Places you have visited with a strange vibe

I found Buxton bizarre. As if there was a tension in the air, or a sense of foreboding. We drove there across the really high moors and I felt quite unsettled there too. Like we were being watched. I suppose it was the emptiness and bleakness of the landscape.

I find Bath a bit creepy: felt a bit uncomfortable there.

Another place is Feurtaventura: it all feels very abandoned with half build estates randomly dotted about. Even the capital,
Puerto del Rosario Felt very isolated and creepy

I’ve only felt this on the Queen Mary ocean liner at Long Beach, California. The 3rd class swimming area made me feel absolutely freaked out and I couldn’t wait until the tour guide moved on.

I suddenly felt claustrophobic and ill and felt desperate to get out of The Real Mary King’s Close in Edinburgh while doing the tour. I was pregnant but had visited the attraction before, and I never felt like that at any other time whilst pregnant so who knows.

Not necessarily negative but I felt like Kandy in Sri Lanka was on a completely different frequency to the rest of the world. Never felt like it since but it was such a strange feeling - like my body was just totally out of kilter with the environment. Very intense.

We travelled round Sri Lanka and I didn’t feel like it anywhere else. Most odd.

I LOVE Saltburn but I agree it has a bit of a weird vibe out of season. If there's no one else on the beach, it kind of feels like you're at the end of the world. However, having also been in high summer, it's so packed (and I mean not a empty square on the sand), it feels totally different.

Once got a weird feeling in a church in Cornwall, that was used as lookout station in WWII. It was the only building left standing after they knocked the village down to build an airfield.

Ooooh, I love Burley! There's definitely a vibe but I quite like it. There is an old iron age (?) fort just outside the village on the Ringwood side so it's obviously a pkace with a lot of history. The witchy connection too, of course.

I live very, very close to the Forest of Dean. Although the landscape is stunning and it's a very beautiful part of the UK, there are lots of jokes about it locally.

I've got a feeling that JK Rowling said Hagrid was inspired by the Forest of Dean - and that would be about right

Many parts of it are very definitely full of "local shops for local people" - if you've seen League of Gentleman you'll know exactly what I mean. It's a very odd place.

Oh and Burley in the New Forest; something there messes with my sense of direction.

@kebabmuncher yes that’s the place. Oddly first time I visited I had no idea of the history of the place and still found it just a bit ‘off’. I’ve been a few times over the years, but I don’t like the place and wouldn’t choose to go there.

Some of the stuff that happened there is really horrific though. So maybe that’s it.

Been going to Great Yarmouth for many years , child and as adult with my kids. Summer 2019 and I hated it. Stayed in a b&b instead of holiday park .. the streets were disgusting, knew homelessness was awful and drugs a major problem but bloody hell it was like a the bottom of a toilet bowl just grime. Never wanted to leave a holiday but this one couldn’t have ended quick enough. Doubt I’ll ever go back despite it being one of the places I wanted to live, definitely not now

@HoobleDooble thanks I was confused there.

The hairs on the back of my neck were standing on end when I look at those photos..........

I do get this occasionally. When we were in the US, we drove through a small town in the middle of nowhere and I just couldn't wait to get away. Also drove past two or three house overlooking a lake as night was falling and I felt an overwhelming sense of unease. I do not normally worry about anything so there was definitely something going on with my sixth sense.

@Springchickpea, is the Royal Victoria Country Park the one on the shore at Netley? If so, I agree. The atmosphere is heavy with the absence of the military hospital that got knocked down in the 60s.

Some pretty horrific 'treatments' were carried out on psychiatric patients, starting with soldiers suffering from shell shock. It's as if the energy of that and all the other suffering lingers.

Sounds like a very extreme reaction OP. Can't say I have ever reacted to anything like that.

A couple people mentioned Townsville, I actually really liked it, worked in a bar there for awhile.

Agree with Glastonbury. Once stayed at a campsite up by Blackpool and had weird vibes as soon as I got there. It just felt dead and heavy. Weirdly I had a paranormal experience 2 nights there

Having never suffered a day of what others describe as depression in my life, I was awful in Berlin. I honestly felt like I had the weight of the world on my shoulders, I kept bursting into tears and was crying in a bloody restaurant which was embarrassing and very unlike me indeed. I couldn’t understand it. I felt like this black fog had attached itself to me, I felt so heavy and sad. Weird, because I think it’s an awesome city, but I could not get rid of that feeling.

Never felt like that before or since.

Ullapool.

We were only there for half a day, couldn't get out fast enough!

I went to Glencoe once and that had a very sad, bleak feeling about it.

Also went to a gypsy church in the Camargue which was a bit odd, lots of discarded crutches from where people had prayed to the Madonna etc; the friend I was with at the time and I came outside and both said well that was creepy!

@whiteroseredrose have you seen Don't Look Now? If not then you probably shouldn't!

Oh I've been on that cliff tram thing but I thought it was in Scarborough. Is there one in Scarborough as well?

It was probably the atmosphere, but the London Dungeons. Maybe I'm just super squeamish as it was the Dungeons, but I felt really really odd. Lightheaded. Was OK with York Dungeons.

I've been to Saltburn once and went on that tram. Didn't notice any strange feelings though. Apart from Boredom TBH. I've not been back. We tend to go to Redcar or Whitby.

Evit Perions grave in Buenos Aires Argentina was eeerie too.. I worked there for a few years and would wander the Recoleta cemetery.. graves are above ground 😳