Places you have visited with a strange vibe

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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?

Old ocean Village in Southampton used to make me feel queasy!

Castlerigg stone circle at Keswick in the Lake District.
It felt so eerie yet peaceful like you could feel all the people that had visited since it had been built , it's in such an amazing spot you could understand why it was built just there .
Standing in the middle there was a wonderful feeling of peace .

Glastonbury Tor had an atmosphere, but I thought it was a good one.

Glencoe... very foreboding in some weather conditions, though IME that dissipates on a sunny day.

There is an old hill fort site just outside Salisbury called Figsbury Rings, you drive up a track to a carpark and then half along fenced path and it opens up into the ring, I couldn't go ant further just the feeling of utter despair and darkness was over whelming, it was a beautiful spring day, but I just couldn't step a foot further, I drive past it most days and still cannot even contemplate going back there.

My husband got freaked out at West Kennet Barrow and he is not a woo person, he couldn't wait to leave and would get close to the barrow or go inside it.

Haworth - very dark energy.

Hutton Buscel just outside of Scarborough - village of the damned.

@Starbonnet123
I live close to it and when it's quiet ( out of season ) I sometimes go and lay in the middle of it , I love it so much.

The Avebury stone circle is creepy!

Bacup, just a really strange place

@whiteroseredrose

Venice. Something a bit sinister about it.

Yes! I find it sinister too. There’s a cold vibe.

There was a road I’d travel every day on the 137 on my way to work when I lived in Streatham and commuted to Battersea. I’d feel the weight of all wrong and evil on me as we trundled along the road. It was very strange. I also felt immense sadness in a place called Carna in Connemara. It was so beautiful, but the sadness was palpable. I couldn’t stop crying.

Hellfire Caves, when I visited as a teenager, didnt feel bad. But revisited a few years ago and it didnt feel so good. I just felt heavier and heavier as we got further in. Maybe its because I knew more about the history than I did as a teen.

Craigievar Castle, stunning place, lovely inside but felt something pushing me away from the Castle as we started to leave, continued all the way back to the car park when it stopped just before we reached it.

Saddleworth too, whilst I have only driven over them, I never want to stop, they do have a bad atmosphere, and I usually love the moors.

Interested to read about West Kennett Long Barrow, I find long Barrows have a happy / at peace feeling. A celebration of the life of the people who were buried there. Had a very lovely feeling at Wayland's Smithy sitting on the top stone, did have the place to myself at the time but have never had the same feeling despite repeated visits.

@pinkearedcow

Maybe the reason for all the unexplained unease is that something bad happened to us in these places in a previous life...

When visiting National Trust houses, I'm always more interested in the downstairs part of it and the lives of the servants. When I went to Fellbrigg Hall in Norfolk, I looked at the house and felt scared and very nervous, as if I was going to work there!

Not by Saltburn. It's a lovely friendly place with a fantastic beach.

Time and Tide Museum, Great Yarmouth.
I'd been invited to visit a friend who lived nearby for lunch, but with time to spare, I came across this place. I'd read, in the hotel, about the women from the North who followed their husbands down and who gutted the herrings their husbands had fished, both this story and this Museum seemed interesting.
I was the only visitor, but in the gift shop at the back there was a woman selling souvenirs and playing a sea shanty CD on a loop.
The museum has high, high ceilings with wires stretched from one side to the other on which the herrings are/were hung to cure after the women had gutted them. A boy was employed to scale the vertical ladders at the side of the room to hang them. Reading about it later,seems he'd fallen to his death.
So I'm there, alone, when suddenly got overcome by a terrible overwhelming feeling of sadness and the sense that I'm really not alone at all. But I was!
So I went through to the gift shop and started telling the woman about it....and the bloody CD cut off mid-shanty.
She said that had never happened before.
So now there's both me and the gift shop woman thoroughly spooked - but at least I could leave, so I did!

I've been to places with weird vibes but only one that was frightening to me. It's in the region where I live. There used to be a big hall there. The owner ditched his wife for his mistress, an Italian singer. The wife killed herself in the property. The owner had a chapel built for his Italian singer mistress. Eventually, however, she also killed herself. The hall caught fire multiple times and ultimate burned entirely. The chapel is still there. It's really hard to find and locals won't tell you exactly where it is. I was out looking for a well that's nearby with a priest hiking friend. We came upon the chapel which had a small graveyard that had a metal low fence round it. His dog was going nuts, growling, barking, try to turn round and leave/pulling on his lead. It was just bad. Just very, very wrong. Even he was like, 'This place is really unholy'. We didn't go in it or in the yard. I can still remember how awful it felt.

