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?

Agree with Port Elizabeth. Very bleak. Loved Merida in Mexico though!

@Springchickpea

Oh and Burley in the New Forest; something there messes with my sense of direction.

Lol burley is ok, but some of the places in the New Forest are creepy. Especially when you realise the histories.

I don’t like Burnham on Crouch. It’s just freaky.

Dean Castle in Scotland. I felt so uncomfortable I had to leave - I had the distinct feeling someone had been murdered there. I was only about 8 & thought I'd kept my feelings to myself.

But recently my mother and I were driving past the sign and she asked if I wanted to go in. I said no! She recalled I didn't want to set foot inside it as soon as we reached the entry stairs.

OP your photos give me a doomy, odd feeling, as if I’ve been there in a dream I can’t remember.

Whitby had a secretive strangeness too.

@SmidgenofaPigeon

Having never suffered a day of what others describe as depression in my life, I was awful in Berlin. I honestly felt like I had the weight of the world on my shoulders, I kept bursting into tears and was crying in a bloody restaurant which was embarrassing and very unlike me indeed. I couldn’t understand it. I felt like this black fog had attached itself to me, I felt so heavy and sad. Weird, because I think it’s an awesome city, but I could not get rid of that feeling.

Never felt like that before or since.

Ditto. I felt the same in Berlin. Those brass cobblestones outside the dwellings of people who had been murdered in the camps were heartbreaking and they are everywhere once you start noticing them. Some of them were for really old people, and it made me sad to think they may have lived their whole lives there before being deported.

Bolton Abbey

Haworth Parsonage in 2017.

It was the year of Bramwell's bicentenary. Walked around the house happily looking at everything, taking photos...got to his bedroom and was just completely poleaxed.

Just kind of ground to a halt and felt an overwhelming sense of sadness to the point I was welling up and still do when I describe it in RL. Absolutely couldn't take photos.

As soon as I went into the next room I was absolutely fine.

I'm going back to Yorkshire next year and will be interested to go again and see if the same thing happens.

@Jenasaurus

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?

Scientology UK headquarters are in East Grinstead.

I did have an experience a couple of months ago that was unusual. During one of our interminable lockdown walks me and my son ended up on a street we hadn't been on before. I kept on saying to him "this is a really weird street, everything here looks weird, the houses aren't quite right" to the point where he was like "Jesus, what are you going on about, it's just a street". And I guess it was, a quiet residential street in a small town. But I couldn't get past this feeling, and when we got to one house in particular I really thought there was something not right with the house, it just looked all wrong. So I told myself there was probably something architecturally unusual about it or something and that having it in my vision was giving me off beam thoughts.

There was a stabbing there the next night. Guy staggered out on to the street and he'd been stabbed.

Forest of Dean again but specifically Lydney Harbour. Had an overwhelming feeling of fear and felt like I was being watched. My DD actually felt someone push her and I saw her stumble but the side lane we were walking on was empty.

Also, a pub/ hotel just outside Bath, in a little village called Norton St Philip. A timber framed, Tudor type style place. Goodness; never felt fear like it. My DD, who was six at the time we visited, was also paralysed with fear; white faced and shaking. I was struck by a premonition that there was to be an unexpected death in the family and there was, within weeks.
I can’t even drive past the village now; I have to detour. Eleven years on, I feel sick thinking of it.
I read in an article a few years later that people stay overnight, ghost hunting there.

I feel certain some shocking things must have happened in these places in years gone by.

@VisitingtheInfidel

This place. www.haunted-britain.com/knowlton-church.htm I went there with an archeology group. It was a beautiful summers day but as you stepped inside there was this awful feeling of utter horror. A couple of the group were talking about how it’d be a lovely place for a picnic and the rest of us couldn’t get away quickly enough.

Really??? I went there on a painting trip & apart from the fact that I couldn't paint a decent picture that day, neither I nor anybody else in the group noticed anything odd about it.

I used to drive past it quite often: nothing. I feel cheated now.

Went on a visit to Tor Abbey in Torquay in 2019 felt really strange walking round it and in one of the rooms there were exhibits as we were looking at them my throat went really tight and then like I had something stuck in it the place itself is beautiful but it freaked me out

Exeter.
Where they hung the witches. I felt really weird there.

The Cotswolds. Went there with DH for a couple of nights but I became so anxious I started to vomit. We left in the middle of the night and as soon as we were in the car on the way home I felt fine.

Las Vegas, it's in the middle of no where which freaks me out.

staffbroom.baords.net

Don't go there, it has a very strange vibe!

It is like a reverse Royston Vasey! (Once you leave, you can never return).

To be fair, OP, anywhere 'pitch black' especially on a pier is eerie!

The West Country was frequently mentioned, including several places in Somerset.

yep, quite a few places in Somerset - not scary as such but just odd, maybe because many places are nearly empty of people and it's lik a theatre set, looks good but just somehing weird. Shepton Mallett etc.

@whiteroseredrose

Venice. Something a bit sinister about it.

I know what you mean about Venice. I think it’s the acoustics; no cars of course and a lot of echo. When away from the tourists you can hear a pin drop. Or you’ve been watching the film Don’t Look Now and have spooked yourself!

Celebration in Orlando made me feel uncomfortable as did Portmeirion in North Wales. Lots of people find them both quaint but something unnerved me about both places.

@Thewinterofdiscontent

I feel the same about alton towers... i love it there but such an odd vibe.. talking about the theme park now, where the ghost train is, me and a school friend walked past during a school trip and it was closed for construction work, had scaffolding and tape on... there wasn't many people around at all but we heard a girl saying help me... we freaked out a bit but as school kids we just walked away laughing about it and talking about how mad it was.. still dont know to this day if it was someone testing the ride inside or something..

Eyam in Derbyshire, we went to have a look around and it was so quiet and empty, we couldn’t even get a coffee, it was so odd and creepy, also Robin Hood’s bay, it was like the village of the damned, it’s very beautiful but seems sad.
Whitby gives me the creeps as well.

I have two. First, the sacrificial tomb in Newgrange, Ireland, I almost passed out. A few years later my mum had the same experience! Neither of us are woo in any way. The other one is the basement of the House of Terrors in Budapest, where they have the torture rooms and gallows. You get a little lift down to it where they show a short video of a victim being hung, and just as the neck snaps the lift stopped suddenly, I almost had a heart attack! I forced myself to listen to the guide describing each torture room and literally ran out of the museum gasping for breath, only to meet my travelling companion outside also freaking out. Its a bloody scary place! I guess both places are pretty naturally terrifying, but I definitely felt way more than that.

Sad: Paraguay. I travelled around there in 1992 and tho the people were lovely there was such a heavy, oppressive sadness and bleakness to the place. Not surprising given their history of wars and dictators and giving refuge to the Nazis. But Brazil suffered all that too, and it doesn't feel so desperately sad.

Happy: Dunno why, but Penang Hill, above Georgetown in Malaysia, has such an alluring vibe! I felt a bit possessed while walking up there, but in a good way -- as if someone (or something!!!) was happy I was there.

Underground Hospital in Jersey. There was a room that had a sinister looking bed in it. The whole place had weird vibes.

Also, Clifton Suspension Bridge (in Bristol). I know of people who used it to exit this life, and I have been there to do the same (obviously rubbish at it). It is a marvellous wander of engineering, but with a sad undertone that I could never shake off.