Places you have visited with a strange vibe

I've nominated this for classics. I hope others agree.

Matlock Bath in Derbyshire. It’s a seaside town, lost in time, in landlocked Derbyshire. It was sad, dark and in a valley. Really off vibes!

Glencoe

Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin.

Oradour-sur-Glane in France. Not surprising as a massacre took place there but the atmosphere was so heavy. Such a sad place, you could still feel the terror all those poor people must have felt hanging in the air

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'Heptonstall above Hebdon Bridge is super atmospheric. A bit eerie, but mainly you feel the weight of history'

I agree. Isn't Sylvia Plath buried there?

We did one of those ghost walks underground in Edinburgh. It was mainly dark and spooky but ok and the history was interesting but there was one particular vault where it felt awful and both me and my husband felt that something awful had happened there
The other one was in filey in Yorkshire. Been there many times and love it but the last time I went we stayed in an old fisherman's cottage up in the town and it had an awful feeling. Constantly felt like I was being watched and that whatever was watching was very angry. Again husband felt the same. It had a new bathroom in a modern downstairs extension and that bit was fine. Was just the rest of the house

On my home from Southampton I thought I would try and find the Royal Victoria Country Park, Crikey it was dusk and the combination of the chapel
rising over the trees and the water made me shudder, needless to say I didn't hang around long !!

Having said that, my DH and I would love to visit Dungeness for the history of the place. I know I'd probably be a bit spooked, but I guess that's part of the experience.

@ThelmaDinkley I'm relieved that it isn't just me! I'm sorry your DD had a bad experience. I've always been too creeped out by the memory of the Needles Eye to go near the Hoober Stand. Looking at images of it does make me shudder a bit though!

My Dparents love the nearby garden centre, though and I've never felt off there.

Those who don't like Bradford, well I'm a Bradfordian and have o problems, and have happy memories of concerts, etc at St Georges Hall. Some suffragettes hid under the stage there and burst out when PM Asquith came onto the stage, Emmiline Pankhurst had had a bad experience there too. There is the Alhambra theatre and the playhouse as well as theatre at the uni, and will soon be a live venue in the old cinema. But there has been some very poor redevelopment in the 60s and a big shopping centre has replaced an old square which had grass and seats etc. Lots of places to eat too. But someone has turned the old morgue into a restaurant, and I'm not sure I'd go in on my own, maybe if in a group but just why a restaurant, So do give it another chance. Being interested in history I've read about murders in the past and sometimes the house is there, sometimes it has gone, but I don't think murders happen all over the country and maybe some of the unease is where something like that happened.

Certainly Hepronstall is famous for one particularly nasty murder, a guy was suspected of informing on the coiners who eventually were all captured and executed. They pushed his head in the fire at one of the pubs, put hot coals in his trousers and red hot iron round his neck and threw him out of the window. The main coiners are buried in the churchyard too, the old ruined church doesn't help either, it was described as the ugliest that Wesley had seen when he visited. Sylvia Plath is buried there too. There was action too in the civil war, lots were murdered climbing up the steep path. But it has a grand view for miles being on a hill top, whereas the valley below where Hebden Bridge is rather dank and narrow
I had a weird feeeling at a place we stayed at in Cornwall, it was a former shop and the living quarters were upstairs and you accessed the house though the upstairs, which was nice and bright. But to get to the living room you had to go downstairs and the door had been all bricked up. I felt really weirded out by that room, as well as the village in general, it was september out of season, a really weird feel. Never gone back to Cornwall
Loved Ghent in general but the castle Gravensteen, rooms of awful torture instruments and weapons, how much suffering they must have inflicted on people. felt very disturbed there

A house we thought we might like to buy in Weybridge. Fantastic in the photos and from the outside, but once inside it felt so weird and hostile - I couldn’t wait to get out.

Never felt that in any other house we viewed. IIRC it was a probate sale - presumably the former owner didn’t like strangers traipsing around their home.

Having said that, a dd’s house was a probate sale but it had a lovely warm atmosphere from the first.

Gosh yes, I’d forgotten about Beachy Head. I had nightmares for weeks after visiting.