Places you have visited with a strange vibe

Southwick and North Bradley, near Trowbridge 😱

Bamburgh Castle - felt very dark and oppressive in certain rooms - had been on my bucket list for years, but couldn't wait to leave.

Lydney - something very oppressive and creepy about the area.

East Grinstead - can't really explain it but feels dark and unhappy. Would not want to live there.

Norfolk, especially the coast around Wells and Cromer.

Some of East Sussex, especially Lewes.

This is a great thread. I have a couple - Aberystwyth always feels depressing and end-of-the-line and Headley in Surrey - we once looked at a house there and I got a very strong feeling that it wasn’t right - couldn’t put my finger on why but I had a knot in the pit of my stomach.

For the PP who mentioned Ranmore Common - I love it up there, but the church grounds nearby are apparently haunted.

I do wonder what it is that triggers these responses. I associate certain places with feelings of sadness or heaviness, but some of those times I was depressed or anxious, so I could just be associating the place with the emotion.

However, I do remember one place I went to when I was a teenager - a remote church, visiting on holiday with my parents. Dad and I walked in, looked at each other after 5 minutes and agreed there was something very very wrong with it. We left! Wish I could remember where it was - possibly Norfolk.

@Fatredwitch I am also Pagan and love all things Glastonbury but the energy in that well was very strange. Literally felt like I was being pulled down the well - possibly a wormhole for energy? I know what you mean about the shops though - it all felt a bit ‘funfair’ the last time I was there. Interestingly my friend cannot Set foot anywhere near glastonbury as it make her violently ill and yet she is the most witchy person I have ever met

I visited Budapest back in 2014, and the caves under the castle were pretty creepy! Quite cold, and some of the walls were damp. Apparently Count Dracula was imprisoned here at one point. One of the exhibits was an orchestra of puppets (if I remember rightly), which had horror movie overtones...

I am really surprised about Glastonbury. I love it and always feel completely relaxed. Maybe it's because I'm Pagan. I feel at home amongst other weirdos. I was a bit disappointed on my last visit because the little shops didn't seem to be as good as they used to be. However, the Tor and the Chalice Well are timeless.

Creepiest experience was an evening when we got lost when driving round Edinburgh (before Satnav). Eventually we found ourselves going up a narrow road with overgrown hedges, going up Calton Hill. We hadn't got far before my teenage daughter and I were both gripped by a sudden, irrational fear. It was so strong that we shrieked at my husband to go back. He was glad, not because he was scared but because he was grumbling about the hedges scratching the car. The road was too narrow to turn, so we had to back all the way down.

Never had that feeling anywhere else.

Blackpool made me feel physically ill too 😂

I’m glad it’s not just me who hates Betwys Y Coed. I can’t even explain why either, it just makes me feel depressed and sad for no apparent reason. It’s a tourist town and is a bit false in that respect, but then so is Llangollen just down the road from there and that doesn’t make me feel like that?

My DM loathes Blackpool and has always claimed it makes her feel physically ill. We used to go to see the illuminations when we were kids and she’d get a headache as soon as she saw the tower in the distance which wouldn’t pass until we were back on the motorway to go home.

I love Liverpool, but the Anglican cathedral has always creeped me out. No idea why? I love cathedrals generally but that one unnerves me and I avoid walking anywhere near it whenever I’m there. I don’t know if it’s because it’s a modern cathedral, built in the 20th Century but is supposed to look old? It’s pretty hideous looking.

Also love Edinburgh, but think it has a really otherworldly vibe to it. Wouldn’t be surprised to hear it’s a portal to another dimension lol.

Kent.

The underground Hospital on Jersey, built by the Germans during the war using Russian POW's as slave labour, apparently when they collapsed with exhaustion they were just thrown into the concrete as it was being poured. The company I worked for were doing some work in the bowels of the place which had been untouched since the war, you had to walk down these small, narrow corridors to get to the site and it was like going back in time, creepy as balls, you just knew bad shit had happened there.

Mine is Blubberhouses, between Skipton and Harrogate. I used to live in the area and always felt a bit uneasy when driving through. I think it’s because the road winds and dips down into a bit of a valley and it feels oppressive. My sister, who is definitely more “woo” than me, once had a strange experience when she was driving through alone at night and suddenly felt like there was someone else in the car with her. I heard a spooky story about it on a ghost tour once too which probably exaggerates my feelings about it!

Years ago my friend was at uni and her halls had been an asylum. Each cell had been converted into a room for a student but was still quite visibly a cell and the bathrooms are communal. It was the longest weekend of my life as I just felt awful the whole time. My friend said that she often heard something that sounded like scraping around the walls of her room.
Other place of note was the chalice well in Glastonbury. The gardens were beautiful but the well itself I found very disturbing it literally felt like it was sucking me down into it. I had to move away from it in the end.

Interesting that a couple of people have mentioned Trerice. The first time I went there - having never been to Cornwall in my life - I felt ABSOLUTELY at home, I knew where everything was, I could walk the house and direct you to rooms and similar.
The only thing that I didn't like was the car park, because when I'd lived there it had been a pond and I kept wondering where it had gone.

They've now done further site archaeology and there was in fact a (Tudor) pond where the car park is now, so I'm happy with that.
I mean I'm not sure Tudor/17th-century me didn;t drown in it, so that's not so great, but I'm glad they know it was there now.

(Appreciate this does sound woo, bu it was genuinely the scariest experience I have ever had. And no, I wasn't Lady Whatsit, I was a very ordinary servant, I think. Trerice is my "home" I'm sure of it. I love that house.)

Kuala Lumpur

Enham Alamein. We were travelling to Southampton and got “ lost in this village, it was like something out of a horror story ( not horrible but spooky )
We find out after that it was a place for ex service men to be rehabilitated after the first ww1.

Whitby, Robin Hood’s Bay and Saltburn are three of my favourite places, and I’ve been to loads mentioned on here without a problem.

I’ve only read half the thread, so apologies if it’s been mentioned. But I’d never go back to Beaumaris Gaol on Anglesey. We arrived at dusk, an hour before it closed, and it was so gloomy and oppressive. I’ve never been so glad to get out of a building. The sadness in the room where women prisoners worked, with ropes going up to the ceiling and through to the cradles so they could rock their babies while they did so. And the gallows.... Groups apparently sleep over for charity. You really couldn’t pay me enough.

Boscobel house and white ladies priory. Never would you drag me back there kicking and screaming.

Pocklington near York and some of the back streets in Edinburgh.

kimmsutt How long ago was that?

I've been to Felbrigg Hall (in the summer) and thought it a delightful place - we even went for a long walk in the surrounding countryside and I didnt' feel a thing.

Had a conversation with DSibling about Ephesus (as they've been there too but on a separate trip). No 'vibes' there but they did say they felt a strong sense of the weight of ancient history in Delphi.

I had a lecturer who had gone to visit a stately home with her husband and kids. At one stage she felt quite breathless as if she was having an asthma attack (felt really scared and panicky) and had to sit down her disband then saw a welt on her neck - a line from under her chin to behind her ear.

A guide brought her some water and told her that there had been a young woman hung in that room (usual story - maid in the house, ner do well man of the house taking advantage etc).

@Keepyourdistance000, the whole of Norfolk?