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!)

I think it's partly that, but also because it feels quite "enclosed" if you're on the road with the mountains kind of looming over you. And the weather isn't always great which I think adds to the gloom. I think it feels quite different on a bright sunny day than in the winter when it's dark with low cloud in the Glen.
I guess the weather makes a difference to how we perceive many places but it's very marked with some locations and I think Glencoe is one of them. Another for me is Wasdale. It's impressive in any weather though in bad weather when Wastwater looks literally black and there's mist rolling down the screes it feels quite menacing to me. But in the sunshine it makes my heart sing.

Hitler planned to make Bridgnorth his new capital, once he had taken over Britain and was in charge... so that doesn't help!

I would add Totnes, Skegness, Lowestoft and Thurso. Also Hadfield, but that may have been heavily influenced by the fact that The League Of Gentlemen was filmed there!

@GoldThumb thank you for searching, I'm at work so not had chance to watch the whole thing but looking at the couple, it isn't that episode.
It not a recent one, going back maybe 5-6 years?
The couple were youngish, definitely under 40 I'd say. The guy was very ex public school type - correct me if I'm wrong @Pixiedust49 and @granhands1
That's my memory of it anyway.
I wish I could find the episode!

Didn't Jimmy Savile also have a cottage in Glencoe?

@AddictedToBooks Gosh! Reading your post gave me goosebumps in 32° heat!
I hope you are doing well now.

There is a tunnel just by the Tissington Trail in Derbyshire; I attempted to walk through to the other side which is totally visible but something about it creeped me out.

I've been to a lot of places mentioned and I haven't felt any kind of creepy vibe from any of them.

There is a tunnel just by the Tissington Trail in Derbyshire; I attempted to walk through to the other side which is totally visible but something about it creeped me out.

I've been to a lot of places mentioned and I haven't felt any kind of creepy vibe from any of them.

I'm originally from Lowestoft. What part made you feel strange?

I'd cometely forgotten about Kamloops. As we drove in both myself and DH said at exactly the same time "this place is creepy". Nothing looked out of the ordinary it just felt odd.

I've heard a few people say the same thing. I've not personally felt it there.

My dad used to watch it but I've felt odd there on a couple of occasions the last one I must have been no older than 7/8 so wouldn't have been influenced by the programme.

The site of the Twin Towers - of course, you know what happened and are primed for it, but I was hit with an awful sense of despair and loss and sadness, like a huge physical weight pressing me down into the earth, and found I was weeping without even realising it...

Hawthornden Castle outside Edinburgh. Stayed there a month and don't think I slept a whole night through, kept waking in panic. Just a feeling of something there, and I wasn't the only guest who thought so; others heard noises and everyone had nightmares, often the same ones as each other...

The walnut tree, West camel, Somerset. Couldn’t get out of there fast enough. Something very wrong, not just with pub, but within the village. It felt like something horrible, unsettled and unfinished had happened there, as if the pub was / is holding its breath for something… I dunno it’s really hard to explain, I don’t believe in psychic phenomena/ bullocks, but it felt incredibly claustrophobic and oppressive. I’ve been to lots of supposedly haunted places and felt zilch, zero, nada! In fact I’ve never felt anything anyway until going into that pub, I’m not even sure it’s particularly old, but something just isn’t right. I tried to do a bit of research, but couldn’t find anything about the history of either the pub or the village.

oh! I’ve just remembered the Isle of Skye too. We camped near the fairy pools and I desperately wanted to leave. I did not like it one bit. Everyone raves about Skye but I felt like we shouldn’t be there

Lourdes.

Horrific.

Endless streams of people being wheeled down into some vast underground cavern believing that they were going to be "cured"

I cried. It was horrible.

Thurso

Another vote for Glastonbury. Even my DH was weirded out by the atmosphere, and he is the least 'woo' person I know.

The site of the twin towers was strangely quiet, I felt sadness but at peace. We visited the memorial museum too which is beautifully done.

Blackpool like others have said is bleak and soulless.

2 places locally gave me bad vibes, first was Albert park, it just felt dark and I couldn’t wait to leave.
The second is the chapel at Wynyard Hall, it’s beautiful but it’s vibe was wrong, I was on edge the whole time.

I think a lot of old British seaside resorts are like it nowadays - especially if you go in a few streets from the seafront. Last time I went, I also remember seeing posters still up for The Darkness in concert from many months beforehand.

It probably didn't help that our main spur for going there - to Lowestoft Ness specifically - was that we set ourself a little challenge to visit the four N/E/S/W extremities in Great Britain in 12 months.

The Lizard was as picturesque as you would imagine. Ardnamurchan Point was absolutely breath-takingly beautiful. Dunnet Head was windswept and glorious, made you feel like you were in a Bronte novel. After those, Lowestoft was a bit underwhelming - the Ness part is mainly just one big frozen food factory!

Sorry, I didn't mean to offend at all. I have lovely memories of the beach there for family holidays as a child. I just got the impression of certain parts of the town as being quite down at heel and somewhat forlorn.

Glastonbury town is definitely heebie-jeebieland for me, it made me feel very uneasy but I honestly don’t know why. It feels oppressive and threatening.
Lindisfarne - I couldn’t get off the island fast enough. Beautiful sunny day but I was so cold and the hairs stood up on the back of my neck.
Portmeireon is creepy, it feels like you’re being watched all the time from the houses. Never watched The Prisoner ( or whatever that series was), I’ve been there three times over the years and always had the same feelings. The first time was as a child and I ended up with nightmares after that visit.

Things have certainly improved a lot since I moved well away from there - I'll never go back.

Generations of my family back to the Middle Ages come from Shropshire, including Bridgnorth. Glad the fucker never got there.

Glastonbury town for me, going back to the early 70s when I was a child and before it was Woo Central. I think it's the Tor, really hated it.

Now I definitely believe in all things woo…but putting an alternative view on this…sometimes when/before people are taken very ill they get a “sense of impending doom”…could this be what happened to you do you think?

Todmorden

Around London Bridge has quite a negative energy for me. The worst was when I went to an event at the old London Dungeon site, felt like I couldn't breathe and had to get out and leave early.

Later I found it's where there was a direct hit on a bomb shelter in WW2 and dozens of people were crushed under the rubble.