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.

I posted about Mansfield in Notts, I don't like it and it feels weird, as if you have travelled back through time into some sort of sinister 1970's horror film

Agree about Bodmin 👍👻

which village in London was this experience ?

@lifeonmars100i totally agree and posted why and as I’m from there I know it wasn’t always like this too

Weymouth

Ludlow. Everywhere to eat was closed or closing at 3pm on a Saturday. We’d driven from Wales, checked in and wanted something to tide us over.

DH and I walked into a semi-busy independent cafe and took a seat for the waitress to come over and say they weren’t taking any new food orders. Asked if there was anywhere else open for food at that time and were directed to the Tesco Express 😂.
The rest of the trip went the same way, we seemed to keep missing the unwritten meal time rules! (Pre internet phones so we couldn’t look anything up!)

@mummysmagicmedicine would love to know the name of your haunted Newquay hotel! Love stuff like that...

Paignton

Kettering- weirdly deserted

There's a village near here, not going to put where but it's quite small and always feels really depressing and unwelcoming. In theory it should be a lovely little place, right out in the country and surrounded by open space but it always feels dead. No birdsong, no life and the locals are so unfriendly.

Very odd place - even driving through it is depressing let alone stopping there to use thecfarate or local shop.

Don’t get Liverpool at all - love it and I’m a snob- guess we are all different

Bodmin: it’s the beast😱

As a carefree teenager me and a bunch of mates on an ambitious walking holiday decided to trek up onto the hills to find a camp spot. We were chased back down by some horrendous sounding animal in the dead of night, I kid you not.

We ended up camping about 2 inches from the main road behind a bush.

I live here and it feels fine to me!

I find Canary Wharf, Isle of Dogs, Wapping etc really weird though, a bit like I’m walking through a film set where none of the houses are real. At the weekend you don’t see anyone walking around either.

We call this type of villages and pubs "We be not loiking strangers round these 'ere parts"😄

Wiltshire has a mystical vibe, something to do with Stonehenge and the amount of crop circles maybe

Enjoying this thread but honestly I’ve never had a weird vibe anywhere so I’m starting to wonder what’s wrong with me?!
I’ve had places that aren’t for me or I wouldn’t bother going back to, but honestly can’t say I have felt weird at any of them.

What about Robin Hoods Bay near Whitby?
I know lots of people love it, but I'm in no rush to go back there. Not weird as such, but I felt unwelcome. Not by the people (it was a sunny day in the summer - everyone was a tourist!) but just the place.
Maybe it was because the tide was in so everyone was squeezed onto a tiny bit of beach having to avoid all the dead jellyfish.
Also, my husbands sense of direction is amazing. We went into an old little shop and decided to go back later to buy a fossil. Could never find the shop again. No idea how you lose a shop in somewhere that size but we did! So that added to the oddness.

The view across Morecambe bay is one of the best views in the country. The town itself has a sad beauty to it as you can see that it had such an important history but now it is just run down. They are due an Eden Project which will hopefully put some life back in the town.

The Headland hotel?! That was such a creepy stay we had there

I love Glasgow, Liverpool and a visit to Camden!

Laughing at all of the people saying The Black Isle / Munlochy - I think it’s very beautiful there! Alness is a funny vibe.

I completely agree with whoever said Kinlochleven! Very strange place!! Didn’t like Leicester or Bradford either. Preston is miserable! Visited a few odd places in Cornwall - Helston was weird.

For the folks who’ve mentioned Dungeness, I hearty agree - love it so much during the day, but something seems so spooky at night about it. The fright in my heart I’d feel if I saw someone walking across the shale in the dark to my little hut house. Someone deffo needs to make a Broadchurch type thing.

Also Nottingham and Sheffield, I honestly have absolutely no idea why, but I feel so uncomfortable even anxious when in them and can’t wait to escape.

Finally, I adore Northern Wales, but I always feel like I’m a suspicious outsider when I try to chat to the locals. I always feel like they want me to f-off. They probs do, in fairness. Another tourist.

Yeah - I spent a weird long weekend there back in the 90s. Bleak beach. Sea miles out. Whole town had a crumbling, sinister 1950s vibe. Also the mist. And the oppressive mountains on both sides of the road driving there. Couldn't wait to get the hell out.

Yes! I knew there was something about Canary Wharf I couldn't put my finger on and you've nailed it., DH and I went out for dinner there and it was just odd, not creepy but odd..

I haven't RTFT so sorry if it's already come up, but Culloden. Walking around the battlefield....very eerie. I didn't like it at all.

Roanhead beach I reckon!