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Places you have visited with a strange vibe

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RevolvingPivot · 02/06/2021 21:59

Hi. I'm off to Saltburn (near Whitby) tomorrow and I feel sick. I visited last March. The weekend before the lockdown.

The place was so eerie. I was actually freaked out on the pier and had to run off it. I actually managed to sleep at night but I honestly didn't think I would.

The cottage was surrounded by cliffs and there was a Victorian lift and a small morgue by the beach. I'm not sure whether these have anything to do with it.

Has anyone else had this feeling from a place they have visited?

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TheVolturi · 07/06/2021 12:20

I've just read an article that Saltburn has been named the UK's best beach 🤣

Sparrowsong · 07/06/2021 11:24

Lancaster, especially the prison/castle. So many people hung there.

CounsellorTroi · 07/06/2021 08:49

@Spaceprincess

Another vote for Heptonstall. I also found Glastonbury eerie but weirdest vibes ever were Neist Point on Skye which is a partially abandoned Stevenson Lighthouse. Its beautiful but you couldn't pay me to spend the night there.
I didn’t get those vibes at all at Neist point. I found Loch Ness creepy though, it just went on and on. Had no such feelings about Loch Lomond - lovely and peaceful.
msgreen · 07/06/2021 08:14

Really want to like France, but every time we go there we always
seem to end up somewhere with weird oppressive energy.

lollipoprainbow · 07/06/2021 07:53

I get the portvadie thing, vast expanses of water makes me shudder Shock

Places you have visited with a strange vibe
FedNlanders · 07/06/2021 07:20

@Spaceprincess

Another vote for Heptonstall. I also found Glastonbury eerie but weirdest vibes ever were Neist Point on Skye which is a partially abandoned Stevenson Lighthouse. Its beautiful but you couldn't pay me to spend the night there.
That is a creepy lighthouse. I had major fear of kids going near cliffs there too.
GlitterBombing · 07/06/2021 06:47

Brothers Water near Ullswater. I know so many people who have freaked out. I must say I find it uncomfortable there.

It's named after the two sons of a farmer who both drowned in it.

bunnybutts · 06/06/2021 23:14

Quarriers village. Major horror film vibes.

BreakingtheIce · 06/06/2021 22:58

No, I see it’s another lighthouse on Skye. I have climbed up the lighthouse near Gavin Maxwells old house.

BreakingtheIce · 06/06/2021 22:55

@Spaceprincess

Another vote for Heptonstall. I also found Glastonbury eerie but weirdest vibes ever were Neist Point on Skye which is a partially abandoned Stevenson Lighthouse. Its beautiful but you couldn't pay me to spend the night there.
Is Neist Point where Gavin Maxwells lived? Because that house where he lived is creepy. Apparently there were disembodied voices heard around it at various times. In the middle of the night someone staying there heard what sounded like a group of men talking f in a foreign language and lots of noises. Ghosts of Vikings apparently.
osbertthesyrianhamster · 06/06/2021 22:55

@BreakingtheIce

I agree about Portavadie. A very strange, unsettling place. We left as soon as we could. Soulless .
We did, too. It felt weird.
BreakingtheIce · 06/06/2021 22:53

I agree about Portavadie. A very strange, unsettling place. We left as soon as we could. Soulless .

SirVixofVixHall · 06/06/2021 22:50

The Isle of Sheppey is creepy, I agree,

Lemonwoe · 06/06/2021 22:45

@ChippyDucks150 I also hated the glasgow central hotel. I’m a weegie. But have lived away for some time. I worked in Glasgow for work a lot and did some long hours so rather than stay at my mums on the outskirts of Glasgow, my work would put me up in a hotel. Once there was no other hotels with rooms, so they put me in the central hotel, the room freaked me out so much I got a taxi straight to my mums at 11pm

ChippyDucks150 · 06/06/2021 22:22

There is a luxury resort in Portavadie in Scotland, near Tarbert. It was the most unsettling place I've ever been - we stayed for 4 nights and I never slept properly the entire time, I was up and down checking in the children's room numerous times overnight. It was so unsettling and off kilter.

The other place I've experienced that was the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow - I couldn't even use the bathroom, i was so freaked out. I showered when I got home the next day.

GlitterBombing · 06/06/2021 21:57

@thenightsky

Grange over Sands in Cumbria.
Really, why? My grandparents lived there and I love it.

There were a lot of drownings on the sands before the railway was built though. They used to bring children from Liverpool and Manchester to work at the Dolly Blue factory in Backbarrow, a lot got caught on the way over the sands and drowned. The Dolly Blue factory is now the Whitewater hotel and that definitely has a bad vibe.

Karmagoat · 06/06/2021 21:53

Most recently, The Isle of Sheppy. Just driving over the crossing gave me the creeps.

Back2front · 06/06/2021 20:23

Another vote for Chillingham Castle. It felt so claustrophobic and eerie. We sat in the gardens to have a picnic and even the kids, who were young at the time, felt totally creeped out. A really weird sense of foreboding.

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RevolvingPivot · 06/06/2021 19:44

@Curatingchaos

This is so strange. I opened this thread to say Saltburn. I went as a small child and the place gave me the chills. Horrible, I felt physically sick and begged to turn back.
I didn't see this post earlier. Yes how strange 😳
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RevolvingPivot · 06/06/2021 19:43

We ended up using the same woman 3 times and I was afraid to call her 🤣🤣🤣

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Hellocatshome · 06/06/2021 19:41

@RevolvingPivot haha yeah Yorkshire villages are very much like that. I grew up in a small Yorkshire village and was pretty much convinced Taxi's only existed in movies until I moved to a city for University when I was shocked to see them everywhere.

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RevolvingPivot · 06/06/2021 19:37

We were given 3 taxi numbers. We didn't realise at each firm there was just 1 driver. I live in a city where you can order via an app.

When we phoned to book we were told...

"no really I've had a busy day"
"if you want to get a lift back phone someone else"
"I can come for you but I'm just finishing my tea"
"I'm going to turn my phone off"
"You're in a village now love"
"I can but I'm in Sainsbury's"
"It's like the summer has started already"

Plus the same woman charged us £8 extra for the same journey the next day.

Obviously if our bnb had explained you had to book a taxi 3-4 hours before you needed it we would have understood.

They just didn't seem to want to do their job.

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Hellocatshome · 06/06/2021 19:25

@RevolvingPivot do tell us about the taxi drivers.

Curatingchaos · 06/06/2021 19:24

This is so strange. I opened this thread to say Saltburn. I went as a small child and the place gave me the chills. Horrible, I felt physically sick and begged to turn back.

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RevolvingPivot · 06/06/2021 19:17

I think I need a whole new thread just to talk about the taxi drivers in Whitby / Robin Hoods Bay 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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