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.

Blockhaus d'eperlecques

Omg- yes!!!!

It feels so dead. I just completely got the creeps by it

I live near Lynton and Lynmouth and hand on heart don't think I've ever heard anyone local to here call it Valley of Rocks - I've always known it as Valley Of The Rocks. So there, you pedant.

Also Watermouth Castle - yes weird AF, took my children there a lot when they were little and it always creeped me out but I think that's part of the "charm".

Anyone been to Kielder water? The only place I've been where I felt a bit spooked in our chalet and generally unsettled in the area...dh agreed too

Rather you than me @gnilliwdog

I kind of like York but I've been there on a Saturday when the races were on and lots of people were flooding in on a mission. And yet again on a Saturday evening with the stag and hen parties were in full flow as it were. It's was all a bit nihilistic. 😳

Cornwall, in particular Bodmin moor and fowey. Also whitby. Both have a funny atmosphere about them.

It’s how you experience the people whilst a a destination that will drive your perception of the area

and my experience of Tenby was less than pleasant based on that! Plus I found the town very…. Dull and a bit… dead.

@MumbleCrumbs York Minster gave me a really downbeat vibe. I think it's the stained glass window depicting Revelations! No one wants to see that before lunch on a typical Thursday,

Fantastic thread! Am I the only one wanting to go to all of these places that have been mentioned now?!

Tintagel & Boscastle
Corby
Dunnet Head
Lowestoft

Yes to Matlock Bath - also Buxton. We went to Hadfield, which is the setting for Royston Vasey, and that seemed really weird too. I don't know if it was just the association with The League Of Gentlemen; but there may have been specific reasons why they chose to set it there in the first place?!

The slate landscapes in N Wales, whole rundown villages surrounded by a wasteland of slate, it all feels so … desolate.

There’s an old-fashioned little corner shop in Wells that feels very eerie to me, because it was locked up/abandoned with the stock still inside. The cereal boxes in the window are faded and discoloured by black mould and the labels on boxes of chocolates are disintegrating.

There's a shop in a side street in Cromer (Brook Street) that looks just like that. I've been there at various times and never seen it open or any signs that it ever has been open for years; but it has all kinds of random items in the windows - looks like a bric-a-brac/curio shop of the sort that Norfolk is well-known for, or maybe a charity shop. It just seems so strange for a shop to close down (if that's what has indeed happened) but for the contents just to be left there. I'd love to know the story behind it, if anybody knows!

I didn't like Tintagel much, it felt a bit creepy.

I suppose there are some places - like Tintagel - whose raison d'etre (and tourism bread and butter) is in coming across as weird/creepy/mystical/special/unusual. If they were like a generic Cotswold village, lots of people wouldn't bother travelling to the further-flung parts of the country to visit them in the first place!

Are we allowed commercial places and ones that don't exist anymore? If so, I nominate the American Adventure theme park.

I suppose it was always going to be a bit strange having something American-themed but located in the middle of Britain; but it just seemed so weird in an unexpected way. So run-down and forlorn, long before it actually closed down for good.

@magpie1976 Yes to being at Keilder water and forest and loved it! However I met a lady who said that when they were on holiday in Northumberland, they drove through Keilder forest and they were both terrified , felt like they were never going to get out of there. They were both really unnerved by it.

A truly grim pub on the seafront in Southend. There was this woman just standing outside and the look in her eyes, and the grim look of the place, and the fact that the doorframe seemed to just descend into a black pit behind (black pit being a dark grotty pub but it felt like purgatory could be behind there). But anyway the whole scene had such a grim demonic feel to it that me and DH still joke to this day that we found the gates of hell and thank God we never got close enough to be pulled in...soul sucker of a place. Still makes me shiver!

That, and Lincoln, Nebraska where I met genuine swivel eyed racists with shotguns shouting the N word. And driving off onto a huge long highway with massive huge crosses by the road, and a sky that looked very close to a tornado.

Oh, if we are allowed to include places in America… the house miles and miles from anywhere in Utah that I once drove past that had a life size stuffed person hanging in a noose from a tree in the front yard.

when were you in Belgrade? I’m from there so it’s interesting to hear how visitors perceive it. That said, from having been away and returning as a visitor, I have noticed a change in the city. It’s relaxed, I think. Almost like it’s finally breathed out after holding its breath for a long time.

agreed on Chernobyl. It’s a desolate and decayed Soviet time capsule. I felt like I’d stepped back in time, and into a universe where MAD had become reality.

fenland creeps me out. Lincolnshire. The sky is so open and the land so flat that it’s oppressive. It doesn’t feel like a welcoming county, either.

Warsaw. Rebuilt, but like the wounds are still raw and throbbing beneath the surface.

Didn’t get any bad feelings in Prague.

yes to rural parts of Finland. Did make me question what the odds were of being sacrificed to an ancient god. Rural Sweden and Norway also inspired the same feelings.

Kuntz Kamera in Saint Petersburg.

Arkhangelsk, for lots of reasons but the people wandering around with Geiger counters was notably off putting.

The Fens. I get the spooky feeling pretty much as soon as I drive across the county border into Cambridgeshire. Oppressively flat is the word.

Standing outside a witch doctor's hut in a remote part of Kenya.

I was parked in a carpark there in the early hours, while DH and a friend were doing the Three Peaks. I was petrified, and drove back up into the village and parked on a small hotel carpark while they finished their climb. Spookiest feeling I've ever experienced.

I get very uneasy in Malvern. It seems rather sinister and brooding.

Driving through Glen Coe freaked me out something silly.

Not at all keen on driving through that whole area between Evesham and Tewkesbury either.

There is a reason for that. Both Bredon Hill and Dumbleton Hill are giant earthworks. They are artificial mounds laid down around 240,900 years ago. Inside and stretching about 66% underground are two large chambers containing the vessels from our ancestors laid down after they returned to find us from a point in the Universe at the shoulder of the Sagittarius star system.

The human race as we know it on Earth was not evolved from apes here. It was on another planet system (a binary star system). The apes were just imported here. In 480 years time, these vessels, and other similar vessels in other locations on Earth, will rise to take whatever life has evolved and survived here to new habitable planets.

The fact you are attuned to this place indicates to me that you have the JX4 gene. Others have it too. It is your remoter offspring, like mine, that is forecast to survive the challenges to Earth over the next few millennia. Climate change is for this millennia, but while the experiment suggests that humans will survive the fossil-fuel era, they will not survive the Silicon Expansion that will start around 2110 AD. The vessels under Bredon, the Carpathians and just south of Ballingary in Ireland are buried there to save us all from that.