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?

My memory of a strange vibed place is Aberystwyth This was years ago, I went with my DSIS to check out the uni as it was one of her choices so I was about 16 (I am 56 now so many years ago and the place may have changed) we stayed in this inn/pub and there was hardly anyone else in the place. I remember at meal times the staff all stared at us but said nothing, and the food was awful so we didnt eat it and we thought they were going to murder us in our beds for insulting the chef.

It felt a lonely place, we visited the sea and other places but the people werent friendly and it had a cold vibe (plus it was freezing and raining) My DSIS chose Birmingham Uni in the end, glad she did as I visited her a lot there and wouldnt have been so keen on the other place.

I stayed overnight in a half-timbered place in Shrewsbury -- an unplanned stop to break a journey. There was something so weird about the place that I actually pushed furniture against the door when I went to bed! It was also icy cold all night in my room, and I just could not get warm despite layers of blankets... this despite it having been an unusually hot day. I was very glad to leave the next morning.

@Movingtothebeat I second the Queen Mary. We stayed onboard a few years back and it went really freezing cold in our cabin even though it was a warm time of year. I just felt uneasy all night. Also when touring through the ships hospital. And in the corridors.

@Sillysandy

Yes, Townsville in Australia years ago. It felt like vampires had come and ravaged the place.

it is a bit odd but I went to a sugar cane burning and it was quite scary

I love the Forest of Dean,my daughter lives in Ross-on-Wye.

Bodmin Jail is the creepiest place I have ever been,now they are opening part of it as a Hotel,wondering if I would have the nerve to stay there for a night!

The old Stuart Crystal factory in Stourbridge. It was creepy as..

Wawa in Ontario. We stopped there on a road trip across Canada. It had such a creepy vibe. Everyone stopping and staring as we drove around as if they knew we were strangers. Everyone stopping and staring as we walked into a diner for dinner. It made the hairs on the back of neck stand up . Never had that anywhere before. Woke up in the motel (which was deserted!) with a horrendous migraine and blacked out in the shower for a few seconds.

Couldn’t get out of there fast enough .

I lived in a patch of Devon that was wiped out by the 1st WW - the Pals mostly gone in a single explosion, the village/hamlet closed down during the 1920s, not much left by the 21st Century, a few old walls where the villagers used to live, just one Farmer and the Church which on a plaque gave the long list of names.

And They came out in the wind, the Pals, howling, grasping their way out from the Earth - but not in a frightening way. I didn't leave because of Them, but I can see that if I had stayed I might have been sucked into their reality rather than staying in the present.

@Wbeezer

Interesting mention of The Forest of Dean, only place I've visited and gone home early found it weirdly claustrophobic. Caveat, I'm Scottish and often feel at a loss at what to do in the English countryside, i always feel that I shouldn't be there and a farmer is going to shout at me for being in the wrong place! It all feels a bit private IYKWIM

Yep I agree but I reverse! Scotland to me is an alien landscape. Your beaches with the Igneous rock and Irish/ North Sea feels very different to our chalky/ flint pebbles and subdued Channel / Solent . I feel really out of place. It is such different landscape.

Another vote for Townsville in Australia- was a perfect stop over point on our way down the east coast but my god it was horrible there.

Ironbridge. It always seemed really dark even on a sunny day.

The site of the twin towers post 9/11. Overwhelming and overpowering, heavy. Felt like I was intruding. Couldn’t wait to get away.

Newquay town centre and Staten Island (NYC). Sad/ weird vibes in both. Couldn't wait to get out of them!

@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?

Huh. I thought Saltburn was lovely.

Nunney in Somerset. Urgh.
Hardly slept a wink. Apparently it’s very haunted, as I discovered perusing the hotel blurb at 3am.

Hms Belfast! Had a sleepover on board in the old crew quarters whilst on a school history trip and it was the longest night of my life! So noisy, cold and lots of random disruptive thoughts.

Maybe the reason for all the unexplained unease is that something bad happened to us in these places in a previous life...

I like saltburn! Glastonbury is a bit weird though

glastonbury TERRIBLE vibes

Brixton I don't like it. Soon as we got there to go for lunch I wanted to go home it just feels forced and threatening I can't explain it. It might be because there's so much actual poverty on the streets yet it's all outside and surrounded by expensive artisan cafes and shops etc. Weird.

I've visited Jinja in Uganda. Beautiful place but it was like being on another planet to me, from the UK. Big rocky boulders, and dusty landscape to lush trees with fruits and thick grasses and but especially a bit strange was the giant stork like birds walking around like pigeons do in the UK scavengering food from bins etc.. except they are as big as 5 year olds!

A lot of people I know think that the Fens where I live can be decidedly eerie . Particularly if you have to drive through them at night . I scoffed at them until I hit a deer at 2 in the morning and wrote my car off , and was there waiting for recovery alone in total darkness with not a single house nearby and the mists rising because of all the water around us. I was bloody glad when the truck arrived , I can tell you , and I’m not easily spooked .

I’m surprised Royal Victoria Country Park is on here! I live near there and we go often. It’s lovely. We were all packed up with a picnic in the car today on our way there but it started pouring with rain.

I know it’s the literal opposite of the question asked... but I felt AMAZING after staying in a place on the river Kwai. I felt like I was sparkling when I woke up in the morning.

The Forest of Dean though... wasn’t that the setting of the most scary paranormal story that’s lurking over in Classics?

I can’t believe I’m going camping tomorrow night (bivvying, actually!) and I’m about to go reading through spooky mumsnet stories to find it...

@Amiable

Ullapool.

We were only there for half a day, couldn't get out fast enough!

My dad is from Ullapool. I've never liked it that much, but I think that's from boring day trips there as a kid rather than some horrible vibe. Although one of my friends went there for a week a couple of years back, when I told my mum (who isn't from Ullapool) her response was "what on earth for?"

Twin towers site. Standing there I felt like I was standing in the middle of a crowd even though there were only a few people well spaced apart. Almost felt like I was being jostled.