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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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Keepyourdistance000 · 16/06/2021 17:53

The A30 road from Salisbury over to near Winchester - a pretty drive, but felt very unsafe and anxious when I drove it recently.

The A/M74 southbound, especially the winding elevated sections😱

GingerLemonTea · 16/06/2021 21:20

Dusk. Various places. Something unnerving about being out walking at dusk & catching little glimpses of ppls houses & lives.

toffeebutterpopcorn · 16/06/2021 21:43

We once stopped in a tiny village on a lochside to get directions. DS stopped the car and I walked along the road to get to what looked like a small shop. It was deadly quiet - I could only hear my footsteps and my own breathing. Absolutely freaked me out.

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HebeMumsnet · 18/06/2021 09:37

Morning, everyone. We've moved this to Classics now (which has a strange vibe all of its own...)

AutistGoth · 18/06/2021 15:47

@HebeMumsnet

Thank you so much! Flowers

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RevolvingPivot · 20/06/2021 19:24

@HebeMumsnet

Morning, everyone. We've moved this to Classics now (which has a strange vibe all of its own...)
Thanks Smile
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RevolvingPivot · 20/06/2021 19:24

[quote AutistGoth]@HebeMumsnet

Thank you so much! Flowers[/quote]
Thank you x

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ajandjjmum · 20/06/2021 20:02

DH has just reminded me of something.

He and a friend did the Three Peaks challenge in 24 hours, and I was the driver. The final one was Snowdon, and as they were doing well on time, they decided to to do the path which started at the lowest point. It was overnight (they probably started around 2 am), so I parked in this tiny little car park at the end of shale path up the mountain. I was really scared/frightened of 'something', but I don't know what! Ended up driving to a hotel a few miles away, and sleeping in their car park.

The whole place felt really spooky - although I realise it was probably just me being tired!

DH will have to find another driver next time.

Stirling2701 · 21/06/2021 07:14

I suppose this goes without saying but the weirdest, most unpleasant place I have ever visited was Auschwitz.

cappuccinoandcats · 21/06/2021 10:02

@Stirling2701we visited Belsen and I've never felt so angry

SirVixofVixHall · 21/06/2021 10:20

@GingerLemonTea

Dusk. Various places. Something unnerving about being out walking at dusk & catching little glimpses of ppls houses & lives.
This is one of my favourite things. The little glimpses into other lives through lit windows as darkness falls. Melancholy in a way, but I love it.
GingerLemonTea · 21/06/2021 12:50

It gives me a sense of dread, like a Sunday night blues feeling before work the next day.

Hen2018 · 22/06/2021 23:59

St Briavels castle

LadyofMisrule · 23/06/2021 11:34

@Spyro1234 There are two Chippenhams. The other is in Cambridgeshire. I can't believe they are taking about the Wiltshire one, as it's so ordinary; they must be referring to the other one.

Shehasadiamondinthesky · 23/06/2021 11:39

Lindisfarne Island gave me the proper shivers. It was like a Dr Who set but there was something very off about it.

Bollingerknickers · 02/07/2021 07:11

@ChippyDucks150

There is a luxury resort in Portavadie in Scotland, near Tarbert. It was the most unsettling place I've ever been - we stayed for 4 nights and I never slept properly the entire time, I was up and down checking in the children's room numerous times overnight. It was so unsettling and off kilter.

The other place I've experienced that was the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow - I couldn't even use the bathroom, i was so freaked out. I showered when I got home the next day.

Yes the Grand Central Hotel! I love Glasgow, we’ve stayed in many different places in and around the city but that place really freaked me out, I hardly slept for the 2 nights we were there.

DH thought I was mad when I kept telling him that the place didn’t feel right - I’m now off to show him your post Grin

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RevolvingPivot · 25/07/2021 20:20

Anymore? I enjoyed reading the thread.

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MibsXX · 05/08/2021 23:24

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Dover. It was so depressing and I couldn’t wait to get out of there.

I live close to Glastonbury and do love a day there wandering round the hippy shops but I’ve never been on my own (despite it being 20 mins away!!). I also used to have a recurring nightmare which in my dream was Camden but when awake I knew it was actually Glastonbury. So even though I love Camden and Glastonbury I would never go to either of those places alone.

I once went to view a flat in Poole (I was already living in Poole) and even though the flat was lovely I just had a real sense of dread. My friend who was with me said she was relieved I didn’t take the flat as she didn’t ever want to visit me there as she felt the same!

would that flat in Poole happen to have been in Market Place?
Tony77 · 15/08/2021 11:14

Yes! The dunes just south of Filey. I was walking there as night fell and suddenly they felt alive, like they were watching me. Not a person IN the dunes but the dunes themselves. Also, nearby Bempton, the nature reserve. It was hard for me and my son to stay, it felt so overpoweringly strange. AND Loch Ness. .. and even worse Culloden, which brought on something like a panic attack. Last was definitely Glastonbury, which might surprise some but for me felt totally evil.

Tony77 · 15/08/2021 11:16

Yes! I went to Glastonbury expecting a comfy spiritual atmosphere but it felt like being in a horror film. It felt evil and I was glad to get away.

Tony77 · 15/08/2021 11:19

Wow, what happened?

ReginaPhalangee · 16/08/2021 23:27

Tintagel. Won't out myself but suffice to say it was when I realised I'd lived a previous life.

CovoidOfAllHumanity · 16/08/2021 23:56

Benwick in the Fens scared me silly
I had to go to pick up something that SIL had acquired from EBay
It just felt like the arse end of beyond. Like I was driving into nowhere and the road would just run out.
That dead flat landscape and the huge oppressive sky.
I was a nervous wreck by the time I got there. I irrationally felt like I was in a scene from Deliverance and was going to get lynched by crazy locals (sorry lovely Fen folk)

ToffeeNotCoffee · 17/08/2021 09:11

That dead flat landscape and the huge oppressive sky.

I can relate to this. Travelling by train from Cambridge to Peterborough there was several huge ponds either side of the train tracks not far out of Cambridge. It really gave me the creeps whilst travelling through it.

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RevolvingPivot · 22/08/2021 20:40

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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