@81Byerley

I agree about some NT places. Again I think it is the history and somehow being in a place where real people lived their lives suddenly brings the reality of the history home.
When I visited Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk, I felt a panic attack coming on when I saw the Priest's hiding hole there. It wasn't just the feeling of claustrophobia it was the sense of fear people must have felt being cramped up in those small spaces wondering if they would be discovered. I had to get out of that bit of the house quickly.

Agree about Pendle Hill. I've not been for many years but I felt very uneasy around there.

Worst place for me was Fersfield, tiny hamlet in South Norfolk. It's literally just a church and a handful of houses. The first time I walked up to the church it felt like I was pushing through a crowd of people even though there was no-one there ....

Not specifically creepy, but special atmosphere:

• Glencoe - Felt like I reached the end of the world somehow. Absolutely mesmerising. When I went, the weather was quite horrendous, dark clouds and everything (which suits well with the place) and there was just a single ray of light coming from the sky. That was amazing.

• La Pointe du Raz - Brittany: Another place which worth seeing with bad weather.

• Hiroshima: It's a very relaxed city, compared to many cities in Japan. We went to the memorial, and there was a special feeling of hope and kindness.

• Prypiat - Ukraine: Well, it's a ghost town that nature is claiming back for the past 35 years. It's pretty amazing to see. I didn't find that creepy at all, but was really at peace there

• Auschwitz: That was quite something. I'm happy that I've been there, but I was happy to take the train back to Krakow. Even the train journey was quite scary on the way back. I think I didn't relax before exiting the Krakow train station. On the other hand, I really really enjoyed Krakow, despite the horrible weather we had for the whole time we were there, felt really good in that city.

Also, when we were kids, we spent several summers in the south of Spain because we had family there, and we were going there by car, from Paris, which took something like a million years (2.5 days actually). I remember vividly the desert in Central Spain, the giant Osborbne bulls on the side of the road every now and then, that was quite creepy.

I mentioned Kamloops on the previous thread. It’s the overnight stop on the Rocky Mountaineer train from Banff to Vancouver.
We arrived at dusk, and as we’d been on the train all day, went out for a walk and look for somewhere to get a drink.
Well, there was nowhere, the whole place seemed closed and silent, despite the many hotels around. As we went back to the hotel it was by then totally dark. We kept hearing things rustling in the verges as we walked along and seeing things out of the corner of our eyes. Couldn’t see anything. We couldn’t get back quick enough. So sad to read about those poor children.
(The train trip itself was amazing.)
Also going to mention Hallsands in Devon, and it’s tragic history. You can see the abandoned homes from the cliff top walk. Very eerie.
And quite randomly, Fort de France in Martinique.

@RuthTopp I was lucky to visit out of season, I was on my own and the feeling was magical , I didn't think of lying down ,that would be good 😁

Just for the record.. homeopathy is not to do with 'feelings' and isn't 'woo'.

Quite right; feelings are real.

So it must be the place not the people grin - Must say I am rather keen to see it now, I want to feel the atmosphere.

(Townsville) It was either the last time or time before I was there, a week before or after my visit, a large saltie had somehow managed to find its way into the cbd area and had to be removed. Hilarious. I’ve noticed it’s also packed with FIFO at times as I struggled with my usual accom the trip before last and they said it was due to FIFO and all the restaurants seemed packed with them. Just meant every night was a party. Townsville hosp is good, I’ve visited in a professional capacity and would recommend it.

IEat, totally agree about Great Yarmouth! I took a detour there having been to Bewilderwood... I hated every second, couldn’t wait to leave and was absolutely gobsmacked by the sheer number of people in mobility scooters, this was in 2019 too! There was an awful vibe, like it was going to kick off any second and we frequently joke now that there’s nothing great about Great Yarmouth!

I also felt uneasy in Glastonbury and developed a sudden onset headache (very unusual for me), again I was happy it was a passing visit en route to our destination.

The tunnels in Jersey made me feel peculiar, uneasy and out of sorts!

@ohnonotyetplease

Just for the record.. homeopathy is not to do with 'feelings' and isn't 'woo'.

Well it certainly isn't anything to do with science!