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

[NoGolfForMe]

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!

A friend moved to a very old cottage and the house and gardens were lovely but I hated the stairs, it wasn't scary just sadness. I visited hundreds of times and the feeling was always the same and always centered just on the stairs.

My dad years ago worked on the tubes and he doesn’t believe “in that crap” but admitted many of the tube stations when they close are quite spooky, and he would get sudden rushes of things pass him, the tracks were closed and even he joked about it being ghosts. Lots of suicides though 😔

A road about five minutes from our house. It’s got a similar name to our street and our post sometimes gets delivered there by mistake.

I hate it. It’s just a normal road, quite big houses, very quiet - and it makes me feel a strong sense of impending doom, and makes me want to run away.

I send DH for the post now!

I worked at the homeopathic hospital in Tunbridge Wells in the 80s bloody spooky place especially the top floor ! Drive past there occasionally and still feel weird 😳

@Thesisquibble Bristol for me, too.

Also Boscastle, I'd forgotten about that until I saw it mentioned. Witchy sites don't bother me at all nor does anywhere else in Cornwall but I felt ill at ease in Boscastle. It felt unfriendly.

Almost everywhere makes me uneasy and always has. I'm habituated to it. But then I really, really love a few places.

Isn't the big old coaching inn at West Wycombe supposed to be haunted (?by a murdered servant girl?)

Really? It's dull but not weird.

Amphitheatre at Verona (shudder) and a particular part of an old children's hospital that I worked in briefly, atmosphere was awful I handed my notice in after a month😳

A lot of the lake district feels odd to me, beautiful but really oppressive and sad.

Theres a church near Porlock in the middle of the woods called culbone church that is exceptionally creepy. There used to be a leper colony there, and nearby there is an early Christian standing stone.

All the trees there grow in a strange twisted way, it has an extremely peculiar feel to it

A small museum in the US. My DH and SS went ahead of me into another room. When I went to go into the room they were in, I had a strange sense like many men were telling me “Get out, Get out. You don’t belong here.” I left pretty quickly.

I didn’t even know anything about the place, just thought it was a historic site where armaments were stored. But it had also been a POW prison for Hessian soldiers.

Bignor, West Sussex, there's a long road which is so dark due to the trees all overhanging and down in the woods is a derelict church. It gives me chills driving down there, I often chicken out and turn back!

I mean to say Bedham not Bignor!

A spot on the side of a hill in N Yorkshire- just an intense feeling of peace and being at home. Was doing my family tree years later and discovered a really unusual name. Googled it to find out the origins and it is supposed to originate from a hamlet about half a mile from this spot.

York area. I have had a weird feeling about approaching it for over 55 years. I also hate flat places.

Yes, spectral highwaymen and the Hellfire Club. When I lived there, people in Wycombe thought West Wycombe was generally odd... 😄

Yes, and it was the Bankside Tate Modern. We went to see an exhibition and luckily husband was there as I really had a weird disconcerting reaction. Nothing as we entered and fine when we left. Even when I walk past the building I get this reaction and nowhere else has produced this reaction before or since.

I hate York. Nasty vibes. I've been once and went down the shambles and encountered an antique shop with Nazi badges in the window and a toyshop with golliwogs in the window opposite.
I was already feeling very uneasy and that just made it worse.

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/calshot-castle/
I mentioned this before. My Dad and I were exploring there some time ago. He with his long lefs had already got to the next level. I felt a pressure on me and was bent forwards. I did not feel hands or any coldness just a 'pressure'. Dad didn't believe in any woo and just looked askance when I told him!

A certain place in Hastings. I think it was a small museum. It just felt weird. I avoid buying anything antique-y just in case! I have often felt weird things in antique (though probably junk) shops.

Also Great Grandmother's home (it was the bottom floor flat of an old Victorian house. Her daughter and SIL lived above her. Typical old lady basement dwelling. Very poor lighting and lots of plates on the wall with faces. A bit creepy. My little brother was botherd by a 'little boy blue' pottery or china figure in her bedroom. "Don't do that or the boy will see you!"

Apparently its creepy, I have only ever been there on sunny days so maybe thats why. Maybe if you go on a drizzly, foggy, grey day it might be creepy?

legs not lefs!

Only twice. First time was in a Tuscan villa, on a hillside up an old farm track. It was quite small, but old and stone-walled and very picturesque. Both DH and I hated it. Again, like other posters have said, there was just something really 'off' about it - the atmosphere was thick with dread and it absolutely felt like there was something watching us.
We hated being there so much that we went somewhere else for a night, and when we came back the following day the whole house was covered in mouse droppings. I don't mean the occasional scattering - they were on every surface, all over the bed, all over the floors. It was really freaky and honestly felt like a plague of them had trashed the place overnight.
We hadn't seen a single mouse or mouse dropping for the entire rest of the 14 night stay. Couldn't get out of that place fast enough.

The second time was on Skye. I love it there. But we ended up on the tip of the Waternish peninsula one night to watch the sunset and it was....eerie. A strange atmosphere I can't describe, although it was beautiful and the light was gorgeous. Just really unpleasant.

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

I've just in the last half hour confirmed a booking for our holiday there in the summer! I think it was the very sad case of the murder of Steven Clark - they made an ITV documentary about it a few years ago - that cemented it in people's minds as foreboding. That, and maybe the old creepy mortuary on the seafront.

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

Interestingly, if you look at the map of Great Britain and try to visualise it as a person crouching towards the left - the Highlands are the head, East Yorkshire is the back, Wales is the folded arms and the West Country is the legs.... where do you think Great Yarmouth is?