Places you have visited with a strange vibe

[RevolvingPivot]

Hi. I'm off to Saltburn (near Whitby) tomorrow and I feel sick. I visited last March. The weekend before the lockdown.

The place was so eerie. I was actually freaked out on the pier and had to run off it. I actually managed to sleep at night but I honestly didn't think I would.

The cottage was surrounded by cliffs and there was a Victorian lift and a small morgue by the beach. I'm not sure whether these have anything to do with it.

Has anyone else had this feeling from a place they have visited?

Great thread. OP, those photos give me the willies.

I’m surprised Royal Victoria Country Park is on here! I live near there and we go often. It’s lovely.
I love it too. I have a theory about Victorian architecture. Some people find it very intimidating - it is often grand, high and abandoned which makes it seem scary. Even if it has been restored, Victorian architecture is often in our subconscious as haunted houses, abandoned asylums etc so it has quite a high probability of inducing shivers!

I live near alderley edge.
Across the road from the now closed wizard pub there's an empty field.
Many moons ago there was a small hamlet there which was knocked down. Nothing remains
Walking across it I felt sick and literally ran out of that field. It had such a heavy atmosphere.
Once gone fine.

Second was at the site of a ww1 battle field in verdun in France.
A huge battle with many dead. Stood in the forest, no birds singing. Deadly silence . All of a sudden the leaves started falling off the trees. There was no breeze even though it was October. It was like the armistice service at Westminster.
So many trenches and I was apologetic as I felt I was walking on top on dead people.
Also the Douaumont ossuary in verdun. Approximately 15k soldiers buried there. The ossuary itself has little windows with piles of human bones. Very sad

I love Dungeness and Romney Marsh. I like bleak
Also loved Ullapool (disclaimer, it was years ago). I have very happy memories of looking at the incredibly clear starry sky at night.

I agree with the Anne Frank house. There was definitely a hush and a feeling of desperate sadness, although it's kind of obvious why.

I find Matlock in Derbyshire oddly melancholy. Lived near there as a child and we used to go for day trips to see the lights, have ice creams etc, so I have nice memories, but I do think there's something oppressive about it. Maybe its setting in a deep valley.

Hi there might have been similar threads in the last couple of days but I don't come on here for weeks at a time.

Tintagel. No matter when we go in the year it always has a depressing vibe. I can’t imagine how ppl ever lived there.

Bognor Regis. Very odd place. I don’t know if it was bombed and replaced with modern buildings or whether it was simply developed post war - but it’s a strange modern dump with a long beach and an old bandstand. Eerie.

Also Calais. Every time I see that hideous church I feel sick.

@drinkingwineoutofamug

I live near alderley edge. Across the road from the now closed wizard pub there's an empty field. Many moons ago there was a small hamlet there which was knocked down. Nothing remains Walking across it I felt sick and literally ran out of that field. It had such a heavy atmosphere. Once gone fine.

Second was at the site of a ww1 battle field in verdun in France.
A huge battle with many dead. Stood in the forest, no birds singing. Deadly silence . All of a sudden the leaves started falling off the trees. There was no breeze even though it was October. It was like the armistice service at Westminster.
So many trenches and I was apologetic as I felt I was walking on top on dead people.
Also the Douaumont ossuary in verdun. Approximately 15k soldiers buried there. The ossuary itself has little windows with piles of human bones. Very sad

Need to correct myself douaumont ossuary has 130k ossuary and 16k in the necropolis. Lest we forget

@Grenlei Totally agree about Glencoe. Beautiful and sad.

I agree with the Anne Frank house. There was definitely a hush and a feeling of desperate sadness, although it's kind of obvious why. I was going to say that's the only place I've felt unsettled.

I was going to mention Portmeirion. It should be idyllic but it's just not. I think there is a heaviness to that whole part of Wales though. Certainly very insular and despite being a tourist destination seems to be very anti non-locals.

@1DoesNotSimplyWalkIntoMordor Finally someone else has mentioned Battle on one of these threads! I live really close to it and have only been once. It’s like the town and all of its people wanted me out. Sounds over dramatic but I sat in a cafe and felt like I was going to hyperventilate and left. And that is not like me. Everyone I know thinks it’s a lovely place, much naicer than Hastings, which I love.

