Cursed Places in Scotland

Badbea

💀💀💀💀 4.0/5 Highland

Badbea (pronounced bad-bay) is a former clearance village perched on the steep slopes above the cliff tops of Berriedale...

Netherdale

💀💀💀💀 3.9/5 Galashiels

Netherdale is a grandstand built between 1963 and 1965 as part of the Gala Stadium sports complex. It is made of five mo...

Twent-First-Century Tenement

💀💀💀💀 3.9/5 Glasgow

Three ‘Glasgow' corners define the territory, acting as terminals to gable ends and extending the traditional urba...

The Earthquake House of Comrie

💀💀💀💀 3.8/5 None

The United Kingdom is not generally associated with earthquakes, however, these islands are still rocked by a few hundre...

The Cranes of River Clyde

💀💀💀💀 3.8/5 None

A giant cantilever crane looms over a car park adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn at Glasgow City. During its heydays, th...

Scotland's secret bunker

💀💀💀💀 3.7/5 None

Scotland's Secret Nuclear Bunker - darkometer rating : 5 - A no longer quite so secret former government nucl...

The Kelpies

💀💀💀💀 3.7/5 Falkirk

The Kelpies are a pair of monumental steel horse-heads between the Scottish towns of Falkirk and Grangemouth. They stand...

The Witches of Paisley

💀💀💀💀 3.6/5 None

Four years after the events in Salem in Massachusetts, the United States, that saw the execution of nineteen innocent vi...

Hutchesontown C

💀💀💀💀 3.6/5 Glasgow City

Hutchesontown C was a Comprehensive Development Area (CDA) of an area of Hutchesontown, a district in the city of Glasgo...

The Centre Cumbernauld

💀💀💀💀 3.6/5 North Lanarkshire

The Centre Cumbernauld (formerly Cumbernauld town centre and The Cumbernauld SHopping Centre) is the commercial centre ...

Anniesland Court

💀💀💀💀 3.5/5 Glasgow City

Anniesland Court is a 22-storey residential tower block in the Anniesland area of Glasgow, Scotland, designed by J Holme...

The Closes of Edinburgh

💀💀💀💀 3.5/5 None

The Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland, consisted originally of the main street, now known as the Royal Mile, and a large n...

Gruinard Island Scotland

💀💀💀💀 3.5/5 None

Gruinard Island, Scotland - darkometer rating : 6 - A small island off Scotland's north-western coast, Great Bri...

Gallowgate Twins

💀💀💀💀 3.5/5 Glasgow City

The Bluevale and Whitevale Towers were twin 31–storey brutalist tower block flats situated in the Camlachie district wit...

Glasgow Necropolis

💀💀💀💀 3.5/5 None

Glasgow Necropolis, Scotland - darkometer rating : 1 - A Victorian cemetery right next to Glasgow's cathedral, S...

Andrew Melville Hall

💀💀💀 3.4/5 Fife

Andrew Melville Hall is a Category A listed student hall of residence of the University of St Andrews located in St Andr...

How Students Stole Britain’s Coronation Stone, The Stone of Scone

💀💀💀 3.4/5 None

For more than seven hundred years, British monarchs have sat on a large block of rectangular sandstone during their coro...

Dounreay exhibition, Thurso

💀💀💀 3.4/5 None

Dounreay exhibition at Caithness Horizons, Thurso - darkometer rating : 5 - UPDATE October 2021: apparently ...

The Oil Rig Graveyard of Cromarty Firth

💀💀💀 3.4/5 None

In a remote sheltered harbor guarded by two precipitous headlands, in the North of Scotland, dozens of oil rigs are sitt...

The Submerged Bridge Over Biel Water in Belhaven Bay

💀💀💀 3.3/5 None

The Biel Water is a small river running through the village of Biel to the south of Dunbar, in Scotland. It runs for 4.5...