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Places you have visited with a strange vibe

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RevolvingPivot · 02/06/2021 21:59

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?

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feelabitguilty · 08/06/2021 20:12

@Newmama29

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!
With you there - I got lost on the ground floor once and did not like all the big atriums . Very spooky place . I’m sure I remember there were lots of religious murals on one corridor . Lived across the street from Necropolis for years - very atmospheric .
Lemonwoe · 08/06/2021 20:24

@Newmama29 oh, I used to have dreams about there when I was a child. I used to dream I was an ill child staying in there... at a point in time long before I was born

Newmama29 · 08/06/2021 21:25

@feelabitguilty the long corridors were creepy! The Western Infirmary also had scary corridors. There was one corridor that ran underneath the car park to link buildings & I remember walking along one nightshift to collect blood for a transfusion & it was so eerie, the lights were flickering & there was hospital trolleys lined the walls like a horror film. Safe to say I ran 😂

@Lemonwoe oh that’s creepy! That hospital used to be a children’s hospital I’m sure. People used to say that people would talk to children that weren’t there just before they died. I’ve got goosebumps just typing this 😭

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 08/06/2021 22:25

@AutistGoth

Welcome to the stage Grin

I used to live in Nottingham and I think it's quite underrated by how cool some of its older parts are. The caves are amazing - but the council seemed to see them as quite meh for so long. Weren't they originally going to just fill in the ones under the Broadmarsh Centre before it was built (and now it's gone)?

I always used to find it weird and not a little creepy that Wollaton Hall had its own taxidermist (maybe they still do?). Actually employed by them, because it was a service that they required regularly!

Sadly, all anybody from outside the area really knows or cares about is Robin Hood - even though Sherwood Forest is quite some distance away from the city itself.

RedcurrantPuff · 09/06/2021 01:01

Oh I found Lancaster castle really interesting. Obviously people being hanged there isn’t great. But really fascinating and an important part of legal history for example that the Birmingham Six were tried there. I found it extremely emotional to be in the room where such an abject miscarriage of justice had taken place.

EKGEMS · 09/06/2021 02:10

The USS North Carolina-a former navy battleship which was a historical exhibit-we had visited the USS Yorktown and USS Wisconsin before and enjoyed it but something about the USS North Carolina had a creepy as hell atmosphere to me, although no one else in the family felt like I did.

AutistGoth · 09/06/2021 14:22

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll Thank you. Smile

I love Nottingham. Great for Olde Worlde pubs and the alternative scene. Can't wait to get back there when things improve.

Gosh, I love this thread! Keep the spooky anecdotes coming!

1DoesNotSimplyWalkIntoMordor · 09/06/2021 21:15

@BumCat i've only been to Battle a few times (that I'm aware of) and both times that we actually stopped there for a while I was overcome with sadness but as soon as we left I was fine.

TartanPunk · 09/06/2021 21:28

Winchelsea in East Sussex has a sinister 'Children of the Corn' vibe. I have to visit clients in the area and always feel relieved to leave

ThelmaDinkley · 09/06/2021 21:49

Autist Goth I know what you mean about Wentworth. Hoober Stand up there definitely gives the heebie jeebies. Went for a walk on a sunny day and it felt very off. Dd is convinced she saw a shadow in one of the windows.

ImprobablePuffin · 09/06/2021 23:33

[quote Startingagainperson]@ImprobablePuffin why cottenham? Have friends who live there.[/quote]
I don't know if it was the road I lived on near the waggon pub but there was a presence and it wasn't friendly. The whole street gave me the heebies

nokia3210567 · 09/06/2021 23:51

@Movingtothebeat

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 was about to post to say Edinburgh. I took went on a ghost tour and was having fun until the end when we were in one of the vaults and I felt dread it was awful, I was also pregnant, 7 weeks. I honestly hated my whole three days there I didn't feel myself
Dianetheartist · 10/06/2021 00:15

I am amazed that Beachy Head has not been mentioned..I was overcome with emotion both times I have been there..I could feel the pain and sadness of the people who lost their lives there.. and was hysterical when my husband went closer to the edge.. The whole area had such a feeling of sadness. I will never go there again..

JustMeAndWheatley · 10/06/2021 07:17

Gosh yes, I’d forgotten about Beachy Head. I had nightmares for weeks after visiting.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 10/06/2021 08:38

A house we thought we might like to buy in Weybridge. Fantastic in the photos and from the outside, but once inside it felt so weird and hostile - I couldn’t wait to get out.

Never felt that in any other house we viewed. IIRC it was a probate sale - presumably the former owner didn’t like strangers traipsing around their home.

