Page 10 | What places in the UK have weirded you out?

Oollliivviiaa · 2025-04-14T10:37:52+00:00

I know Glastonbury and Bath always come up but where else have you been that just felt "off". Not scary or unsafe as such, just made you feel unwelcome and want to leave. And logically, WHY do you think they do? Mine are - Glasgow Centeal station. I've been to lots of stations at all sorts of times but this station always makes me uneasy even during the day when it's busy. Maybe it's because it's such an odd station and easy to get disoriented in. And - Berwick on Tweed. Really, really weird vibes there. People were nice enough but it felt a bit like there was some sort of sinister undercurrent. Why? I actually don't know. All I can think of is that it feels quite isolated and a bit like the edge of the world. Maybe the history of the place, means it feels like a no man's land? I know lots of people really like it. And - Holy Island. The history, bleakness and again, isolation I think. Plus when we went, all you could hear was the wind and seals which is a bit spooky. I liked it there though.

CurlyhairedAssassin · 14/04/2025 14:12

turkeyboots · 14/04/2025 12:47

I second Dungeness. I find very flat places werid. And there was a train station in Surrey (which i have forgotten the name of) which gave me the heebie geebies. I had 40min there between trains, it was so creepy and I was almost in tears when my train arrived.

Oh, I find very flat places weird too! I used to hate the expanse of flatness around Ormskirk when I was a teenager, especially in the winter when the skies were grey. Gave off proper depressing vibes.

canthavethatonethen · 14/04/2025 14:12

Glen Coe. Serious heebie-jeebies driving through there once. I never want to go near the place again.

SatanicAngel · 14/04/2025 14:12

London, Windsor, anywhere south of Birmingham.

PleaseDontFingerMyPouffe · 14/04/2025 14:12

Also, Wolverhampton.

No offence to anyone from there.

TokyoKyoto · 14/04/2025 14:12

Isle of Lewis. Weird, weird place. The locals all keep to their families and lots observe the Sabbath still. (ie no driving, no cooking, etc) The incomers are all merrily getting on with life and being sociable. You could murder someone in the middle of Lewis and nobody would ever know. I bet that bog is full of bodies.

Dingleberryrock · 14/04/2025 14:13

Hoylake

Anyotherdude · 14/04/2025 14:14

Croydon…

BCBird · 14/04/2025 14:14

Never had that feeling in Berwick. The North? Bit controversial. Longbridge Birmingham. It like a public service announcement film scene

Serensnanna · 14/04/2025 14:15

Poppymeldrum · 14/04/2025 13:10

York minster
I used to live in york (born and bred there) and I can't go anywhere near it
I'm fine with every other building in york-and its got a lot of history-good and bad
In fact,I'd walk miles out of my way to avoid it
Ds once had to go with school (I had to drop him off and stay)
I couldn't sit still-it was like black energy was oozing out of the walls and touching me-I couldn't breathe until we left and got down the street
The whole building looks black to me-i don't care if its when I'm walking past or just a picture,I feel the same

One of the high rises in the town I live in now
We live near one and the other is about 2 miles away
The one near us is fine,but there's no way will I walk past the other (I can't cope if we drive past)
I'm told it's full of people who are well known to the police
A friend of mine was once walking past and was mugged (I didn't know this until years later-i went shaky the second I saw it for the first time but can't explain why)
I get the same feeling as york minster-its just black energy

I was once stood talking to a friend (just off micklegate,york) next to her work (in the car park)
I suddenly had the urge to get away from the ground and onto the pavement as soon as I could
I knew I wasn't meant to be standing there but couldn't say why-my feet felt weird and I needed to move
Turns out,it had been a mass grave of victims of the plague (I think they found this out when they dug it up)
I've never knowingly walked across a grave in my life-i try to be respectful

Saying that,as a kid I refused to walk in the car park of the barbican (at this time,it was a swimming pool)
The front was fine,but I couldn't walk around the back (my siblings found this odd)
It was like an invisible brick wall around it-id walk round the real wall but not take a short cut across it
They dug it up years later and found old skeletons which they think where murdered or died a horrid death

Oddly,places like the tower of London,Hever Castle and Hampton Court are fine
I stood near where Ann boleyn had been beheaded and felt nothing (apart from sadness that a woman had been murdered by her husband for nothing she'd done,apart from not giving him a son,so he lied and had her killed)

