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I've done a search but not found this topic exactly, so apologies if I am repeating an earlier thread...
There are often mentions in these discussion boards of private houses which have a 'bad' atmosphere, in one room or throughout the building. However the worst atmosphere I have ever encountered was in the church of St Julian in Norwich, not the church itself, but the large 'cell' attached to the side where the anchorite Julian is supposed to have lived. I have visited the cell on two occasions, a couple of years apart, both in spring or summer. Both times I felt a deeply disturbing atmosphere in the cell and it took all my control not to run out of there as fast as I could. The sheer intensity of the experience was shocking, as I don't consider myself psychic or particularly sensitive to such things. On the second occasion my wife was with me and she too felt that the cell had a horrible feeling about it.
(The church and cell were medieval, but the church was destroyed by a bomb in the Second World War and rebuilt on the same site. The cell was demolished at the Reformation but rebuilt with the rest of the church in 1953; however there is disagreement as to whether it is in the correct spot).
Of course I know there can be simple explanations for these things. For all I know, there might have been machinery working in the neighbourhood producing low-level vibrations which affected me - I didn't check on either occasion. But the church to which the cell is attached felt perfectly OK.
I wondered if anyone had been to this place, and if so what did they experience? I'd be just as interested in negative results as positive, so if someone found it perfectly pleasant that's still a worthwhile thing to know. More generally it would be good to start a debate about any public places in which people have experienced these kinds of feelings. Usually on these discussion boards, if a house is talked about with a disturbing atmosphere you are never told where the house is (quite rightly), and even if you did know you could never test it out for yourself. But if people gave their accounts of public places which can be visited by anyone, then any person who was interested could go there and (making due allowance for expectations) see how they reacted to it and report back if they wished. Who knows, perhaps a few particularly consistent buildings could be identified in which many or most people experience feelings of revulsion or terror. If so they could be checked out to see if any factors apply which would explain this.
Just a thought.
There are often mentions in these discussion boards of private houses which have a 'bad' atmosphere, in one room or throughout the building. However the worst atmosphere I have ever encountered was in the church of St Julian in Norwich, not the church itself, but the large 'cell' attached to the side where the anchorite Julian is supposed to have lived. I have visited the cell on two occasions, a couple of years apart, both in spring or summer. Both times I felt a deeply disturbing atmosphere in the cell and it took all my control not to run out of there as fast as I could. The sheer intensity of the experience was shocking, as I don't consider myself psychic or particularly sensitive to such things. On the second occasion my wife was with me and she too felt that the cell had a horrible feeling about it.
(The church and cell were medieval, but the church was destroyed by a bomb in the Second World War and rebuilt on the same site. The cell was demolished at the Reformation but rebuilt with the rest of the church in 1953; however there is disagreement as to whether it is in the correct spot).
Of course I know there can be simple explanations for these things. For all I know, there might have been machinery working in the neighbourhood producing low-level vibrations which affected me - I didn't check on either occasion. But the church to which the cell is attached felt perfectly OK.
I wondered if anyone had been to this place, and if so what did they experience? I'd be just as interested in negative results as positive, so if someone found it perfectly pleasant that's still a worthwhile thing to know. More generally it would be good to start a debate about any public places in which people have experienced these kinds of feelings. Usually on these discussion boards, if a house is talked about with a disturbing atmosphere you are never told where the house is (quite rightly), and even if you did know you could never test it out for yourself. But if people gave their accounts of public places which can be visited by anyone, then any person who was interested could go there and (making due allowance for expectations) see how they reacted to it and report back if they wished. Who knows, perhaps a few particularly consistent buildings could be identified in which many or most people experience feelings of revulsion or terror. If so they could be checked out to see if any factors apply which would explain this.
Just a thought.