Page 8 | What places in the UK have weirded you out - part two

Yachtinggwoman · 2025-04-15T04:23:08+00:00

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.

lifesrichpageant · 16/04/2025 06:10

Lee Valley and Walthamstow Marshes area - always made me feel uneasy. Once went cycling through there and had sense of being in a dystopian universe.

Cyclingandrunning · 16/04/2025 07:31

Years ago when I was a teenager, we used to stop at Llanelli on our way home from a west Wales holiday. It's a small town and I used to roam around, looking at shops and we'd have lunch. Fond memories.

I got my husband to stop off there last summer so I could see it again. I was shocked. It was if I'd walked into an apocalypse, it was horrible, even my children asked what on earth is this place. It felt unsafe, decayed and a surreal oppressive feel.

I love Cardiff though and visit often, I find it to be a really safe, friendly city.

I also get the dreams about extra rooms. I have a couple of rental properties and I often find additional rooms/ basements that I didn't know about. Mine arent scary though. Apparently it's supposed to represent you aren't fulfilling your potential.

SinnerBoy · 16/04/2025 07:36

Alwaystired23 · Yesterday 21:41

I'm from Cardiff, I don't live there any more, but honestly I can't relate to anything you've said. It's a great city.

I spent 6 months working there in 2021 - 2022 and I really liked it. I don't understand the dislike, either!

dayswithaY · 16/04/2025 07:45

I could read this thread forever!

I really love Dungeness it’s like being on the moon, however a friend worked nearby and said it’s very different at night - so scary.

We got the train there and you go through some really isolated open places on the way - Romney Marsh in particular, it does feel like you’re travelling to the ends of the earth.

Someone upthread mentioned Aldgate and I so agree. I used to work nearby and it’s a strangely quiet, grey little area just outside the noise of the City, strange. There used to be an underground shopping centre called Aldgate Bars which you walked down a slope to get to, then you were literally underneath the roundabout. They have since closed it off and I read that they filled it with concrete to seal it, don’t know why but that really gave me the creeps when I think of all the empty shops and bars left in there.

The City of London has lots of dark and very narrow alleyways where noise just stops.

HeySugarSugar · 16/04/2025 08:00

dayswithaY · 16/04/2025 07:45

I could read this thread forever!

I really love Dungeness it’s like being on the moon, however a friend worked nearby and said it’s very different at night - so scary.

We got the train there and you go through some really isolated open places on the way - Romney Marsh in particular, it does feel like you’re travelling to the ends of the earth.

Someone upthread mentioned Aldgate and I so agree. I used to work nearby and it’s a strangely quiet, grey little area just outside the noise of the City, strange. There used to be an underground shopping centre called Aldgate Bars which you walked down a slope to get to, then you were literally underneath the roundabout. They have since closed it off and I read that they filled it with concrete to seal it, don’t know why but that really gave me the creeps when I think of all the empty shops and bars left in there.

The City of London has lots of dark and very narrow alleyways where noise just stops.

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We went to Dungeness on holiday a few years ago and absolutely loved it! But then I don’t get all these woo experiences so can’t relate - it’s funny how they always happen to people in rural locations whereas actually many more millions of people died in cities but no woo there 😄🤷‍♀️

ThisWOMANWontWheesht · 16/04/2025 08:21

ChiaraRimini · 16/04/2025 05:56

I was just coming here to say Wastwater! It’s a very creepy place.

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I'm also not keen on Wastwater. However over-visited the rest of the The Lakes is, it still feels so comfy, welcoming and beautiful to me.
Wastwater is scenic, but just doesn't feel like it belongs there. Like it's sneaked into the Lake District in disguise.

Bluopal · 16/04/2025 08:45

SinnerBoy · 16/04/2025 07:36

Alwaystired23 · Yesterday 21:41

I'm from Cardiff, I don't live there any more, but honestly I can't relate to anything you've said. It's a great city.

I spent 6 months working there in 2021 - 2022 and I really liked it. I don't understand the dislike, either!

