bit woo- but have you ever met anyone you have felt scared of for no reason?

[crochetmonkey74]

I'm fascinated by stories like this- when you meet someone and they don't necessarily do anything - more that you just feel scared- intuition etc

I'm nearly 50 and it's happened once very strongly (was justified I later came to find out) and once not as strongly - so it's not a regular occurrence, but stories like this really interest me

About 10 years or so ago, I was in a shop when a man and a younger woman came in. They did absolutely nothing out of the ordinary, but I felt the urge to leave the shop immediately. There was what I can only describe as an evil and unsettling vibe coming off them both. Later on I saw them on the local news, they had murdered a man earlier that day.

So you’re inferring from Steve’s past as a fraudster and embezzler that he’s also more than likely also a rapist and sex pest?

That’s a bit of a leap isn’t it?

This has never happened to me,however I truly believe when this does happen it is our guardian angel telling us/warning us off. (I know many will think I am crazy, that's ok!)

Secondly, my lovely dog reacted in a very unusual way once. When walking past a house a man came out and said hello to me in a friendly polite way. My dog went crazy, really barking aggressively at him, this was so very unlike him. As I walked away my dog kept looking back with his tail down, V agitated etc. never happened before or since.

I'm not sure it's that poster who's the fucking idiot here

Going on stereotypes now 🙄

Exactly! Opticians need to be locked up and the key thrown away!! Gynaecologists, on the other hand should be put up against the wall and shot!!

🙈only on MN……unless, of course, the optician was ………………………Fred West.

The most terrified I have ever been of someone I didn't know was a 4 year old boy.

I work with children so have cared for hundreds and have never, ever felt like this about any other child (or adult despite having been in some terrible situations).

He made all the hairs on my body stand up and I had a physical impulse to get away from him.

Before this, I would have said that no one is born evil.
He changed my mind.

Ah but its hypothetical you see, so offensive generalisations about mh issues is ok by this poster.

Gotta say I laughed during the original post about the women who was in a hospital ward with a tax cheat (expecting the end bit to be about rape/assault it was half relief/half so odd) but having since heard another poster talk about a book & thinking about it I totally agree the man wasn't properly assessed & had a lot of untreated, undiagnosed traits of somebody unpredictable & mentally unstable & should not have had access to vulnrable people.

This!!!

Well said.

It screams of misogyny.

Let's list all the male celebrities her age and how many partners they've had.
Or what about the comedians who make jokes about last relationships?

Sex is not a reflection on someone's character... Nor is being relatively young and trying to find your "person".
Especially when you are that wealthy and in the spotlight and under huge pressure.

Mine is the opposite.

I grew up around peados, groomers and violent men and I have learnt to have a very strong sense of gut feeling.

I work in a prison and of course all of them are there for a reason and some are dangerous men.

One of the men I met a few years ago was very well respected by everyone and such a lovely gentleman.
He was one that you could just sense was one of the good guys.

It turns out that he is the worst of the worst and the fact that he doesn’t give off a ‘monster’ vibe absolutely makes my skin crawl.

I guess because I know how many parents would have found him so easy to trust and it makes me sick to my stomach.

I guess it’s similar to a lot of serial killers too, where they’re so charming that many of the victims feel safe around them.

My old manager was weird - not dangerous stab-you vibes, but it was the creepiest sensation that he was just wearing a charming mask (which was correct, and when it came off loads of people were totally shocked but I always just knew it was so fake? Behind the eyes there was always the sense he was watching himself act. Creepy to be around, like uncanny valley you know?

About 7 years ago my sisters and I went on holiday to the Isle of Wight and one afternoon went to visit Godshill. We sat outside at a cafe having lunch and an old man came over to our table and said hello to my 3 year old dd. Then he said something about the weather and walked off. There was nothing offensive or weird in what he said, and my dd always got attention from strangers at that point so there was nothing out of the ordinary about that. But I got the weirdest feeling looking at his eyes- it felt like he was looking into me, like he knew me, and it left me feeling unsettled. He was only at our table for 20 seconds maximum, but as soon as he'd gone one of my sister shuddered and the other one said "what was that?" We had literally all felt exactly the same vibe from him despite it being a completely innocent, nondescript exchange. It didn't feel like he was evil or nasty- it was more like someone else was looking at us from behind his eyes.

