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?

The Isle of Sheppey is creepy, I agree,

I agree about Portavadie. A very strange, unsettling place. We left as soon as we could. Soulless .

@BreakingtheIce

I agree about Portavadie. A very strange, unsettling place. We left as soon as we could. Soulless .

We did, too. It felt weird.

@Spaceprincess

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.

Is Neist Point where Gavin Maxwells lived? Because that house where he lived is creepy. Apparently there were disembodied voices heard around it at various times. In the middle of the night someone staying there heard what sounded like a group of men talking f in a foreign language and lots of noises. Ghosts of Vikings apparently.

No, I see it’s another lighthouse on Skye. I have climbed up the lighthouse near Gavin Maxwells old house.

Quarriers village. Major horror film vibes.

Brothers Water near Ullswater. I know so many people who have freaked out. I must say I find it uncomfortable there.

It's named after the two sons of a farmer who both drowned in it.

@Spaceprincess

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.

That is a creepy lighthouse. I had major fear of kids going near cliffs there too.

I get the portvadie thing, vast expanses of water makes me shudder

Really want to like France, but every time we go there we always
seem to end up somewhere with weird oppressive energy.

@Spaceprincess

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.

I didn’t get those vibes at all at Neist point. I found Loch Ness creepy though, it just went on and on. Had no such feelings about Loch Lomond - lovely and peaceful.

Lancaster, especially the prison/castle. So many people hung there.

I've just read an article that Saltburn has been named the UK's best beach 🤣

@lollipoprainbow

I get the portvadie thing, vast expanses of water makes me shudder

Oh, it's more than that. The Cowal Way starts there so you have to hike through it. It's got a vibe.

We stopped to have lunch in Thetford Forest on our way home from somewhere and went for a walk with our toddler. Were walking along the path into the forest and towards a big clearing, and as we neared it I started to feel weirdly panicky/edgy, and realised all the birdsong had stopped and everywhere was silent. Felt like we were being watched even though we seemed to be alone and hadn’t seen anyone on our wall.. my husband felt it too. We practically ran back to the car! Also as we moved away from the clearing and back along the path we’d come the birds started singing again.

Walk, not wall *

@Sparrowsong

Lancaster, especially the prison/castle. So many people hung there.

I find Lancaster overall ok. The castle - no. Hangings, modern day prison, work house over the years - the misery has seeped into the building.

@kebabmuncher

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.

I'm from there, I totally get this. I felt like this all through my childhood, I think it's the old victorian buildings. I moved to London 20 years ago and now when I go home to visit I love it! As soon as I get on the bleak moors I feel instantly at home.

Also once stayed at an abandoned hotel in Phuket, it was huge. Nothing in the rooms had been touched since the 60s, no other guests. Couldn't sleep and couldn't wait to get out of there in the morning.

What an amazing thread! I've come out of my lurking just so I can contribute to it. This is my first ever post on the iconic Mumsnet. Here goes nothing...

For me, it's Wentworth in South Yorkshire. More specifically, the follies scattered around there. At the age of seven, my DDad took me for a rural walk around the village and to the Needles Eye folly.

When we made our way down the path to the clearing in the woods where the pyramidal folly stands, I suddenly felt compelled to go back. My DDad was unperturbed by it and insisted we get close up and have a better look. I remember the top of the pyramid rising over the curvature of the landscape, almost like a raised fist. Little seven year old me was terrified! Over twenty-five years later, I still have nightmares about that folly in that clearing. I later learned that there were two men executed there (there is a musket ball embedded in the side of the pyramid). I honestly don't know though. Despite being a Goth, I'm certainly not woo.

A pub in Nottingham has a room called The Haunted Snug. DH and I sat in there one evening, drinking some excellent ale. The rest of the pub was packed, but there was no one in this supposedly haunted room. I didn't see anything paranormal and I don't believe in ghosts, but I did have my first grand mal seizure in there. Thankfully, my DH knew what to do. I don't attribute that to anything supernatural, though. That's just my neurology.

[quote Ghostontoast1]@Douchebaggette, I grew up in Osterley and never heard of anything spooky at Osterley house!

Only spooky place nearby is the old asylum, St Bernards.[/quote]
And considering it’s mostly been knocked down now and turned into flats theres not much left to actually consider spooky .

Sorry, should have used past tense!

I've just remembered another.
Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire. My DH took me there as he used to be a stonemason in his youth.
I hated every second and felt like I was being watched the whole time. DH tried to take me down to the crypt but I wasn't having any of it.

@Ghostontoast1

Sorry, should have used past tense!

I knew what you meant Still a bit grim down there with the high security unit.

It’s fascinating how places creep people out! I live near Burley and it’s beautiful. I’ve seen a few places on here I’ve visited and not bothered me isle de re my family loved, tintagel, Glastonbury etc BUT DP was freaked out visiting the Collesium but I was fine. However I get very upset in Bude Cornwall, I feel distressed and intense panic followed by a headache when I’ve visited I now avoid it

As a student nurse I had several placements in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. That building is creepy! Nightshift was always scary as you looked out the back windows into the dark necropolis!