Places you have visited with a strange vibe

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I agree with Dungeness.

We once accidentally caught the last mini train there during a winter break. Just me and my best mate. It is completely desolate and all you can hear is the constant whap, what, whap of the nuclear power station and the sound of your footsteps on the gravel.

My friend and I were both smokers and usually talked non stop, but for the hour it took us to walk through this "nature reserve" neither of us spoke, or smoked. It was otherwise, entirely silent and pitch black.

There are single storey homes and shacks littered across the landscape and absolutely no street lights. As we were walking towards the nearest town (Lydd) we passed signs which read "no dumping toxic waste" as well as rusting containers with "Rd21" and other such names painted on them.

At one point as I was walking, in the dark, my friend slightly ahead, when this object next to me moved. I don't know what I had thought it was, but it was a person in a full length hooded cloak. No shame, I ran.

Once we got to the Pilot pub in Lydd, we were pretty much completely freaked but relieved too (and Lydd isn't exactly "normal".

Lots of people love Dungeness. Personally, I don't.

Agree with Glastonbury and Aberystwyth, though I love the Forest of Dean.

Also, once went to Bergen-Belsen, which is awful for obvious reasons. Freezing cold even though the actual temperature was mild.

I found Amsterdam to have quite a strange vibe too, not at all in the way I was expecting, it actually felt a bit sad to me.

The boarding school one...probably felt the years of abuse that went on historically in many of the older ones. :(

I got a really weird feeling off that picture of the funicular railway too.

Glastonbury I got a horrible feeling from the town. It's seemed to life after I walked around the tor and I found the gardens really peaceful and calming but I did get that feeling of them being out of step with the the rest of the world.

I also found the big cathedral in Murcia, Spain to be really heavy and oppressive. I was only a teenagaer so I might have just been an arse but I really couldn't wait to get out of there. I would love to know if there was a history there.

Weirdest one was a boarding school in the uk. They used it in the summer for events, summer schools and courses etc. It was another very strange heavy atmosphere and I honestly felt someone tap me on the shoulder outside of the head masters office. Apparently one of the head masters had committed suicide in there. I couldn't wait to leave again.

Didn't we have thus thread just the other day?

Ashburton. Everything is very narrow and feels oppressive. Everyone looked as miserable as fuck. My car (a mini, not exactly ostentatious) got keyed twice in 3 weeks. Horrible place.

Love Saltburn, though the last time I went was June 2019 and I've never seen weather like it in the summer - freezing and properly foggy!

New brighten beach on the Wirral (wallesley). We arrived and I said to my partner how spooky it felt. I can't really describe how, as it's a busy, typical sea front, but it just felt a bit weird... I liked it though!

Dungeoness (if that's how you spell it) Like the power station zapped all life.

Sillysandy & Threekneerepeater & dottiedaisee* and others

I loved Townsville. Was there back in 2007 and I didn't pick up a weird vibe at all.
Now Alice Springs - that most certainly had a weird and very uncomfortable vibe.

Weybourne beach.

Also, Clifton Suspension Bridge (in Bristol). I know of people who used it to exit this life, and I have been there to do the same (obviously rubbish at it). It is a marvellous wander of engineering, but with a sad undertone that I could never shake off.

Underground Hospital in Jersey. There was a room that had a sinister looking bed in it. The whole place had weird vibes.

Sad: Paraguay. I travelled around there in 1992 and tho the people were lovely there was such a heavy, oppressive sadness and bleakness to the place. Not surprising given their history of wars and dictators and giving refuge to the Nazis. But Brazil suffered all that too, and it doesn't feel so desperately sad.

Happy: Dunno why, but Penang Hill, above Georgetown in Malaysia, has such an alluring vibe! I felt a bit possessed while walking up there, but in a good way -- as if someone (or something!!!) was happy I was there.

I have two. First, the sacrificial tomb in Newgrange, Ireland, I almost passed out. A few years later my mum had the same experience! Neither of us are woo in any way. The other one is the basement of the House of Terrors in Budapest, where they have the torture rooms and gallows. You get a little lift down to it where they show a short video of a victim being hung, and just as the neck snaps the lift stopped suddenly, I almost had a heart attack! I forced myself to listen to the guide describing each torture room and literally ran out of the museum gasping for breath, only to meet my travelling companion outside also freaking out. Its a bloody scary place! I guess both places are pretty naturally terrifying, but I definitely felt way more than that.

Eyam in Derbyshire, we went to have a look around and it was so quiet and empty, we couldn’t even get a coffee, it was so odd and creepy, also Robin Hood’s bay, it was like the village of the damned, it’s very beautiful but seems sad.
Whitby gives me the creeps as well.

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I feel the same about alton towers... i love it there but such an odd vibe.. talking about the theme park now, where the ghost train is, me and a school friend walked past during a school trip and it was closed for construction work, had scaffolding and tape on... there wasn't many people around at all but we heard a girl saying help me... we freaked out a bit but as school kids we just walked away laughing about it and talking about how mad it was.. still dont know to this day if it was someone testing the ride inside or something..

Celebration in Orlando made me feel uncomfortable as did Portmeirion in North Wales. Lots of people find them both quaint but something unnerved me about both places.

To be fair, OP, anywhere 'pitch black' especially on a pier is eerie!

The West Country was frequently mentioned, including several places in Somerset.

yep, quite a few places in Somerset - not scary as such but just odd, maybe because many places are nearly empty of people and it's lik a theatre set, looks good but just somehing weird. Shepton Mallett etc.

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Don't go there, it has a very strange vibe!

It is like a reverse Royston Vasey! (Once you leave, you can never return).

Las Vegas, it's in the middle of no where which freaks me out.

The Cotswolds. Went there with DH for a couple of nights but I became so anxious I started to vomit. We left in the middle of the night and as soon as we were in the car on the way home I felt fine.