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!)

More recently, last year at Mont St Michel. While it's visually attractive, I kept saying "It feels like a prison," and was very glad to be away from there. Later I found this:

Mont Saint-Michel, the iconic island monastery, also served as a prison for over four centuries, from the late 15th century until 1863. It was nicknamed the "Bastille of the Seas" due to its location and reputation for harsh conditions. The prison housed a variety of inmates, including political prisoners and those who opposed the French Revolution.

Obviously I can't say for sure I hadn't heard or read about that before, not that I recall, same re Tooley St, but my subconscious mind might have remembered something I'd heard before.

@JustFeedMeCakeand @AcrylicPinkAgree. I’ve been a few times and felt a bit weird in the town, but about 3 years ago we stayed in an air bnb on a nice farm within view of the Tor and apparently the unit we stayed in had been an old pig barn.
The kitchen and living room were lovely, but the 2nd bedroom and long corridor to it felt awful to me. I didn’t say a word but that night our then 11yo daughter who is bulletproof and never had trouble sleeping couldn’t sleep and got increasingly upset and anxious. I couldn’t find any way to help her, nothing worked and The two of us basically didn’t sleep until about 5am. It was incredibly exhausting and stressful. Never want to go back there!

Don’t think that’s the one, it was longer ago than 2023. Might have been Jules presenting though?

9/11 Memorial and museum in NYC. Was desperate to leave the moment I walked through the entrance and descended down the escalator.

I felt such a fraud though as so many people lost someone they loved and what right did I have to get in such a panic as a European visitor not personally affected.

I love Dungeness... it's so beautifully peaceful, and it seems bleak but is secretly really rich in wildlife. My parents have been doing a tour of the Romney Marsh churches and they also love the vibes.

Not exactly creepy vibes but I loved Battersea Power Station when it was derelict, and I visited the shopping centre recently. I had a sense that the building was angry and sort of screaming at the shallow, commercial bonds it had been shackled in.

Sorry meant to reply to@IndependentAdjudicator

I used to drive a lot between Macclesfield and the Staffordshire morelands at night and it was creepy as fuck. Sometimes I'd go the back way across the moors via Flash and past the roaches/ Mermaid's Pool and it was terrifying at night, other times I'd go round the Congleton direction and I'd have to go past the Bridestones, awfully eery. I think it was the darkness and the fact there was little other traffic at that time.

Nunney in Somerset… before I knew it had various ghosts… Didn’t sleep a wink the night I stayed there.

My grandad used to run the bar for his local RAF Association branch and my sister and I spent quite a lot of time there as kids. It was in an enormous, Victorian townhouse that had kind of been converted, but still looked very much like a house.
The downstairs just looked like your typical working men’s club bar - nothing particularly exciting.
But go up the enormous, curved staircase and it was like stepping back in time. There was a really old, almost completely untouched room with full size snooker tables, another room with shelves full of old records and a dart board on the wall (which resulted in many a dart-related injury 🫠😂)…..again a bit creepy and old, but all fine in the grand scheme of things.
But the top floor? 🫣🫣🫣 Attic room turned into a library. Floor to ceiling book shelves, cobwebs everywhere, smelled very musty and old. I can’t put my finger on exactly why, but that library room freaked me the fuck out 😳 Even just walking past the door filled me with a sense of dread. We used to play hide and seek a lot, and I’d never go up there, even if I thought that’s where my sister might be hiding.

Porlock in Somerset left me feeling really unsettled. Literally not a soul around but felt as though there were eyes everywhere on us walking through there.

Agree with this. Very weird vibes in Buxton, like a blanket of doom.

@Prayingforananswer I can’t put my finger on anything in particular that gave me the creeps, although I found the railway bridge area pretty spooky. The opera house had a looming, threatening feel to it and the whole town felt eerie, as though something evil had happened there.

@IndependentAdjudicatordoes your DH’s cousin’s name start with a W and did he marry a J?