She has dead, expressionless eyes!

I was 18 and renting a houseshare near work, housemate gave notice and so I decided to move too, wasn't due to move for a month, they brought a prospective tenant round to look, I'd have to share with them for three weeks. He was early 40s, couldn't put my finger on what it was as he appeared lovely, but I moved out sharpish a couple of days later. I only met him for 5 mins but there was no way I was sharing a house with him. I moved back to parents house for those few weeks.

Another one was when Dd and I were on a bus, we used to sit at the back when she was 7/8 as she loved looking out of the back window. This lad who can't have been more than 21 made a bee line for the back of an almost empty bus. Dd suddenly became very subdued and couldn't get to the window quick enough and put me between her and the lad. We moved to the front seats as I felt it too, DH met us off the bus and drove us the rest of the way home.

This is interesting. In my experience , which happened years ago now, I had the definite feeling of this emptiness or lack of a person in a persons body. In the job I was in, I shared a concern about something he had done as it was a safeguarding of others issue. In sharing my concern with a colleague, they said something that has always stuck with me , they said "I sometimes think what is he?
It was so chilling as he really seemed empty and not like a person.
To be clear, this wasn't a "ugh he's weird" thing. It's like a visceral , proper dread and fright feeling.

@MrsTerryPratchet I think it's hilarious that you've been peppering this thread with your determinedly down-to-earth phlegmatic dismissals and have been more or less universally ignored!

Am neither for your stance nor against it - just finding it funny at this point 😆

Gosh, did you report to him to the police?

Couple of decades ago now, I’d been in A&E all night, got sent home and was walking along the pavement in cold light of day. When an angry looking old man dressed smartly in black walked towards me, tried to shove me in the busy road. Still give me shivers thinking about it, what makes it more creepy is he looked like the old man off poltergeist.

Old manager/colleague bully/undermining people vibes, ended up in the local news for starving their dog to death. Kept their job because they had H/R upper management convinced, dog was ill and they couldn’t bare to take it the vets to get put down. So left it to die in the garden for months.
I think behaviour like that says everything about who they are.

My old geography teacher. Gave me the utter creeps. Everyone else thought he was great. When he told my (unsuspecting) parents I needed ‘extra tuition’ from him my gut feeling was to refuse at all costs, though I couldn’t explain why.
I was proved right during a field trip when I caught him hiding in a wardrobe in our girls dorm… so he could spy on us changing.

Was just coming on to say this - Gift of Fear is a really valuable book for every woman to read.

These are creepy!!

Both my mum and I got a horrible feeling from an older man whom we visited with my niece who was just a toddler at the time..as we were viewing his house to buy.

The house was dated. One of the bedrooms looked to be previously a child's/teenagers room and gave me the worst feeling and I recall it had little stickers all over the wardrobes which have no significance by the way! but the room was just eerie, seedy even.

The old man made a comment to my niece along the lines of "you're so cute do you wanna stay here with me tonight" and we practically tripped over eachother scrambling for the front door.

My mum still talks about him. That bedroom still gives me the heebie jeebies thinking about it.

I know several ex-forces who have ended up doing security/bouncer type jobs. And yes they have killed in the line of duty. I wonder if you picked up on that vibe.

I know an ex Marine who you would think was the least dangerous chap ever, very unassuming, quiet, he's only about 5 foot 6 and skinny as a stream of piss but he could bump off a room full of swaggering body builder types before you could say "lethal weapon"

Well my brother was absolutely shaken when the West case came out. Would you rather he hadn't listened to his gut instinct?
Humans still have many instincts and it's nothing to do with being self congratulatory.