What places in the UK have weirded you out?

[Oollliivviiaa]

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.

Isle of Lewis, home of Donald Trump's mother Mary MacLeod...

Melton Mowbray
Sainsbury in Thame -

Glastonbury is one of the places I feel absolutely at home. So calming and peaceful for me. Chillingham Castle on the other hand is very spooky, not the castle itself but the surrounding woodland. It definitely feels quite sinister.

These are just four particularly depressing examples of the fact that away from tourist areas, the towns, in the north and elsewhere, have been dismissed and neglected for decades. ☹️

Polperro. A local has the parking sewn up. Everywhere was shut early in the afternoon and it wasnt out of season. Just gave me really odd vibes. Shame, cos it’s a pretty place.

I don't think I knew much of the history of it when we actually drove through the glen, but it was the feeling of the whole place closing in on you. What really freaked me out was discovering that a few days after we went there, someone was killed by falling rocks.

I’ve never had this, but my Dad has in Spain. He’s not otherwise superstitious. Beautiful sunny day during a glorious, much needed, restorative holiday exploring ancient towns and villages. My parents walked around the corner into a square. My father was overcome. A chill spread over his whole body so that he was shaking uncontrollably. He felt like he had been punched in the stomach and winded. He was bent double and his heart was pounding. Then he looked at my mother and said they had to get out. There was something evil there. That evening the host in the small family hotel we were staying in told us it was the scene of a massacre by Franco’s forces in the 1930s and that thousands of people had been slaughtered there.

@SinisterBumFacedCat

cant think of a single shop with bars on, Leicester is lovely

I live in Bolton my dh hates,it the council have just let it rot and its a shame becsuse 20 years ago it had a geeat night llife and some of the surrounding areas are lovely
I dont think Bury is as bad
Cant really coment on Rochdale and wigsn.

I have never been and I plan on keeping it that way

West Cornwall... they hate tourists

Torbay - drunks, addicts and people who used to drunks & addicts

I can understand you feeling the place was closing in on you, the mountains tower over the road. Sadly people die fairly regularly in the mountains, that's inevitable.

What do you mean by "it wasn't the locals that were a problem if you catch my drift" @Gottogetoutofthisplace ?
I don't catch your drift at all, and am baffled by this. Could you explain?

Doncaster…..3 prisons…says enough…..
Camden….specifically the skanky market.
Keighley……really nasty undertone to the place, won’t ever go back.
Not that keen on Birmingham either……
OP….I adore Holy Island precisely for the seals, haunting curlews and oystercatchers, and Bamburgh is sublime. Fave part of country.

Yes, but the guy that died wasn't in the mountains, he was cycling on the road we'd been on.

There was a Sainsbury's in Gloucester that I apparently always completely refused to go into as a child, I wasn't one to act up in public normally, so my Mum would let me stand outside studying the mural on the wall.

There's a village we drive through on Anglesey on the way to visit relatives. Huge houses but I've never seen a single soul outside, it feels like a ghost town. 20mph all the way through, so its become a game to try and spot humans!

Most of Lincolnshire, large chunks of Cambridgeshire, the Forest of Dean, Redcar, Hayling Island, Seaton Carew and North Ronaldsay.

I actively like going to visit mildly unsettling, off-kilter, oddly isolated places though. Places like Thurso, Dungeness and so on are exactly the kinds of places I really love to visit. I'm absolutely fascinated by anywhere that feels a bit 'off'.

I think some people confuse 'weird' with 'just a bit of a shit hole'. They're not the same thing. There are loads of towns that I think are complete dumps and massively depressing, but I don't find them weird/off/unsettling.

I agree, I’ve only passed through on the train to York, the train always stops for a while in Todmorden, I feel drained and weird whilst there

@Puttinginthemiles I’ve never had any kind of ‘woo’ beliefs about or experiences, but I saw the strangest object in the sky near Doveholes. Was about 10 years ago and I made DH pull over so that we could watch it. It was like a strange pulsating light that we could see clearly even though it was 5pm in the summer. There was nobody else around and it was a very unnerving experience.

Whitechapel

Bodmin Moor (ghosts), Glasgow (overwhelming sense of gloom), Liverpool (overwhelming sense of whining), Hunstanton (ghosts) and Mill Hill in London (utter ugliness)

There's an antiques shop in Arundel that I won't be going back to. Let's just say that some of the previous occupants are still making their presence felt.

Have you been to all 7 Welsh cities?

Batley - people just glare at you, like they're challenging you to make eye contact so they can start a fight.
Warwick - only went there once but there was weird event after weird event. A guy in a "Scream" mask, a child sitting in a puddle, a Tesco full of customers but the door was locked (turned out it was a test day before they opened the following week), someone shouting "Damon Hill", a group of (presumably) students singing the theme from "The Adams Family", a fight spilling out of a pub into the street, someone driving along the pavement to avoid queuing at the traffic lights.

What?? I love Hastings. Favourite summer day out from London. Brighton is overrated and Whitstable is ridiculously touristy these days.
Agree with the weird vibes on Dungeness though. Would definitely make a brilliant backdrop for an end of the world movie. I kind of like it there though.
Some of the little Yorkshire Moor villages made me feel weird and unwelcome. Can't remember the names, but felt like people were watching us - got the vibe they didn't like brown people