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?

@PoTheDog

Heptonstall above Hebdon Bridge is super atmospheric. A bit eerie, but mainly you feel the weight of history

Yes I agree with this. I don’t know what it is, a kind of far away feeling. Maybe it is the moors. I don’t know. Strange though. I stayed there a week.

Thailand, stayed in Koh Samui and there was a creepy, not quite sure what's really going on here type vibe. Tons of scruffy stray cats and dogs in all the restaurants and hotels, just wandering about unchallenged. Birds tapping on the windows. Staff with fake smiles but very firm rules, scooters whizzing about too close to you, piles of rubbish in deserted beauty spots. Bangkok is the most depraved, soulless place I've ever been to. I was terrified just being at Bangkok airport. Never, ever again.

Weirdly, a multi storey car park at Lakeside Shopping Centre in Essex. I had a strange experience there where I swear my car was in the middle of a bay and when I returned it was in a far corner by a wall. A man with a broom appeared out of nowhere and asked if I needed help. Everything suddenly seemed sinister and I drove out of there like a bat out of hell. Can't explain it.

I once visited a patient (NHS capacity)
Perfectly nice patient
Perfectly nice house . Unremarkable decor ( white walls /leather sofa/ wood floor)

I felt oppressed and like a physical weight on me . I couldn't wait to leave and left as soon as professionally possible (after treating obvs )

No idea why . The house just felt odd .

On holiday with my parents, brother and my 1st proper BF, driving home from Algarve Portugal through Spain. It had been a long journey with very heavy traffic, mostly lorries, through winding single lane mountainous terrain and we needed a break and a stop for the night. Ended up in a tiny hicksville place whose name I cannot for the life of me recall. The landscape was quite Swiss feeling.
Found what appeared to be the only hotel open, although there were others in the town. It seemed fairly 'well to do' on check in and we had 2 rooms, 2 bathrooms. Parents room was directly opposite ours.
The atmosphere in the bedroom made me feel ill but it was the bathroom that really did me in and made me feel I would rather hold it in than use it for a single minute on my own. My Mum completely agreed.
We went out to lie by the pool for a bit after check in and couldn't shake the feeling that the locals (staff) were really staring at us and muttering things. Reminded me of the feeling I had when watching The Shining even though it looked nothing like the Overlook Hotel. In fact, my parents who are not woo at all felt the same as did my BF and brother.

Having had a really long day and figuring it was just tiredness and only for 1 night, we got on with it.
Got in the car to find a restaurant for dinner but nothing was open so we went back to the hotel and were shown into the dining room. Every inch of the walls was covered with dead animal heads - deer, bears, wolves but also rabbits and birds etc. There were also shotguns, axes and various weaponry on the walls. It was clear we were the only non locals there & there was this weird muttering chant coming from a group of people on one side of the room. They all seemed to have teeth missing or a wondering/lazy eye, some form of disfigurement. Honestly felt like we were trapped in some nightmare!! My Mum called it The Village of The Damned.
None of us had much of an appetite but we ate something and then tried to sleep. None of us could. Left that place about 4am and we couldn't get out of there fast enough!! My parents & brother still remember it over 25 years later but none of us can recall what the place was called. Gives me the creeps just thinking about it.

Not rtft

Lewes.

@Abhannmor. No he had no connection to Yorkshire at all, in fact he was a Londoner of Irish parents. Interestingly though he telephoned me completely out of the blue about 3 or 4 years after we'd split - our split wasn't acrimonious, just one of those things - and in the course of our chat he revealed that he and his partner had bought a house and were living in Yorkshire. Perhaps he'd felt drawn to the county subconsciously.

Mention of this thread reminded me that we drove through Winchelsea while staying in Rye - it was quite weird. It's basically next to an older town the fell away to erosion of the coast, which probably accounts for the odd atmosphere.

We loved Dungeness in it's weird, desolate way.

I don't think it was scary in any way, but one of the most offputting places I've been in is Yeovil, waiting for a coach connection. It wasn't ugly or sinister or terrible, it just felt really empty and bereft!

Gloucester I thought seemed quite an odd place.

