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.

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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.

I like the idea of people from the Sarf can't cope with the North, as long as it keeps them away. The definition of the North varies from where one lives, from Brighton for example London is North. A large number consider that the North is Manchester, Leeds etc., the M62 is the 'border'.

Essex…

For the only time I haven't read the whole thread ..... but I reckon it depends on whether you've any connection (good or bad) to the place in a past life. Call it woohy or not but I get that some places give a good or bad vibe to different people. Weirdly where I live currently feels homely (and I don't mean the house) but I have no connection to the area and ended up here due to circumstance but I do miss my old town. Just like when you are looking for a new home; some feel right and others don't and it's not to do with ticking the 4 beds, large garden, big kitchen, driveway etc boxes; it's more intuitive, a kind of gut reaction.

And yes, I absolutely feel there is an atmosphere. My dad said Bergen Belsen in the 50s was absolutely desolate with no birds or animals and a really evil feeling. Maybe the sheer desperation of the place imprinted itself into the surroundings. There is a theory that really traumatic happenings are imprinted on the surroundings such as earth, stones, trees, walls a bit like being imprinted on a record. I viewed a house once that immediately I wanted to walk out of; didn't even go upstairs as the feeling was "wrong" not just odd but threatening.

If you can, stand in the middle of somewhere with a bit of history and close your eyes and clear your mind after grounding yourself into the earth and just feel. I bet you'll feel/see/hear something that is absolutely not of the present!

The amount of people that have come unstuck jumping off the end of Durdle Door you'd think it would be closed off by now, I've lost count the amount of times I've watched South Today news and yet another drunk idiot has needed to be airlifted to hospital, it happens every bloody Summer, I wish they'd close it off.

The roads in the fens are quite dangerous though. Every year someone ends up drowned in the forty foot. If I have to drive along there, or beside the sixteen foot to Christchurch, I feel like I'm holding my breath till I can turn inland. Full moons are beautiful in the fens though - they light up so much land.

Maybe because it's really beautiful? 🙄

Sorry you fell over as a six year old (not an unusual occurrence), but I'm not sure it's enough to class a place as "weird".

Yes!
I completely forgot about Urqhart Castle and Loch Ness. It felt so... down and like I was being dragged down too.
I dont know if it's just because all the soul of the place has been sucked out by the tourist trade though so it feels really commercialised.

Hotel near Dryburgh Abbey. I’ve never felt so unsettled in my life, in the hotel itself and in the area in general. There was an air of doom and heaviness.

We couldn’t wait to leave, and checked out early after a series of goings on in the room that made us feel like “someone” didn’t want us to be there!!

My very sensible husband is convinced that none of the hotel workers or other guests were real 😂and if we returned the whole hotel wouldn’t be there!

I’ve forgotten the name of the hotel and refuse to google it because I don’t want to look at it!! It was nearly 6 years ago and still gives me shivers.

Leek in the Staffordshire Moorlands has quite a satanic feel about it: especially on a dark, cloudy day. And even when it's warm and sunny, it feels chilly and foreboding.

Hunstanton. Weird people that felt like they were watching non locals suspiciously. Royston Vasey vibes.

Hackney, Peckham and Brixton. Admittedly I haven’t lived in London in 13 years and Hackney seems to have changed a lot but hell, I’ve never ever experienced the like.

The tower of London really spooked me I felt like I couldn't breathe so had to get out

I live in Manchester and still don’t consider it to be the North 🤣 I’m a Geordie though.

Hebden Bridge felt off to me.
The chapel at Wynyard Hall gives me chills, it looks pretty but it has no soul.

Leighton Buzzard had a super weird vibe too when we were considering houses that way…

Its the Northwest of England.

It's interesting that so many have mentioned the Tower of London. I went to school near there and have visited many times as a child and an adult and it just feels very sanitised and calm.

A friend of mine dated the son of a beefeater and used to stay over on the grounds regularly. She said it wasn't at all weird sleeping there.

I have never been to Morecombe Bay but I have been haunted by the tragic description of the group of tragic cocklepickers who drowned on the vast mud flats when the tide came in faster than a galloping horse.

Anyone been there?

Bodmin. There’s just something about it. Our dog would not go outside in the dark there. You literally had to drag him outside for a wee.

A village called Monks Eleigh in Suffolk. A blink and you’ll miss it village. They burned witches on the green. The place gives me the creeps.

Went to Bacup once. Well, a place nearby called Waterfoot. You could see it had once been prosperous in Victorian times - all canopied pavements. But the glass was all long gone and it was just full of really run down charity shops and tattoo parlours. I had ancestors from there and wanted to check out the graveyards but I couldn't wait to leave.

Bexley London just feels off like backwards but not obviously.... I can't put my finger on it. Isle of Wight fir similar reasons

North of M25?

Ok why please? due to stay there shortly 😁(Liverpool)

Shepherd's Bush...😬🙄 eww

Liverpool...awful vibe from the moment I left the train station.
Grantham....you can feel the tension between the immigrants and Brexiteers.
The high peaks....they're horrible to drive over as they're usually shrouded in thick fog. They often have extra thick pockets of fog sitting in the ditches at the side of the road ...like something from a horror film. I live just above that area so I feel cut off from the rest of the country.