Not the UK but Spinalonga just off Crete. It’s a deserted former Leper Colony and it’s the creepiest place I’ve ever visited. I think if the boat wasn’t able to return us back to Crete I would have swam over to get off the island.

@LegoTherapy DH cousin name begins with P, and she married a C (second marriage for P).

@Pixiedust49 yes, definitely not that episode!
I replied to @GoldThumb on the previous page that I think it’s about 5-6 years ago.

@AddictedToBooks Happy to hear that.

I’m just catching up and going through all posts, there’s a lot of mention of Derbyshire towns and its surrounds.
Also Glastonbury has come up a lot.

There has been a couple of other bad toilet vibes 😅 - thank you @limegreenheart and @pontivex!

Thanks everyone for sharing your experiences, a fascinating read, especially, as I said before, how the same place affects people differently.
I am taking notes and I definitely want to visit some of these. Dungeness is absolutely getting a revisit at some point. I will report back!

Near where I grew up there was a footpath that ran alongside the road and then went through the trees. On one section the temperature would totally drop and it was really cold. It used to freak me out a bit. The footpath was moved and now runs alongside the road instead. I’m sure there’s a totally reasonable explanation for it but I still remember it twenty years later. I wonder if it’s still like it? I always found it quite unnerving

I don't like Port Merion either I think it's because I don't really understand what it is.

@Lifelover16 I did a search after your reply and found this about Buxton Opera House.

Location: Buxton - Opera House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2020s
Further Comments: The theatre is supposed to be haunted, with strange sounds unnerving staff after the building has closed for the evening.

@Prayingforananswer thank you! It really is spooky, I had no idea.the Opera House was supposedly haunted.
i googled a picture of it last night to remind myself and the Opera House does look sinister.
At least you will know where to avoid during your stay in Buxton.

Wisbech in Cambridgeshire. Weird vibes as we arrived and drove through it.

Burnham Beeches gave us all seriously creepy vibes when we visited. It's a beautiful place (and the cafe was amazing - I hope it hasn't changed!)

However, we had that feeling of being watched all the time. Then, to our creeped-out amazement, we received a letter in the post a couple of weeks after visiting, confirming this.

It came from the City of London Police - which we had no idea bizarrely had jurisdiction over this nature reserve in Buckinghamshire.

It was a strong 'warning' not to leave 'valuables' on display in what we can only assume (contrary to all appearances) must be a very high crime area - because they had spotted a raggy old carrier bag with a few sundries in it on the back seat of our old banger, contacted the DVLA for our details and then taken the trouble to generate a letter to be sent out to us and officially tell us off. It seemed ludicrously OTT, and not a little threatening.

There are longstanding rumours about UFO sightings in that immediate area, as well as much historic hearsay about shocking things that a former PM (who shared his name with an innocent band leader) and his associates allegedly got up to there.

Maybe but I honestly don't know - I have become chronically ill and disabled from that incident and I had been perfectly fit and healthy up until then, all of my life.

With regards to the death of a loved one though, thinking logically, I do believe that that was more of a sad (devastating) coincidence and I think in my head, because of my previous experience, I may well have pinned it on Greyfriars.

I feel the same about Todmorden and parts of the Calder Valley. I can't explain why, maybe it's the fact it can be dark in the valley - in winter it's as though you barely see daylight. It's such an odd, foreboding place. And then there's the fact that 'Tod' means death in German and 'morden' means murder.

I’ve been to many of the places mentioned in this thread and didn’t get weird feelings in any of them. I don’t think I’ve had the sense of foreboding described in this thread in any place I’ve visited. I have felt no sinister vibes in Portmeirion, Buxton, Glastonbury or Matlock Bath and would have no qualms about visiting any of them again. Someone mentioned Lands End, there’s no way I’d ever go there again but that’s because it’s been turned into a horribly tacky shit hole by greedy developers, not because it gives off weird vibes.