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Have you ever had a strange feeling about a particular place?

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NoGolfForMe · 19/04/2023 10:34

Inspired by the thread "Do you ever get a strange feeling about someone ( or something?)"

Has anyone else ever had a weird feeling (good or bad) or been creeped out by a particular place? And did you ever figure out why?

My weird place was an indoor crazy golf course, in an old warehouse, with all sorts of complex and wacky decor around each hole. Something about the place utterly creeped me out from the moment we entered. It was like the bit in a horror film where you want to scream at the characters "Run away NOW!"
The feeling was an overwhelming feeling that we were in the presence of great evil. I just wanted to grab my friend and run away as far as possible.
However, I didn't say anything and just pretended to be fine and act like it was fun (friend obviously felt fine there and wanted to do the course). All the while feeling this horrendous crushing evil feeling, and just counting down the holes one by one trying to tell myself it was all fine and we'd be out soon. When we got out and away from the place I sat down and cried, relieved and overwhelmed.

I've no idea why I had such a strong reaction to this place, other friends have been there and enjoyed it.

I'm not usually very woo, try to be rational about things, but do find this stuff interesting!

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BigUpTheOxfordComma · 19/04/2023 11:40

By proxy, yes!

My cousins once visited a really pretty Cotswold village. All beautiful honey-coloured thatched cottages/ quaint pub/ church/ post office/ duckpond etc.

However, not a single soul about in the 2 hours they spent picnicking. Nobody pottering in gardens, no dog barking or sound of kids even. Not one blade of grass out of place. Bit like a creepy film set.

But far more than that, the outskirts had a really strange atmosphere of foreboding. They couldn't explain it, but all 3 of them commented on how unsettled they felt.

On reading up about it afterwards, turns out archaeologists had once uncovered a 'plague pit' mass burial site from the 17th century, when terrified villagers had burned down houses to stop its spread and families had been shut up in their homes.

Still makes me shiver to think about it!

Thesisquibble · 19/04/2023 11:42

Bristol. It makes me shudder. Don't know why

BigUpTheOxfordComma · 19/04/2023 11:43

@Thesisquibble What, the whole place?!

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Hellocatshome · 19/04/2023 11:45

These threads always end up with people saying Saltburn by the Sea for some reason.

flutterbyebaby · 19/04/2023 12:10

Yes, there is a corner of a road near where I live that I cannot look at when I walk by, it's like someone is standing watching, I feel so ridiculous because of it.

Bimbom · 19/04/2023 12:15

Hellocatshome · 19/04/2023 11:45

These threads always end up with people saying Saltburn by the Sea for some reason.

And Glastonbury

ZittiEBuoni · 19/04/2023 12:17

One street in the 'Old City' bit of Barcelona. Every other street fine. But I had to turn around and walk back out of this one.

blobby10 · 19/04/2023 12:20

My Dad got a real sense of foreboding when he walked near the Witches Museum in Boscastle. He said it was like nothing he had ever felt before and had to move away really quickly. Mum didn't feel anything and even went in!

Mardiarse · 19/04/2023 12:23

There’s a country lane I have to drive home through late at night sometimes, that gives me the creeps.
Electronic devices in my car start going funny when I get past a certain point on it.
I just have to put my foot down and drive as fast as I can., until I’m off it.

MotherOfCatBoy · 19/04/2023 12:24

DH gets these feelings. Once in a rented house in St David’s, Wales; a 70s house. Said he felt like he was being suffocated at night. After much googling on my part - looked like the modern housing estate was built on a plague pit.
Also at the very top of Mont St Michel, Brittany. Great evil, he said. No explanation for that one though.

xogossipgirlxo · 19/04/2023 12:24

Nope, never, but my husband is quite spiritual person if you can describe it this way. I sometimes think it's a blessing not to feel anything. The less you know, the better you sleep. I always read with interest such threads though.

ExtremelyDetermined · 19/04/2023 12:24

There's a set of farm building alongside a road I use about once a month, its in a a dip between small hills and the road bends round so it feels a bit claustrophobic. No matter what the weather has been like this place seems to be permanently under a grey cloud, it feels really oppressive and creepy.

7catsisnotenough · 19/04/2023 12:28

Avebury - using my satnav to go to collect something and I developed a crushing headache on the way, didn't realise until I looked at the map later that it was when I was skirting Avebury...

