Places you have visited with a strange vibe

[RevolvingPivot]

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?

The hairs on the back of my neck were standing on end when I look at those photos..........

I do get this occasionally. When we were in the US, we drove through a small town in the middle of nowhere and I just couldn't wait to get away. Also drove past two or three house overlooking a lake as night was falling and I felt an overwhelming sense of unease. I do not normally worry about anything so there was definitely something going on with my sixth sense.

@HoobleDooble thanks I was confused there.

Been going to Great Yarmouth for many years , child and as adult with my kids. Summer 2019 and I hated it. Stayed in a b&b instead of holiday park .. the streets were disgusting, knew homelessness was awful and drugs a major problem but bloody hell it was like a the bottom of a toilet bowl just grime. Never wanted to leave a holiday but this one couldn’t have ended quick enough. Doubt I’ll ever go back despite it being one of the places I wanted to live, definitely not now

@kebabmuncher yes that’s the place. Oddly first time I visited I had no idea of the history of the place and still found it just a bit ‘off’. I’ve been a few times over the years, but I don’t like the place and wouldn’t choose to go there.

Some of the stuff that happened there is really horrific though. So maybe that’s it.

@Hellocatshome

with the red building thats the weird cliff side tram thing (it has a posh name)

Funicular.

Oh and Burley in the New Forest; something there messes with my sense of direction.

I live very, very close to the Forest of Dean. Although the landscape is stunning and it's a very beautiful part of the UK, there are lots of jokes about it locally.

I've got a feeling that JK Rowling said Hagrid was inspired by the Forest of Dean - and that would be about right

Many parts of it are very definitely full of "local shops for local people" - if you've seen League of Gentleman you'll know exactly what I mean. It's a very odd place.

Ooooh, I love Burley! There's definitely a vibe but I quite like it. There is an old iron age (?) fort just outside the village on the Ringwood side so it's obviously a pkace with a lot of history. The witchy connection too, of course.

I LOVE Saltburn but I agree it has a bit of a weird vibe out of season. If there's no one else on the beach, it kind of feels like you're at the end of the world. However, having also been in high summer, it's so packed (and I mean not a empty square on the sand), it feels totally different.

Once got a weird feeling in a church in Cornwall, that was used as lookout station in WWII. It was the only building left standing after they knocked the village down to build an airfield.

Not necessarily negative but I felt like Kandy in Sri Lanka was on a completely different frequency to the rest of the world. Never felt like it since but it was such a strange feeling - like my body was just totally out of kilter with the environment. Very intense.

We travelled round Sri Lanka and I didn’t feel like it anywhere else. Most odd.

I’ve only felt this on the Queen Mary ocean liner at Long Beach, California. The 3rd class swimming area made me feel absolutely freaked out and I couldn’t wait until the tour guide moved on.

I suddenly felt claustrophobic and ill and felt desperate to get out of The Real Mary King’s Close in Edinburgh while doing the tour. I was pregnant but had visited the attraction before, and I never felt like that at any other time whilst pregnant so who knows.

I find Bath a bit creepy: felt a bit uncomfortable there.

Another place is Feurtaventura: it all feels very abandoned with half build estates randomly dotted about. Even the capital,
Puerto del Rosario Felt very isolated and creepy

I found Buxton bizarre. As if there was a tension in the air, or a sense of foreboding. We drove there across the really high moors and I felt quite unsettled there too. Like we were being watched. I suppose it was the emptiness and bleakness of the landscape.

Bradford town centre. There is something very off about it, imo. Apologies to those from Bradford, but the town centre is just depressing, in soul rather than anything else.

Once went to an amateur play in Bradford town centre. We got there around 6pm, long before it started, so had a drink before finding the theatre. It was winter, so dark, with a full moon, and the place was utterly empty and it felt soul sucking. I've seen a few things advertised at St Georges Hall which I fancy but I don't feel like going back.

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.

Oh and also had a feeling like that in a holiday cottage once in Whitby. I usually love Whitby but the place where we were had a real feeling of oppression. I couldn't understand it as I'm usually overjoyed to be there.

When I got home, I looked up the place we were staying in. Found a local's forum and it turned out someone had recently committed suicide there 😕

I had this today! We were exploring a cave (well, a gap in a cliff) and I spotted a bit that went quite far back and was a little narrow. On paper it wasn't really different to any of the other places we'd explored that afternoon. However DC went to head into it and I just absolutely felt that they shouldn't and shouted them back. They came out grumbling, and I'll never know if I was right about it. I was quite certain though. Weird....

Sorry Op, I realise now that's not quite the same! Do lone corners of otherwise acceptable places count?!

Swaffham in Norfolk. It was the weirdest most freaky place I have ever been. Was like time stood still

I posted on a similar thread a while back, but when I first visited Drakelow Tunnels. I was doing a scare event in there, and the first time I visited it was so eerie and there was not a good feeling to the place. That night I had a bad dream about it. Then weirdly after that, it never freaked me out at all, I felt completely at ease. Well, I wouldn't want to be in there overnight on my own still Most Haunted and Paranormal Lockdown did shows about it.

It's a maze of cavernous tunnels and rooms that you could easily get lost in, in some spaces it's that dark you cannot see your hand in front of your face. It's been a factory, a nuclear bunker, and there's still equipment in there from back then, basically rotting away adding to the very spooky atmosphere.

It's that big that while all this was going on there was an cannabis farm operation going on there (they were busted after) and we all had no idea

@Rosieposy89

Agree with Glastonbury. Once stayed at a campsite up by Blackpool and had weird vibes as soon as I got there. It just felt dead and heavy. Weirdly I had a paranormal experience 2 nights there

Please tell us about your paranormal experiences *@Rosieposy89*

Kippen in Scotland. I have no idea why, but it gave me the heebie jeebies.

There’s nice places too though! West Sussex feels relaxed. I can always tell when I’m not in uptight Surrey or Hampshire anymore.
Blackpool and Liverpool felt quite nice. I think the Lake District feels really oppressive as does St Ives.Don’t like Bath either.

Regarding Saltburn, is that the same place that a man called Stephen Clark went to use a public toilet and then was never seen again, literally vanished? His parents were arrested but not charged.

Could explain the weird atmosphere.

All my family live in Townsville, it's had a massive facelift in recent years and is now quite a nice place to visit, especially the strand.

@VeronicaVanHoopen

Not necessarily negative but I felt like Kandy in Sri Lanka was on a completely different frequency to the rest of the world. Never felt like it since but it was such a strange feeling - like my body was just totally out of kilter with the environment. Very intense.

We travelled round Sri Lanka and I didn’t feel like it anywhere else. Most odd.

I was at school in Kandy for a couple of years!

There have been a couple of places that freaked me out - a disused Greek fort in Sicily and oddly Petworth House. Nothing would get me to go back to either of them