What places in the UK have weirded you out - part two

[Yachtinggwoman]

I have started another thread, as the topic is so interesting.

West Bay felt very weird to me. We went after watching Broadchurch. I think it’s partly the strange mix of architecture. The cliff falls are also creepy. There are signs on the beach warning you to stay away from the cliffs.

One of my favourite holidays from when I was younger was at Oakdene. I absolutely loved it.

It's fascinating that people can feel differently about places. For me I get a very heavy, depressed feeling whenever I'm around Halifax, Hebden Bridge and Todmorden. I used to go to those towns frequently with work and I'm glad I don't have to now.

Thread 1 will be my late night read tonight in bed!

My weird places are:

Piccadilly Gardens and Market Street, Manchester - was a student in MCR 10 years ago, and I would always feel overstimulated and unsafe round that side of town.

Peak District - specifically Woodhead Pass A628, feels really eerie.

Quite a few people find that with Whitby. Saltburn, Marsden and
Redcar get mentioned a lot too in these types of threads. Haven't been to either so can't comment . I have done Scarborough and Bridlington. Scarborough I enjoyed especially.

I wonder what it is about Whitby and Saltburn etc?

It’s weird isn’t it. The following year we had a lovely holiday in Portland and loved Chesil Beach and it’s been mentioned a few times on the previous thread.

Netley hospital Southampton, ex military hospital where just the chapel remains. I get chills just driving into the car park. The chapel looms large and is v creepy.

@TheChippendenSpook @mustardchops yes it is odd how we all like different things . I also enjoyed Portland and the Chesil. It guess it could seem eerie but for me it was a positive kind of eerie. Desolate but beautiful.

I love York and I know parts of it are haunted and some awful thighs happened but I never felt off there, even though I went into one of the most haunted pubs in York. That said I wasn't able to do Clifford Tower due to mobility issues, I might have felt differently there. Jewish heritage on one side of my family but as far as I know, no ties to Yorkshire at all (although I love the county). Ditto Bath, I feel very happy and free there. And Harrogate, though I prefer York and Ripon. I have heard a theory about radon sensitivity may be being why some people don't like these areas. Perhaps it's something to do with that.

I hated the Forest of Dean , it felt creepy, lonely and dank.

Upton upon Severn gave us all the heebies. We parked our car in a car park and realised that every three or four cars had one or two people sitting inside doing nothing. We felt as if we were being watched.

I hope people get the point a bit more with this thread and don't just name towns they don't like 😂
I haven't actually been to any but I love looking up abandoned places like old theme parks and Pontins sites on Google Earth and exploring them that way. I sometimes then Google old pictures (like postcards) of them.
I get an odd feeling of sadness of the lives been and gone of people who spent time there.
That's a bit weird isn't it 😂

Whitby. I always wanted to go there and when i went i felt so uncomfortable and felt a weird oppressive atmosphere. Couldn’t wait to leave. Also get horrible vibes in cornwall.

I know it's been mentioned countless times but Bath makes me feel strange. I live in Bristol so have visited frequently over the years but never been able to shake off the weird vibe. I don't know if this thread is exclusive to Britain but I also had a horrible feeling in the Alhambra in Granada. I was excited to see it but I become icy cold, like deathly cold (it was a hot day) and I couldn't stop shaking. I had to walk out.

I quite like looking at those Urban exploration videos on youtube. I don't do any urban exploring like that myself but I find abandoned places fascinating. Especially when it's a building that's just been left as it is and abandoned, although that often means a sad back story, it's also fascinating in a morbid sort of way. It's a bit mawkish of me I guess.

Any coastal place where the land meets the sea in a long, straight line, with a long straight beach vanishing into the distance. So a lot of the east coast of the UK is disturbing to me, though I've seen one or two other places - Camber sands, plus Praa sands and Downderry in Cornwall, that have the same vibe.

Didn't like Hartlepool at all - visited on a glorious sunny day and couldn't get out fast enough. Ditto King's Lynn and Blackpool.

It's quite difficult to distinguish between places that are weird in an interesting way, and places that just depress you.

Unlike others though I love Liverpool, Brighton and Hastings, and all of Wales.

Blubber houses. Very eerie vibes.

My mother had an emotional encounter travelling through Glencoe. Unbearable sadness and tears. We know from her family history there are links to Scotland, and we suspect perhaps an ancestral emotional flashback was triggered . I don't believe in reincarnation but I wonder if our DNA holds memories ?

Bedham woods West Sussex, doesn’t help they there is a derelict church down in the woods, the further you drive into the woods the darker it gets and feels like you are driving at night eventually. Had to turn round.

I haven't visited Llandudno in over thirty years, but I loved it when I spent a weekend camping near there on my own in my late teens. Strolling along the front, taking the chair lift up the Great Orme, whizzing around on the luge... what's not to like? 🤷‍♀️ 🙂

To be fair I have had some decent fish and chips there.

I've always had this oppressive feeling in the New Forest. It feels like going in to a sort of dark tunnel, and I just feel really on edge and unable to relax. It's a beautiful area, but I can't shake the feeling until I leave.

Totally agree. Well we like the side closest to the Abbey but then you cross the bridge and it's like a different world, absolutely horrible.

Like op I get a bad feeling in westbay, I think for me though it might be the high harbour walls as I also feel very uncomfortable in Charlestown in cornwall and Watchet in Somerset.

Blaise Castle area in Bristol. Blaise Hamlets I like, Lawrence Weston is fine, it's just the grounds around BC. A heavy uncomfortable feeling. I'm not the only one, apparently .

Bolton.
Manchester centre
Dublin.

Ah, I didn't see the last thread... love this kinda thing!
I'd love to love it, but the South West freaks me. Somerset feels so off, particularly Cheddar. The gorge is nice, but the town? Not so much. And no cheese shops, bizarrely.

Went to some nice places in Devon, but couldn't relax. Even more beautiful places in Cornwall, but again I felt like I was on a fake film set or didn't belong somehow.

I'm surprised to read about Caldey Island... I loved my trip there!

Ludlow. Something felt off. I absolutely love Shropshire otherwise

Aberdeen. The accent was impenetrable. Got the feeling they didn’t understand me either.