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Do you ever get a strange feeling about someone ( or something?)

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Trixiefirecracker · 12/04/2023 22:11

I recently met someone, just a friend of a friend, and had a really visceral gut feeling about her and not in a good way. It made me feel so uncomfortable and I felt really awkward around her, like she might know what I was thinking. I have no idea why this happened and has never happened before, there was no obvious reason for it. She was perfect polite. However It felt like all the hairs stood up on the back of my neck and something about her really rattled me.Has anyone else ever had this experience and were they ‘right’ about their gut feeling?

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Isoqueen · 13/04/2023 12:12

I think you should listen to your instincts. They were given to you for a reason, self protection or whatever.

Perime · 13/04/2023 12:13

Interesting quote in the Tucker Carlson video PP posted

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them, women are afraid that men will kill them”

JingleBellez · 13/04/2023 12:18

Perime · 13/04/2023 12:13

Interesting quote in the Tucker Carlson video PP posted

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them, women are afraid that men will kill them”

If we are now quoting Tucker Carlson I genuinely despair!

Charlottewebsbabies · 13/04/2023 12:23

Trixiefirecracker · 13/04/2023 11:22

Interesting that you think that as I worked in a shelter for animals and some of the dogs would just bark at us for no reason, does that mean I am a serial killer? 😂

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God no!
Some dogs just do bark but this one never did-we hear him bark once until this neighbour moved in
He's a tiny breed,known for being daft,dopey,stubborn and very friendly
He just hated our neighbour-hackles up growling,ears back-the lot
Neighbour was a cunt-I'm sure your not!

AskMeMore · 13/04/2023 12:29

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AskMeMore · 13/04/2023 12:29

And it was a Margaret Atwood quote.

JingleBellez · 13/04/2023 12:32

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I don't follow. Could u pls explain?

JingleBellez · 13/04/2023 12:32

oh TC...

LilySavage · 13/04/2023 12:35

@JingleBellez was it definitely a ‘pagan’ stone circle or was it just a stone circle that are used in Eisteddfodau? They are really common, particularly by big old houses where local gentry would have lived. It makes them arguably less sinister when you know they are for poetry readings lol

RemoteControlDoobry · 13/04/2023 12:35

Kanaloa · 13/04/2023 09:46

But, erm… you didn’t ‘just know.’ You ‘just suspected.’ In reality a woman spoke to you and you decided she was going to steal your dogs. You don’t know and have no evidence that she ever did steal any dogs. And from your post it doesn’t sound like you’ve ever spotted a sociopath.

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This thread is about someone getting a feeling about someone and that’s what I got. I never said I had proof that she stole the dog. I have other examples where I’ve been proved right but this is the most recent occasion.

If you feel that you can make a decision over my ability to spot a psychopath from my post then fair enough. You don’t know anything about me.

RemoteControlDoobry · 13/04/2023 12:36

Plus @Kanaloa my dogs are almost ten and I walk for two hours every day and chat to many many people. I’ve never suspected that any of those other people would steal my dogs.

Kanaloa · 13/04/2023 12:41

RemoteControlDoobry · 13/04/2023 12:35

This thread is about someone getting a feeling about someone and that’s what I got. I never said I had proof that she stole the dog. I have other examples where I’ve been proved right but this is the most recent occasion.

If you feel that you can make a decision over my ability to spot a psychopath from my post then fair enough. You don’t know anything about me.

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Well you said sociopath originally and now you say you can also spot psychopaths? Or you possibly don’t know the difference? So I think given that you seem to be using the two different words interchangeably I probably can make a decision over your ability to spot them on the street.

JingleBellez · 13/04/2023 12:41

LilySavage · 13/04/2023 12:35

@JingleBellez was it definitely a ‘pagan’ stone circle or was it just a stone circle that are used in Eisteddfodau? They are really common, particularly by big old houses where local gentry would have lived. It makes them arguably less sinister when you know they are for poetry readings lol

mmmm

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Trixiefirecracker · 13/04/2023 12:53

I missed the stone circle post but it is true a lot were just built by eccentric landowners for their own amusement. There’s one up near Masham which was just built to give his workers something to do! Lots of people think is a sacred site and leave offerings but it’s not. 😂 And there are some weird caves near us built specifically so the Victorian landowner could have his own onsite hermit.I think the shell grotto in Margate is similar.

