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!)

Royal William Yard in Plymouth - stayed there for a few nights and couldn’t wait to leave. It just gave me the most horrible oppressive grim feeling.

I've had that "turn back turn back turn back NOW!!!!" feeling exactly once when visiting a ladies' loo, and it was the one at the Cinemark movie theater at the top of the Westfield Mall in downtown San Francisco. A sense of foreboding that almost felt like a physical barrier as I walked down the seemingly endless hallway (although I did use it, and nothing happened). The cinema itself is now closed and that floor completely physically blocked off.

In the UK, the weirdest I've ever felt was in Swindon. Just a general feeling of despair, confusion, being trapped, being lost. Was there for about five days for work, felt it the whole time.

Kimberley, South Africa felt absolutely haunted the whole time I was there, even the airport; couldn't wait to leave.

Weirdest of all was the Paneriai massacre site outside of Vilnius, Lithuania. I've visited quite a few Holocaust sites and I always feel something, but it's usually more like conscious remembering, getting lost in the past, feeling the solemnity of what I know happened there. This was different, though - it was physically eerie. And, I could swear (although I know it's not possible for a site in the middle of the woods on a bright, sunny spring day) completely silent.

As a kid in the 1980s we always had our holidays in the U.K. because my mother was frightened of planes. I vaguely remember days out in quiet and creepy places. But Britain was different back then - an emptier place, where you still got odd and isolated towns. Plus, of course, there was no internet, no 24 hour news, and far less immigration. So you still had small villages, or little rural towns, that felt cut off. You know, places where the majority of the inhabitants had been born there and were descended from people who’d also been born there. Nowadays that’s all gone. The countryside is vanishing under a sea of new housing estates. Even in the most isolated village you’ll find some hideous new build estate.

I can’t think of anywhere specific that has given me the creeps. But I can think of many places I loathed. I spent a week in a Holiday Inn in the centre of Stevenage and felt suicidal by the time I left.

I think there was a plague pit there? They do a ghost walk there, but then they do so many in Edinburgh!

North Berwick, I had this horrible feeling I wasn't welcome, which was weird as everyone was perfectly polite and it's the sort of place I'd usually love.
The feeling lifted as I left.
Never happened anywhere before or since.

Dover. I found it very foreboding.

Bath. Always want to love it. And more recently, walking along a country lane a few miles outside of Taunton in Somerset.

I’m not usually remotely ‘woo’.

Angel Lane in the countryside neR Lymington. I used to have to drive down it after a late shift. All the trees met overhead so you were driving down and endless black and green tunnel. I dreaded breaking down there. I wonder if that's why it was named Angel Lane, to make people feel better?

When I was in Berlin a few years ago, I visited the villa on the Wannsee where Nazi/SS officials held a conference in 1942 to plan the Holocaust.

There is a feeling there which I can't describe.

https://www.museumsportal-berlin.de/en/museums/haus-der-wannsee-konferenz/

Another vote for Glastonbury. Weird place.

Liverpool

Behind St Paul’s Church near Rusthall…absolutely beautiful views but my doggie refuses to walk there !

Walls of Jericho, which is a road in Bradford. Thankfully it's shut off now and only used by the council. I have never gone down a road and had a feeling of intense terror like I did! Many years ago, I decided to drive down it as a shortcut to get to where I needed to be! Biggest mistake of my life and I'd committed by the time I realised and I couldn't turn round. Very high stone walls, very very narrow road and a tight S bend under a bridge. I had to pull over when I finally got out and had a mini panic attack. Even passing it now induces a panic I've felt nowhere else!

Kamloops in Canada. Very off vibe.

Castle Rising in Kings Lynn. We’ve had some spooky happenings there

Yes the sadness is palpable..Same at Glen Cor.

Same at Glen Coe? I meant.

I love Dungeness, it's eerily beautiful.
However Great Torrington in Devon was really weird and sad.

Yes Great Torrington is depressing, it has a similar feeling to Bodmin a sort of bleak hopelessness.

The whole of Newport makes me feel like that - the most grimly depressing place in the UK.

Ludlow and also, Bridgnorth. Pretty, but weird vibes

I think someone’s said Snake Pass - I left Buxton about 10pm one night and just blindly followed Google onto genuinely the creepiest road I’ve ever driven on 😖 it felt like the hills really did have eyes. I remember gripping the steering wheel so tightly my knuckles cramped up. Couldn’t call DH for company as there was no signal and I felt like I was waiting for something to come out and swallow me up - horrible. And yes, Buxton had a weird vibe too.

probs no surprise, but I also have a cold feeling whenever I drive over Saddleworth Moor.

Easby Abbey in North Yorkshire, a beautiful place but both my daughter and I got a strange sense of pure fear and of not being welcome. The place was empty, but we did both spot a very dark shadow. Went back in later and the feeling had completely gone.
Also a village called Rokeby, the chapel there gives me an awful feeling.

I’m not woo at all but the toilets at the Lyceum Theatre. There used to be a restaurant called Livebait next door which we used to go to a lot. They shared the loos with the Theatre which were downstairs then down a looooong corridor into the bowels of the theatre. Whenever we went there there was no show on and the loos were totally silent and there was this foreboding energy. Also you had to pass by a door that went straight into the auditorium. It had a little window into the pitch blackness of the theatre. I used to scurry past and avoid looking at it and I generally had to be desperate to use those loos.

ugh makes me shudder at the thought of it.

@Oceangrey yeah, in a good way. The rest of the area where I grew up nearby is also totally redeveloped and unrecognisable from what it was…I know people always moan about that but I still think it’s a shame that a lot of neighbourhoods have gone from real communities to areas full of chain shops and and luxury flats