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.

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• 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.

Shropshire - especially around Church Stretton. It was just so odd!

Brighton. It was awful when we went. Piles and piles of rubbish, taller than me and junk just blowing in the road.

we found out a few months later there was a major bin strike when we visited. Went again recently and really enjoyed ourselves.

Eek! That would make you want to avoid going back there.

I was born in Harlow..lived there until I moved away in 2021.
It's not a great place now, so run down and so many issues.. I don't see it getting any better sadly.

Boscastle immediately popped into my head when I saw this thread. I'm not in the least into woo woo stuff nor am I particularly imaginative but that place sent shivers down my spine. I felt very uncomfortable and uneasy there.

Completely different vibes but I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Jaywick yet...

I felt the same. I visited in 6th form for the university and couldn't wait to get away. Maybe it didn't help that it was November so grey and freezing but I felt that it was all so drab, drey, grey and depressing. It felt like it was on the edge of earth and I was miserable.

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Snowshill Manor in the Cotswolds - horrible feeling of evil, even in the garden. Couldn't wait to get out!

Nuneaton station, I once had to change trains there and from the second I got off the train I was desperate to leave. I just felt to uncomfortable. Mentioned it to other people and my Dad and a friend of mine had the same experience.

Glastonbury had the opposite effect on me.

We went there when my son was about 13 - typical smartarse teenager. There was some sort of fete going on in the grounds and a man was doing water divining. He asked for a volunteer so of course my son went forward and proceeded to argue and debunk everything the guy was saying.
I've never been so mortified in all my life - I think I probably ended up pretending he was nothing to do with me!

Bolton, absolutely miserable place. Bradford city centre, bad vibes.

the famous painting, ‘the Martyr of the Solway’ creepy, upsetting, its at Liverpool Walker Art Gallery

I love Dungeness and Glasgow. And Selfridges!
I can't think of anywhere that I've found seriously creepy, but Margate, albeit quite a few years ago now, was a bit depressing. And Whitstable is overrated in my opinion.

I went there recently and loved it, and the whole area; that nature reserve is really beautiful in a bleak way (I love bleak).

Ooh which pub was it? We live very near there and I would actually like to move to Bellingham but I do know what you mean.😁

Its strange how it affects people differently.

Traeth Ynys y Fydly, the most remote point on Anglesey. It was also the location of an Iron Age hill fort. I didn’t know at the time, but read that fact afterwards. When I was there I felt a sudden terror, like something very terrible was about the happen. It was a very unnerving place.

Possibly because of the Todmorden UFO mystery? That's creepy.

Please don't disillusion them - we've been using the dragons and sea monsters for centuries to make them stay down there.

I love Holy Island and Berwick on Tweed. Bamburgh castle made me cry tears of joy when I first saw it- driving around a corner. I found Holy Island very very peaceful and relaxing. I love the fact that it’s cut off from the mainland. Just a gorgeous part of the country.

We went to north and mid Wales last year. Had a drive to the Mach loop. It was utterly sinister. The mountains towering over us on all sides. The fog and the rain. It felt sinister and claustrophobic. We found a random Starbucks in the middle of nowhere. I wanted to cry with relief at seeing civilisation. I could appreciate the beauty of the scenery but that part of Wales wasn’t for me. We felt unwelcome and really isolated. I’ve got goosebumps thinking of the mountains just watching me.
We even drove to Anglesey for the day. Absolutely stunning, but again I could feel the mountains though miles away just being there hemming us in.

I'm not from the UK (lived there for many years though in the 90's, and loved it) but I definitely got bad vibes feelings in the following places when I visited since

Blackpool
Got spat at by locals within 5 mins of arriving. Got back into our car and swiftly left, totally weirded out.

Liverpool
Was waiting at a corner to cross the road with a couple of male pals, and a car pulled up beside us with it's wingmirror hanging off. The front seat passenger got out an accused us of hitting off it/breaking it. When we argued two others got out of the car and chased us. Took refuge in a fish and chip shop and waited for them to go off and try their luck with some other poor misfortunes.
Felt very outside our comfort zone for the entire couple of days we were there

Clackton on sea
Stayed in a regal sounding establishment on the seafront (it got amazing reviews on Tripadvisor...lol)
The dirtiest, smelliest place I have every stayed in.
Fellow guests stayed us all night, playing music, partying, taking drugs and talking utter sh*te.
When we asked the asked the guests on one side of us to keep it down at around 2.30/3am, they threatened to physically harm us, and tried to break down the door to our room. Reception was unmanned. Felt so unsafe.
We left at around 7am (when our neighbours finally crashed out), after no sleep, and went to Stanstead to wait for our flight home that afternoon.
Can't say anything good about any of the time we spent in Clackton. Very bad vibes!!

Portmeirion - Italianate village in North Wales. Don’t know why but it just creeped me out. Possibly because I’m old enough to remember the TV series ‘The Prisoner’, which was filmed there.

Sandringham House. I honestly felt I was being watched by something unpleasant the whole time and couldn't breathe properly. Couldn't wait to get outside. Years later read that James Pope-Hennessy, who'd been there in the 1950s while researching a book felt the same, "appalling atmosphere...evil in parts".

Very odd.

Bristol Temple Meads 😂

Seriously though. how can a train station originally designed Isambard Brunel have become so frustrating to navigate. I travel a lot and always ensure I never have to change at this station. The arrows point vaguely in diagonal directions (there’s no stairs and that’s a dead end where do you mean??) and all the platforms are weirdly numbered.

I followed an arrow up to a platform once and then another telling me I need to go back down. It’s so odd, I’m not dense I promise, I have no issues with any other station!