Isn’t the point though that everyone experiences things differently? My home city has been mentioned, I adore the place but understand that people can feel different vibes. We’ve probably all met someone who creeps us out a bit, but who is happily married to someone who definitely doesn’t find them creepy.

atesomanybananas · 16/04/2025 08:51

Belsay. It’s supposed to be haunted and I can believe it. It just felt all sorts of wrong, although it is a fascinating place.

kerstina · 16/04/2025 08:57

ShaunaTheDitzySheep · 15/04/2025 11:23

Have a weird feeling in Windsor and Runnymede area, I can't think why.

Newport in Wales. Such an angry oppressive vibe. I know South/ West Wales struggles greatly these days but I don't feel this way in Swansea or Cardiff or Carmarthen. I love Pembrokeshire especially Saundersfoot and the Gower. St Davids, I liked the vibe there but I did notice that cold bit in the cathedral.didn't feel any bad vibes but I noticed the cold (hot sunny August day). Very sad to read about Caldey Island, I haven't been there , I noticed when I was in Tenby that there are ferries to it and I saw the chocolate produced there in the shops but had no idea of the abuse history and one of the abuse victims drowning as a child.

Parts of Bristol for me have a sad and heavy vibe. Particularly the road from Cotham to the Highbury Vaults, I was quite happy one day on my way to meet a friend for lunch at the pub there and was almost knocked sideways by an intense feeling of sadness and grief. There is a lot of history there .

The Avon gorge and suspension bridge area also and Leigh Woods have a creepy vibe too. I have heard that as the slave ships came to dock into Bristol that they threw the sick or dead slaves into the Avon river, so in a way it's not surprising . There are some parts of Bristol and things about Bristol I love but there is a very evil past there.

Do you mean Newport in Pembrokeshire or the other one . I love Newport Pembrokeshire fell in love with the place and would move there in a heartbeat!

TeaRoseTallulah · 16/04/2025 09:12

Karistyleaftea · 15/04/2025 20:06

Holkham beach in Norfolk.
Such a sad feeling there under that oppressive . heavy sky miles of flat nothingness.
DH also felt something terrible when we viewed a house in Norfolk and could not wait to get out.
It did back on to a church graveyard so who knows.

How strange,it's my favourite beach, I love it there, it's so beautiful.

Shovealoadon · 16/04/2025 09:13

Tryinghardtobefair · 16/04/2025 03:30

Crediton, Devon. Almost everyone is related by marriage or by blood. It just feels as if they're all going to go a bit Hot Fuzz on you

I found the same with Tiverton!

Illjusthavethebreadsticks · 16/04/2025 09:28

Purplebunnie · 15/04/2025 19:25

I've stayed at Coombe Abbey and no woo or weird goings on thankfully, well not when I stayed there anyway @Butteredtoast55

Edited to add The staff are an absolute hoot and stay in medieval character, well the one showing me to my room did

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You sure it was staff ?!

Paul2023 · 16/04/2025 09:28

RedOnyx · 16/04/2025 05:59

I was born there! 1983. We moved to Northern Ireland in 1988(?) then back to Aldershot in 1991.
I definitely know the Wellington statue but the woods I found really creepy were the ones next to our estate, by the railway line. At the top is Redan Hill with the big canon. Being creeped out didn't stop us playing in them though 😅. My friend and I got caught cutting through them on the way home from secondary school once - by her dad who she hadn't realised was coming home on leave that day. She got a massive bollocking and for the next two weeks her mum walked us halfway to school to make sure we went the long way round. Luckily they never told my mum or I'd have been dead meat.

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Was your dad in the Paras by any chance ? Do you remember the big blocks of flats , they were army family quarters.. they knocked them down and a big Tesco was built. Across the road from the Wellington Statue.
Probably early 90s at a guess..

towelonfloor · 16/04/2025 09:29

@HeySugarSugar I thought that! i'm
a Londoner so if I got spooked by people dying, bad things, woo I'm not sure I could venture out very far 😆

the80sweregreat · 16/04/2025 09:30

A lot of villages and towns in the UK can be quite maze like or built close together, so can add to a feeling of claustrophobia at times especially if I’m not sure where I’m going or I’m scared of getting lost.
Visiting old churches or ruins make me feel uneasy too. I think many places like this are used in films or dramas for atmospheric purposes and it gives you that vibe visiting in person.
I didn’t like Hemsby much as the walk to the beach is long and narrow and it felt oppressive, but a lot of Norfolk and the roads are like this to walk or drive along.

