To be slightly freaked out?

[Twointhehand1]

Following on from a thread I’ve just seen about someone having a weird experience…..

So yesterday my brother asked if my DH and I fancied a walk with their family today. We agreed. He chose the place which was a random place that I knew nothing about. All I knew was it was a nature reserve and had a child friendly route for their DC.

Anyway, as soon as we arrived, I felt on edge. The place felt really sad and heavy. I was really picky and nervous (and pretty annoying) all day. Tell DH not to walk too far, constantly worrying about the children, watching their step etc.
We followed the trail and came to a viaduct. Over 150 metres high. There were Samaritans signs all over the top of the bridge, urging the reader to call. The drop was horrific and I couldn’t wait to leave.
On the way to the car, we passed what looked like a family/group of about 20 people, heading up, carrying flowers.
On the way home, I googled the place and there were countless suicides. But not just suicides….people found dead in the surrounding woods. It was also used as an ammunition factory I believe, as well as various air raid shelters dotted about.

Im usually a very ‘matter of fact’ practical person and not one to be particularly spiritual.

anyone ever experienced anything like this too?

Oh wow. I think I know where you are talking about. Beautiful place but so very sad.

Oh gosh, that is so very sad. No wonder it gave you a weird, unsettled feeling

it really did feel sad. And I think with hindsight that I’ve probably over inflated how I was feeling before I saw the signs (I was maybe just snippy). Seeing that poor family on their way with flowers? Really made me feel sad!

This reminds me, strangely enough, that exactly a year ago (on July 30 2023), I talked someone down off a bridge.
I remember the date because it was my child's birthday, and I was on my way home from collecting the pizza.
It was a very emotional evening but I felt rather proud of myself, particularly when I saw him from afar a few days later in town.

Thank you. It really is a beautiful place but yes, as you say, very sad. I wish I’d never googled it!

Oh my goodness. Well done you! That must have been so emotional! something like that would certainly stick with you!

I get it. I went to view a house that had come
up on the estate I dreamed of living on as a teen A really stunning estate and I can remember driving round back then, thinking it was beautiful and seemed like such a special place.

From the minute I drove onto the estate, felt this weird, ominous sense of foreboding. When I pulled up outside the house, it was really beautiful but I just felt unbearably sad and had the feeling of both death and fear.

I got home and googled the estate. It was well publicised that just a couple of months ago a child took her life in her bedroom of the directly adjacent house as a result of horrific bullying. There was just such an air of sadness. It was strange to pick up on and non-sensical really.

There has to be something else that you and I and other people with similar experiences can pick up on and sense.

ETA: And the "heavy" feeling...yes. That's exactly how I'd describe it. Like when the heat builds up and the sky gets heavy and "electric"' before a big thunderstorm and you feel a bit off kilter but there was no
storm. Just a very oppressive atmosphere.

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head with ‘foreboding’. It just seemed like a really sad place. Maybe that’s ultimately what attracts people there 🥹

I've not had this but DS3 did as a toddler in a town in France, he had two total meltdowns in two different locations, screaming & refusing to enter (a castle & a town square), think literally grabbing a wall so as not to go in to the castle. We'd got ppl waiting behind us so we gave up trying to get in as a family & one stayed outside with him. We had to walk around the square. He was honestly going out of his mind, just screaming & kicking like he was terrified.

Anyway - entrance to the castle had been the scene of a horrific massacre in the corridor you entered through (there was a small painting of the scene in one of the rooms, I spotted it on my way round) & the town square was where the gallows had been (I Googled it afterwards out of curiosity). He's never done it since, just that one day 🤷🏼‍♀️

DS2 did that in Waitrose entrance and then in the car park- not a scene of any massacres as far as I know. Are you not adding 2+2 to make 10?

Some places do have a vibe. We once arrived somewhere we planned to spend the day and everyone in the group felt like we just had to hot foot it out of there.

Haha totally get you but no, his behaviour was totally and utterly out of the norm, it was really upsetting. I've 3 kids, I've seen general shitfits & this wasn't one of them.

@Twointhehand1 Where is it please? May I ask?

Is this Healey Dell?
I went there with school years ago. Same feeling.
I remember looking up at the viaduct and I just felt sick as a dog. Never been back. It almost feels like there’s a presence there, something unpleasant

I stayed at one of the serviced apartments in Dolphin Square London many years ago. It was just a short work trip and the location was convenient. I had absolutely no idea about the location, building or history. The entire place gave me fucking heebie jeebies from the moment I walked in. It was clean and renovated but had the worst vibes. Empty oppressive corridors, a deserted central court and everything felt like those vague-horror liminal videos on Youtube.

Only discovered much later that Dolphin Square was the location of a child SA ring run by high profile people, along with other crimes. I'm never a woo person but purely based on the vibes I felt inside the place, I'm not surprised in the slightest.

I get good and bad vibes in certain places.

I get some very peaceful vibes in some quiet Catholic churches. Can't really describe it.

When I was growing up, my family holidayed a few times in an old two story house close to where my mother is from. The house belonged to a friend of an in-law who had emigrated to the states. He only used house sporadically.

One summer, my younger brother got seriously ill and wouldn't wake up. We literally thought he was dead. Unconscious and out of it. We brought him to hospital and a few hours later, he came round. No explanation for what had happened to him. He was about 10 at this time.

The next summer, I got violently ill in the house. My temp skyrocketed and I was actually delirious and no one slept as I was so ill.

Always felt uneasy in the house, as though I was being watched, even if I sat in a room alone.

Found out later that the man who owned the house was convicted of paedophila. We never stayed there again, and I'd get the creeps whenever we drove past it in later years.

I can also sense if there are drugs in an establishment, or funding the place. It is like there is a deadness in the air even though the people are 'acting normal'.

If there’s anywhere I get creepy vibes it’s in Catholic Churches. All I can think about is all the horrible things they’ve done.

Yes, sounds like Healey dell.

Each to their own Grace but I feel a sense of calm in an empty church. I dont know what it is but I do.

I think those allegations were found to be fake

I love empty churches.

I had the most horrible sense of unease while walking around Hatshepsut’s temple in Luxor. Couldn’t wait to get away from the place. Felt unwelcome - as if I shouldn't be there and was being watched. It had been the site of a massacre just a few years previously.

Visiting a still standing plantation with slave quarters in Louisiana on a rainy afternoon. Very few other tourists. The plantation house was beautiful.

Went to tour the slave quarters and found myself in a place of panic. Most likely because I knew the history of the place and what occurred there. I could not step up into the first home. I just could not move forward. It felt like the air had become thick and my brain just told me to leave immediately. I just wanted to get in the car and go.

@RoyallyEFFEDOFF yes it was Healey Dell!