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?

Sarajevo in Bosnia. The city is in a valley a surrounded by mountains that get covered in mist and there are noticeably large numbers of white tomb stones lining the mountain sides and across the city in general. It doesn't feel like the city has fully recovered since the war ended in 1995 it is still visibly scarred. The locals being up the war a lot, which surprised me as I had assumed it would be the opposite (although it could be they think tourists want to hear about it). I had such a feeling of sadness for what those people went through that really stayed with me.

I also get a feeling of unease on the Kent coast in places like Deal and Ramsgate. I never feel relaxed there.

I love Saltburn. One of my favourite places. Glastonbury however freaked me out no end!

Denver gave me the weirdest vibes as did Long Beach in LA. It just felt empty and flat.
Funnily enough I used to be a bit freaked out by Saltburn when I was a little girl. I think it was the sharp road on the cliff and the huge amount of seaweed on the beach.

I love Saltburn now and we were there last Sunday.
Also I stayed in one of Britain’s most haunted hotels, The Schooner in Alnmouth. Omg it was spooky.
It was also dropping to bits - my DBIL said the scariest thing he saw all weekend was the electrics

Porthgain in Pembrokeshire. The harbour is completely dominated by a huge derelict brickworks, I found it really unnerving and oppressive. Made me go weak at the knees, not in a good way.

I also felt weird about Statton Island, it felt very disconnected to the rest of NYC (not just because its an island) and gave off sad/forgotten about vibes.

Larkhill, on Salisbury Plain. I lived there a couple of times, and was always struck by how empty it seemed. I knew that loads of families lived there, but it always gave the impression of being almost deserted.

Chingle Hall in Preston; went years ago and still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up when I think about it!

Stonehenge. Felt really creepy vibes

I remember going to a pub in Saltburn and on the way out there was the full moon hanging over the cliffs. It was like you could really sense how ancient it was, probably not explaining well, but gave me shivers. I love it though such a nice place to visit.

Not a place exactly, I was in a pub down Pembrey and there was an old framed photo of a car on the wall. It made me feel very sad for some reason, like the car was sad or a sadness around it. I later found out that the driver of that car died when attempting a land speed record, they buried the car on the beach and then dug it up and restored it years later (I may have got some details wrong there, it was a long time ago). I had no idea about the history when I looked at the photo, just how it made me feel, it just had a tragic feel about it.

Mine Howe in Orkney (Maes Howe is ok).
A house I lived in for 8 years. 2 visiting friends in the forces were horrified by the sound of breathing from the roof. Footsteps regularly ran up the stairs. A hoarse voice said "Here I am" between my ex and me as we lay reading on opposite sides of the bed...we both heard it, sat up, and prayed in as many traditions as we could remember.

The Scientology place on the A22 is way outside of East Grinstead - but it is creepy to be fair. It has a real "wrongness" vibe to it (I often drive past). May just be because I know it's the European HQ of a weird organisation though I suppose, it's just very ..... Over-manicured.

San Francisco was the most depressing and scary place I've been recently, especially around the Tenderloin area.

I find a lot of coastal Kent very bleak and depressing.

Yet another one to declare Townsville a bit creepy.

A few years ago I was house hunting and went to view an old priory which had been converted into a house. It was lovely until I went upstairs to the attic bedrooms which were originally the maids’ rooms. The attic gave me the chills and I couldn’t wait to leave.

I eventually moved to another property and my buyer said that she had also viewed the old priory and had felt the exact sensation.

She did, however, move into my house and then say that it was haunted. She could hear the sound of running footsteps but TBH it was only the ice rumbling around the ice maker in the fridge freezer.

@PivotPivotPivottt there most certainly is one in Scarborough yes

@PoTheDog

Heptonstall above Hebdon Bridge is super atmospheric. A bit eerie, but mainly you feel the weight of history

I'm glad you said that, I had a strange feeling there today, as did my sister !

Kielder water felt spooky and pretty desolate

Pendine, not Pembrey. The car was called Babs.

Blackheath common in London, has always freaked me out. It's a really, flat, exposed, green, very open space with a very strange vibe. The first time I went there was in winter and it was really windy and I felt as though something was raining blows upon me and had to get out of there fast. It was the weirdest sensation. Years later I found out that there had be a Ripper style killing where the body of a young girl had been discovered badly mutilated on Blackheath in the 1930s. Someone at work also told me that all the bodies of the Black Death plague victims were buried under the heath, hence the name Blackheath. It really creeps me out.

I live in semi rural Australia. Near to my house is a historic court building.
It's set in beautiful surroundings, an idyll really....little stream running through it etc.

At night though...different story. I accidentally tried to walk in there at sunset and it felt odd....as soon as the sun set I was like...hair standing on end...FREAKED out and scared. It was like an enormous energy saying "YOU DON"T WANT TO BE HERE AFTER DARK!"

I never went there after dark again. Later I found this was the place the British military had set up camp when they first came to claim and map the area. And of course, commit atrocities against the local aboriginal population.

We stayed in a little holiday cottage in a place called Docking in Norfolk. Beautiful setting, creepy as can be! I don't even know why.

Rendlesham forest too.

Dolbenmaen in Wales. Went to visit a relative there years ago, found it to be beautiful with the scenery but eerie.

Charlestown in Cornwall made me feel very weird. When we passed a sign for it on our honeymoon, I was just about to say so to my husband, when he said "Have you ever been there? It has a very weird atmosphere!

Also agree with a previous poster about Sarajevo. If a word could describe it, it'd be melancholic. We drove off the beaten track somewhere between our journey from Sarajevo to Mostar and ended up on some mountain surrounded by thick trees and a spindly track when a thick fog engulfed our car - was such a horrible experience. During the drive we came across this huge abandoned building which both me and DH got REALLY bad creepy vibes from. Later when I googled it, apparently it had been a 'hotel' that'd been used essentially as a torture prison.

@TellmewhoIam

Mine Howe in Orkney (Maes Howe is ok). A house I lived in for 8 years. 2 visiting friends in the forces were horrified by the sound of breathing from the roof. Footsteps regularly ran up the stairs. A hoarse voice said "Here I am" between my ex and me as we lay reading on opposite sides of the bed...we both heard it, sat up, and prayed in as many traditions as we could remember.

BRRRRR!

@Lemonwoe

I find Bath a bit creepy: felt a bit uncomfortable there.

Another place is Feurtaventura: it all feels very abandoned with half build estates randomly dotted about. Even the capital,
Puerto del Rosario Felt very isolated and creepy

Omg I felt this in Fuerteventura too! I really hated it. Stephen King has a story about a group of people who end up living in 'yesterday', it made me feel like that.