RedOnyx · 16/04/2025 09:52

Paul2023 · 16/04/2025 09:28

Was your dad in the Paras by any chance ? Do you remember the big blocks of flats , they were army family quarters.. they knocked them down and a big Tesco was built. Across the road from the Wellington Statue.
Probably early 90s at a guess..

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Yes, 3 Para! Dad and step dad. I don't actually remember the flats, although I must have seen them at some point - we lived in Salamanca Park before moving to Northern Ireland. I do remember them building the new Tesco and the excitement when we started being able to shop there. Before that we used to go to Farnborough on Saturdays for the big shop.
When I was first born we lived in a maisonette then we were moved to Salamanca Park when I was still a baby because the maisonettes were condemned and had to be knocked down.

Frauhubert · 16/04/2025 10:01

Inspired by the creepy tale about Savernake Forest on here, i dragged my dh there a couple of years ago when we were in the area. We didn’t see or feel anything weird on that day 👻 was just surprised how small it was.

Don’t laugh at me but I have a bad feeling every time i am in… Islington.

UnctuousUnicorns · 16/04/2025 10:05

Illjusthavethebreadsticks · 16/04/2025 00:24

this thread is taking me ages to read as I’m looking up all the places mentioned even the motorways !!

Oh yes, all hail Google Maps and Street View! 😅

Tortielady · 16/04/2025 10:06

Eastie77Returns · 15/04/2025 22:44

Endured a terrible weekend in Middlesbrough. I was reluctantly attending a family member’s wedding (long story) which didn’t help but the moment I arrived I felt unnerved. Very odd vibe and the town centre felt oppressive with a vague air of menace. I stayed near the university as someone told me the area around there was safer but I didn’t feel that at all. Almost cried with relief when I got in the car to drive back home.

I lived in Middlesbrough for a while in the 1990s. Our area (Middlehaven) was in the clutches of the drugs trade and we were burgled three times. The day we got out was one of the best of my life. I've returned many times since, mainly to use the university library and to attend hospital appointments at James Cook. The further down Linthorpe Road, towards Linthorpe Village you go, the more the atmosphere lightens. But I've no desire to set foot in Middlehaven ever again.

MrsGusset · 16/04/2025 10:19

No doubt because so many people have perished there I always find The Strid on the River Wharfe in Yorkshire to be very creepy. I've seen it described as the deadliest stretch of water in the world & anybody falling in is certain to drown.

Beautiful part of the country though; it's just the river that spooks me.

AlmanbyRoadtrip · 16/04/2025 10:32

I always stay well on the path there @MrsGusset ! Makes me shudder to see people letting their dogs wander about on the rocks - some truly stupid people about, there’s enough signs.

SinnerBoy · 16/04/2025 10:34

Bluopal · Today 08:45

Isn’t the point though that everyone experiences things differently?

Yes, fair point!

Jasmin71 · 16/04/2025 10:45

AlmanbyRoadtrip · 15/04/2025 17:34

Apparently the original Royston Vasey was Alston, in Cumbria. I’ve been there many times and I love it, but I can totally see how it provide the inspiration
There’s even a Local Shop type building on the way up Hartside.

Royston Vassey, is Hadfield in the High Peak.

SunsetCocktails · 16/04/2025 10:46

Shovealoadon · 15/04/2025 20:26

Hi @SunsetCocktails yeah they did thankfully move away. My now DH and I moved out first to get our first place, a rental just outside Exeter. Followed by my family about a year later.

I have no idea who lives there now and writing about it now makes me wonder. Have just looked on Zoopla and it was last sold in 2016, wow the current occupiers have strong stomachs! We were there less than 2 years and felt like an eternity 😬

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Oh wow! Maybe after all these years whatever was there has given up and finally laid itself to rest.

AlmanbyRoadtrip · 16/04/2025 10:51

Jasmin71 · 16/04/2025 10:45

Royston Vassey, is Hadfield in the High Peak.

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In the show it is. Alston was cited as an inspiration. Along with some areas around Oldham.