God knows why I feel/felt like this

Dh and I both felt the same in York Minster. Both from South but love York and Yorkshire, son now lives there and granddaughters v Yorkshire! Both practising Christians and used to old churches but the Minster felt weird and wrong, we couldn't stay inside ......glad we're not the only ones, except that convinces me somethings off-kilter there

GoingBackToNOWHERE · 14/04/2025 14:15

There is a park in Manchester called Hullard Park and I absolutely hate it. I can’t explain why but I’ve been there couple of times with my son and just get the very very uneasy and weird feeling, like a want to leave, I don’t want to stay there. It never happened to me before, and I’m not the one who feels energies and sort of but that place for some reason creeps me out.

VictoriaEra · 14/04/2025 14:15

Ashton-under-Lyne. Beyond rough and neglected. Seem to see a high proportion of people with no teeth there. Angela Raynor needs to see to her own constituency.

TheDevilWearPrimarni · 14/04/2025 14:15

Rollofrockandsand · 14/04/2025 12:47

Swaffham in Norfolk the place time forgot

Are you Harry Hill? He hates Swaffham.

FromTheFirstOldFashionedWeWereCursed · 14/04/2025 14:15

I'll echo the nominations for Dungeness.

We were driving from Folkestone to Camber at about 11pm last Thursday evening. I've never seen that sort of fog, even near coastlines and rivers - it was like driving through a tunnel made of smoke, but there was also fog coming up off the road and rolling over the bonnet. Visibility wasn't good and we hadn't passed a car or visible house for miles. DH and I were joking about how much it felt like a horror film, when suddenly there was a man in the road, walking slowly towards us in the centre of the opposite lane, dressed in a brown boiler suit. He was genuinely enormous - DH is 6'3" and we'd been out for the night with our friend who's 6'5" and I'd say this man was equally tall but very broad-shouldered.

Why would he be walking there, miles from anywhere, so late? Why would he be in a boiler suit? Why wasn't he wearing a hi-viz? Why was his back to any oncoming traffic?

We are not easily spooked, but he spooked the absolute fuck out of us.

StupidBoy · 14/04/2025 14:16

StrawberryWater · 14/04/2025 12:42

Ha I was going to say St. Leonards.

Some very odd people in that area. The vibe is all wrong and now it's full of people who can't afford Brighton.

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And that's probably exactly why the vibe is all wrong. Brighton is hideous, made hideous by being full of hideous people. I wish all the Brighton types could afford Brighton, because then they could all stay there together and we could avoid the whole lot like the plague.

slummymummy24 · 14/04/2025 14:17

FromTheFirstOldFashionedWeWereCursed · 14/04/2025 14:15

I'll echo the nominations for Dungeness.

We were driving from Folkestone to Camber at about 11pm last Thursday evening. I've never seen that sort of fog, even near coastlines and rivers - it was like driving through a tunnel made of smoke, but there was also fog coming up off the road and rolling over the bonnet. Visibility wasn't good and we hadn't passed a car or visible house for miles. DH and I were joking about how much it felt like a horror film, when suddenly there was a man in the road, walking slowly towards us in the centre of the opposite lane, dressed in a brown boiler suit. He was genuinely enormous - DH is 6'3" and we'd been out for the night with our friend who's 6'5" and I'd say this man was equally tall but very broad-shouldered.

Why would he be walking there, miles from anywhere, so late? Why would he be in a boiler suit? Why wasn't he wearing a hi-viz? Why was his back to any oncoming traffic?

We are not easily spooked, but he spooked the absolute fuck out of us.

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Yikes! They're here!!! That sounds genuinely terrifying though

giespiece · 14/04/2025 14:17

@bungobungobungo Grahamston!!!

ThatCoolGoose · 14/04/2025 14:17

Snapton of course was a scene of a major disaster in rehearsals the world war to invasion of France I think 500 American servicemen were killed

Placetobeseen · 14/04/2025 14:18

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ilovesushi · 14/04/2025 14:18

Poppymeldrum · 14/04/2025 13:10

York minster
I used to live in york (born and bred there) and I can't go anywhere near it
I'm fine with every other building in york-and its got a lot of history-good and bad
In fact,I'd walk miles out of my way to avoid it
Ds once had to go with school (I had to drop him off and stay)
I couldn't sit still-it was like black energy was oozing out of the walls and touching me-I couldn't breathe until we left and got down the street
The whole building looks black to me-i don't care if its when I'm walking past or just a picture,I feel the same

