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.

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• 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.

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Lewes on Bonfire night. Bad weird. Creepy. In the late 80's, memory still freaks me out.
Blue Anchor pub in Helston, weird but fascinating at the same time, felt I stepped into a medival times. Fond memories.
Same goes for staying at Ship Inn in Fowey. The walls literally seemed to
talk of smuggler's plans.
Not sure if it's still a hotel.
Totnes weird but but so lovely, especially the hippy shops and St Mary's church kids corner, so sweet, and no chain stores in sight.

I felt compelled to walk barefoot at Glastonbury Abbey, not so much on Lindisfarne. Strange...

Funny someone should mention Snowshill Manor, i didn't like the stmosphere there either

I’m feeling a a bit of a freak now! I love Tod(morden), the Black Isle, Dungeness, Liverpool, Luxembourg, and several other places that lots of you find odd.

Bristol creeps me out.

Definitely Oxford. It had a very strange feel and while I enjoyed the exhibition we'd gone to I wouldn't really want to go there again if I don't have to.

@Bideshi @HarperStern I love Rollright Stones.
You have to count them and then count them again.....
You will never get the same number 😁

No
It's always odd 😀

Second mention of Masham on this thread, we spent two weeks in our caravan there a couple of summers ago, glorious views. I loved it.

Rochdale (bleak and grim)
London (cold and unfriendly)

I got a really weird vibe when we visited Cragside in Northumberland. The house rather than the grounds. I actually felt like I needed to get out of the house as it was weirdly oppressive.

I love Liverpool though.

I get this. You could open a door and step into 50 / 100 years ago.

Fort William I didn't get the sinister but definitely a depressing place as is Campbell Town

I had weird vibes at Stokesay Castle and Corfe Castle. Have been back to Corfe and nothing, not been back to Stokesay but would love to go again

There is a road near Hockley Heath (West Midlands) that I refuse to drive down, scared the proverbial out of me late one night, thought something was chasing me. I don't like driving through Packwood House late at night, always think the gates are going to shut and trap me but apparently I'm not alone in this.

A lot of people are mentioning Slapton but do you mean the village or the beach? Slapton village is inland. The village at the end of Slapton Sands where the carpark and the tank are is Torcross which did have a "I'm back in a different decade vibe", I've never found any of this area has weirded me out, I love it there.

Maybe I've got the wrong interpretation of weirded out?

Just goes to show how places affect people differently - I thought the chapel was lovely and incredibly uplifting! A kind of, we will create something beautiful and meaningful no matter the circumstances.

I used to work in Basildon! Once saw Depeche Mode in a MacDonalds! Also Alison Moyet walked past me and my Brother! Lived in Canvey Island (mentioned above). The bus service was crap and I just did not like that whole area at the time. But then we moved near Croydon..........Don't get me started on Croydon!!!

Portmeirion - self indulgent and just awful buildings / colours, like a GCSE architecture project

Felt very uneasy outside Highgate tube station.
Would have been 25 years ago now but still remember that feeling.

West Bromwich- couldn’t wait to get out of there.

There was a local April fool story about Cardiff Uni being taken off the Russell Group and replaced with Cardiff Met!

The island of Jura in Argyll and Bute. Very very beautiful but full of the most entitled , suspicious and unfriendly people - mostly incomers- I've ever had the displeasure to be amongst . A very strange vibe indeed .

My only beef with Hoylake, and other stations on the WK line, is that they had electric trains from '38 onwards, whereas us plebs on the Hooton line had to wait nearly another 50 years to be electrified to Liverpool. 😤 Maybe I'm petty, but these things rankle...

It’s hardly a big station, is it 😂
I actually love Central.

@Vipersgonnavipe
i know the exact stretch you mean, creepy vibe the minute you hit a certain spot, we drive down and back up a couple of times a year and always dread that bit. It’s both sides too

Hate Basingstoke though I only pass through on the coach sometimes. Hate if we have to fanny about picking people up. The only time it looked nice was in the snow!!!