Places you have visited with a strange vibe

Newquay town centre and Staten Island (NYC). Sad/ weird vibes in both. Couldn't wait to get out of them!

Ironbridge. It always seemed really dark even on a sunny day.

The site of the twin towers post 9/11. Overwhelming and overpowering, heavy. Felt like I was intruding. Couldn’t wait to get away.

Another vote for Townsville in Australia- was a perfect stop over point on our way down the east coast but my god it was horrible there.

I lived in a patch of Devon that was wiped out by the 1st WW - the Pals mostly gone in a single explosion, the village/hamlet closed down during the 1920s, not much left by the 21st Century, a few old walls where the villagers used to live, just one Farmer and the Church which on a plaque gave the long list of names.

And They came out in the wind, the Pals, howling, grasping their way out from the Earth - but not in a frightening way. I didn't leave because of Them, but I can see that if I had stayed I might have been sucked into their reality rather than staying in the present.

Wawa in Ontario. We stopped there on a road trip across Canada. It had such a creepy vibe. Everyone stopping and staring as we drove around as if they knew we were strangers. Everyone stopping and staring as we walked into a diner for dinner. It made the hairs on the back of neck stand up . Never had that anywhere before. Woke up in the motel (which was deserted!) with a horrendous migraine and blacked out in the shower for a few seconds.

Couldn’t get out of there fast enough .

The old Stuart Crystal factory in Stourbridge. It was creepy as..

I love the Forest of Dean,my daughter lives in Ross-on-Wye.

Bodmin Jail is the creepiest place I have ever been,now they are opening part of it as a Hotel,wondering if I would have the nerve to stay there for a night!

@Movingtothebeat I second the Queen Mary. We stayed onboard a few years back and it went really freezing cold in our cabin even though it was a warm time of year. I just felt uneasy all night. Also when touring through the ships hospital. And in the corridors.

I stayed overnight in a half-timbered place in Shrewsbury -- an unplanned stop to break a journey. There was something so weird about the place that I actually pushed furniture against the door when I went to bed! It was also icy cold all night in my room, and I just could not get warm despite layers of blankets... this despite it having been an unusually hot day. I was very glad to leave the next morning.

My memory of a strange vibed place is Aberystwyth This was years ago, I went with my DSIS to check out the uni as it was one of her choices so I was about 16 (I am 56 now so many years ago and the place may have changed) we stayed in this inn/pub and there was hardly anyone else in the place. I remember at meal times the staff all stared at us but said nothing, and the food was awful so we didnt eat it and we thought they were going to murder us in our beds for insulting the chef.

It felt a lonely place, we visited the sea and other places but the people werent friendly and it had a cold vibe (plus it was freezing and raining) My DSIS chose Birmingham Uni in the end, glad she did as I visited her a lot there and wouldnt have been so keen on the other place.

There have been a couple of places that freaked me out - a disused Greek fort in Sicily and oddly Petworth House. Nothing would get me to go back to either of them

All my family live in Townsville, it's had a massive facelift in recent years and is now quite a nice place to visit, especially the strand.

Regarding Saltburn, is that the same place that a man called Stephen Clark went to use a public toilet and then was never seen again, literally vanished? His parents were arrested but not charged.

Could explain the weird atmosphere.

There’s nice places too though! West Sussex feels relaxed. I can always tell when I’m not in uptight Surrey or Hampshire anymore.
Blackpool and Liverpool felt quite nice. I think the Lake District feels really oppressive as does St Ives.Don’t like Bath either.

Kippen in Scotland. I have no idea why, but it gave me the heebie jeebies.

I posted on a similar thread a while back, but when I first visited Drakelow Tunnels. I was doing a scare event in there, and the first time I visited it was so eerie and there was not a good feeling to the place. That night I had a bad dream about it. Then weirdly after that, it never freaked me out at all, I felt completely at ease. Well, I wouldn't want to be in there overnight on my own still Most Haunted and Paranormal Lockdown did shows about it.

It's a maze of cavernous tunnels and rooms that you could easily get lost in, in some spaces it's that dark you cannot see your hand in front of your face. It's been a factory, a nuclear bunker, and there's still equipment in there from back then, basically rotting away adding to the very spooky atmosphere.

It's that big that while all this was going on there was an cannabis farm operation going on there (they were busted after) and we all had no idea

Swaffham in Norfolk. It was the weirdest most freaky place I have ever been. Was like time stood still

I had this today! We were exploring a cave (well, a gap in a cliff) and I spotted a bit that went quite far back and was a little narrow. On paper it wasn't really different to any of the other places we'd explored that afternoon. However DC went to head into it and I just absolutely felt that they shouldn't and shouted them back. They came out grumbling, and I'll never know if I was right about it. I was quite certain though. Weird....

Sorry Op, I realise now that's not quite the same! Do lone corners of otherwise acceptable places count?!

Oh and also had a feeling like that in a holiday cottage once in Whitby. I usually love Whitby but the place where we were had a real feeling of oppression. I couldn't understand it as I'm usually overjoyed to be there.

When I got home, I looked up the place we were staying in. Found a local's forum and it turned out someone had recently committed suicide there 😕

This place.

www.haunted-britain.com/knowlton-church.htm
I went there with an archeology group. It was a beautiful summers day but as you stepped inside there was this awful feeling of utter horror. A couple of the group were talking about how it’d be a lovely place for a picnic and the rest of us couldn’t get away quickly enough.

Bradford town centre. There is something very off about it, imo. Apologies to those from Bradford, but the town centre is just depressing, in soul rather than anything else.

Once went to an amateur play in Bradford town centre. We got there around 6pm, long before it started, so had a drink before finding the theatre. It was winter, so dark, with a full moon, and the place was utterly empty and it felt soul sucking. I've seen a few things advertised at St Georges Hall which I fancy but I don't feel like going back.