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

@ManateeFair I assure you my brother absolutely volunteered where arise West attended. I have no reason to lie.

A week later it turned out he was pretending to be insane to avoid the consequences of dodging taxes

why is this scary? I’m pretty sure every tube carriage i’m on has at least one person fiddling their taxes!

I used to be a custody visitor checking on people detained in police cells to see that they were being detained in accordance with the PACE regs. Never previously had an issue entering the cells to speak to the detainees but there was one guy that I had a visceral reaction to, there was a real malevolence about him and I did feel that I was in the presence of evil. My fellow custody visitor felt it too and we backed out of that cell pretty sharpish.

I know one, they’re fiddling everything known to man gas, elec, water, taxes etc 😂

@crochetmonkey74 "what is he?"...yes that was the feeling. Kind of like the man's body was nothing but a shell and there was something hiding in him peering out of his eyes. The eyes didn't seem like they belonged to him. It was a very odd, uncomfortable feeling that all 3 of us felt.

Someone

Because faking a mental illness that would make you not criminally responsible eg schizophrenia is incredibly manipulative.

I went to school with this boy who gave me the creeps. Just something about it. It didn’t help he started up rumours about me which were untrue but he was just awful. He had those awful dead eyes

A few years after leaving my neighbour took him in as a lodger. I spent the whole time scared, he just did something to me. Anyway one day he locked the neighbour out of her house and barricaded himself inside. It all got very nasty and I was so glad when he was led away by police never to be seen again

I was around 7 or 8 years old and walking up the stairs of a close/common area to see a friend. A woman who I'd never seen before was outside her flat, door open, organising stuff in the cupboard by the door.

As I walked past she started talking to me, trying to get me to stop and chat to her. It's such a core memory now, I remember my immediate feeling of alarm. She was smiling and seemed friendly but I was instantly on high alert. She said can you hear the cartoons? I've got cartoons on, come in and see them. I said no, I'm going to see my friend. She grabbed my arm and starts pulling me in to the flat, still saying come and see the cartoons. She got me part-way in then I managed to wrench my arm free. Ran all the way home in tears, terrified. Police were called.

Who knows what her intentions had been but I'm grateful for my immediate spidey senses back then.

I was walking to my Auntie's house after school when I was 12 once and noticed a van kept passing me, at least 3 times that I noticed. It pulled into a small lay by on the side of the road I was walking. I found it incredibly suspicious and my gut was screaming at me not to walk past it as I would have been out of sight while I passed it. I crossed the road to the other side where there was an older teenager and the van sped off. Could have been someone lost and just stopping to use a map (was in 1997) but my gut was saying to me 'avoid this person'.

I'm so sorry that happened to you, @BouleDeSuif

I haven't had an experience like that before but I did see a study where they say they can now measure the 'vibrations' we give off when interacting with others. And depending on whether people are telling the truth etc, the vibrations change and effect how we are interpreted by others. So maybe that's where our gut feelings come from.

Some people don’t have human souls. Others don’t have souls at all.

The two times I can recall are firstly when dd and I went to an house to view a dog, our current dog actually. It was a big house but the whole set up seemed very odd. Dd was only 7 at the time. There was a younger man, an older man and a woman with a baby. The younger man and woman gave me the creeps and I just wanted to get out of the house as safely as possible. I just paid the money, took the dog and left. Love the dog to death but I learned a difficult lesson that day.

The second was more recent. Dd 15 and I were in a supermarket in France last year. A man, probably in his 70s, walked past us. The way he was looking at dd was incredibly scary, raping her with his eyes. It was chilling and my feeling is he would have happily raped her and killed us both.

I worked with a man who gave me the creeps but he didn't have that effect on anyone else. The feeling was really really strong I couldn't stand to be in the same room as him. He murdered his wife

I served Jimmy Saville in a restaurant and he said, “well aren’t you a pretty girl?” Stared right into my eyes. You could tell he thought he was powerful. It was all about power. Best bit was I’d taken the prawns to him by mistake. Wrong bloody table. Dark energy from that bastard. Horrible.

@TousBousI just wouldn’t assume someone who did that was a threat to my life.

I don't know about auras but what a great ability to have dogs love you.

@octoberfarm thank you, it was ten years ago now and life is much better now. X

The only time I’ve ever had something similar has been watching Paul on the traitors lately. My goodness he made my skin crawl.

I’m glad it wasn’t just me!!

This thread made me remember where I used to live in England. For years I walked my dogs (GSD and spaniel) in the same area. Often alone, but you would see the same people with/without dogs. It had a large common, woods, and you could easily go for miles and see nobody.

I was walking back across the common, heading back to the car park toward our car, dogs off lead, spaniel was snorkelling around in the grass nearby, GSD was in front of me and a man was walking toward me, then stopped, crouched down, stared and he gave off a very weird vibe. I knew I was alone, nobody around just us. My shepherd stopped dead and his hackles rose, and he let out a deep growl, he was the most placid chill dog ever and the spaniel was by his side in an instant. I put the dogs on their leads and the man just kept staring.

I got past him with two unhappy dogs, he gave me the creeps and once we got past we ran back to the car. I met someone I knew (fellow dog person) and told them and she said she had saw someone the other day the same who was creepy.

This was a place families went for picnics, dog walkers used and never in all the years before or since had I felt such vibes there.

Yes me too. I kept thinking about his poor wife. How seeing the lies and joy at betrayal and control would make me question him on return. Also if i worked with him and watched this i would be so convinced he would throw me under a bus at any opportunity.

What could she report him to the police for?

If you listen to her song Anti Hero she talks openly about her "covert narcissism" and how she is often "the problem" in the situations in her life.

Are you thinking of "Sane in an insane place " ?
It was a study carried out by some students in America years ago ( maybe 1960,s/ 1970,s ) who got themselves admitted to a psychiatric facility and behave perfectly normal apart from taking huge amounts of notes and had trouble finding the staff they were not paranoid and actually not mentally unwell at all.

That's he thing about psychopaths they can be very charming and ingratiating
I used to be a mental health nurse and I think I have met one true psychopath most Nurses and psychiatrists agree she was
She could be very charming and you absolutely had to.keep.telling yourself this be on guard with her