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 know it’s been said but Auschwitz and Birkenau are very heavy places. Like PP I also find Buxton to be very weird.
Recently we went to a ruined castle and my just 3 year old started telling me about the men that built it in weird detail. Then we left and she said ‘I remember when these roads were all just fields’.

Ullapool is lovely. I love it there, just sitting at the beach and watching the waves.

A suburb of Rome. Everywhere - literally everywhere - was behind massive high gates, and it was deserted. It made me wonder who they were trying to keep out with the gates! I wondered if there was a lot of crimes.... It gave us such a bad feeling

Canvey Island.

Particularly when you go to the far end- I think it’s called The Point.

I’ve never known such a bleak and seemingly neglected or weather beaten place at the end of it. Almost stuck in time.

Then in other parts, seeming affluence.

So contrasting to neighbouring parts of Essex.

Oh and another one. When I was in junior school, we visited Bruce Castle Museum in Tottenham, Haringey. Once inside, I was sick and very emotional (I knew nothing about the place, we were there to look at the stamps for a project on RoyailMail). Never forgot and never went near it again.

@CrankyFrankie

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

I find old seaside places strangely comforting in the winter time. I'm not sure why. Dracula lands at Whitby in the Bram Stoker novel. He just wanted peace and quiet!

I love Saltburn

Funny people mentioned Covent Garden and Ann Arbor. Those were the two places that first came to mind when I read the thread and seemed like such odd picks but glad I am not the only one!

Another two:
The church in Otranto in Puglia. Got goosebumps. Horrifying history and you can feel it.
Mount Nebo in Jordan is the other end of the spectrum. Just felt such an overwhelming and almost inexplicable sense of peace (and I am religious at all, let alone Jewish or Christian).

I live near Blackheath and don’t think it feels creepy. Atmospheric in the winter time, sure, but not creepy.

The obvious Auschwitz for me too!

Gillingham in Dorset.

There is an old farmhouse there at Lodbourne Green which used to be a bed and breakfast. It is surrounded by new development. It is as if the house is hemmed in and trying to escape back to its history. Guests have left as did I.

@NeedWineNow

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.

How strange. Is he himself a Yorkshire man ? Perhaps he has some link to Margaret.

Coffs Harbour in Australia really odd vibe!

@VisitingtheInfidel

This place. www.haunted-britain.com/knowlton-church.htm I went there with an archeology group. It was a beautiful summers day but as you stepped inside there was this awful feeling of utter horror. A couple of the group were talking about how it’d be a lovely place for a picnic and the rest of us couldn’t get away quickly enough.

Me too! We stayed overnight coming back from a road trip to Scotland and went out for a dinner…..such a creepy feeling we had…couldn’t wait to go back to the hotel and leave in the morning

I always get a weird creepy feeling at market stalls that are selling handmade 'Gypsy' style earrings. Has happened in the UK and when I've been on holiday abroad - if I visit a market and spot a jewellery stall this weird voice in my head starts chanting the name 'Carly'. I don't know any Carly's and the voice in my head isn't mine, totally freaks me out.

Bodmin Gaol. I don't believe in ghosts but it was seriously eerie

Sellack Church in Herefordshire.
Frozen in 10th century time and with bird screens over the door

@Davygran

Sizergh Castle in Cumbria. We went many years ago & there was one small room which both of us had a really strange atmosphere, but there’s also a room like a Great Hall. It didn’t have much in there but I didn’t want to leave it, I had never had such a euphoric feeling ever - it felt like I was at the very best party in the world ever! I kept expecting my husband to ask me to move to the next room because there really was very little to see or do compared to its size & other rooms there, but he didn’t. The feeling did eventually ebb so we carried on elsewhere & it was only when we got outside that he asked me if I’d felt the atmosphere in there as he’d felt exactly the same as me! We decided the next time we visited the Lakes we’d head straight back to Sizergh to get that feeling again, but there was absolutely NOTHING. It was totally flat, and we’ve been back again & still not got the same fantastic well-being in there. Has anyone else been to Spooky Sizergh Castle & noticed this?

Didn’t get that exact feeling, but it’s a favourite place of ours to visit. It just feels so lived in and loved by all the generations that have come before. All the family photos and mementos are there and the latest generation still live there, iirc. Did you meet Charlie, the garden cat? He likes to sun himself on the benches and is always up for a cuddle .

Bit late to this thread but has anyone mentioned the German Underground Hospital in Jersey? Urgghhh.

Stonehenge
Visited on a hot sunny day, bright blue skies
Loads of tourists about
I could not wait to leave!
It felt malevolent

A few years ago we drove to Glastonbury for the first time to meet some new friends for lunch. I wasn't map reading so wasn't aware that we had nearly reached the town. Suddenly I felt completely spooked, and if we hadn't needed to have gone, I would have told my husband to turn right round and head away from the place. As we drove into the town, I saw that the street was lined with astrology shops etc. and I was even more uncomfortable. We met our friends and it was great to see them, but I couldn't wait to leave Glastonbury. I apologise to anyone living there for offending them, but it just, to me, felt imbued with evil.

One of the upstairs bedrooms in True's Yard, an old fishing museum in King's Lynn. A really horrible atmosphere and a feeling that something was pulling at me.
Glencoe in Scotland - very bleak and oppressive.
On the Norfolk Broads at night - that might have been due to a story of a ghost of a skater, said to have drowned when the ice broke and frequently seen skating across the broads...

I lived in Townsville, it was like being in a parallel universe

@hamptonmummy

1st time I drove across the m62 in Yorkshire and got the most awful feeling it was a lovely summers day but as I drove past this area it felt like it turned to winter, I felt a huge overwhelming sadness and actually had tears rolling down my face and felt sick and cold that I simply couldn't explain as I had absolutely no idea what I was driving past. I found out later that day it was Saddleworth Moor.

It gives me the creeps every time I cross it. Particularly unnerving going westbound although that could just be because I'm a yorkshirewoman and feel upset to be heading into Lancashire!!

The Jersey underground hospital always comes up in these threads. I don’t know what went on there!

Not sure if "strange vibe" is the right word, but the "Nun's Graveyard" in the castle on Ischia well freaked me out.