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.

I get the same ‘get out fast’ vibe in Glastonbury, try to avoid driving there if I can especially in the winter. A foggy day there is a centuries old creep fest.

Bit confused about Bath.
My sons at Uni there and we love it, would move there if we could

Folkestone had a feeling that unnerved me slightly. I don't know if that's cos I visited the place with my ex. Could have been the place or him. It just made me feel a bit claustrophobic or as if I was in a time capsule.

London. Hate it. Such horrible unwelcoming people.

Amazingstoke now!

It’s actually getting quite expensive to live there now.

Not a place you want to live if you don’t have a car. All high speed dual carriageways and roundabouts as far as the eye can see.

Shopping centre is alright though.

I also didn't like Enniskillen at all even though we'd heard it was nice. Just a really creepy vibe. Not keen.

OP’s asking about places that weird you out though? Not places you think are shite.

Don’t be silly! You can’t make that generalisation for such a huge place.
Loads of great areas still there.

The estate belonging to the former MP Richard Drax. Family became rich off the slave/sugar trade. There are so many car accidents along that stretch of road and it’s always peppered with holes in the wall.

Maybe it was another station in Glasgow then. 😂
It was definitely a train station and definitely in Glasgow.
Although I still get lost somewhere I've lived in for 25 years so who knows!

I’m interested in which places posters get a weird, spooky feeling about.

The fools who say ‘London’ or ‘the North’, though 🔥

Oh please, let's not start this in to a North South thing,....just stop

I found Matlock Bath, particularly the Heights of Abraham, really odd. Also, Hebden Bridge. Went to Lewes for bonfire night and fell into the river Cuckmere while attempting to have a wee (as none of the pubs would let me in). It was a really strange atmosphere, but probably because of the pagan celebrations.

I found Croydon so weird that I had to move to Sussex.

I spent the first half of my life there, and it started to feel weird when I was in my mid-20s, so around 1980. I occasionally go back (MIL and two of my nieces live there) and it feels really unreal, almost like living there was a weird dream.

Milton Keynes is weird too, it feels like a massive movie set, waiting for aliens to arrive or something. It just doesn't feel real.

The Somerset levels is a strange area. DP and I stopped at a pub in a village there once, and he commented later that if they ever did a remake of Deliverance, but set in England, it would be set in this particular village. We felt really unwelcome. And Bridgewater has a really weird vibe imo.

Right, places that have spooked me

Dartmooor...very odd vibe
The New Forest...witchcraft
The woods very near me are meant to be haunted by a Highwayman

I'll think of some more in a bit!

My husband's weird place too. Having spent a lot of time there as a child. He would like to raise you with Keighley though!

If you fell in the river in Lewes, it was the Sussex Ouse. The Cuckmere is several miles east of Lewes.

Barrow-in-Furness. We were on holiday in the Lake District a long time ago and fancied a day at the beach. Map seemed to show a beach - it was pre-internet days.

Drove in and drove out - never got out of the car and never found the beach. All four of us found it quite weird like it was in another time zone.

Might be a lot nicer now - no offence intended if you live there.

Mary King's Close in Edinburgh is a collection of underground rooms which were closed off because of the plague. The exhibit is hyped up for maximum spookiness, with actors telling the stories of the inhabitants and ghosts who are alleged to haunt it. I am usually immune to all that stuff and tend to scoff at it, but I did feel like there was a real heavy weight on my shoulders in one particular room. A colleague who visited at a different time fainted.

St Leonards on Sea, another place with an odd vibe, the place felt like I'd gone back 50 years I couldn't wait to leave ( no offence to anyone who lives there btw)

Is Croydon weird, or just, well, shit?

And the somerset levels is my one. I do really like the area but it's just got an eerie feel to it. And all the pubs have a bowling alley for some reason! Happiest of memories of the area though 💓

Buckfast Abbey has a history of paedophilia, so that might be why you were getting unpleasant vibes.

New Forest is alright.

A little bit “get orfff my land” from some of the locals (fuck them🖕) but there’s a lot of stunning places and the vibes are ok imo. Have camped there many times both wild and not wild and it’s been fine.

Also the fact that 90% of the population appear to be men none of whom seem to speak English. Any women around are covered up and scuttling around with their eyes to the floor like something in the handmaidens tale.

Yes.... people seem to be missing the point of this thread.