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?

I live in the Forest of Dean, the worst town is Cinderford, very depressing and deprived, most of the towns are not good but the countryside is beautiful and I can see why FoD and Wye Valley is described as places of natural beauty.

I've only ever driven through Glastonbury, but I got such an odd vibe, so strange that others on here feel the same, I wonder what it is about it!

We took our little dog, Benji, to Saltburn and he refused to walk on the pier - had to be carried. It seemed very gloomy to me, but I don't think it was completely freaky.

I like lots of these places...like Glastonbury and Glencoe. I even like slightly run down. " tacky"areas nowadays like Weston Super Mare. But i can tell when places are haunted.
My last hospital on placement was haunted...i loved it there but some students hated it and found it oppressive.
I once worked at a v famous religious private school...was beautiful but it creeped the fuck out of me...was like a cult.

Another one for Aberystwyth here. Very weird not very nice vibe.

"Winchelsea near Rye - deserted and has a Hot Fuzz/birds don’t sing there vibe."
I live a few miles away and I agree. It has a very strange atmosphere.

As a child we often went to Dartford heath and I always found it very eerie.

My sister had flat in Southsea, near the seafront.
It had an awful feeling in there. I was quite young then but can remember how it was decorated etc.
Its really stuck with me

Very amusingly I read a (joking) post on a Saltburn Facebook page today proposing the locals block roads against tourists and greet them Lord of the Flies style, naked with paint and spears and bows and arrows. Now that would give off a weird vibe 🤣

As a teen, my parents hired a jeep and we went driving around the hills in Cyprus. We came across a ghost town (not the well-known one, Varosha) that was a very small town square, empty but for some guards. We were evidently not welcome and left quickly. I don’t know where it was and what it was called but it was very strange. I’d like to know what happened there, but can’t find anything online.

And photos were not allowed...

Salisbury Plain and Stonehenge always give me a weird feeling - not just the history of the place but the sky feels too low and oppressive somehow! I am a townie though so maybe it's the wide, open space!
Also an old train station and beach on Kefalonia where terrible things had happened during the war. It really felt like the memories had been retained in the environment somehow. Terribly sad and haunting.

Katoomba in Australia. It's nominally a tourist spot to see the blue mountains but it's just really creepy... had a very twin peaks vibe. I was travelling alone and felt really unsettled the whole time

I haven't but my mum really struggles with walking on a pier at the coast anywhere, not one particular resort. She says it's seeing the water through the boards and swirling around the supports - she's convinced she drowned in a former life ( strange I know).

Years ago I visited York with my ex and we went to Margaret Clitherow's house - she was horribly executed for harbouring Catholic priests in the 16th century. My ex went very white and said 'something dreadful happened here' and rushed out and I found him shaking in the street. He was a strong level-headed bloke so it was quite a shock to see him like that.

Mine is very obvious, but Auschwitz. I’ve never been anywhere and felt so much sadness before. It wasn’t as much “creepy”, but just such an overwhelming feeling of pure depression.

It’s a shame the rest of our tour group (we didn’t know them) weren’t as moved, though. Maybe then the guy sprouting crap about the birds not flying overhead (as we saw birds fly overhead) due to the sadness of the place (he said wacky off the walls shit all day) and the man who purposely ditched the group knowing we had to stay together would have behaved better.

Or the woman who was genuinely annoyed because there wasn’t a fucking scheduled lunch break. She literally complained about this when we were standing beside the railway tracks. I couldn’t fucking believe it.

I live near Stonehenge and can never understand why people gather there I think it's a horrible desolate place full of despair!
Wilton in Wiltshire is a proper scary vibe place too you can feel the weight of history there.
Also savernake forest..just no.

Went to a local restaurant by us for the first time around 20 years ago. Got a real feeling of dread as I sat down, had to leave.
Went again 10 years later - same feeling had to leave. Although now changed hands and refurbed I will never go in there again - almost feel like I would choke whilst eating or similar. No idea why ,

YukoandHiro we loved Katoomba.

The ammunition room at Hurst Castle, no idea why but got suddenly very cold and I left rapidly! My son was fine

@Douchebaggette, I grew up in Osterley and never heard of anything spooky at Osterley house!

Only spooky place nearby is the old asylum, St Bernards.

This is a great thread.

When I was little my mum was always viewing properties and would take me with her. I was a very calm compliant child who would just go along with whatever was the plan. No meltdowns in the 70s!

However on one occasion she took me to see a property at Sutton on Trent. Apparently I screamed my head off and point blankly refused to go in.

She'd forgotten all about it til the 80s when a guy called Micheal Sams was convicted of kidnapping estate agent Stephanie Slater and locking her in a box at his home at Sutton on Trent for 8 days. He also killed another woman.

Mum saw his house on the TV when he was arrested ...and remembered it's distinctive living room as the place I completely freaked out at....

I have also had really odd feelings about Barrow Gurney in North Somerset ( before I knew it was site of a mental institution) and Blackstone Edge reservoir near Hebden Bridge and Wainstalls near Hebden too....very wierd vibe places.....

UWE's Glenside campus. Used to be a Victorian lunatic asylum, then a ww1 hospital. Very creepy vibes there.

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Went to a local restaurant by us for the first time around 20 years ago. Got a real feeling of dread as I sat down, had to leave. Went again 10 years later - same feeling had to leave. Although now changed hands and refurbed I will never go in there again - almost feel like I would choke whilst eating or similar. No idea why ,

I used to hate going to Wilson as a kid.

My old house, which I have posted about previous. Two staircases, you always had the impression as you walked down one from the upstairs bathroom that there was something coming up the other stairs.
Not a human something but it was very, very angry.

Strangely enough my DH also picked up on it, but never mentioned it till we moved out. Our little cat also hated the stairs and refused to go outside till we moved house.

Never got to the bottom of it. Don't want to.

Warwick castle is another place I have had weird vibes in and a sense of disorientation. I was in one of the towers and all of a sudden I felt like I had to get out and I was pulling the door but it was locked. Then all of a sudden it flew open and I ran out of there.

I think many coastal towns can feel like eerie ‘ghost towns’ out of season, especially in the UK.