Having said that, a dd’s house was a probate sale but it had a lovely warm atmosphere from the first.

thebatman · 10/06/2021 09:18

@Newmama29

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!
Oh aye, GRI, definite Arkham Asylum vibe, very spooky place.
bigbadbedknobs · 10/06/2021 11:09

Those who don't like Bradford, well I'm a Bradfordian and have o problems, and have happy memories of concerts, etc at St Georges Hall. Some suffragettes hid under the stage there and burst out when PM Asquith came onto the stage, Emmiline Pankhurst had had a bad experience there too. There is the Alhambra theatre and the playhouse as well as theatre at the uni, and will soon be a live venue in the old cinema. But there has been some very poor redevelopment in the 60s and a big shopping centre has replaced an old square which had grass and seats etc. Lots of places to eat too. But someone has turned the old morgue into a restaurant, and I'm not sure I'd go in on my own, maybe if in a group but just why a restaurant, So do give it another chance. Being interested in history I've read about murders in the past and sometimes the house is there, sometimes it has gone, but I don't think murders happen all over the country and maybe some of the unease is where something like that happened.

Certainly Hepronstall is famous for one particularly nasty murder, a guy was suspected of informing on the coiners who eventually were all captured and executed. They pushed his head in the fire at one of the pubs, put hot coals in his trousers and red hot iron round his neck and threw him out of the window. The main coiners are buried in the churchyard too, the old ruined church doesn't help either, it was described as the ugliest that Wesley had seen when he visited. Sylvia Plath is buried there too. There was action too in the civil war, lots were murdered climbing up the steep path. But it has a grand view for miles being on a hill top, whereas the valley below where Hebden Bridge is rather dank and narrow
I had a weird feeeling at a place we stayed at in Cornwall, it was a former shop and the living quarters were upstairs and you accessed the house though the upstairs, which was nice and bright. But to get to the living room you had to go downstairs and the door had been all bricked up. I felt really weirded out by that room, as well as the village in general, it was september out of season, a really weird feel. Never gone back to Cornwall
Loved Ghent in general but the castle Gravensteen, rooms of awful torture instruments and weapons, how much suffering they must have inflicted on people. felt very disturbed there

AutistGoth · 10/06/2021 11:17

@ThelmaDinkley I'm relieved that it isn't just me! I'm sorry your DD had a bad experience. I've always been too creeped out by the memory of the Needles Eye to go near the Hoober Stand. Looking at images of it does make me shudder a bit though!

My Dparents love the nearby garden centre, though and I've never felt off there.

AutistGoth · 10/06/2021 11:21

Having said that, my DH and I would love to visit Dungeness for the history of the place. I know I'd probably be a bit spooked, but I guess that's part of the experience.

lollipoprainbow · 10/06/2021 20:56

On my home from Southampton I thought I would try and find the Royal Victoria Country Park, Crikey it was dusk and the combination of the chapel
rising over the trees and the water made me shudder, needless to say I didn't hang around long !!

crochetcrazy1978 · 11/06/2021 16:31

We did one of those ghost walks underground in Edinburgh. It was mainly dark and spooky but ok and the history was interesting but there was one particular vault where it felt awful and both me and my husband felt that something awful had happened there
The other one was in filey in Yorkshire. Been there many times and love it but the last time I went we stayed in an old fisherman's cottage up in the town and it had an awful feeling. Constantly felt like I was being watched and that whatever was watching was very angry. Again husband felt the same. It had a new bathroom in a modern downstairs extension and that bit was fine. Was just the rest of the house

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RevolvingPivot · 11/06/2021 22:27

@crochetcrazy1978

We did one of those ghost walks underground in Edinburgh. It was mainly dark and spooky but ok and the history was interesting but there was one particular vault where it felt awful and both me and my husband felt that something awful had happened there The other one was in filey in Yorkshire. Been there many times and love it but the last time I went we stayed in an old fisherman's cottage up in the town and it had an awful feeling. Constantly felt like I was being watched and that whatever was watching was very angry. Again husband felt the same. It had a new bathroom in a modern downstairs extension and that bit was fine. Was just the rest of the house
I've wondered what it's like to stay in one of the Fisherman's cottages in Robin Hoods Bay.
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RevolvingPivot · 11/06/2021 23:15

Places you have visited with a strange vibe - Part 2 http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/4268590-places-you-have-visited-with-a-strange-vibe-part-2

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RevolvingPivot · 11/06/2021 23:15

I've made another thread..,,,

Places you have visited with a strange vibe - Part 2 http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/4268590-places-you-have-visited-with-a-strange-vibe-part-2

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RevolvingPivot · 11/06/2021 23:16

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