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?

Was working in an 18th Century Manor House in a secluded Snowdonian valley , had to go up to a room on the top floor to do some repairs... at the time one of the house dogs would follow me around everywhere so I was astonished when he growled at me when I tried to close the door on him and me in the room . He went ape so I let him out and did what I had to do. The most bleak , horrible , scary atmosphere was there so I finished fast and ran downstairs . It really was scary , I felt really oppressed and threatened.
A few days later I was told that a maid at that house had committed suicide by throwing herself from one of the windows in the room into the river below.
I left that week.
Was later told that dogs won’t go where spirits linger 🙀🙀🙀

@Stirling2701

Pocklington near York and some of the back streets in Edinburgh.

Am really curious to know why Pocklington? We live really close and never heard any spooky tales!

Norfolk. And the Civil Service.

Not quite the same but we stayed in a villa once up on the cliffs on a Greek island. It was a lovely villa but for some reason gave us both the creeps!! I think it was a couple of things, partly the cliffs/felt a bit dangerous and another couple of weird things that happened.

Another place in Malaysia that also had one of those kind of lifts. At the top it had some kind of bird sanctuary and there were rats running all over the top of the enclosures. 🤢 I was very panicked!! Two things im scared of, heights and rats!!

Next door house to mine. Our neighbour is very rude to us, and she’s awful herself and she and her husband argue sometimes but it’s more to it than that. I sound crazy so haven’t said it out loud... but our neighbour on the other side spoke it aloud... there’s a dark energy coming from the place. I feel it every time I enter our house (they’re to the left). It’s like there’s a black cloud above it.
Definitely a strange vibe, I’m not like this at all and never speak like it. I don’t know if there’s something wrong in their family and the energy is off? I don’t know how to describe it, it’s really odd. The children are silent and never smiling or playing there... it really does seem to emanate.

I have zero evidence apart from the fact she’s unpleasant. But there is something not right going on there. It has the same feeling as houses where crimes have happened. Nothing has happened! I just know it’s not right.

I sound like a crazy busy body/ woo woo person. But I’ve felt it and the other side said it unprompted. It comes from the whole area of the house.

Specifically the upstairs of my grandmothers friends house.
I've never felt a presence or believed in anything 'woo' but my eyes would start to burn and I felt really heavy if I went upstairs.

Also Cottenham in Cambridgeshire feels odd.
We went on a school trip to the Forest of Dean for a week and I hated it but could never figure out why aged 10.

Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.

Beauty transcends death there.

The Hill of Crosses in Lithuania. I refused to get out of the car to take a look. A feeling of dead I'd never had before (or since) came over me.

@ImprobablePuffin why cottenham? Have friends who live there.

The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. DP were walking about in Berlin in the evening do all the outdoor touristy bits, it was February so cold and dark but lots of people and cars everywhere. We turned to walk down a street and suddenly it was so silent, we hadn't realised we were walking past the memorial until then but it was so weird, like there was no-one else for miles around even though we had just been in a really crowded area. Really heavy atmosphere as well.

Gloucester

Boscastle
Glastonbury
hebden bridge

Are all linked to the occult which may explain the weird vibes.

Personally I found Blaise Castle and Combe Dingle area in Bristol v creepy. Also a friend living in southmead area of bristol, her flat was awfully oppressive.

@DoveOfPiss

Agree with a PP about Wast Water in the Lake District, I was 14 when I went there with my parents and have never felt such a chilling sense of dread and oppression. It still gives me the shivers talking about it now, nearly 40 years later.

Also Silent Pool near Hindhead, part of the Devil's Punchbowl I believe, dead creepy and unnerving.

I loved Ephesus and Portmeirion tho. And as an 18yo I used to regularly sleep overnight in my car at Burley with a group of friends. Brilliant times, I didn't know the history re witchcraft

Wast Water I quite liked but it did have an eeriness about it. Such steep fell by such deep quiet water. Then my dad (i was also in my teens about 15 pm a family holiday) told me about a case where a man murdered his wife and dumped her body in the lake but eventually the body floated and was discovered. now I shiver when i think of Wast Water

@SeththeSloth

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 😂

Trago Mills seems to be a marmite sort of place. I loved it, but some hate it!

Bowling near Dumbarton, it has lots of old boats/ships sunk in the Clyde. Passed by many times on the train and always felt a sadness. Visited late last year and was glad to leave, as a sailor am used to sunken ships but something there just seemed out of place

Another one I just remembered is the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City. Site of an incredibly important battle between the French and English in September 1759.

Ultimately, the British, lead by General Wolfe defeated the French, lead by General Montcalm.

It was essentially the battle for Canada. Many, many "spirits" must surely haunt the place. It was a very atmospheric place for an anglophone from Western Canada.

@Smokeybacon72

Bowling near Dumbarton, it has lots of old boats/ships sunk in the Clyde. Passed by many times on the train and always felt a sadness. Visited late last year and was glad to leave, as a sailor am used to sunken ships but something there just seemed out of place

The feeling a strange sudden sadness reminds me of an experience I had a few years ago. Was meeting a friend in a pub on St Michael's Hill Bristol and there was a church nearby and as I passed the church I just felt extreme sudden crushing sadness. Never been able to explain why.

*led by

Another vote for Wast Water lake and the surrounding countryside. A lot of bodies have been recovered from that lake over the years!

Also Kirkstone Pass Inn (a mountain pub in the lakes) terrifying at night especially going upstairs to the loo.

Maresfield near Uckfield where the old army intelligence camp was.

Helingly

Most parts of Lancaster especially the uni and the tower!

Silverdale very odd feeling on the coastline

@NigellaSeed. ..so did I definite negative impact.

@thebatman

The underground Hospital on Jersey, built by the Germans during the war using Russian POW's as slave labour, apparently when they collapsed with exhaustion they were just thrown into the concrete as it was being poured. The company I worked for were doing some work in the bowels of the place which had been untouched since the war, you had to walk down these small, narrow corridors to get to the site and it was like going back in time, creepy as balls, you just knew bad shit had happened there.

Oh yes, I've been there as well! It got much cooler as you walked deeper into the tunnels. The exhibits were pretty good.

There’s a disused quarry surrounded by woodland near to where I live called Swithland Woods which is a popular spot for walkers I’ve been a few times and every time as soon as I get there I have this awful feeling of doom and sadness.As I’m walking I feel like I’m being suffocated as if everything’s closing in on me.The quarry is surrounded by a fence but you can see over it and it is so creepy just the stillness of the water gives me the chills.

Another vote for Heptonstall.

I also found Glastonbury eerie but weirdest vibes ever were Neist Point on Skye which is a partially abandoned Stevenson Lighthouse. Its beautiful but you couldn't pay me to spend the night there.