Places with an eerie or creepy vibe

[Anonymous]

Savannah, GA
New Orleans
Gettysburg battlefield
Edinburgh, especially in the closes underneath the city
Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO
An old cemetery in western Massachusetts from colonial times
Walking in a nature preserve in CT - I felt the heaviness and tons of sadness while walking there, and I had to leave. Later looked up that there was a potter's field there with the town buried their poor and unclaimed, and that a woman had been murdered there years ago and killer never found

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Anonymous wrote:Josephine Parks Butler center near Meridian Hill park in DC. Very creepy.

Really? We got married there! It’s a gorgeous, if slightly decrepit at least back then, Italianate mansion.

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The weight of slavery hangs heavy in Charleston and Savannah. The African American museum in Charleston is eyeopening, and devastating. No wonder the town is haunted.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Zagreb. Police got on the train as we entered Croatia. Show us your papers! Flashlights in our faces.

I guess that's happening here now.

You never traveled before the EU, did you? That’s just border control, not something sinister.

Actually we had, quite a bit. Never encountered this.

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The Forks in the Road National Historic "Park" in Natchez, MS

It was the second largest slave market in the US with TENS OF THOUSANDS of human beings being sold from this very spot. That was after many of them had WALKED all the way from Virginia in chains via the Natchez Trace.

Aside from the eerie, heartbreaking "vibe" it is also shameful and enraging that such a place of historic significance is commemorated by a pathetic little display. Look for yourself at the photos.

This is akin to a former concentration camp location and it is appalling that this is the best Americans can do to commemorate it.

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^Correction ... it is "Forks OF the Road"

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get creeped out but the place that I've ever felt that bad, sinking feeling in my stomach was Uganda, specifically Queen Elizabeth National Park and Bwindi for gorilla trekking.

When we were there, I didn't know about the things that have happened to tourists in the past. We were just very, very creeped out and felt like something bad was going to happen.

Then I did some googling and my instincts were correct:

This happened only a few months after our trip. We were on this exact road many times on our trip, going to/from our lodge to the National Park:
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/uganda-police-say-three-killed-national-park-attack-2023-10-17/

We both got a very very creepy feeling when we were in this particular area of the park, where an American tourist and her guide were kidnapped by DRC rebels:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/03/uganda-american-tourist-kidnapped-held-ransom

And then this - I just can't imagine:
https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2003/March/03_crm_131.htm

When did Uganda become a tourist destination?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't get creeped out but the place that I've ever felt that bad, sinking feeling in my stomach was Uganda, specifically Queen Elizabeth National Park and Bwindi for gorilla trekking.

When we were there, I didn't know about the things that have happened to tourists in the past. We were just very, very creeped out and felt like something bad was going to happen.

Then I did some googling and my instincts were correct:

This happened only a few months after our trip. We were on this exact road many times on our trip, going to/from our lodge to the National Park:
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/uganda-police-say-three-killed-national-park-attack-2023-10-17/

We both got a very very creepy feeling when we were in this particular area of the park, where an American tourist and her guide were kidnapped by DRC rebels:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/03/uganda-american-tourist-kidnapped-held-ransom

And then this - I just can't imagine:
https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2003/March/03_crm_131.htm

When did Uganda become a tourist destination?

always?

That and missionaries. American missionaries are everywhere in Uganda.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get creeped out but the place that I've ever felt that bad, sinking feeling in my stomach was Uganda, specifically Queen Elizabeth National Park and Bwindi for gorilla trekking.

When we were there, I didn't know about the things that have happened to tourists in the past. We were just very, very creeped out and felt like something bad was going to happen.

Then I did some googling and my instincts were correct:

This happened only a few months after our trip. We were on this exact road many times on our trip, going to/from our lodge to the National Park:
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/uganda-police-say-three-killed-national-park-attack-2023-10-17/

We both got a very very creepy feeling when we were in this particular area of the park, where an American tourist and her guide were kidnapped by DRC rebels:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/03/uganda-american-tourist-kidnapped-held-ransom

And then this - I just can't imagine:
https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2003/March/03_crm_131.htm

That’s too bad. I lived in Uganda for awhile and had a wonderful time.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Zagreb. Police got on the train as we entered Croatia. Show us your papers! Flashlights in our faces.

I guess that's happening here now.

You never traveled before the EU, did you? That’s just border control, not something sinister.

No kidding. Being woken up in the middle of the night as the train crossed from Italy into Germany. Ausweiss bitte!

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When I was growing up in Berlin, pre-reunification, two of the subway lines ran through east berlin but didn't stop at the stations. They were always dimly lit, with East German soldiers patrolling them. The trains would slow down when passing through them for whatever reason. Always creeped me out.

[Anonymous]

Many towns in upstate New York have a creepy, desolate, haunted feeling - dead downtowns, abandoned old homes, sad storefronts.

[Anonymous]

Jackson Mississippi. Felt threatening.

[Anonymous]

Another vote for Jerome, AZ.

I found Bisbee delightful, however!

[Anonymous]

Prague