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.

There are a couple of places for me that feel as if history is existing all at once and the ones in the UK are Liverpool Docks and the Grand Hotel in Brighton (there was one in Austria as well).

Then Camden has a weird vibe and a village near Longleat in Wiltshire I can’t remember the name of

Interesting - any parts in particular? It does play quite a role in the history of witchcraft in Scotland...

What do you mean by history existing all at once?

There is a park in my local town that gives me bad vibes. I won't walk anywhere near it. It's in a nice area but something feels off, like you're always being watched. There did used to be a historic building there once.

I’ve only ever driven through Stoke on Trent and we got a bit lost there so maybe it’s just that putting me off it, but I really felt unhappy being there.

Royal Tunbridge Wells.

I felt the complete opposite in Liverpool, immediately felt like a home from home in a way I can't explain.

What's wrong with Bath?

Birkenhead was odd. Just felt a bit empty and abandoned. Maybe I went on the wrong day!

The South

Some of East Sussex including Lewes.

Felt uneasy on the Norfolk coast.

The A74(M) southbound and parts of the M6 especially around Shap.

Some parts of the M1 especially around Sheffield.

Manchester. People staggering around and vomiting in the street in the middle of the day. It was like the zombie apocalypse.

Elaborate so we can estimate the full extent of your ignorance

And no, I’m not from the North

Isle of wight. I think perhaps because I felt very unwelcome there though.

I don't really get the fuss about Camden either , it's just expensive and busy. It smells like the 90s there so that's one thing in its favour.

The old bus station in Northampton (now gone).
The old abandoned food court in the Centrale Shopping Centre in Croydon that I discovered by accident.

Hastings.

Leicester. It’s a shame because I liked the actual look of the town, the architecture especially. But the fact that there were bars on the windows of every single shop just added to the sense that it was about to kick off at any moment and a feeling of general unwelcome.

I love Holy Island OP but it has so much history attached to it that maybe you are getting vibes from that. To be fair the last time we stayed there I had just read Holy Island by LJ Ross and could actually imagine the scenario she had set out so that was a bit creepy.

DD loves it because she likes the idea of being cut off by the tide.

I do find every time I go through Glencoe that there is a certain sadness to it although it is breathtakingly beautiful. I know there have been awful things which have happened in other parts of the UK but somehow it feels particularly poignant there.

I'll second this. Only place I've ever seen security guards outside supermarkets at 8am. I can't think of a redeeming feature of this city yet a lot of people rave about it.

It just had a depressing, unsafe feeling about it.

Lydney and the Forest of Dean have a weird vibe.

Northampton. Love the bits surrounding it, but the place itself gives me the creeps. I also get what pp have said about Slapton. I’m from near there and it was strange. There is an abandoned village near there I think as well which was creepy when I was a child….Hallsands or Beesands?
also Bodmin moor. All of it. Dartmoor and Exmoor fine, but there’s something wrong about Bodmin.

True, never come here again

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.

Oh and I know this comes up regularly but Savernake Forest is just all wrong too. Plus - and this is south devon niche - that bit at the top of telegraph hill by the Ashcombe turn off. When ever I drive that bit of road (often as I live in south devon) I get the feeling that I am either going to die on it or have died on it.

Portmerion. Appeared deserted but felt like we were being watched. I haven't seen The Prisoner so that didn't account for it.