Weirdest place you've ever been?

[Tootief]

Not necessarily woo, just weird.

We were looking at places to rent and the landlord showed us round a house which was becoming available. He was as uncomfortable as us when he saw that not only were the windows blacked out but the entire house from the ceiling down including the floors was covered in thick black plastic and the main bedroom had a lock added and we couldn't get in.

We left pretty quickly and I'm not really sure if the landlord looked into that any further!

Glasgow Central Station always makes me feel a bit weird but I'm not sure why.

Love this kind of thread!

Bungay in Suffolk. Dh and I went to a cafe for breakfast. A real "everyone staring at you" place. Men at the next table talking loudly about non Bungay people being in there. The breakfast was lovely and Dh and I styled it out.

A hillside village somewhere in the Tarn valley in France. It was recommended. Dh and I drove up a steep hill, there was no exit that side. The houses were all shuttered up and the village empty of people (not unusual in France ime) but there were loads of quite big free range ferocious dogs that were endlessly barking at the car and jumping at it and following it. This time we got the fuck out!

This is, maybe, a somewhat unfortunate description.

@ThePumpkinPatch

Re: Lockerbie

yes!! an elderly couple waited til we came out of the chip shop, and followed us back to our car. Then stood really close by while we got in it. Didn’t say a word, just stared! Several other people were watching us, too. My DH wound the window down and asked if there was something the matter and got told “you get on your way now, time for you to leave” 😱
We shot out of there, I can tell you!! I would never return.

I’ve asked people about the place and the best answers seem to be that they are “funny” about strangers since the air crash ( in 1988) and that the locals are a “weird lot made weirder by the air crash and the worlds spotlight being shined on them” 🤷‍♀️ Who knows?

@tobee

Umm, yes… reading it back, it is indeed an unfortunate description. Apologies.🤭

Some of the villages around Dorking, look pretty but very unfriendly beneath the surface. Totnes, Looe and Polperro all creepy.

I stayed in a cottage in Polperro by the harbour; loved it! Very much enjoyed staring out at all the day trippers who stared in at me while I did the washing up

Petts Wood, Orpington. Streets and streets of big houses. Who lives in them?

I said Carmel by the sea in California and of course Tenby! Upthrwad

but I also forgot…. Isle of Man. Odd odd odd.

In recent memory it woukd be a gift shop in Tenby. From the outside it looked like a tiny shop. Inside it was an absolute maze of rooms piled floor to ceiling with alsorts of stuff from books and toys to greetings cards and glass ornaments. It went on forever and these new rooms just kept on appearing. I got a bit panicky at one point and decided to make my way out. My brain literally couldn't process so many different things. I didn't take any pics but wish I had!

Kettering.

The beach by Varosha in Cyprus (can't remember the name). Varosha itself is occupied by the Turkish army and has been derelict since I think the 60's so buildings are crumbling, windows broken etc so the view from the back isn't the best but the worst bit is the armed Turkish soldiers guarding the perimeter telling tourists off for taking photos. Nothing like trying to relax on a beach with someone holding a rifle just meters away. Couldn't wait to leave there.

Also the town I work in the first day if lockdown. I was in work (key worker) and popped into the supermarket in the town centre and the whole town centre was shut up and empty. It felt very apocalyptic and unnerving.

Wieliczka Salt Mine in Krakow - beautiful but weird vibes

Lynton and Lynmouth in Devon - particularly the Valley of the Rocks - something just felt off about the place

Also had weird vibes at Glasgow Central !

@GreatBigExpectations The house wasn't in Harrogate. You're going to say there something bad happened in a similar Harrogate house aren't you?

So interesting that many people are saying the same places. I know some of the places have reputations but some are just so random.

So agree about Walsingham, what a strange atmosphere.

The seedy underbelly of Glastonbury is felt so strongly in the middle of town, I tend to avoid it now and stick to the Tor area.

Some of north and east Wiltshire especially around Melksham and Devizes is very odd and feel scary and foreboding.

I grew up near Walsingham, friends live there and my dad still goes to church there. It's just deeply, deeply religious and has a rich history. The railway and courthouse are interesting in particular. I think it just had a strong identity.

Glastonbury is odd. Thought everyone would be fluffy and happy as it's a spiritual place, but the place seemed very tense. Dartmoor - Wistman's wood = found a miniature sculpture hanging from trees with stick figures clothed in rags. Also the parts of the moor that look like fresh grass, then you step on them and go up to your waist in stinky bog water.

Patelnia, Warsaw. The sheer scale and noise and soullessness was super unsettling. Being used to narrow London roads and not many high rises at all. Or maybe it was something underlying that.

Lots of people say this, it always comes up in threads. I agree on the feeling there, I just wonder why it is ?

Rubbish! We live in a rural village, it’s so peaceful and an AONB so no one is going to build an estate on it 🙄 your post is just hyperbole from beginning to end.

My experience of village life is the polar opposite to what you describe. Life here is serene, safe and bucolic. The affluent parts of Central London are way more chaotic and way more cacophonous I used to live in Holland Park and Notting Hill, hardly sanctuaries of tranquility 😂

Thought of another one

famagusta Cyprus

still not as weird as isle man, Carmel and Tenby though!

If we are all being honest….

it is the people living in a place that make it weird rather than the place itself! 😂

I liked Matlock Bath but I can understand why people are mentioning it. Something about the geography of the place does feel a bit claustrophobic, a high street sort of hemmed in between rock on one side and the river on the other. The random aquarium/hologram exhibit there is also bloody weird! 😁

My vote is Newmarket and its ultra depressing town centre but actually lots of Suffolk, Norfolk and Lincolnshire gives me a strange feeling. The long straight roads with a very flat horizon stretching out on all sides is unsettling, like you're very exposed.

Lourdes.

We were holidaying near by and fully intended to avoid the place but we broke down, got towed there and had to hang around all day waiting for the car to be fixed.

I felt completely suffocated. Tacky commercialism mixed with devout religiosity was macabre and unsettling.

Thank you, that's the name I was looking for but couldn't remember for the life of me what it was called. I remember feeling very uneasy there but I didn't have a lovely halloumi and salad wrap on the beach there 😀