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Places you have visited with a strange vibe

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RevolvingPivot · 02/06/2021 21:59

Hi. I'm off to Saltburn (near Whitby) tomorrow and I feel sick. I visited last March. The weekend before the lockdown.

The place was so eerie. I was actually freaked out on the pier and had to run off it. I actually managed to sleep at night but I honestly didn't think I would.

The cottage was surrounded by cliffs and there was a Victorian lift and a small morgue by the beach. I'm not sure whether these have anything to do with it.

Has anyone else had this feeling from a place they have visited?

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JustMeAndWheatley · 03/06/2021 07:50

Chillingham Castle in Northumberland. I couldn’t leave fast enough. I’ve never felt so scared and unsettled as I did there (just from the feeling of the place itself).

Backtomyoldname · 03/06/2021 07:49

Aldeburgh beaches. The Martello forts.

We went there when I was a child - perhaps 6? 55+ years ago.

Seemed a dark place. I didn’t like it.

However now I’d be quite keen to go back, to see what spooked the 6 year old me.

RosesAndHellebores · 03/06/2021 07:49

I agree about Whitby and Saltburn.
On honeymoon years ago dh and I stayed at a Poussada in Portugal. It was set in a hill near a railway bridge (DH will remember the town) and it has such a creepy vibe we literally got through the night keeping a 2 hr watch on rotation. Looking back I don't know why we didn't just leave but guess we were just too scared to leg it in darkness.

sotiredofthislonelylife · 03/06/2021 07:49

Oradour-sur-Glane in the middle of France.
Almost the entire village massacred by the nazis in June 1944, and left as it was as a permanent memorial.
The silence was really eerie, but appropriate to the circumstances.

DaisyFeather · 03/06/2021 07:47

Wroxham is weird but the barns are great!

Mine is Leiston Abbey. It’s a lovely site except the remains of the dining hall. I’m not woo at all, but something bad happened in that space at some point.

MumUndone · 03/06/2021 07:47

@Sillysandy

Yes, Townsville in Australia years ago. It felt like vampires had come and ravaged the place.
Completely agree! Very weird vibe.
FlappityFlippers1 · 03/06/2021 07:45

@everythingthelighttouches

Port sunlight
I’m surprised port sunlight is considered eerie! I live just up from there and it’s so peaceful and pretty. (Though granted the links to the slave trade are grim)
Lightswitchesoffatnight · 03/06/2021 07:44

I like Saltburn.

For weird you want to try Wroxham in Norfolk. The entire place is dominated by one family, Roys of Wroxham.

1DoesNotSimplyWalkIntoMordor · 03/06/2021 07:43

The smugglers caves in Hastings (the funicular railway was awesome though) and also Battle.

FedNlanders · 03/06/2021 07:43

@EstuaryBird

I’m not easily spooked, I live next to a cemetery, but I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned The Colloseum 😳.

I’d already found Rome a bit ‘uncomfortable’ but put it down to too many people but when we went to the Colloseum I never felt a feeling like it.

Went in and all OK, quite interesting. Had a wander about, went early so not many people, then as we were walking across the middle it felt more and more oppressive. I couldn’t even speak to DH, just pointed to a way out and legged it.

We went to Ostia Antica next day which I quite liked but spent the whole time dreading going back to Rome.

We’d been to Italy several times and always loved it but weirdly that one moment has now to an aversion to the whole of Italy and I doubt I’ll ever go back 😢

In other news I love Dungeness and Romney Marsh 😊. I love bleak, flat marshland with endless skies and very few people.

We left the colleseum after less than 10mins of being there.
PuppyMonkey · 03/06/2021 07:42

I also love Saltburn. We’ve been a few times and like it because it’s a nice quiet resort - probably because everyone else feels like the OP. Grin

FedNlanders · 03/06/2021 07:41

I felt like that in Whitby too. Didn't like it at all. Felt suffocated.

BalloonSlayer · 03/06/2021 07:40

@Nodal to be fair to the Scientologists, the manicured place on the A22 is the Mormon Temple. The Scientologists are at Saint Hill Manor which is in a more remote location on the other side of town.

Phyllis321 · 03/06/2021 07:40

I love the Rollright Stones, but I love hippy mystical stuff anyway! I also like Glastonbury in the main, although there were lots of lost soul types mooching around.
I strongly disliked Thetford particularly the ruined abbey. It felt ‘angry’.

Samanabanana · 03/06/2021 07:39

I grew up in the New Forest and absolutely could not stand Burley. So opressive and it made me feel like a big pit of despair had settled in my stomach every time I had to go.

BarbaraofSeville · 03/06/2021 07:38

That's amazing @CosmicComfort. Have any of the other Saltburn fans seen the work of the Yarn bombers?

I saw their work a couple of years ago but don't know anything about how often they do it.

ThisAintNoPartyThisAintNoDisco · 03/06/2021 07:36

I do know what people mean about the Forest of Dean. It does have a suspended quietness about it , but I love it there. The only time I felt very unsettled was at Littledean Hall. It is haunted but omg just the look of the place tells you all you need to know

Thelikelylass · 03/06/2021 07:34

I love Dungeness but I do believe it is the strangest place in the UK, just something about the atmosphere with the end of the world feel to it. Love to live there though!

CosmicComfort · 03/06/2021 07:33

I loved Saltburn, managed to get a lovely picture of the pier with no one on it.

Places you have visited with a strange vibe
Whereismymojo · 03/06/2021 07:33

@Beseigedbykillersquirrels

Chippenham. No idea why but I couldn't wait to leave. It just struck me as a very odd place.
Chippenham, outside of Newmarket? That one?
WeWantAMackerelNotASprat · 03/06/2021 07:32

I'm trying to rack my brains about a village we visited when I was a child on holiday. It was like stepping back in time and made me feel odd.

I have a feeling it was in the Somerset area but I'm not 100% sure!!!!!

KaptainKaveman · 03/06/2021 07:30

Years ago dh and I went to visit the Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire and I swear I had to get out of there. Absolutely eerie and unsettling.

EstuaryBird · 03/06/2021 07:30

I’m not easily spooked, I live next to a cemetery, but I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned The Colloseum 😳.

I’d already found Rome a bit ‘uncomfortable’ but put it down to too many people but when we went to the Colloseum I never felt a feeling like it.

Went in and all OK, quite interesting. Had a wander about, went early so not many people, then as we were walking across the middle it felt more and more oppressive. I couldn’t even speak to DH, just pointed to a way out and legged it.

We went to Ostia Antica next day which I quite liked but spent the whole time dreading going back to Rome.

We’d been to Italy several times and always loved it but weirdly that one moment has now to an aversion to the whole of Italy and I doubt I’ll ever go back 😢

In other news I love Dungeness and Romney Marsh 😊. I love bleak, flat marshland with endless skies and very few people.

Looubylou · 03/06/2021 07:28

Obviously you are meant to feel like that in the London Dungeons, but I freaked out something ridiculous, in front of the judge. Quietly of course, but I felt I was doomed to hell. Quite unlike me. Being stuck on the little train didn't help.

prettylittlestar · 03/06/2021 07:24

Wokey hole caves.I was around 5 or 6 but I had to get out of there. I felt so scared, I started crying so my dad would take me back outside. Remember it like yesterday. HmmConfused