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?

Portmeirion had weird vibes, but I put that down to recollections of watching “The Prisoner” on tv at a young age!
Croydon always gives me the Heebie-jeebies - always feel like I’ve grown two heads when I’ve had to visit in the past because people stare so much!

Gosh loads!!

Gozo, not bad, but very spiritual and special feeling. One church in particular had a strong pull ive not felt before.

The ruins left in the mountains on Kefalonia after the earthquake, where homes have been abandoned.

The old villages in the mountains near Aquila in Italy super woo feeling around the old in the wall burial sights.

Seeing the no man’s land area of northern Cyprus.

Alice Springs. Can't put my finger on specifics but it felt desolate and I was uneasy.

@wantanotherdog

Something else. I've buried it for years but this is fairly anonymous. I was 20 and was staying in a B and B. It was about 10pm. I was in my room, getting ready for bed, but kept having the feeling that someone was watching me. There was a painting of a head and shoulders on the wall. And the eyes were moving. There was someone on the other side of the wall. It was like something from a film. The B and B was in the middle of nowhere. I didn't have a car. I was absolutely terrified. The next morning, my boyfriend collected me. I didn't tell him. Or anyone. No one would have believed me.

This has just given me the full on shivers! OMG

Cannock chase , you cross the road over to a military bit soon as we were on the path we had to turn round.

A part of Dudley castle

And strangely hale village in Halton

Baconsthorpe castle, in norfolk and the village!

Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh. I went on a 'ghost tour' there a few years ago. The tour itself wasn't scary at all. It was more historical, and in the Kirkyard itself they got someone to jump out at us for a cheap scare.

By the time we were leaving the Kirkyard I was chatting to someone else on the tour and had forgotten all about ghosts, including the alleged inhabitant of the Kirkyard, the MacKenzie poltergeist. Just as we reached the gate I stepped into an area of cold. It was like being hit by a freezing wind, but the weird thing was that it was cold inside, not outside. The evening was warm.

We went to the pub and things moved on. After a few drinks I went back to my hotel, where I was staying by myself. I went to sleep.

Then I woke up with a strong sensation of something being in the room.

It was such a powerful sensation that my heart was beating like mad. I even thought about going down to reception to tell them something was up. But of course I didn't.

I've never experienced anything like that before or since.

Later on, reading up on the MacKenzie Poltergeist, I've read stories of other people walking through cold spots, having a sensation of being watched and even finding deep scratches on their skin.

Cuba! Absolutely loved it but our group (3 females) had men openly w**king over us, in groups or lines, in broad daylight... on 3 separate occasions.

[quote BumCat]@TellmewhoIam you might find the book ‘The Covent Garden Ladies’ by Hallie Rubenhold an interesting read.[/quote]
Thanks @BumCat! I didn't know that author.

NeedWineNow like your mother, piers give me the horrors. The gaps through the boards..

The Fens. Long straight black stretches of water that seem to go on forever, I can't bare to drive on the roads alongside them. I thought the whole area had such a strange threatening atmosphere and was so flat and creepy, I can't even bare to look at photos of the area now!

I really didn't like New Orleans.

@NiceGerbil

Not rtft

Lewes.

Why Lewes?

@70sWarmTomatoes

The Fens. Long straight black stretches of water that seem to go on forever, I can't bare to drive on the roads alongside them. I thought the whole area had such a strange threatening atmosphere and was so flat and creepy, I can't even bare to look at photos of the area now!

The Fens are a strange place with a long history. Many died getting lost in the fog if they didn’t know the place well, hundreds of years ago.

I went to a teenage party in a town in the Fens and it was raided by older locals, and felt quite threatening - there is an odd small town feel to the area that isn’t welcoming to outsiders.

@Catscrat

Another vote for the Underground hospital in Jersey....I visited it when I was a child some 20 years ago now and still remember the feeling of unease and claustrophobia.

Tewksbury and Gloucester both creeped me out, the atmosphere felt oppressive.

I agree about Tewkesbury and Gloucester. Both have very unpleasant vibes.

St Austell in Cornwall
Cromer in Norfolk and Norfolk generally
Several places in Wales
Some areas of North Devon

@HillsBesideTheSea

Actually can i clarify it for you.

The fact that joe bloggs thinks they can use aromatherapy without training and understanding is what it makes it so dangerous. Along with herbology. People rush into it thinking it is safe because it is natural so they give no head to contraindications or safety precautions and have no concept of how dangerous it can be if applied wrong or incorrectly. How many products that have the smells are actually problematic to pets? How many people know that tea tree is actually a neurotransmitter inhibitor to ants and that if inhaled can be an irratant to the lungs. Or that if you have a heart condition you shouldn't consume tumeric at medicinal levels because it will interact with conventional medical meds and potentially be very dangerous.

Anyway. end aside

Homeopathy is a world apart from aromatherapy and herbology!

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

Yep. All of these sorts of areas have a Wolf Creek vibe for a reason. There’s a LOT of strange solitary people in the vast outback areas.

Kings Lynn Norwich horrible place apart from 1 lovely restaurant but wont be returning real dead end vibe about it

Years back we went to a group viewing of a house. There were loads of people as it was for sale at a really good price. Within a few minutes of entering I felt sick with dread - and apparently I was not alone. Everyone rapidly left - most not going further in than the front room.

Leiston in Suffolk is a depressing place!

Jamaica Inn

Dartmoor Prison (it was reaaallly foggy at the time)

I used to work in boarding (as in boarding schools). When I was a teenager, not long out of school myself, I had a residential role at a school that was in Victorian era buildings. I quite liked the place, it was very beautiful, and I never had a problem with it when it was full of children. There was an attached chapel that some of the children said was creepy. They claimed they could hear the organ play even when the music mistress was away but I never heard anything like that - I think the chapel was just colder than the rest of the building which gave it a bit of an atmosphere.

However one half-term I was going away to meet friends working at a different school but we had slightly different schedules. To save a night's accomodation I was leaving the Saturday instead of the Friday which meant staying one night alone in the school. Holy moly the place was different with all the other staff and children gone. Creepy as anything! I had gone down to the boarders' lounge on the bottom floor to watch tv before dusk, and when I went back to my rooms it was dark and I had to will myself not to sprint. My rooms were not much better. There was nothing ghostly or anything happening - just long, dark corridors and rooms and rooms of empty beds. Same vibes as an empty hospital I think. Was very glad to be leaving the next day.

Not any particular building but I also find churches - particularly old churches- to have a strange vibe after dark. I love churches during the day, they usually make me feel very peaceful. And I don't mind a busy church after dark, for example I like a candlelight service or midnight mass. But quiet churches after dark have an unsettling vibe to me. My local parish church was wanting volunteers to sit overnight vigil in the run up to pentecost - each person would spend one hour alone in the church. I would not do that if they paid me!

P.s. @Mylittleponysuperfan I searched "cannock chase black eyed girls" on a search engine that brings up images as well as links and gave myself a huge fright. Exited the tab immediately so will never know anything about them.

@Elderflower14

Leiston in Suffolk is a depressing place!

Agree. And Shotley. Just very end of road

Devizes

Norfolk

East Grinstead

Lewes