Places you have visited with a strange vibe - Part 2

[RevolvingPivot]

Places you have visited with a strange vibe http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/4260839-places-you-have-visited-with-a-strange-vibe

My other thread is nearly full so I've made another as I've enjoyed reading all of your stories.

Olney- so unwelcoming.

Lymm, weird feeling, very oppressive, unfriendly.

Saxmundham. Couldn’t wait to leave, not a pleasant atmosphere.

Crystal Palace station. Always felt very sinister to me as a kid.

Batcombe Church. Deep in the bowl of a stranded valley. I was terrified in the churchyard. Felt oppressive silence and sensation of being watched.

Baker St underground station.

I've just had a quick google and apparently there are some platforms that are the original Victorian ones, and I think those are creepy, not helped by the weird lighting.

Oradour-sur-Glane in France, but that's not really surprising. It was the site of a WWII atrocity. After the war a new village was built near by but the old village was just left.

The houses are gradually becoming ruins and there is very little left of anything else unless it is metal so there are 1940s era cars in the street that have completely rusted.

You see the odd old metal bed frame and sewing machines.

I went with my parents in my teens, my parents have been back but once was enough for me.

Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin.

The ghost villages in Cyprus.
You can't actually access them, as they are in the no go zone. But there was one you could see from the road, not far from where we lived. Just gradually disintegrating, while the political situation rumbles on.

(It's the villages on the border from the Turkish controlled parts to the Cypriot parts, from the Turkish coup a few decades ago. Famagusta and Nicosia are the famous ones, but there's others about)

Following on from GRI, once I was there for an appt and had to go to another part of the hospital. The nurse took me away down into a tunnel for a shortcut, to save me walking right round the road. It was so eerie, I was really glad I wasnt alone down there.

Has anyone ever had a weird vibe at Dunstanburgh Castle? I did as a young child on holiday, it's stuck with me ever since, I'd like to go back and visit again actually

Edzel and Brechin in Angus. The drive into the former through a massive arch in the middle of nowhere is just weird.

Tiny village in Herefordshire- church felt besieged - awful!

Lymm, weird feeling, very oppressive, unfriendly.

Lymm in Cheshire? I've seen the stocks in the town centre but that's it. Wonder if there is some unsettling history.

When I read the title, mu first thought was Whitby.

Great idea, @RevolvingPivot. I really enjoyed your previous thread. I liked it so much that I came out of lurking (which I've done for almost a decade!) and nominated your thread for classics.

I'll keep thinking. There must be other examples.

Thanks @RevolvingPivot. Thread 1 was a really interesting read.

Looking forward to more tales of strange and eerie places...

I was a nursing student at the Whittington Hospital in the 70's. There were 3 wings, Highgate, another story, St Mary's, yet another story and Archway. Archway looked like a cathedral with a high bell tower in the middle and a spiral staircase inside going right up to the top. You had to pass this to get to the lab to collect blood for transfusion. This was locked at night, you had to ring a bell. You know where I'm going with this. It was very dark and had a very uncomfortable atmosphere. I used to fly up the stairs, past the bell tower to ring the bell as fast as I could! I heard later that someone had hung themselves in the bell tower...

@Geppili is that Batcombe near Bruton?

@Grilledaubergines

Olney- so unwelcoming.

Lymm, weird feeling, very oppressive, unfriendly.

Saxmundham. Couldn’t wait to leave, not a pleasant atmosphere.

Olney, Bucks?

Our first house when we got married was there - we loved it. DH was welcomed into the local Working Men's Club by an elderly gent we met, few lovely pubs, beautiful surroundings. I'm interested why you think it was unwelcoming?

RAF Waddinton, in Lincolnshire was very spooky. It reminded me of an old B/W Avengers episode where they go to an RAF camp and there's no one there, just an ice cream van playing music.

Sagrada Familia in Barcelona gives me the heebie jeebies. I've been in it several times over the past 20 years, each time thinking it'd be better because it's more finished* but no, it creeps me out.

• It'll never be finished, much better tourist attraction as an unfinished masterpiece.

Lancaster. Carlisle.

I went to Prague many years ago and just didn’t like it there at all.

I’ve just seen the post about Lymm in Cheshire and I lived there about 14 years ago in a house near the canal.
I was only renting and was there for just over a year but I have to say I found it a unfriendly place and didn’t make friends with any of the neighbours if I’m being honest .I was lucky as I had a good friend who lived about 2 miles away but all in all it was in my opinion a strange place but it was a village so maybe people keep to themselves.
Anyway we don’t fit in everywhere so maybe it was just me .

Berry Pomeroy Castle in Devon.
I grew up round there. Lots of strange goings on.

The staircase and landing in one of my childhood homes.

We only lived there for 3 years and no one mentioned it at the time but I hated the stairs and upstairs landing, I was OK once I was in my room or in the bathroom but not on the landing, I would wake up at night with a feeling something was there.

No one mentioned it, until we moved out and we had all had odd feelings.

The house was a new build, bought before it was built, so no deaths there but when my parents bought it they had to sign permission for the 'footpath' to be moved as it ran through where the house would be built.

I walked up Mt Sinai in Egypt several years ago. I'm not religious, but at the top, it had a moving and spiritual feel. As the sun came up, we could see that there was snow over the mountain! In Egypt!!!

There were general tourists, but also coptic priests, Catholic nuns and muslims. We got chatting to a Jewish couple who shared bread with us.- who I know sounds so strange, but it was a very memorable experience.