Arundel castle...creepy feeling and was lovely to get back out into the beautiful grounds. It was a lovely sunny day but the castle was just so gloomy with a feeling of history that was just so heavy. Can’t explain it but would be interested if anyone has felt the same there

@BreakingtheIce

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

Though according to this thread, not as bad as Saltburn!!

Coober Pedy in Australia. Really uncomfortable. Full of rough men and post office had pictures of a lot of missing women...

@XenoBitch

Also, Clifton Suspension Bridge (in Bristol). I know of people who used it to exit this life, and I have been there to do the same (obviously rubbish at it). It is a marvellous wander of engineering, but with a sad undertone that I could never shake off.

Hope you’re doing ok now

Amsterdam.

Esperence, Australia - beautiful beach but down and out centre

Glastonbury - even though it is on the world stage because of its festival, it is a weird place full of witchcraft and wizardry.

We stayed in a haunted house. Very old cottage in northern France part of a chateau was the old counting house. No weird feeling but at night there was massive banging and crashing in the kitchen. When we went down nothing there. We heard nails scraping on the outside of our top floor bedroom window. Dh scoffed at anything woo but as we drove away admitted there was no explanation for the weirdness.

I used to have to drive through Europe at work and was in Germany and stayed overnight in this really weird teddy bear hotel in a place called Bergen. It was truly odd and I felt unsettled the whole time. Got home and told dh and he said Bergen was actually Bergen Belsen and was where the concentration camp was.

Not a place , a house we viewed in Norwich. It backed in to a church graveyard and although I felt fine about it initially my DH could not wait to get out of there. He said it was chilling. It had a huge pentagon painted on to one of the bedroom walls so once we saw that it was off the list!

Hartland, Devon, weird feel to the place, although I was suffering with morning sickness so that probably contributed to my uneasiness.

Manorbier, Wales, beautiful beach, but house we stayed in had a really cold feeling about it.

Trago Mills, Newton Abbot. Very strange place. The whole family weirded out by it 😂

Ranmore Common in Surrey. Absolutely stunningly beautiful with phenomenal views but holy crap, it’s creepy.

I viewed a house last year that made me feel like there were wall to wall ghosts. The second I walked in I got a thudding headache and felt like something was crushing me.
Stayed 5 minutes and bolted

Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.

@windmill26

Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.

Second this! I couldn’t stay in there either I felt as sick as a dog it was so eerie

Sundown in Lincolnshire. Rundown, more like. Creepy and disjointed.
Canterbury
Plymouth town centre
Newquay
Most of Kent
Ronda in Spain

I thought he wanted to make Oxford his capital and that was why it wasn't heavily bombed during WW2.

I had another look online and it looks like I got it slightly confused: that Hitler had wanted Bridgnorth as his personal HQ and not as a capital. Not sure why he would have wanted to live nowhere near the capital, though, assuming he still expected to be the leader?!

Trago Mills, Newton Abbot. Very strange place. The whole family weirded out by it

After seeing that episode of Mock The Week where they discussed it, I can only ever think of Trago Mills as being a Bond villain now - maybe there's more to it than just the name?!

Leaving obvious long-ago historical events behind, wasn't Glencoe one of Jimmy Savile's regular 'haunting grounds'. I don't know if there was any truth in or evidence of it, but there were reports that he was regularly involved in sinister Satanic ceremonies and the like. Even if none of that angle is remotely true, goodness knows what other evil he might have got up to in the area - who knows if some of that has still lingered?

Jamaica Inn in the 80's. Heard whistling in corridor all night so kept light and TV on!
Boldon Collier, Tyneside. 1986. Stayed in a terraced 'pit' house while then BF studying. Gas cooker taps kept turning on by themselves. Spare bedroom had a malevolent atmosphere. Thought no more about it until BF told me his mum said not to tell me how a glass started spinning & smashed against a wall!
Red Lion pub in Colchester. Solo weekend 1983. Very nice staff cosseted me & advised not to explore alone. On leaving they said it was haunted and staff had bad experiences.
Hellfire Caves, went as a child, guide just had a torch, no problem. Returned as adult, modern lighting/ sound system. Could not enter, had very bad feeling.