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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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Andywarholswig · 19/04/2023 18:04

Great Yarmouth - I drove through it and DH wanted to go for a walk along the seafront and I couldn’t get out of the car. It made me feel dread! I know that sounds dramatic but I couldn’t wait to get out of there. I am not a woo person so I was quite confused by how strongly I felt

Treaclemine · 19/04/2023 18:11

Avebury. Experience just like pp. Went officially to look and felt bad (though I hadn't as a child) Was driving in the vicinity years later but didn't realise how close I was, and felt bad before I saw the stone leaning towards the road.
Not Stonehenge, Perfectly OK. Had a discussion with some Americans who felt the opposite, and liked Avebury.
I suspect some feelings are triggered by things we have absorbed. Me, Avebury and the Children of the Stones, Stonehenge a place of science, open to the sky. The Americans, no TV exposure to Avebury, stuff about sacrifices at the altar stone.

But other things, I don't know.

agutrew · 19/04/2023 18:20

There's an antique shop on two floors in the town where I live. It is in a very old building. I have only been in there once with my DH. We went upstairs to have a look around and I had the most awful feeling that something bad had happened there. It felt suffocating and sinister. I literally ran down the stairs and out of the shop. It was a terrible experience and I will never go in there again. I often have to walk past the shop and I can't bear to even look at it. It is now up for sale and there is talk that it will be made into a restaurant. I often wonder if anyone else has felt like that in there.

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KimWexlersPonyTail · 19/04/2023 18:24

Walsingham in Norfolk. There's a Catholic pilgrimage connection and there are shops selling shrines, never see anyone there but feel i being watched from behind lace curtains......

Kensukesfifedom · 19/04/2023 18:32

Went for a cliff walk on a remote island once with family and friends. Couldn't get past the gate. I stayed with my kids watching everyone else walk around the cliff edge in the distance. I have the least amount of intuition so the idea that my intuition was saving us was laughable to all involved, but I'll never know for sure until I discover a parallel universe.

Beziers. Dp and I have explored so much of France and were excited about Beziers but hated it on sight. We stayed two nights and could not get over the feeling of dankness about the place.

ImpossibleDrear · 19/04/2023 18:34

I don't think this was exactly due to the place but during the 2000 eclipse I went camping in Cornwall with friends. As the eclipse happened I got really dizzy and freaked out. When It was over I had to go and lie down for about two hours

1FootInTheRave · 19/04/2023 18:38

Also Great Yarmouth, but that's because it was a shit hole.

I get a funny feeling on the upper floor corridor near a certain ward at the hospital I work at. Nowhere else makes me feel like this. I've worked a million night shifts and been all over the site. This place gives me the heebies, a feeling that you're being watched.

Eranzer · 19/04/2023 20:49

Snakes Pass.

TossieFleacake · 19/04/2023 20:56

The Italian Chapel on Orkney.

Just got a huge, overwhelming sense of doom as soon as I got to the doorway so I waited outside.

Sally2791 · 19/04/2023 20:57

I have these feelings- good and bad!
one village near me, now a main road feels so good in a Cider with Rosie way.
When travelling abroad many years ago I encountered a woman with many children in a restaurant who for no obvious reason absolutely exuded evil.

2ApplesShortOfABasket · 19/04/2023 21:00

We bought English Heritage passes when the children were younger and visited Tilbury Fort. It was a lovely sunny day and there was a re-enactment. We had a picnic before taking a look around.

There are some rooms with war memorabilia and I had just left one room and went to sit on a bench outside while waiting for the others. At that moment, there was a definite change in atmosphere. I was outside and it felt like everything just stopped. The noise became distant and the light wind stopped blowing. I was aware of people around me but it was like I was encased in a bubble. I had an awful sense of foreboding and despair. It lasted about 10 seconds and then just like that I snapped back. Let's just say that I left very quickly after that.

postwarbulge · 19/04/2023 21:03

Northwood Hills tube station. We were going into town one weekday afternoon and, sitting on a bench we realised that there was no one else on either platform and no trains going in either direction. After a quarter of an hour of this, it felt quite eerie.