Also the Isle of White, the whole island feels haunted.

I’ve never had a problem with any area of Somerset, although it seems common theme. But my Dad’s family have deep roots there, so maybe that’s why. Saying that, I don’t rate Bath.

Famagusta!!!

@Fyredraca

I've been to Saltburn. Can't say I noticed, though it was freezing cold! I thought the standing stones at Duddo in Northumberland were pretty atmospheric.

Yes, Duddo is very atmospheric! But, for me at least, not in an eerie way. Absolutely love Northumberland.

@dyslek

Lansaroti, got to be the most depressing place in the world.

If your considering it because its cheap, dont, just dont. Believe me you'll regret it.

Do you mean Lanzarote?

Do we reckon the weather impacts massively on 'vibes' particularly in UK destinations? I've been to Battle (in mid-October). I don't recall an unsettling vibe but the weather was horrible which did make it feel depressing.

It’s like the town and all of its people wanted me out. I would second that! On a mid-week early evening, we couldn't find anywhere to have dinner. Everywhere seemed packed for no particular reason! It was very strange!

Pearl Harbour in Honolulu at the memorial site, I rarely cry but I couldn't stop after watching the film about the young sailors and the band competition the night before, most of them dead the next day, average age 19.

I'd love to visit ground zero but doubt I ever will, just to pay my respects to the people I watched in horror loosing their lives on live TV.

@AlfonsoTheMango

Great thread. OP, those photos give me the willies.

It's strange because ever since we got back last March (2020) I've been Googling the place and looking at photos. It's like I have a connection and I feel like I want to go back (but don't) 🤣🤣

I was actually freaked out on the pier and had to run off it.
Just imagined you running like mad down the pier and straight off the end - now that really would have freaked me out.

@CandidaAlbicans2 I am just the same - but have been to a few atmospheric places. I just don't find them creepy the way some people do.

One that springs to mind is Prora, on the island of Rügen, Germany. It was designed as a Nazi holiday camp, but never used - they are now finally doing it up for people to use. Runs along the coast for miles in a huge, unbroken line of concrete, some four floors with symmetrical windows. The first time I went, it was totally empty and silent, and as we were walking through the woods behind it, a large deer sprang out from the trees and stood on the path looking at us for a second before leaping off. Not creepy or freaky, but really cool :)

@RevolvingPivot

Hi there might have been similar threads in the last couple of days but I don't come on here for weeks at a time.

Wouldn’t even matter if there had been. 12 pages indicates significant interest Op!

I stayed at the Grand Canyon with my ex. The hotel was so creepy and I sat up all night convinced it was haunted. I've never had such a bad feeling about anywhere else.

I stayed at the titanic hotel in Liverpool a couple of years ago, as soon as we drove into the car park it was like a cloud descended over me, I couldn’t shake it off, the whole place had an almost oppressive feel to it, it was incredibly dark inside, our room had a brick vaulted ceiling, very low lighting and was just generally dark and depressing. The hotel was in an old warehouse and surrounded by derelict warehouses waiting to be brought back to life, the whole surrounding area was very run down. I can’t put my finger on what made me feel like that, the hotel itself has fantastic reviews, but I just couldn’t wait to leave the hotel and Liverpool itself.

Pearl Harbour in Honolulu at the memorial site, I rarely cry but I couldn't stop after watching the film about the young sailors and the band competition the night before, most of them dead the next day, average age 19. I've visited the site (on a gloriously sunny and hot day) and felt a real sense of peace but nothing negative 'vibey'.

Hotel Polynesia in Benalemdena,Spain.

Weird as fuck like a shopping centre,very echoey and creepy.Urgh.

I was born and bred in york (we moved away about 4 years ago)
Clifford's tower-i think its the history of the poor Jews there but it makes me feel ill just walking past it
York minster-it makes my insides go to jelly-it just looks so dark even when the sun is out-i always did my best to avoid it but one night my son was invited to sing there with 3 other schools
I ended up having a panic attack and had to leave
Years ago I was invited to sing there along with the whole school and my brother had an asthma attack and almost died
He said the same as me-as soon as he got close to it,he started to feel sick

Hampton Court Palace