To feel weird in Glastonbury

[Wellsbells]

I moved about a half hour’s drive from Glastonbury a few years ago but have only visited the town itself once. I hated it. It just felt uncomfortable and a bit sinister, and I couldn’t wait to leave. I’ve not felt that way anywhere else, I mean there are places I like more than others of course but this was just a really strong sense of “I want to get out of here”. Would be interested to know if anyone else has felt this way? Or about anywhere else?

I ran up Glastonbury Tor on Halloween 1972,drunk.In the pitch black,a group of Nurses and Doctors from Bristol,one of the highlights of my life.

Never been in daylight,it is on my list of places to go when this Pandemic is ever over.I love hippy dippy stuff.

@ColumbiaAGroupie

I felt this way about Taunton in Somerset.

We moved from Taunton a few months ago having lived there for a few years. I must admit to feeling so much happier in myself now. And yet I never got a bad feeling there really. Just wasn’t particularly happy. DS couldn’t wait for us to move away. He hated it.

Have a look for this recent thread in Chat:

'Things/places that inexplicably give you the creeps...'

Sorry I don't know how to link it. Glastonbury is mentioned several times and always is on these types of threads.

I live near Totnes, I thought Glastonbury was like Totnes on speed. I didn't like either of them.

I feel that way about Newtown on the Isle of Wight.

We went there one summer and i immediately felt cold and shaky and nauseous. I knew nothing about it other than that DH wanted to go bird watch, but it turns out it was the site of a massacre a very long time ago.

I am not hugely woo but I felt this sense of utter dread and fear.

The Abbey is beautiful but kind of melancholy. Like you can feel the sadness in it’s history. The town and tor feel weird, but I can’t really say how. Maybe fake? Like everyone is pretending to be happy.
And I’m not woo. Except for the fact that I could have sworn I’d been to Tintagel before as I knew where everything was even though I’d definitely never visited.
And I live near Exeter so just associate it with good nights out in the past and shopping! Not at all woo.

I mean there are places I like more than others of course but this was just a really strong sense of “I want to get out of here

Yes of course. Ive had feelings like that about a few places. Completely without real cause and beyond any sense of reason.

Its as if my primal, lizard brain was activated before I had the chance to react and I had a sudden but utterly compelling jolt of "I dont want to be here, get me out of here, I hate it".
Personally I believe such hunches should be listened to. They are the result of generations of animalistic wisdom/instinct that your brain uses to keep you safe.

We live near Glastonbury and never visit. Not because of the atmosphere but because of the cranky selfish people. COVID has only made this worse - refusal to wear masks pretty guaranteed. Dickheads.

@Ihatemyseleffordoingthis

Oh I loved it! It's like a New Age Disneyland, loads of fun and kilims and vegan cake and people making money out of it. The Tor is amazing, I do think it has an energy but I quite like a bit of that.

I found Avebury had tons of that going on in a 1970s BBC children's horror/drama way - but that's what I went there for tbh.

Have you ever seen 'Children of the Stones'? I also love Avebury for the weird vibes.

Does anyone know if there is a non-woo explanation for this? Have these ‘energy lines’ ever been properly detected in any way?

No. Never. If there's all this free energy flowing around we'd have found a way to use it by now.

When I was there I found it had a lovely calm feeling. I could have sat all day and watched the world go by. A kind woman gave me a parking ticket with hours still left on it.

I think it's a bit of a dive, but the chippy is nice and I do enjoy walking up the Tor, although haven't been for a while.i felt a bit weird the first time, but not sure if it was just because it's reputation and folklore precedes it. There are quite a lot of threads on here from people feeling the same about Bath.

Walsingham in Norfolk. One of the weirdest places I've ever been to.

Yep, we felt that too. Very odd place.

What a stupid thread for Woo unscientific people . Glastonbury is crap because it’s crap rundown town full of hippies trying to sponge all your money off you selling you cheap stuff made in China repackaged into cheap fancy boxes.
And Key lines are a load of codswallop too . When the most famous aim in the neck author of the defining book bothered the real archaeologists one too many times , the county archaeologist at the time did a brief study his claims. One was a driveway I recall , another a pipeline and another a recently dug construction!

Woo is only there if you want to see it and is simply a figment of your imagination . Which is fine if you keep that in mind and don’t try to award it mystical powers which don’t exist .

Please may someone link the thread about Bath? I hadn't seen that.

I went to Glastonbury years ago and it was a bit creepy and quiet, it reminded me of Hot Fuzz when he gets relocated to a town and it's all a bit eerie.

Sorry ley lines not key lines

@2beesornot2beesthatisthehoney

What a stupid thread for Woo unscientific people . Glastonbury is crap because it’s crap rundown town full of hippies trying to sponge all your money off you selling you cheap stuff made in China repackaged into cheap fancy boxes. And Key lines are a load of codswallop too . When the most famous aim in the neck author of the defining book bothered the real archaeologists one too many times , the county archaeologist at the time did a brief study his claims. One was a driveway I recall , another a pipeline and another a recently dug construction!

Woo is only there if you want to see it and is simply a figment of your imagination . Which is fine if you keep that in mind and don’t try to award it mystical powers which don’t exist .

Okay. 2bees has spoken, let;s all immediately stop having an enjoyable chat shall we?

I was really expecting to love Glastonbury, I thought it held a strange vibe, wouldn’t visit again. I didn’t fine it sinister, but not what I expected tbh.

Love Glasto. My boyfriend and I try to go every year, love it.

Glastonbury is full of conspiracy theorists, a relative lives there and has got to believe in chem trails and all sorts, it's really depressing

Oh sorry just saw the link to Bath thread was already posted!

Another one in agreement about the unpleasant, weird vibe in Glastonbury. It's difficult to explain unless you experience it yourself, glad it's not just me!

So basically anywhere in the West country feels woo and a bit weird? I mean I know in the 70's and 80's the fashion was a bit off down here, but I don't think there's anything beyond that- I mean Bath, Taunton, Exeter, Frome, Totnes, Glastonbury...it's an entire region!

Stockport is the place that immediately comes to mind. I went for a job interview there over 20 years ago, and felt unnerved from the time I got off the train to the time I got back on. Never been so glad not to get a job in my life as there's no way I could have spent any considerable time there.

Yes. I visited there some years back, had always wanted to go and once I got there I just wanted to leave. It felt really opressive and... dark, for want of a better term. No one was unfriendly, I didn’t have any bad experiences there or anything, just a sort of overhanging doom feeling.