TwoBigNoisyBoys · 19/04/2023 21:05

Yes, strangely in Anne Franks’ house in Amsterdam. I’m not trying to suggest I was picking up on anything other worldly, but I’m guessing it was the structure itself…the uneven floors that seems to fall away or lean into corners and the steep staircases made me feel very odd indeed. There was couple of rooms I couldn’t go into at all.

CalistoNoSolo · 19/04/2023 21:05

Two places I've lived - absolutely hated being on my own in them. One an ancient coaching Inn and one a bog standard 70's semi. Weird things happened in both places, and both places had a place where the bad feelings seemed to emanate from. Equally I lived in a converted flat (originally an old stone barn) which was haunted by a poltergeist but only ever felt safe and happy there.

FrazzledMCPremenopausalWoman · 19/04/2023 22:55

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.

Are you in the NW? There's a spot on a road I use that's exactly as you describe

UnfortunateTypo · 19/04/2023 23:00

@KimWexlersPonyTail Yes!! Walsingham is the creepiest place I have been to by far. DD feels the same, it’s so quiet but you feel like you are being watched. We are semi convinced they still do a witch burning there. It’s such a weird unsettling place.

Peekingovertheparapet · 19/04/2023 23:10

I grew up in West Cornwall, which is a truly ancient landscape and there are parts that make me feel very uneasy. One such place is the Men-an-Tol, but also Skidden Hill in St Ives, and Chapel St, Penzance. I also really don’t like parts of Tehidy Country Park.

In a similar vein, I have felt very uneasy at Royal Victoria Country Park in Netley (near Southampton), and also in the tower at Portchester Castle.

I remember passing through Glastonbury as a child and didn’t like the place much. And we visited Bath recently and whilst I did enjoy our stay overall, I did find it oppressive to begin with.

Peekingovertheparapet · 19/04/2023 23:12

Oh and a student house I lived in. Overall it had a really weird vibe, and I didn’t like it much. It was the kind of place where you would hear normal household noise and then realise nobody else was home and hadn’t been for hours.

My room always felt safe and calm, and at some point we lifted the carpet, not sure why, but there were tubes carved into the floorboards all round the room.

Magnoliainbloom · 19/04/2023 23:13

Brighton - never visited a place that felt so hollow and made me want to get home as fast as possible. I’ve never experienced that anywhere.

RaininginDarling · 19/04/2023 23:16

West Wycombe. Creepy as.

Bunce1 · 19/04/2023 23:17

Porlock in west Somerset. Felt so odd there. Oppressed and just bad bad vibes.

SarahAndQuack · 19/04/2023 23:20

Yes. I'm not in the tiniest bit woo, but there's an inlet of water off the Trent near Nottingham, where we were taken kayaking as teenagers. I couldn't explain it but it scared the hell out of me.

Mind you, I also had a vivid impression when I first moved into my current house that I'd find someone hanging from the rafters every time I walked into the bathroom. I still occasionally think I've seen something. But it doesn't bother me. I think the most likely explanation is that my primitive animal brain has seen a set of shadows/shapes that frighten me. But if it were the case that something bad had happened here (and the house is 300 years old; it's not unlikely) ... well, so what?

noblegiraffe · 19/04/2023 23:20

Isle of Wight. Driving through some country roads and it just felt wrong. Like a time-slip or something.

Was incredibly relieved to arrive at an ASDA that was perfectly normal.

RoseBucket · 19/04/2023 23:20

There is a corner of a field near where I live which makes me feel really panicky, my heart races and I have a really strong urge to run away, it’s only one corner of the field I can’t look towards the trees feel scared and it’s the only place it happens. Even the dog is spooked.

One hospital ward also gives me the creeps, I feel watched and it’s a heavy atmosphere.

RuthTopp · 19/04/2023 23:21

Another to mention Avebury particularly the Red Lion pub.