Places you have visited with a strange vibe

Taken from that article (this town is literally down the road from me and my DS worked there for a while) really dont see it like it says below at all

In recent years, the quiet market town of East Grinstead has been home to major headquarters buildings for several religious groups including Rosicrucians, Scientologists, Christian Scientists, the Ashworth Dowsers, the Pagan Federation, Opus Dei and the Church of The Latter Day Saints, not to mention a large number of Christian denominations. This means that an unusually high proportion of the 24,000 people living there are likely to dislike doctors, or wear hairshirts, or pretend they are eating the flesh of their saviour every Sunday. They might even believe that we are inhabited by the disembodied souls of people blown up in a huge volcano thousands of years ago, or worship a book stating that elephants used to roam around in America, along with Jesus Christ.

Nantucket. I stayed in the youth hostel (old lifeboat station) which was gorgeous, but I became convinced that the massive storm was because I’d picked up some stones from the beach and planned to take them with me the next morning. I got up in the middle of the night to throw them into the sea. Never had an experience like it, and am definitely not ’Woo’.

Townsville? My dhs uncle lived there for twenty odd years. I’ve heard nothing but good things about it.
King of the tombs in Cyprus. I had the smell of death and had to walk out.

West Sussex. Specifically the bits around Bognor and West Witterings. I think it's all the caravans. See also Weston Super Mare.

Also, and this is going to sound made up but isn't; when I went up the Twin Towers in rhe late 90s I had a feeling of dread wash over me and couldn't get back down quick enough.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/12/strangest-place-uk-sutton-normal-newcastle-east-grinstead

This reminds me, I was talking about looking at properties in East Grinstead and my adult DC all said, "you know thats the weirdest place to live in the UK dont you mum" I know it has a lot of different religions there but is it really so bad?

Glenn Coe beautiful place but just wanted to leave as fast as possible.

Trerice, NT House in Cornwall, the rear upstairs corridor, both my son and I wanted out of that corridor asap.

Like a poster above, London Dungeon, fainted in there due to the atmosphere.

Personally found Men An Tol fine and lived in Bradford for years, but I guess different things weird different folks out.

Telford Town Centre. Nothing wooooo about it, it's just a soulless temple to consumerism where the sun never shines. I avoid it like the plague but if I really have to go there I get out as fast as I can.

Sorry you got that twice slow the first time

I always feel Alton Towers is a bit yuck. I went there 30 years ago and stayed in a youth hostel and it was very depressing. I put it down to being a youth hostel. Been back since to different hotels and it still feels wretched tk me.

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This is the giant weird marabou stork

So many places:
York - in theory it has everything I love: long and fascinating history, amazing architecture, great pubs and places to eat, lots of one-off little shops. In reality it has an oppressive, unpleasant and depressing feel for me and I very rarely go.

Saltaire - similar to above but also feels unreal, depressing and creepy.

The waterfront area in Leeds - has a ghost towny, creepy and brooding feeling to it. I feel like if I walked around the back of some of the buildings there they would be like a film set and not actually real places.

Lots of towns in the Fens feel creepy and as if something bad is about to happen.

Tiredofallthis1. Bradford town centre especially around St. George’s Hall definitely has a creepy and heavy atmosphere to me too. There are so many amazing Indian restaurants there but even they arent enough of an incentive to go .

A place where we went on holiday as kids called Villa Marina in Wales. We were all petrified there and my DM insisted we leave after one night!

San Francisco - we stayed in a really dodgy part of the city but it was more than the dodginess that was a problem. Apart from the area around Fisherman’s Wharf the city had a heavy, spooky, depressing vibe to it. I loved lots of things like the cable cars, the hills, the architecture and the fact that it was totally different to anywhere else I’d been to but I was so glad to get away.

The Isle of Wight. Spooky and odd.

Twin towers site. Standing there I felt like I was standing in the middle of a crowd even though there were only a few people well spaced apart. Almost felt like I was being jostled.

I know it’s the literal opposite of the question asked... but I felt AMAZING after staying in a place on the river Kwai. I felt like I was sparkling when I woke up in the morning.

The Forest of Dean though... wasn’t that the setting of the most scary paranormal story that’s lurking over in Classics?

I can’t believe I’m going camping tomorrow night (bivvying, actually!) and I’m about to go reading through spooky mumsnet stories to find it...

I’m surprised Royal Victoria Country Park is on here! I live near there and we go often. It’s lovely. We were all packed up with a picnic in the car today on our way there but it started pouring with rain.

A lot of people I know think that the Fens where I live can be decidedly eerie . Particularly if you have to drive through them at night . I scoffed at them until I hit a deer at 2 in the morning and wrote my car off , and was there waiting for recovery alone in total darkness with not a single house nearby and the mists rising because of all the water around us. I was bloody glad when the truck arrived , I can tell you , and I’m not easily spooked .

I've visited Jinja in Uganda. Beautiful place but it was like being on another planet to me, from the UK. Big rocky boulders, and dusty landscape to lush trees with fruits and thick grasses and but especially a bit strange was the giant stork like birds walking around like pigeons do in the UK scavengering food from bins etc.. except they are as big as 5 year olds!

Brixton I don't like it. Soon as we got there to go for lunch I wanted to go home it just feels forced and threatening I can't explain it. It might be because there's so much actual poverty on the streets yet it's all outside and surrounded by expensive artisan cafes and shops etc. Weird.

glastonbury TERRIBLE vibes

I like saltburn! Glastonbury is a bit weird though

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

Hms Belfast! Had a sleepover on board in the old crew quarters whilst on a school history trip and it was the longest night of my life! So noisy, cold and lots of random disruptive thoughts.

Nunney in Somerset. Urgh.
Hardly slept a wink. Apparently it’s very haunted, as I discovered perusing the hotel blurb at 3am.