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

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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!

Totnes is always quite creepy.

Also Hadfield in Derbyshire, the setting for Royston Vasey in The League Of Gentlemen - I don't know if it seems weird now because of the LOG connection, or whether they deliberately chose there because it was already creepy?!

Actually, a lot of Derbyshire gives off strange vibes, however beautiful the places are: Bakewell, Youlegrave, Ashbourne, Eyam, Castleton.

Cirencester.

Much of coastal Anglesey.

Yes an old town jail I'm fact I've visited 2 and they creep me out I got the stomach dread and everything 😫

North wales especially betys
I always feel hugely depressed going along that coast

Wallace monument. DH went ahead while I looked at the display half way up. When I tried to follow him, I had the most intense and crushing panic attack, I thought I was having a heart attack. I genuinely thought I was dying, was so dizzy I had to cling to the wall to stop myself falling over. Just awful, went on and on. I crawled back into the bit where the display is and lay on the floor till DH came back looking for me. Not in the slightest bit woo, and never had another panic attack before or since. Also never going back to the Wallace monument 😵

I imagine you were just dizzy from the stairs at the Wallace monument @MobyJeff 😄

@Mrsjayy Thats entirely possible, but I’d been standing reading the wall displays for a good few minutes quite calmly before deciding to go on up.

Not quite a place as such.

Family holiday with DS, her 2 kids aged 9 and 10, and DB.

Naturally, 1st day of holiday we all wanted to explore the beach.

Instant hairs on the back of my neck, something was screaming at me about danger. I told DS, DB and neices not to go into the sea, couldn't explain it just felt off.

Of course they ignored me, went into sea and laughing about how I was so uptight and ruining their fun.

The sea was perfectly fine at that point, lifeguards and everything else was normal.

I couldn't bear to watch, and I felt like i was having a panic attack. It just something about it just felt wrong. I went back to the hotel and saw them at dinner, where they mentioned sea being a little rough and leaving shortly after I did.

The next day over breakfast I read in the news that there had been a mini tsunami and had caused quite a lot of damage. Where we were was on another side of the island so wasn't as bad but the sea was still rough news.sky.com/story/mini-tsunami-causes-flooding-at-beaches-and-restaurants-in-majorca-and-menorca-11439415

I've never forgot how instinctual it felt, how they were so quick to ignore me and how stupid they were.

Helmsley Town Hall, havnt been back since I was a kid in the 90s, sudden rushes of loud noise despite the place being empty and feeling like you were being watched in the corridor behind the main hall towards the toilets. The rest of Helmsley is beautiful!

A lot of churches give me a bad feeling.

That sounds terrible poor you

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.

I don’t know why I dislike York because it has everything I love - great architecture, masses of history, lots of little shops, good places to eat. But I have rarely visited, even though I’m only 45 mins away. It has such a strong and heavy atmosphere to me. Ive always felt really glad to leave whenever I’ve been.

I feel very strong atmospheres in many places and have no idea why I feel so strongly - both good and bad vibes. I’m an atheist, not remotely spiritual and am very much when you’re dead, you’re dead and there’s nothing else. I can’t explain why I’m so sensitive to the ‘feel’ of places and buildings.

I've been to a few 'Thin places' where the veil between heaven and earth is very thin. They have a special feel about them. The bishops palace garden in Wells. Lourdes, Balestrand in Norway etc.

I'd love to visit that!

My brother and his fiancee were viewing a house to buy. The elderly couple who owned the house were lovely, friendly and kind. DB said that when he went into the attic bedroom, he immediately turned around and came back out. He told me it was the weirdest feeling that he was not welcome at all. His fiancee said afterwards that she had felt the same, and they decided against the house. They did enquire around local friends and family about the house, and found that the elderly couple's son had committed suicide there. My DB is a funeral director and the least fanciful person I know.

Catching up on the thread and finding all these interesting!
It's especially intriguing where posters have felt something but others with them don't. Are we picking up on something that's actually about the place or just personal unconscious associations? Weird!

My Grandad drove my Nan and kids to Brighton, in the 70s one summer for a day at the beach.

They passed a white row of houses near the seafront with black iron fence/gates and my Nan could see herself with an old maids outfit on clinging onto the bars of the iron fence and knew she was dying from hunger, she said the pain in her stomach was awful. It lasted less than a minute and she asked my Grandad to go home and she never went back to Brighton in all her years.

There is a road which is windy, no street lamps or houses, country road through fields near me that used to be my quickest route home if working a late shift (until 3am) whilst nursing. I hated it in the dark, a particular corner felt like somebody was just going to be stood in the middle of the road waiting for my car:

A few years after, one of the locals told us that there had been sightings of an elderly lady walking out into the road around that area.

Will never drive down there on my own in the dark now unless it's before 9/10pm when other cars are on it.

Yes, near where I live along a stretch of road there is a Manor House nearby. Always had an eerie feeling there, like it's a place you don't want to spend more time than necessary, particularly at night. As a child and in my teens and early adult years I got a bad feeling travelling that stretch of road. It wasn't until I reached adulthood did I find out that a couple were shot and killed in the Manor House, and John Cooper was accused of their murder. Some locals even claim to have seen 'ghosts' on the the same stretch of road. Not something I believe in but it certainly has an uneasy feeling in the area.

I used to live near Northwood Hills tube station for quite a few years as a child and teenager (late 60s to early 80s). I used the station quite often,and back then,it was a very quiet and little used station,and it could feel a bit creepy and deserted.

Walking under the George IV bridge in Edinburgh. Place made my skin crawl.

Constantly but I'm autistic and very perceptive/ in tune with things others don't see. I'm also hard work and frequently leave restaurants before ordering as things don't sit quite right 😅 it's a vibe I can't explain. Oh is very patient even when hungry 🙏

Me too!

This is more coincidence I suppose but early in my first marriage we went for a walk and one house we passed had its side gate open and I glimpsed a beautiful garden at the back, like a little insight into another world. Years later with my second dh and two small children we moved to that same village and once we had moved in I realised our new house was the one I'd admired all those years ago.

Lavenham in Suffolk. Felt incredibly weird and uncomfortable there and couldn't wait to leave! It's built on ley lines and was also the scene of a lot of witch trials!

I felt very uneasy in Staithes in North Yorkshire. Its an old fishing village and gorgeous to look at but it felt very oppressive. I think it was something about the cliffs rising up around it and felt hemmed in. I didn't enjoy it one bit.

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