What places in the UK have weirded you out?

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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.

Not the Uk, but just had to add, Berlin gave me awful sad and heavy vibes. Felt quite ill just being there.

Rhyl.
Felt like where depression goes to feel bad.

That would be my pick, bleak as hell. Everyone seemed to be selling their possessions on the pavement outside their houses.

That's not the only wreck up there either, just the famous one. There is a vibe on that side yet I feel so at peace in the Kinder area.

I live in Glossop (incomer) and don't find it weird, Chapel en le Frith on the other hand....

Warrington, we walked around the centre on a Sunday morning and it was deserted and quite eerie

@OhCalmTheFuckDownMargaret I was born in Bow, just "dahn the road" from Bethnal Green and spent most of my early teenage years hanging around there. Moved away years ago but thought it had improved. Obviously not!

ShakespeareInTurmoil · Today 14:48

I never get the ones about Bath - I lived there six years, as a uni student and then I got my first grad job there. Lived in the studenty suburb of Oldfield Park, then in the city centre. Loved it! Beautiful, lots of greenery, parks, lovely architecture… no creepy vibes for me!

Me neither! As a Bathonian, I’m offended 😄. I grew up in Oldfield Park, and loved it. I agree with all of the points you make.

My husband says that it could be to do with the hills surrounding Bath, which has an impact on the air pressure (which would go some way to explaining why some visitors may not feel great during their visit).

Yes. It's the flatness and not exactly the "bleakness" but never endingness of it. Some of it looks lovely but it feels monitomous and like you're going round in circles.

I hate that bit of telegraph hill! Always have, cannot even explain why, it just feels wrong.

Blackpool… just felt grimy

edinburgh airport …. Just absolutely can not stand EDI and avoid it at all costs, makes me feel physically ill and I can’t explain why

benedorm- not in the uk but got spiked here
marmaris in turkey - again not in the uk but men were so leery and grabby and kept trying to buy me for camels from my dad, I was 15 at the time and I’ve never felt so uncomfortable in my life. I’ll never set foot in turkey again

Goathland, creepy place. And the drive 'over the tops' from Goathland to Whitby. Can't even put it into words so this won't make any sense, but it feels to me like the air is buzzing and incredibly oppressive, like when you were a kid and you'd stand under a pylon and hear/feel that electrical buzzing sensation. Creeped me out.

😂

Bethnel Green is a typical shabby part of London but doesn't weird me out in any way - but the tube station does.
I always think of the WW2 tragedy of people dying there.
I don't use that tube station very often but on the rare time I do I always pause and think of what was essentially a freak accident.
Edit : for those who don't know the story....
In 1943 people were rushing to the tube to shelter from an air raid.
The station was actually unfinished but being used as a shelter. There was no handrail or decent lighting and it is believed a woman carrying her baby tripped and fell and it caused a domino effect behind her and 173 people died in the crush.
The irony was there wasn't actually an air raid. It was a false alarm.

I had no idea where this was, but couldn't resist looking for it on Google Maps, yes it is a bit spooky. I'm sure I've seen this place or somewhere similar in a TV drama car chase/abduction scene ? Silent Witness? 👻

Gloucester. It's just weird.

Weird wouldn’t be the right word, but I felt a bit of a culture shock visiting Belfast for the first time and seeing the peace walls and the neighbourhoods on both sides. Really highlighted my ignorance as an Englishwoman , and I won’t pretend to ever understand or get what they’ve been through on both sides. But it definitely felt a bit surreal and unlike any other place I’ve been to.

Lived in Belfast for two years and loved NI

Norfolk is definitely a bit ....odd

Portree felt quite "thrusting". Like that annoying person at work who wants everyone to know when they've arrived in the morning. Maybe it's because it's the only proper civilisation on Skye. 🤣 I do like Syke though.

Camden doesn't freak me out but I do find it soulless and empty. You know when someone has "dead eyes". That is what Camdem feels like to me. I think it's probably a bit of a victim of its own success. A bit all fur coat and no knickers because it's pretending to be this fashionable, trendy place but it's too commercial now to have that energy.

Everywhere south of the midlands

My dad was doing a delivery there (he was an HGV driver), at the time of the shooting. His usual route would have put him right in the line of fire but on that day he decided to go a different way. He couldn't explain what made him go that way, he just said he got " a very eerie feeling".

Blackhall was just as bad when the Colliery was open. Used to have a conveyor thing dumping coal waste into the sea!

Oh God yes it's so bleak I hate the place

Forest of Dean!! As an anxious kid admittedly, but I got major creeps there

Kinlochleven is unbelievably creepy!

Ravenglass. Seriously creepy although it's redeemed somewhat by the Eskdale steam railway which is a lovely day out. But Ravenglass itself - really weird and spooky.