To qualify, I had previously gone to Avebury to see the stones and avenue years before and had the same reaction so it was very strange to get exactly the same problem there without knowing I was there iyswim? Obviously not psychosomatic, just very weird...

Regalhen · 19/04/2023 12:37

Twice - once in a gite somewhere in SW France. Horrible place - chocolate box pretty farmhouse, but the atmosphere was off. The whole place had a feel of almost horror - especially the room where me and my ds slept. When I needed the loo in the night I used to dread going down the corridor and used to just look at the floor as it felt if I looked up or around there would be someone or something there which I didn't want to see. Never felt so uncomfortable or creeped out by anywhere in my life before. The village also seemed 'off' just a really weird vibe

The second place was a few days ago. Just a city museum on the south coast. It's a large Victorian red brick building that's been well done up and had loads of lottery funding - but the atmosphere is grim. It just feels heavy, uncomfortable and sad.

Not sure what the history of the building is - wanted to ask but felt too embarrassed. The rest of the family seemed to like it but I hated it and couldn't wait to leave

BumpyaDaisyevna · 19/04/2023 12:41

Kirkcudbright in Scotland. I just found it very weird and dated and bad vibe.

RubaiyatOfAnyone · 19/04/2023 16:43

@Regalhen ooh, which museum?

crazyBadger · 19/04/2023 17:02

Church on a Greek island...every single fibre of my being was screaming at me to leave.....

Never found out why the rest of the island was beautiful

Mimosa08 · 19/04/2023 17:05

Stonehenge
Felt utterly malevolent to me

Regalhen · 19/04/2023 17:06

RubaiyatOfAnyone it's Portsmouth Museum! I really wanted to like it, quite a few people have said what a great museum it is. And it is - but it just felt off to me

Bimbom · 19/04/2023 17:36

About 20 years ago my ex and I were looking for a house to rent. We went to look at one which subjectively was fantastic - it was huge for the price, period features, nice area, beautiful really. But it just felt so incredibly off, both of us felt it. We decided we didn't need that much space but really it was because it felt so bloody weird.

HashBrownandBeans · 19/04/2023 17:43

About ten years ago I had a second job in a pub in the evenings out in the countryside. I used to ride my motorbike home, there was this awful hairpin bend where I’d have to slow right down to about 10 mph, and I always used to feel like I was being chased out of the bend by something. My bike isn’t very powerful and I used to be wiling it to hurry up to get away. A few times in the dark I felt like someone was there standing in the bushes watching me.

A few weeks ago a friend of my DHs has recently moved near there to a house share. I mentioned the pub and the hairpin bend that I used to hate, and he said ‘my old school friend crashed his motorbike there and died about 15 years ago’ 😱

DrHousecuredme · 19/04/2023 17:45

Not in a creepy way but there's a newish row of houses on the way to a pub I visit regularly. Every time I drive down the roads I have a really strange feeling of coming home, I think I must be destined to live in one of those houses eventually.

EustaceTheMonk · 19/04/2023 17:46

Crystal Palace Railway Station in South London especially the steps from the booking office down to the platforms. Used to scare the bejesus out of me as a kid, and I was still unhappy using it late at night as a teen. No idea why. It just did.

Hotvimto3 · 19/04/2023 18:01

BigUpTheOxfordComma · 19/04/2023 11:40

By proxy, yes!

My cousins once visited a really pretty Cotswold village. All beautiful honey-coloured thatched cottages/ quaint pub/ church/ post office/ duckpond etc.

However, not a single soul about in the 2 hours they spent picnicking. Nobody pottering in gardens, no dog barking or sound of kids even. Not one blade of grass out of place. Bit like a creepy film set.

But far more than that, the outskirts had a really strange atmosphere of foreboding. They couldn't explain it, but all 3 of them commented on how unsettled they felt.

On reading up about it afterwards, turns out archaeologists had once uncovered a 'plague pit' mass burial site from the 17th century, when terrified villagers had burned down houses to stop its spread and families had been shut up in their homes.

Still makes me shiver to think about it!

Second homes. Parts of Devon and the lakes are like this... not a soul around.

Hotvimto3 · 19/04/2023 18:01

DrHousecuredme · 19/04/2023 17:45

Not in a creepy way but there's a newish row of houses on the way to a pub I visit regularly. Every time I drive down the roads I have a really strange feeling of coming home, I think I must be destined to live in one of those houses eventually.

Aw i like this. I hope you do x

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