One of the high rises in the town I live in now
We live near one and the other is about 2 miles away
The one near us is fine,but there's no way will I walk past the other (I can't cope if we drive past)
I'm told it's full of people who are well known to the police
A friend of mine was once walking past and was mugged (I didn't know this until years later-i went shaky the second I saw it for the first time but can't explain why)
I get the same feeling as york minster-its just black energy

I was once stood talking to a friend (just off micklegate,york) next to her work (in the car park)
I suddenly had the urge to get away from the ground and onto the pavement as soon as I could
I knew I wasn't meant to be standing there but couldn't say why-my feet felt weird and I needed to move
Turns out,it had been a mass grave of victims of the plague (I think they found this out when they dug it up)
I've never knowingly walked across a grave in my life-i try to be respectful

Saying that,as a kid I refused to walk in the car park of the barbican (at this time,it was a swimming pool)
The front was fine,but I couldn't walk around the back (my siblings found this odd)
It was like an invisible brick wall around it-id walk round the real wall but not take a short cut across it
They dug it up years later and found old skeletons which they think where murdered or died a horrid death

Oddly,places like the tower of London,Hever Castle and Hampton Court are fine
I stood near where Ann boleyn had been beheaded and felt nothing (apart from sadness that a woman had been murdered by her husband for nothing she'd done,apart from not giving him a son,so he lied and had her killed)

God knows why I feel/felt like this

Not the UK, but we were in Turin recently and there was a terrible dark energy coming from the chapel that houses the Turin shroud. You could feel it from the doorway and it was like every fibre of your being was telling you not to go in. Admittedly it also looks very sinister - lots of ornate black marble, snarling lion statues and gold stars.

Placetobeseen · 14/04/2025 14:19

Ultrarunner · 14/04/2025 13:27

Silloth, Cumbria - it's the west coast version of Dungeness
Saddleworth Moor - not just for the historical perspective, but it always appears dark and menacing even in sunshine

Totally agree with Hastings AND St Leonard's - both utter, absolute, complete and total holes full of dilapidated houses covered in peeling paint, an incomprehensible road system and crap beaches. The whole area feels desolate and hopeless.

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I echo Silloth, one of the weirdest feeling places I've ever been, also Maryport. I can only describe it as it felt like we were going to get chased out of both places, I wanted to look over my shoulder and rush the whole time we were there.

For all the people saying Berwick-upon-Tweed, I also have weird feelings there but quite positive and uplifting! I like someone's description of a place feeling like you can feel all of history happening at the same time, this is what Berwick feels like to me. I think I must have had a happy past life there. Particularly the ramparts.

LoveItaly · 14/04/2025 14:20

Anyotherdude · 14/04/2025 14:14

Croydon…

Poor Croydon, it used to be nice once.

Giggorata · 14/04/2025 14:20

InterIgnis · 14/04/2025 13:47

Lincolnshire, particularly the Fenland area. For a fertile area, it ironically feels very barren to me. I always felt strange driving through, just this endless flatness and emptiness as far as the eye could see.

I was going to say this, too. We were driving there yesterday.
Miles of flatness; black earth, criss crossed by muddy dykes underneath the huge endless sky, makes me feel on the uneasy side of uncomfortable.
I can't remember the name of the author who ascribed her failing mental health to living in that landscape, but I empathise.

DareDevil223 · 14/04/2025 14:20

tadjennyp · 14/04/2025 14:04

I used to work in the bakery section of that ASDA when I was a student. It was scary!

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Gloucester Asda is a truly terrifying place - stick to Waitrose in Cheltenham 😀

itsgettingweird · 14/04/2025 14:21

DancingDucks · 14/04/2025 12:01

I love Glasgow Central station I think it has a lovely feeling to it. 😂

For me it was Stratford in east London, I couldn't wait to get away from it.

@DancingDucksI’ve just arrived at a Stratford for the week 😂 DS is swimming up here at London aquatics Centre.

I know what you mean though. Considering the Olympics were held here a little over a decade ago it has strange nothingness vibe.

Westfield is always horrendously busy though!

GCAcademic · 14/04/2025 14:21

DareDevil223 · 14/04/2025 14:20

Gloucester Asda is a truly terrifying place - stick to Waitrose in Cheltenham 😀

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Daylesford Farm Shop, surely?