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?

So many places:
York - in theory it has everything I love: long and fascinating history, amazing architecture, great pubs and places to eat, lots of one-off little shops. In reality it has an oppressive, unpleasant and depressing feel for me and I very rarely go.

Saltaire - similar to above but also feels unreal, depressing and creepy.

The waterfront area in Leeds - has a ghost towny, creepy and brooding feeling to it. I feel like if I walked around the back of some of the buildings there they would be like a film set and not actually real places.

Lots of towns in the Fens feel creepy and as if something bad is about to happen.

Tiredofallthis1. Bradford town centre especially around St. George’s Hall definitely has a creepy and heavy atmosphere to me too. There are so many amazing Indian restaurants there but even they arent enough of an incentive to go .

A place where we went on holiday as kids called Villa Marina in Wales. We were all petrified there and my DM insisted we leave after one night!

San Francisco - we stayed in a really dodgy part of the city but it was more than the dodginess that was a problem. Apart from the area around Fisherman’s Wharf the city had a heavy, spooky, depressing vibe to it. I loved lots of things like the cable cars, the hills, the architecture and the fact that it was totally different to anywhere else I’d been to but I was so glad to get away.

The Isle of Wight. Spooky and odd.

This is the giant weird marabou stork

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I always feel Alton Towers is a bit yuck. I went there 30 years ago and stayed in a youth hostel and it was very depressing. I put it down to being a youth hostel. Been back since to different hotels and it still feels wretched tk me.

Sorry you got that twice slow the first time

Telford Town Centre. Nothing wooooo about it, it's just a soulless temple to consumerism where the sun never shines. I avoid it like the plague but if I really have to go there I get out as fast as I can.

Glenn Coe beautiful place but just wanted to leave as fast as possible.

Trerice, NT House in Cornwall, the rear upstairs corridor, both my son and I wanted out of that corridor asap.

Like a poster above, London Dungeon, fainted in there due to the atmosphere.

Personally found Men An Tol fine and lived in Bradford for years, but I guess different things weird different folks out.

This reminds me, I was talking about looking at properties in East Grinstead and my adult DC all said, "you know thats the weirdest place to live in the UK dont you mum" I know it has a lot of different religions there but is it really so bad?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/12/strangest-place-uk-sutton-normal-newcastle-east-grinstead

West Sussex. Specifically the bits around Bognor and West Witterings. I think it's all the caravans. See also Weston Super Mare.

Also, and this is going to sound made up but isn't; when I went up the Twin Towers in rhe late 90s I had a feeling of dread wash over me and couldn't get back down quick enough.

Townsville? My dhs uncle lived there for twenty odd years. I’ve heard nothing but good things about it.
King of the tombs in Cyprus. I had the smell of death and had to walk out.

Nantucket. I stayed in the youth hostel (old lifeboat station) which was gorgeous, but I became convinced that the massive storm was because I’d picked up some stones from the beach and planned to take them with me the next morning. I got up in the middle of the night to throw them into the sea. Never had an experience like it, and am definitely not ’Woo’.

Taken from that article (this town is literally down the road from me and my DS worked there for a while) really dont see it like it says below at all

In recent years, the quiet market town of East Grinstead has been home to major headquarters buildings for several religious groups including Rosicrucians, Scientologists, Christian Scientists, the Ashworth Dowsers, the Pagan Federation, Opus Dei and the Church of The Latter Day Saints, not to mention a large number of Christian denominations. This means that an unusually high proportion of the 24,000 people living there are likely to dislike doctors, or wear hairshirts, or pretend they are eating the flesh of their saviour every Sunday. They might even believe that we are inhabited by the disembodied souls of people blown up in a huge volcano thousands of years ago, or worship a book stating that elephants used to roam around in America, along with Jesus Christ.

@Wbeezer I felt like that about the Cotswolds! It just felt terribly English and l felt like I didn't belong there at all and wouldn't be welcomed. I've never felt that in other parts of England.

I've been to a couple of places where I have felt that I had been there before.

One was quite scenic, and it may just be possible that I had been there, but the other was a town centre and I definitely hadn't. Maybe it had been on tv or had an identical layout to another town centre.

I agree about Kandy in Sri Lanka - I remember the trees around the main lake being full of crows. Perhaps that's what made it feel weird

I grew up in Saltburn and visit regularly, was there today and have never felt a weird vibe, it’s a great place 😊
I was a bit spooked visiting Megiddo in Israel, all a bit end of the worldish and The Omen.

There is a road which runs through our land, which is just above the shore. I used to have to walk down the road to visit the old lady in the cottage at the other side- it should have taken about 5 minutes to walk, but it never took me more than 2! The cottage was odd too; when I was inside, I would often hear the sound of a car pulling up outside, and sometimes see headlights. Then there would be the sound of a car door slamming. There was never a car there though.

There is the strangest feeling of being followed, and of being watched, or maybe escorted off the land. About halfway along, you hear the sound of some sort of fabric flapping in the wind (but only, for some reason, at night). When I first came here, I assumed a sack had got stuck on a fence, but one day when I remembered about it and went to get rid of the sack, I found there was nothing there. I asked my husband about it and he said something like "Ah, that. You won't find anything, nobody ever has".

Years later, I never walk that road if I can help it, and certainly never after dark. The cottage is now a holiday home and the atmosphere has lightened a little, but it still isn't a place I would ever be able to truly relax.

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

Yes! Staten Island. Gave me the heebie jeebies the minute I got off the ferry. Really freaky and weird.

Twin towers went about 3y before 9/11. Had very strange feeling trying leave the building have to go down 3 separate lifts as it was so tall. Got real sense of doom and panic trying to leave as took long walk from lifts and through entrance. Never had in any other building.

Glen Affric in Scotland. Absolutely beautiful but also rather eerie and creepy in places. Stayed at a campsite which had some oddball characters living there for the summer in caravans and a strange Australian man running the local shop who acted as though it was the first time he had met us even tho we were popping in there all the time. We thought maybe he was some kind of murderer who had fled Australia...

I love Lytham St. Anne’s and Grange-over-sands. I think I enjoy the fact that time has stood still but they haven’t declined. I find it peaceful.
I couldn’t wait to leave Port Elizabeth in South Africa.

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Oh I've been on that cliff tram thing but I thought it was in Scarborough. Is there one in Scarborough as well?

Yes there are

Glastonbury
Kirk Yetholm
Armagh
Bangkok
Merida in Mexico
Key West
Denver, Colorado (that city has a load of ley lines)

Agree with the VERY bad vibes in Glastonbury