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monsteramunch · 13/04/2023 12:53

@ABugsLyfe

Would you consider reporting to the police? The poor woman you mention is being horrifically abused and her life is in danger. I understand she might not want to cooperate with them and usually I would get the hesitancy to flag this if she wouldn't be willing to cooperate, but if he's breaking her bones now, things have escalated hugely. That poor, poor woman. I hope she can get away.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 13/04/2023 12:59

Trixiefirecracker · 13/04/2023 12:53

I missed the stone circle post but it is true a lot were just built by eccentric landowners for their own amusement. There’s one up near Masham which was just built to give his workers something to do! Lots of people think is a sacred site and leave offerings but it’s not. 😂 And there are some weird caves near us built specifically so the Victorian landowner could have his own onsite hermit.I think the shell grotto in Margate is similar.

I always thought I should put a wishing well in my front garden. People seem unable to stop themselves throwing money in, & I could make a fortune.😂

JingleBellez · 13/04/2023 13:01

it was erm built as pp said

JingleBellez · 13/04/2023 13:01

ifIwerenotanandroid · 13/04/2023 12:59

I always thought I should put a wishing well in my front garden. People seem unable to stop themselves throwing money in, & I could make a fortune.😂

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haha do it!

GobbieMaggie · 13/04/2023 13:05

And yet Harold Shipman was well liked - it is said his patients adored him. The same with Jimmy Saville. I've worked with colleagues ( NHS ) who said they were absolutely stunned when they heard of Saville's appalling behaviour. They maintain the person they met was friendly outgoing and charming. Nobody felt ill at ease or uncomfortable around him, quite the reverse. Although he was never allowed anywhere on his own, he always had somebody with him. But that was trust policy for any visitor to our unit, who wasn't a relative.

The only experience I've had was of treating a patient, chained to his bed and with prison guards present and on the door at all times. They told me he'd murdered his own kids, only they weren't his. His wife lied about him being the father so he killed them both, and not in a very nice way either.

Anyway he was the most unassuming, well spoken and outwardly ordinary man you'd ever meet. He was also very polite and apologised for being such a bother. The prison guard said was always like that and had never given any trouble but they took it him seriously all the same. He knew what he had done, he acknowledged it and accepted that he would spend the rest of life in prison, or most of it. However he showed no remorse. And that's why they were cautious.

JingleBellez · 13/04/2023 13:08

LilySavage · 13/04/2023 12:35

@JingleBellez was it definitely a ‘pagan’ stone circle or was it just a stone circle that are used in Eisteddfodau? They are really common, particularly by big old houses where local gentry would have lived. It makes them arguably less sinister when you know they are for poetry readings lol

Were I am the stone circle was and has been used by Pagans. The 1 in Wales might be Eisteddfodau...weird though as the one I saw was huge and looked the twin of the local pagan one. The one in the photo is much smaller.

JingleBellez · 13/04/2023 13:08

where

BellatrixLestrangesHeatedCurlers · 13/04/2023 13:09

Haven't RTFT but it's know as "Devil in the diner" - you spot someone ordinary in an ordinary setting and just get an off vibe about them. I have the opposite it seems, I always think people are going to be nicer than they are. I once had a close friend for years in whom I confided everything, who turned out to have sexually assaulted one of my housemates. It shook my perception in everything.

BellatrixLestrangesHeatedCurlers · 13/04/2023 13:13

bottleofbeer · 13/04/2023 00:48

You're attracted to people because you're likely to make attractive, healthy babies.

Soz, that's properly sad 😁

Oh god I think my whatever-this-is is broken, some of the people I fancy are... questionable! Maybe I'm really attractive (hahahah) and would make up for this?

MysteryBelle · 13/04/2023 13:19

Was it that she seemed to be ‘putting on’ her pleasant and polite persona? Or, is it possible the mutual friend told her something about you and so there is a wariness or a ‘knowing’ that she can’t quite hide, and that’s why you felt like she knew what you were thinking? Because mutual friend has told her what you are ‘really like’? Just a suggestion. Trust your instinct. There is something in what or how she is presenting herself or interacting with you that set off alarm bell. You just haven’t figured it out yet.