would imagine that visiting other sites of historical atrocities would be similarly affecting.

Hampton Court Palace

I was born and bred in york (we moved away about 4 years ago)
Clifford's tower-i think its the history of the poor Jews there but it makes me feel ill just walking past it
York minster-it makes my insides go to jelly-it just looks so dark even when the sun is out-i always did my best to avoid it but one night my son was invited to sing there with 3 other schools
I ended up having a panic attack and had to leave
Years ago I was invited to sing there along with the whole school and my brother had an asthma attack and almost died
He said the same as me-as soon as he got close to it,he started to feel sick

Hotel Polynesia in Benalemdena,Spain.

Weird as fuck like a shopping centre,very echoey and creepy.Urgh.

Pearl Harbour in Honolulu at the memorial site, I rarely cry but I couldn't stop after watching the film about the young sailors and the band competition the night before, most of them dead the next day, average age 19. I've visited the site (on a gloriously sunny and hot day) and felt a real sense of peace but nothing negative 'vibey'.

I stayed at the titanic hotel in Liverpool a couple of years ago, as soon as we drove into the car park it was like a cloud descended over me, I couldn’t shake it off, the whole place had an almost oppressive feel to it, it was incredibly dark inside, our room had a brick vaulted ceiling, very low lighting and was just generally dark and depressing. The hotel was in an old warehouse and surrounded by derelict warehouses waiting to be brought back to life, the whole surrounding area was very run down. I can’t put my finger on what made me feel like that, the hotel itself has fantastic reviews, but I just couldn’t wait to leave the hotel and Liverpool itself.

I stayed at the Grand Canyon with my ex. The hotel was so creepy and I sat up all night convinced it was haunted. I've never had such a bad feeling about anywhere else.

I was actually freaked out on the pier and had to run off it.
Just imagined you running like mad down the pier and straight off the end - now that really would have freaked me out.

@CandidaAlbicans2 I am just the same - but have been to a few atmospheric places. I just don't find them creepy the way some people do.

One that springs to mind is Prora, on the island of Rügen, Germany. It was designed as a Nazi holiday camp, but never used - they are now finally doing it up for people to use. Runs along the coast for miles in a huge, unbroken line of concrete, some four floors with symmetrical windows. The first time I went, it was totally empty and silent, and as we were walking through the woods behind it, a large deer sprang out from the trees and stood on the path looking at us for a second before leaping off. Not creepy or freaky, but really cool :)

Do we reckon the weather impacts massively on 'vibes' particularly in UK destinations? I've been to Battle (in mid-October). I don't recall an unsettling vibe but the weather was horrible which did make it feel depressing.

It’s like the town and all of its people wanted me out. I would second that! On a mid-week early evening, we couldn't find anywhere to have dinner. Everywhere seemed packed for no particular reason! It was very strange!

Pearl Harbour in Honolulu at the memorial site, I rarely cry but I couldn't stop after watching the film about the young sailors and the band competition the night before, most of them dead the next day, average age 19.

I'd love to visit ground zero but doubt I ever will, just to pay my respects to the people I watched in horror loosing their lives on live TV.