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.

How very strange.

Mansfield, Notts. Feels really insular and odd. Have only had to go there a few times for work and each time I could not wait to leave, it really feels like something out of The League of Gentlemen. Having said that I do have a good friend who was born there and left who feels the same

Mam Tor is really eerie.

I agree completely

Boscastle, Cornwall. People were lovely, but really felt I shouldn’t be there. Weird

Yes, the history there feels very "real" and almost current. I love visiting places with history but I could almost see past events there iyswim. I don't know why because it's never happened anywhere else. Me and history were vibing! 🤣

I second Milton Keynes. It doesn’t feel real, it’s dystopian and a bit ‘Black Mirror’. Or a communist country that has huge developments of identical buildings. Very weird.

Seasalter in Kent. Piss hole. Odd aggressive vibes

Ooh tell us about the creature!

Walsingham. Felt like we were being watched.
Fully agree on Camden too.

Surrey

I agree Camden and also Liverpool, it feels like there’s a weird under current of aggression waiting to surface. Spent my uni days there and have never been back.

Can’t agree with Holy Island, the peace and history make it one of my top places to visit. Although I do get how its bleakness in winter and isolation could make some people feel a bit weird about it.

The South

Sheppy.

Hallsands in South Devon (just along from Slapton). Most of the village washed into the sea after excavation of the beach for shingle for use in construction caused the cliff to collapse.

The German underground hospital on Jersey.

The Electric Brae in Scotland (but a different type of weird).

I find some places menacing. Old Market in Bristol for example.

There’s a stretch of the A34 through Oxfordshire, between Chieveley and Didcot, that gives me the heebies every time I drive it. It’s horrible. There have been a LOT of fatalities along that part and the road is hideous, just drops away at the sides and the hills are madness. Annoyingly I have to drive it a lot.

I felt very weird vibes at the Tower of London. Maybe knew too much of the history. I’ve not felt like that at other bloodthirsty sites though.

Although there was a part of the cathedral at St David’s that was just icy cold, the rest was very pleasant and it was a boiling hot day, but it was one of the side chapel at the altar end, so cold.

Definitely. I used to work as a teacher in Cheltenham. We'd use the costume store in the Forest of Dean sometimes . Nobody wanted to go there. Very very odd place. We used to draw lots to see who had to go

Yes the Black Isle and everything north of it on the east coast of the Highlands, It's so bleak and there's several bridges to cross which I find difficult.
( I've got a phobia of crossing bridges due to being on the Kincardine bridge as a child .The middle bit opens up to let boats through)

Bellingham, a tiny village in Northumberland. We walked in to the local pub and it was like the opening scene from an American werewolf in London. The whole place stopped and stared at us, and continued to do so the whole time we were there.

The barmaid ( who was really lovely) explained that although the village gets a lot of tourists, they all go to the pub around the corner and never in there. I would like to point out that myself and DH are both from Northumberland, so we didn't really stand out, accent wise ect. I think it was just because we weren't locals.

It was very unnerving. I was waiting for them to wheel the wicker man out !!!

Todmorden in West Yorkshire

Wolverhampton. I went once, was the weirdest place I ever set foot in.

No @Loudcloudyou didn’t, it’s always like that. A shame as there’s a lot of potential but it’s got a lot of issues.

For me it was Ilfracombe. Been twice and both times it gave me the creeps. Didn’t help that there was a nearly empty merry-go-round playing typical creepy fairground music 😂

And Blackpool. Just a really depressing place where most people look either drunk or unhappy. Again, lots of issues due to lack of funding etc.

Do you mean the German underground hospital on Guernsey or the war tunnels on Jersey? Either way, I would expect there to be an odd vibe because of what happened there.

We visited recently and were shocked at security on the doors of almost every single shop. I obviously live a sheltered life!

York minster
I used to live in york (born and bred there) and I can't go anywhere near it
I'm fine with every other building in york-and its got a lot of history-good and bad
In fact,I'd walk miles out of my way to avoid it
Ds once had to go with school (I had to drop him off and stay)
I couldn't sit still-it was like black energy was oozing out of the walls and touching me-I couldn't breathe until we left and got down the street
The whole building looks black to me-i don't care if its when I'm walking past or just a picture,I feel the same

One of the high rises in the town I live in now
We live near one and the other is about 2 miles away
The one near us is fine,but there's no way will I walk past the other (I can't cope if we drive past)
I'm told it's full of people who are well known to the police
A friend of mine was once walking past and was mugged (I didn't know this until years later-i went shaky the second I saw it for the first time but can't explain why)
I get the same feeling as york minster-its just black energy

I was once stood talking to a friend (just off micklegate,york) next to her work (in the car park)
I suddenly had the urge to get away from the ground and onto the pavement as soon as I could
I knew I wasn't meant to be standing there but couldn't say why-my feet felt weird and I needed to move
Turns out,it had been a mass grave of victims of the plague (I think they found this out when they dug it up)
I've never knowingly walked across a grave in my life-i try to be respectful

Saying that,as a kid I refused to walk in the car park of the barbican (at this time,it was a swimming pool)
The front was fine,but I couldn't walk around the back (my siblings found this odd)
It was like an invisible brick wall around it-id walk round the real wall but not take a short cut across it
They dug it up years later and found old skeletons which they think where murdered or died a horrid death

Oddly,places like the tower of London,Hever Castle and Hampton Court are fine
I stood near where Ann boleyn had been beheaded and felt nothing (apart from sadness that a woman had been murdered by her husband for nothing she'd done,apart from not giving him a son,so he lied and had her killed)

God knows why I feel/felt like this