A person, place or thing that appears normal on the outside however has a dark history or aura that has been altered or buried in order to keep the peace.
Man #1: Let’s go that bar I told you about last week, drinks are free on Wednesdays
Man #2: No thanks, that place gives off a weird Koolitant vibe that I don’t wanna be apart of.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)