Places you have visited with a strange vibe

This is a very specific place, but the Royal Berkshire Hotel in Ascot. We went there to look at it as a prospective wedding venue and I was really excited as the photos looked stunning.

When we got there we walked around outside first and the grounds were beautiful, but I wasn't quite feeling it. Then we went inside and I was overcome with this feeling of absolute dread and couldn't wait to get out. Even my DM asked it I was OK because I'd gone very, very quiet. I felt really overwhelmed and weepy. My then DP really liked it and in the end I just had to say that there was no way I was getting married there but I couldn't tell him why as I didn't understand it myself!

Worth pointing out that I'm not a "woo" person in the slightest, so it really freaked me out to feel like that!

Yes Betws Y Coed is awful. Just so depressing. I don’t think I’ve ever been there when it’s not been pissing down with rain, which may have influenced my feelings. Its so gloomy though and has an odd feel to it. Lots of people seem to really like it but I definitely don’t. Lots of Snowdonia has that feel though, I think it’s because it’s surrounded by big hills and mountains and gets Misty and wet a lot. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the top of Snowdon because it’s covered by cloud and mist most of the time!

Glencoe...but not in a bad way. I get an overwhelming sense of belonging and homecoming just driving up the glen

Not weird, but Warkworth in Northumberland. Very pretty but unwelcoming and in one case downright rude locals.

Our car was playing up so we could get to the place we planned ( this was at least 15 years ago ) it was starting to get dark and we were just past Whitby. Came across a sign showing there was a farm B&B down a track.
Knocked on the door but the woman said they were full ,went to leave but she offered us a room she didn't usually rent out. We were taken up to the loft , which was made up as a bedroom but not really a proper bedroom , she said her dc from uni used it when they came home in during the holiday season. The bed was lumpy , but we slept ok. The bathroom we used had toothbrushes etc in so a normal family using it bathroom. Not scary, but the next morning when we left we felt as if we'd stayed in a really weird place.

We went to Salem in Massachusetts a few years ago. Obviously it's going to have a spooky vibe but we went about a week after Halloween and it was so quiet, pretty sure we were the only tourists walking around. Went to a witch museum and it was just me, DP and the guide.

It was a bleak day as well but it gave me the shivers in a good way (if you know what I mean)

@EstuaryBird I felt a sense of doom in the Arena in Verona. I couldn't imagine how anyone could go and enjoy an opera or any other event there. It just felt like something horrendous had happened - especially in the holding pen areas. Like the fear from the past was seeping in to the present day. I couldn't wait to leave. My husband didn't feel a thing. I'd love to go to Rome but think I'll just look at the Colosseum from the outside.

A hotel in Switzerland - I saw children who weren't there in the middle of the night and my mum had a horrific nightmare about being trapped in the mountains around us. Recently looked it up - it looks like the setting for a horror film. No mention of any history - maybe deliberate?!

Bakersfield, California - in fact the whole central strip of California has a very uneasy feel to it. But Bakersfield was creepy.

San Francisco - not so much woo feelings, but it was desperately run-down and full of unfortunate people for whom the 60s either never really finished or never really got started. These people seemed to flock to me - it left me very uneasy and feeling very unsafe. We went about 20 years ago. I hear it is even worse now. Would not chose to visit again. NYC on the other hand was amazing - a place I could see myself living in.

@RevolvingPivot why are you going back then?
I went to Newcastle for a work trip years ago, that place is weird. Especially the Travelodge I stayed in, worst nightmare I have ever had that night! And a freaky museum experience for Hadriens Wall, South odd I rushed round and out and thought my life was in danger, just that gut feeling if I stayed a minute longer!!!

DH and I visited Blarney Castle in Ireland. We joined the queue to kiss the Blarney Stone, which went round some high battlements. I started to feel very uneasy and by the time I got to the Stone was in a state of panic. Kissing the stone involves leaning over backwards while they hold you. I was able to do it but could not wait to get back to ground level. Probably just vertigo, but possibly channelling someone who had been thrown over.

Jerome, Arizona. Can't really put my finger on it. Just felt like I was being watched all the time.

I love Saltburn.

I went to Culloden when I was about 12. It's a fascinating place to visit and really sparked my interest in history but the atmosphere was oppressive. It felt to me like ghosts from the battle were still there and they didn't particularly like you if you were English!!

Although I like visiting it, I find the Giant’s Causeway a touch creepy, particularly the organ pipes formation. It might be something about the precise geometry in a natural landscape that is a bit unsettling.

[quote Lairymary]The Hellfire Caves in West Wycombe. The actual website won't tell you the extent of why it's so creepy but this link will, for anyone that's interested.... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfire_Caves[/quote]
Used to go here all the time and knew the history as I was a weird kid ..
Only thing I found creepy about them is the stuffed monkey!
Although, the old cemetery at the top of the hill and the weird monument that’s meant to have Dashwood’s heart in it is definitely a little unnerving!
Was meant to visit weekend just gone but completely forgot .

There was a town in Galicia, northern Spain, that was partially built on very high stilts in a ravine. The road to it went over a narrow bridge. We went to park up for a look around and I completely panicked, had to drive right away from it. It felt like a place no one should be living, as if something terrible would happen if set foot in it. Probably just vertigo!

I was working on a tiny island in the Grenadines. Every day we had to drive over a bridge in the middle of nowhere to get to the village and I had the most terrible sense of something sinister. It felt even scarier at night in the moonlight! I later found out that the locals called it The Jumbie Bridge, which in Caribbean folklore means a malevolent spirit or demon. The bridge was also on the site of an old sugar plantation so I wonder if a restless spirit was trapped there.

My DH would say the Vyne National Trust place near Basingstoke. He always seems to feel unwell there.

Not strange, more amazing - the ancient fortress of Masada in Israel. Talk about stepping into history...

Burley, New Forest