Places you have visited with a strange vibe

I am amazed that Beachy Head has not been mentioned..I was overcome with emotion both times I have been there..I could feel the pain and sadness of the people who lost their lives there.. and was hysterical when my husband went closer to the edge.. The whole area had such a feeling of sadness. I will never go there again..

[quote Startingagainperson]@ImprobablePuffin why cottenham? Have friends who live there.[/quote]
I don't know if it was the road I lived on near the waggon pub but there was a presence and it wasn't friendly. The whole street gave me the heebies

Autist Goth I know what you mean about Wentworth. Hoober Stand up there definitely gives the heebie jeebies. Went for a walk on a sunny day and it felt very off. Dd is convinced she saw a shadow in one of the windows.

Winchelsea in East Sussex has a sinister 'Children of the Corn' vibe. I have to visit clients in the area and always feel relieved to leave

@BumCat i've only been to Battle a few times (that I'm aware of) and both times that we actually stopped there for a while I was overcome with sadness but as soon as we left I was fine.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll Thank you.

I love Nottingham. Great for Olde Worlde pubs and the alternative scene. Can't wait to get back there when things improve.

Gosh, I love this thread! Keep the spooky anecdotes coming!

The USS North Carolina-a former navy battleship which was a historical exhibit-we had visited the USS Yorktown and USS Wisconsin before and enjoyed it but something about the USS North Carolina had a creepy as hell atmosphere to me, although no one else in the family felt like I did.

Oh I found Lancaster castle really interesting. Obviously people being hanged there isn’t great. But really fascinating and an important part of legal history for example that the Birmingham Six were tried there. I found it extremely emotional to be in the room where such an abject miscarriage of justice had taken place.

@AutistGoth

Welcome to the stage

I used to live in Nottingham and I think it's quite underrated by how cool some of its older parts are. The caves are amazing - but the council seemed to see them as quite meh for so long. Weren't they originally going to just fill in the ones under the Broadmarsh Centre before it was built (and now it's gone)?

I always used to find it weird and not a little creepy that Wollaton Hall had its own taxidermist (maybe they still do?). Actually employed by them, because it was a service that they required regularly!

Sadly, all anybody from outside the area really knows or cares about is Robin Hood - even though Sherwood Forest is quite some distance away from the city itself.

@feelabitguilty the long corridors were creepy! The Western Infirmary also had scary corridors. There was one corridor that ran underneath the car park to link buildings & I remember walking along one nightshift to collect blood for a transfusion & it was so eerie, the lights were flickering & there was hospital trolleys lined the walls like a horror film. Safe to say I ran 😂

@Lemonwoe oh that’s creepy! That hospital used to be a children’s hospital I’m sure. People used to say that people would talk to children that weren’t there just before they died. I’ve got goosebumps just typing this 😭

@Newmama29 oh, I used to have dreams about there when I was a child. I used to dream I was an ill child staying in there... at a point in time long before I was born

As a student nurse I had several placements in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. That building is creepy! Nightshift was always scary as you looked out the back windows into the dark necropolis!

It’s fascinating how places creep people out! I live near Burley and it’s beautiful. I’ve seen a few places on here I’ve visited and not bothered me isle de re my family loved, tintagel, Glastonbury etc BUT DP was freaked out visiting the Collesium but I was fine. However I get very upset in Bude Cornwall, I feel distressed and intense panic followed by a headache when I’ve visited I now avoid it

I've just remembered another.
Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire. My DH took me there as he used to be a stonemason in his youth.
I hated every second and felt like I was being watched the whole time. DH tried to take me down to the crypt but I wasn't having any of it.

Sorry, should have used past tense!

[quote Ghostontoast1]@Douchebaggette, I grew up in Osterley and never heard of anything spooky at Osterley house!

Only spooky place nearby is the old asylum, St Bernards.[/quote]
And considering it’s mostly been knocked down now and turned into flats theres not much left to actually consider spooky .

What an amazing thread! I've come out of my lurking just so I can contribute to it. This is my first ever post on the iconic Mumsnet. Here goes nothing...

For me, it's Wentworth in South Yorkshire. More specifically, the follies scattered around there. At the age of seven, my DDad took me for a rural walk around the village and to the Needles Eye folly.

When we made our way down the path to the clearing in the woods where the pyramidal folly stands, I suddenly felt compelled to go back. My DDad was unperturbed by it and insisted we get close up and have a better look. I remember the top of the pyramid rising over the curvature of the landscape, almost like a raised fist. Little seven year old me was terrified! Over twenty-five years later, I still have nightmares about that folly in that clearing. I later learned that there were two men executed there (there is a musket ball embedded in the side of the pyramid). I honestly don't know though. Despite being a Goth, I'm certainly not woo.

A pub in Nottingham has a room called The Haunted Snug. DH and I sat in there one evening, drinking some excellent ale. The rest of the pub was packed, but there was no one in this supposedly haunted room. I didn't see anything paranormal and I don't believe in ghosts, but I did have my first grand mal seizure in there. Thankfully, my DH knew what to do. I don't attribute that to anything supernatural, though. That's just my neurology.

Also once stayed at an abandoned hotel in Phuket, it was huge. Nothing in the rooms had been touched since the 60s, no other guests. Couldn't sleep and couldn't wait to get out of there in the morning.

Walk, not wall *

We stopped to have lunch in Thetford Forest on our way home from somewhere and went for a walk with our toddler. Were walking along the path into the forest and towards a big clearing, and as we neared it I started to feel weirdly panicky/edgy, and realised all the birdsong had stopped and everywhere was silent. Felt like we were being watched even though we seemed to be alone and hadn’t seen anyone on our wall.. my husband felt it too. We practically ran back to the car! Also as we moved away from the clearing and back along the path we’d come the birds started singing again.