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

@BarbieDangerous

Several posters have named celebrities alongside statements such as "there's things about him waiting to come out I'm sure". I'm pretty sure this could be described as publishing something harmful to reputation.

Oh girrrrl

You're not aware of Tattle, DeuxMoi, FauxMoi, Datalouge, InfluencerSnark etc are you??

Cliff is deffo a wrongun!

The IOW has a prison specifically for sex offenders, many of them stay there after release!

Yes. Circa 2007, someone close to me was working for a man who was running a charitable project for disadvantaged youngsters. I went along to one of the sports events to help out. As soon as we made eye contact I knew something was up.
He got released from prison 2 years ago for abusing some of those youngsters, among others.

Yes, quite a few times with people I have come across through my work. Not terrified, but cautious and I would make sure I was never alone with them. I think this has always been justified with these people having a history of violence and/or addiction, and often with quite poor mental health that has not been addressed.

On another note… this reminds me of a thread from the other day about a woman feeling stared at by a man at school when they were both collecting their kids.

Probaby means some of the storys hear are either very outing (workplaces/ages/genders ect) or flat out insulting to the very many people who have simply come into contact with posters on the thread and havnt actually done anything wrong & the few who have claimed somebody may or may not have ,based on their looks, been famous serial killers....

Even as a child I KNEW Jimmy Saville was a wrongun. Weird cos I obviously didn't know what the feeling was but I was so not surprised when he was discovered to be an evil sod.

Only once, I've written about it before but a boyfriend of a family member picked up my baby, who was around 9 months old at the time. Boyfriend was very engaging, nice, life and soul of the party but the moment he was holding my son, every single cell in my body started screaming at me. I quickly took my son back with an excuse.

I go cold thinking about it.

I've had 3 kids since and this has never happened with anyone else, I've also known a paedophile and thought he was a really nice bloke and I'm sure I've met many people with evil intent, and I've tried to get away from one or two bad guys.

But this was the first and hopefully last "spider sense" sensation I've ever had that was a full body, visceral reaction to something that outwardly seemed totally harmless. I absolutely believe I unconsciously picked up on some horrible imperceptible signals he gave. I lay awake for nights after worrying about family member's children - fortunately they broke up soon after.

Some years ago I was working as a self-employed carpenter. I was doing some exterior repairs on a house being renovated. A chap stopped by and asked if I would be interested in doing some carpentry at his place, a few roads away.I made an arrangement to drop by the following evening, which I did. I have never been in the company of anyone who unnerved me as much as this person did. I can’t explain why, I felt seriously unsafe and felt great relief when I left. I never gave an estimate for the work and there was absolutely no way I would have returned to that house.
I genuinely sensed my life was in danger. It was a very weird experience.

When I was little I was always really uncomfortable around a family friend’s husband. Everyone really liked him, he was perfectly ‘nice’ and never gave me a reason to feel this way but I just didn’t like being around him and felt scared of him.

Years and years later it turned out he was abusing her for a long time and having tons of affairs. I often wonder if my inner child picked something up no one else did.

I remember meeting Rolf Harris at the airport when I was going on holiday with my family. I must have been about 12 or so. The way he felt when he was chatting to me and my younger brother made me feel nervous and I’ll never forget how it felt. My parents weren’t there and I remember thinking I wish they’d come and take us away, as I couldn’t think of a way to get away from him. He was particularly interested in my younger brother and was bent down. He was getting called by people behind a barrier to come over and there were tv crews and massive cameras there but he was ignoring them. Luckily, my mum came over and didn’t even say hello but I remember the way he looked at her when she didn’t say hello back. His face dropped from all happy and smiley to a face that was straight and full of evil. We went off and got our flight. Mum never said anything at the time but when all the stuff about him came out on the news she said she knew something wasn’t right about him and said about how he’d made her feel and how he’d looked at her. She’d gone off to the shops and left my dad looking after us but he’d gone to the loo. Dad was sat on the seats where our bags were and saw us with Rolf Harris and just left us! Obviously he had his eyes on us and could see where we were but mum’s instincts must have kicked in. I think there’s more paedophiles in the media than we will ever know.

Are you in East Sussex - very similar to two cases I know of locally.

I know it’s not quite the same but any time Jimmy Saville was on TV as a youngster (2+) I would run and hide behind the sofa. His eyes would terrify me and I could not look at him. I’d never do it to anyone else on telly, just him

Only ever had this feeling once, when I was about twenty weeks pregnant with DD. I was walking on my own up a canal path when a man on his own walked passed me. He didn’t look at me but I was immediately on edge so I decided to turn back for home. The man had himself turned around so he walked passed me again, and again didn’t make eye contact but there was something so purposeful about him and the way he went past I genuinely felt in fear. I kept looking back to him to see if he followed and thank goodness he didn’t, but I could see him loitering for a bit as if trying to decide which way to go. It might have been nothing, but I have never ever felt fear or vulnerability like that before or since.

I was once gardening - I don’t know why but probably is the one and only time I did. I can’t remember how old I was but I know I was at primary school so must have been below 11. Anyway I was bent down at the top of the garden pulling out weeds. I had a feeling I was being watched and saw in the top window of our neighbours house that my friends dad was staring. I looked around a bit later and he was still staring. As a kid, whenever I was playing at their house and me and their daughter would have to go through the front room to go into the kitchen, I’d feel absolutely terrified. I almost had to mentally prepare myself to go in. It felt like my friend was the same as we’d walk across and the room would be silent. The mum and him (the dad in there) total silence watching the tv. Nothings ever been said and my friend never said anything either. He was just really weird. Now as an adult he’s smiley and friendly on the rare times I see him. His wife does nails and during lockdown when I saw her, she told me she’d tried to stab him. Their house is always silent.

Twice one a friend's husband who I got instant vibe off he turned out to be abusive alcoholic and a guy in a hobby group that I'd never turn my back on

Omg! This made me gasp!

Yes, I have ptsd and was attempting to start having some treatment through first steps. The man who was doing it (and I only ever met him over video call) made me feel so uncomfortable and I couldn't put my finger on why as he was acting nice enough. I used to cry after every appointment, until a few weeks in I said I couldn't do it anymore and was referred back to hospital. I found out months later he had been stalking one of his patients 😢

Not necessarily

There's a reason we have a sixth sense. If something or someone feels amiss, trust that initial feeling.

OP you need to tell us what happened!

This is a horrible story. My ex husband had a member of staff working for us at our business. He gave me the creeps. I warned him not to talk to my teenage daughters if they were on the premises and warned them the same. Fast forward many years (he’s not working for us anymore) and he was arrested and jailed for the murder of a young woman. He was caught by improved DNA developments . My blood ran cold that day.

I get a bad feeling from pp on this thread saying horrible things about living human beings because they happen to be celebrities who apparently have no feelings / don't matter so that's fine

who they've never actually met