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.

Plymouth was quite a nice city 20 years ago, if a bit old fashioned, I would regularly shop there. It's just had its heart completely sucked out of it. They were so proud of the new Drake Shopping Centre when it opened but I don't think it did the rest of the city any favours at all. Going there now is a very depressing experience indeed.

The Shell Grotto in Margate. I don't know wtf happened there but I feel it's likely it included black magic and torture 😬.
Could not wait to get out.

Oxford

Portland is supposed to be quite weird - rumours of inbreeding etc. - prbably exaggerated,

Dartmoor. Drive across it at night with some friends when we were on holiday in Devon. Scared seven shades out of me. Couldn't wait to get way from it.

I love Saddleworth Moor. And Snake Pass.

Holyrood Castle gave me the heebies.

Minions on Bodmin Moor. Horrible atmosphere - just felt creepy. Was speaking to someone we know from wadebridge about 3 years later and he said he and his friends had been totally weirded out one evening in the pub there.

The Edinburgh Castle pub in Ancoats Manchester. I felt "irked" but strangely didn't want to leave. I think my brain was trying to work out why I felt that way!

Totally agree about Ellesmere Port!

That sums up Margate for me. A strange combination of Kiss me Quick and Push me under the Dodgems.

Kensington palace. So dark and gloomy and oppressive. Felt freezing cold even on a hot day.

aldershot. Really run down. Population like the walking dead. When I found an (open) Wimpey bar in the basement of an otherwise empty shopping mall I thought I’d fallen into a time slip.

The Camelot Hotel near Tintagel is super weird.
And I spent a night in Oxford which was the coldest night I ever spent. (I had to keep my legwarmers on in bed, early 1980s).

Yes, I saw that 😂
Poor Cardiff Uni, it is struggling a bit right now (as are many unis)

I found people very cold and unfriendly on a recent trip to Manchester. Everyone seemed very insular and in their own world. Odd as people say the opposite about the place.

There's a park near me, pleasant enough, lovely big lake, nice walks, children's playpark, nothing wrong with it. My dog outright refuses to set foot (paw?) on it. If we run there she'll get maybe 100yards into the park then turn and pelt back out of it. If we drive there she outright refuses to leave the car. Odd, and I have googled and can find no known nefarious happenings in its history!

was this near Central Station and Bold Street ?

Why Oxford, particularly?

😂

Aw I quite like Slawit. Marsden though...

Definitely 😁

It's the wind whistling round the place, blowing fast food cartons everywhere. Countryside 'bleak' is right up my street but urban 'bleak' is horrible. But I loathed Plymouth from my first visit 30+ years ago!

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Stafford. Some lovely old buildings but the high street is really bleak.

Jaywick, on the Essex coast.

I was working in Scotland a few years ago and decided to meet up with a friend who lived in another city. Perth seemed a convenient spot for us to meet half way. Bad choice. The town was really depressing. I had thought Dundee was grim but it was like Paris compared to Perth. Absolutely nothing to see or do. Even the old kirk was closed to visitors. So while it was lovely to see my friend I was happy to get on the train out!

Were you a King named Richard in a previous life?!