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?

Nowhere. And my hobby has taken me to a LOT of supposedly haunted and creepy-feeling places, including some of those mentioned. I think I'm just too pragmatic.

On a previous similar thread, a couple of people mentioned Kamloops in BC as making them uneasy. In light of the recent discovery of the remains of 215 indigenous children buried there (on the land of the former residential school), it makes sense.

Never been to Saltburn but it looks a little similar to Cromer, which I don’t like personally, but others do,. Glastonbury I didn’t like, which really surprised me as I thought I would, been once wouldn’t return.

I honestly can't imagine why you'd be so scared on a pier you'd run away but if it makes you feel better, with this weather it will be packed! It's a beautiful place and so tightly very popular with tourists. I can't wait to go back, the glass fronted restaurant half way up has amazing views!

@Tyredofallthis1 Bradfordian here! Sad to report that whilst much of the city is dead at night, if you know where to look there are some fab little spots: North Parade is a lovely street of indie bars and shops which are always busy. Don't miss out on St George's (one of the oldest concert halls in Europe); it really is stunning, as is the Alhambra, if we can ever tempt you back! .

@XenoBitch

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.

Sorry to hear hope you feel better now.

Watchet in Somerset. Took the West Somerset Railway too.. Just something sinister and creepy about that place - like land of the living dead. I was expecting any moment for corpses to start rising from gardens. Very weird.

A couple people mentioned Townsville, I actually really liked it, worked in a bar there for awhile.

Yes, I’m baffled. I usually visit either on my way to or from the reef/Daintree every few years. Never noticed anything odd about it, very typical of a far North town (not sure if officially a city but i would class it as a large town personally).

Buxton.
Couldn't wait to leave v odd place

Two places - firstly when I was living in Bangkok I visited a friends house out in the country and he took us to see a part of the River Kwai railway close to a cave. Awful, awful vibes there and then he told me that prisoners used to hide in the cave and when they were caught they would have been shot on the spot.

Second one also in SE Asia - Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh. It had been a school until the Khmer Rouge took it over. I wanted to go into one of the classrooms and take a photo looking out through the bars on the window but I literally couldn't walk inside there, you could just feel the sadness seeping out of everywhere.....

@Springchickpea

Definitely got a strange vibe.

I grew up in Cornwall and there are many places that give me the Willies - but probably Men-an-Tol (ancient stone monument thing), the village of Gulval in general, and Tehidy hospital being the most obvious.

Also Royal Victoria Country Park in Hampshire.

I was about to say some areas of Cornwall!

Culloden. But probably because Im aware of its history.

Agree that Glastonbury has a weird vibe to it ,went years ago but was so creeped out I've never been back .

Wokey hole caves.I was around 5 or 6 but I had to get out of there. I felt so scared, I started crying so my dad would take me back outside. Remember it like yesterday.

Obviously you are meant to feel like that in the London Dungeons, but I freaked out something ridiculous, in front of the judge. Quietly of course, but I felt I was doomed to hell. Quite unlike me. Being stuck on the little train didn't help.

I’m not easily spooked, I live next to a cemetery, but I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned The Colloseum 😳.

I’d already found Rome a bit ‘uncomfortable’ but put it down to too many people but when we went to the Colloseum I never felt a feeling like it.

Went in and all OK, quite interesting. Had a wander about, went early so not many people, then as we were walking across the middle it felt more and more oppressive. I couldn’t even speak to DH, just pointed to a way out and legged it.

We went to Ostia Antica next day which I quite liked but spent the whole time dreading going back to Rome.

We’d been to Italy several times and always loved it but weirdly that one moment has now to an aversion to the whole of Italy and I doubt I’ll ever go back 😢

In other news I love Dungeness and Romney Marsh 😊. I love bleak, flat marshland with endless skies and very few people.

Years ago dh and I went to visit the Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire and I swear I had to get out of there. Absolutely eerie and unsettling.

I'm trying to rack my brains about a village we visited when I was a child on holiday. It was like stepping back in time and made me feel odd.

I have a feeling it was in the Somerset area but I'm not 100% sure!!!!!

@Beseigedbykillersquirrels

Chippenham. No idea why but I couldn't wait to leave. It just struck me as a very odd place.

Chippenham, outside of Newmarket? That one?

I loved Saltburn, managed to get a lovely picture of the pier with no one on it.

I love Dungeness but I do believe it is the strangest place in the UK, just something about the atmosphere with the end of the world feel to it. Love to live there though!

I do know what people mean about the Forest of Dean. It does have a suspended quietness about it , but I love it there. The only time I felt very unsettled was at Littledean Hall. It is haunted but omg just the look of the place tells you all you need to know

That's amazing @CosmicComfort. Have any of the other Saltburn fans seen the work of the Yarn bombers?

I saw their work a couple of years ago but don't know anything about how often they do it.

I grew up in the New Forest and absolutely could not stand Burley. So opressive and it made me feel like a big pit of despair had settled in my stomach every time I had to go.

I love the Rollright Stones, but I love hippy mystical stuff anyway! I also like Glastonbury in the main, although there were lots of lost soul types mooching around.
I strongly disliked Thetford particularly the ruined abbey. It felt ‘angry’.