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Weirdest place you've ever been?

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Tootief · 30/08/2022 18:19

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.

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dropthevipers · 30/08/2022 22:55

I went to Swindon once. It was shut. Orford Ness-wicker man remake. Forest of Dean, or more particularly the bonkers museum there-full of weird far right memorabilia - nazi, KKK etc

Crikeyalmighty · 30/08/2022 22:55

@goldenbag I do know what you mean - I lived in Bath for many years and heard people say the same!!

SeenYourArse · 30/08/2022 22:57

BarbaraofSeville · 30/08/2022 18:35

Sotogrande in southern Spain. It's like a real life Truman show set.

We didn't stay there, I think we wandered in from the fishing village next door.

Ah we love Soto’ ! We stay in Estepona which is expensive enough but Sotogrande is gorgeous 😀 so pretty

VioletInsolence · 30/08/2022 23:00

recklessgran · 30/08/2022 19:14

Ravenglass. The railway is great but the actual village itself is really creepy, deserted and just plain weird.

It’s because of Sellafield/Windscale. There was a nuclear accident there in the 50’s and they didn’t tell the people in the local villages….many died in the years afterwards.

Suetwo · 30/08/2022 23:00

I’m amazed people can find weird/creepy villages anywhere in the U.K. The Hammer Horror style village, with the yokels who don’t like outsiders, the smoky pub where everyone stares as you walk through the door, etc, is a fantasy. Even the tiniest villages are now deformed by ghastly new build estates. I want to laugh when I hear townies say “we’re going to retire to some sleepy little village”. Oh yeah? Good luck with that. Ten years from now the English countryside will barely exist. It will be one giant housing estate filled with overpriced rabbit hutches jammed on top of one another. And forget peace and quiet. I live in the countryside. All you hear, 24/7, is the screeching of boy racers and their modified exhausts. It’s quieter in the affluent parts of central London.

Indiana2021 · 30/08/2022 23:04

For the posters who reckon Glasgow Central Station makes them feel odd, there was a mortuary underneath the station that was used to store the war dead and tunnels to transport bodies to and from the station. There was also a tunnel that led all the way up to and back from the Royal Infirmary.
In fact Glasgow city has a network of spooky undergeound tunnels. So who knows what you're walking above. Wooooo 👻😉

3catsandcounting · 30/08/2022 23:05

TheWayoftheLeaf · 30/08/2022 21:03

The frog museum in Split, Croatia. It's just scene after scene of taxidermy frogs arranged in human scenarios. So like frogs on a fox hunt, frogs eating at a dining table.

Fuckin weird

Froggyland! We went there 3 years ago. The teens loved it! Apparently it used to be a cinema, hence you had to climb all those stairs while balancing to see the weird frog displays. 🐸

WH52 · 30/08/2022 23:06

As a student I viewed a flat once which had immediate bad vibes, as well as 1) a staircase that led to nowhere and 2) an inside door that opened to a brick wall immediately behind it.

BitOutOfPractice · 30/08/2022 23:07

I lived on Canvey Island in Essex for a few years. Deeply weird.

VictoriaConcordiaCrescit · 30/08/2022 23:09

Milton Keynes is weird in the sense that I've been maybe 15/20 times and never seen any houses

Do they live underground?

Dual carriageway, roundabout, dual carriageway, roundabout, dual carriageway, roundabout then you eventually arrive in the centre

Dipsydoodlenoodle · 30/08/2022 23:10

Russell19 · 30/08/2022 18:42

I went to Rome once and went to this monks museum thing with artwork made entirely of skulls and bones of people that had died there!

After googling I've found it was called the Capuchin crypt. I'll attach a photo! It was just so odd.

Portugal have a lot of churches like this as well.

Enidcat5 · 30/08/2022 23:15

Coventry. It made me feel very depressed.

I once went to look round a flat in Edinburgh with a room to rent. There were shackles fixed to the wall in the lounge. I didn't take the room.

Knittedfairies · 30/08/2022 23:15

Woodhall Spa

Underscore21 · 30/08/2022 23:16

Lands End is very odd.

Justanotherwinter · 30/08/2022 23:16

Great Yarmouth when they had abour 1000 men dressed as Elvis walking through the town

OooohAhhhh · 30/08/2022 23:20

Bone chapel in Rome - it's a church made out of monks bones

I'm also going to throw in forbidden corner in Leyburn, N Yorks - it's so strange!

Swingoutsistersledge2 · 30/08/2022 23:21

We have just had a week away in North Yorkshire and visited the village of Knaresborough. I really didn't like it at all and felt it had a weird vibe about it. Visited Thirsk village and it was lovely total opposite such a beautiful place. So strange !

candlefest · 30/08/2022 23:25

I went their once @Justanotherwinter and couldn't wait to get out.

SomethingFast · 30/08/2022 23:27

The Isle of Wight. Not sure why but it felt very odd and I was glad to leave.

Soniastrumped · 30/08/2022 23:28

Bundaberg
Lautoka
Stoke on Trent

polkadotdasies88 · 30/08/2022 23:30

Driving down to South Wales last year, pretty much country roads the whole way going through isolated villages, thought nothing of them. Suddenly we pass into one village & I get a real sense of dread & wanting to be through it as quickly as possible. Husband (who doesn't believe in anything woo) looks over to me & says "Do you feel it too?!" It was horrible. A quick Google & I found a lady had been found dead in the local river after leaving (then derelict) local pub. Inquest was an open conclusion as to how she ended up in the river.

We had exactly the same feeling when we drove back through on our way home. We still feel cold when we discuss it now!

PlasticCupPolitics · 30/08/2022 23:34

TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 30/08/2022 18:25

Ross-On-Wye.

WTF goes on there?

You can cut the atmosphere with a knife. Everything looks like it’s from twenty years ago. The vibe is SO WEIRD.

😂😂 I live around twenty minutes from Ross and often work there, it is absolutely bizarre isn’t it!?

People that live in Ross will defend the town to the bloody end and will always tell you how lovely and friendly everyone is but it does not give me that vibe at all. There’s something off about the whole place that makes me uneasy. Plus the stupid one way system is annoying af.

takeagamble · 30/08/2022 23:36

Widnes...

Ineedwinenow · 30/08/2022 23:36

I’m going add the Jewish quarter in Prague, it’s got such a sad feeling around it rather than weird, it’s a beautiful area but knowing all the issues they’ve had over hundreds of years I think it’s left a sadness in the fabric of the buildings and streets if that’s possible

oakleaffy · 30/08/2022 23:37

LimoncelloSpritz · 30/08/2022 19:07

The Nuns Graveyard in Ischia. Basically they put the dead nuns in a room where they gradually decomposed, and the younger nuns were sent in there periodically to pray and contemplate life. It gave me the horrors!

That's grim.
Poor Nuns!
Some of the mummified clergy in Italy[?] were used in Nosferatu, the film. Really eerie. Parchment skin drawn taut over sightless skulls. Frowsty clothing. Urgh, shuddering now, thinking of it.