Places that gave you the heebie jeebies

[IndependentAdjudicator]

There have been a few places have made me feel uneasy but only one place gave me such an immediate visceral reaction that I practically ran out of it… the Time Out Market ladies toilets in Porto.
Yes, really,
Such an odd experience.
It’s situated upstairs of the food market. Down a short corridor but the whole place was painted white. It gave off very clinical vibes, and even though I really needed to go, I just turned heel and literally legged it out of there.
Anyone actually been there and had similar feelings? Or anywhere else that has made you feel physically uneasy or have I been watching too many horror movies?
(Disclaimer: I’m a number one wuss and never watch horror movies!)

DH just said his little brother got weird feelings in Oxford. Nothing he could put his finger on, just felt uneasy. York gave me that feeling too, which is weird because I know so many MN absolutely love it.

Heathrow Airport.

There are long lines of people who scowl and stare. There are loud noises quite often from the sky. And ghostly disembodied voices come out of nowhere talking about “gates”.

I get a very uneasy feeling in that place. It’s definitely all about bad energy. I’m quite sure the ‘gates’ are gates to hell.

Glastonbury (not the festival) a weird, off sort of vibe. Couldn’t get away from there fast enough.

Glastonbury - went expecting to feel all zen and spiritual, and it just felt really bad somehow. Not a pleasant place to be.

Oh, hadn’t read the last page 😂

Ooh I live in Tunbridge Wells! Which woods are these?

Blackpool. I loathe the place. Every time I have been as an adult I feel like shit. I want to leave as soon as I arrive, it's so depressing and grim. I hate the place.

Old underground tunnels.

And Boscastle is mentioned in this thread, where lots of Crowley's artefacts are stored at the museum of witchcraft, includng his wand! Strange little coincidence!

It's absolutely beautiful, mesmerising. My favourite place.

Glastonbury always pops up in these threads and I think it does have a weird vibe. Not scary or creepy as such, more sad and lonely. Hereford is similar.
Bristol I didn’t like either, it felt threatening somehow.
And I get really bad vibes in York, the first time I went I was walking down the Shambles and saw a toyshop with golliw*gs in the window. Turned in horror only to see an antique shop directly opposite with a display of Nazi memorabilia. I’d been feeling really uncomfortable all day and that just summed it up!
No offence meant to anyone who lives in these places, my home town gets mentioned on these threads quite often too and I can totally see why!

We’ve been to Dungeness! Didn’t creep me out, just felt it was very otherworldly.
Seem to remember there was a steam train, but it’s been over 25 years so may be misremembering.

I love Matlock Bath, grew up visiting there every summer but it’s definitely an acquired taste.

I know exactly what you mean as there is definitely a weird 'feeling' about the place.
It feels argumentative/tense & then calm & then sad & then back to argumentative/tense again, then back to calm again & then sad again & so forth

I don't know if I'm picking up on people's moods or a fight between good or bad.

Sensible me thinks it's just people's moods as that is something that just comes naturally to me.

That's a great description "otherworldly" I felt it was very spiritual and you're right about the train. It was on a ride on that I was struck by it's other worldliness. Nice pubs too for fish and chips. I'd love to live in one of the railway carriages or fisherman cottages. I can understand though why some would find it creepy.

Oh my God, you’ve uncovered a hitherto unexpressed fear of mine.

York minster
I'm york born and bred,but moved away years ago
You couldnt pay me enough to go in
It feels like it has black energy that repels me
I would do anything to avoid going near the place

A tower block near where I live now
There is one down the road and that's fine
The one further away gives such bad vibes,I'd walk miles to get around it rather than walk past it

The shambles in york,the whole street gives me the willie's
It's like the buildings are closing in on you

Waitrose in Southsea

In a good way though?
I kind of miss the weirdness now it's being redeveloped.

I love Avebury and neolithic stuff generally but get creeped out going actually inside barrows, and the same for the bits of Highgate Cemetery where you can actually see the coffins. The rest is fine!

I used to hate going in my parents' ensuite bathroom when the light was off, when I was a kid. Had some strange association for me.

The Grand Canyon, I don’t know what it was, DH and I did a bus trip we were having a great time, had lunch then went outside to look at the canyon and this huge sense of dread came over me (I’m not scared of heights either) maybe it was the vastness of the place but I was totally freaked out.

There’s also a cemetery in Edinburgh gives me the heebies

Ely city centre has no phone signal. The fens can be spooky too

Especially the witchcraft museum!

@IndependentAdjudicator Ha. I went to the Time Out Market in Porto last October but used the toilets downstairs. There was a massive queue but all seemed normal eerie-ness wise 😆

That’s exactly why I love reading these responses. Everyone’s experiences of the same place is so very different.
Just goes to show we’re all tuned in on different wavelengths.

Just read a couple of other posters mentioning York.
Fascinates me as whenever there’s a thread about must visit places, York is quite often very highly rated by MNs, and yet…

Are you local to Dungeness @YourChirpyFatball , have you visited more than once?
After reading this, I’d actually like to revisit. It probably has not changed one bit in a quarter of a century since my last visit, but that’s exactly what gives it its otherworldly vibes 😂

Snap. I haven't been since I was a kid but even then I was properly weirded out.