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

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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

Jimmy Carr
Domanic West
David Walliams

Yes me too!!!!

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Not actually fear but I’ve met a few people and felt - nope, that person won’t be in my life.

When DDs were toddlers we were looking for childcare, while living overseas. A candidate walked and my brain screamed-that woman is not getting near my children!

Another, SIL’s latest boyfriend. Complete control freak. He put his hand out to shake hands and my arm shot backwards and I took a step back. I avoid him at family gatherings.

Walking home around 11pm at night with my sister, there was a man in front of us with a carrier bag who I instinctively was wary of. He went up an alley way- luckily it was right by my old school so I knew the area well and had a feeling he was going to go up the alley and follow the road back round so he’d be behind us, which is exactly what he did, or tried to do. As soon as he appeared back on the road we ran back in to town. He gave chase but not for long. Still gives me shivers. Was just so lucky I knew the roads so well or we’d have thought he’d just gone another way.

When my DS was only a few months old, he wouldn’t settle so I popped him in the pushchair and got the dog and went for a walk around the housing estate. I got to a long stretch of road and there was a man in the distance on the other side of the road and he was walking with a purpose. He looked pure evil and was shouting and waving his arms about, I turned around to check if he was calling out to someone behind me but then actually realised he was speeding up and crossing the road to come over to me. I remember feeling absolutely helpless with my little baby and petrified of this man and I was muttering shit a few times under my breath. My dog is fairly large and also picked up on this man’s behaviour and how scared I was and it’s the first time I’ve ever even to this day witnessed my dog bark and go absolutely mental to get the man to back away. It worked and the man then walked back over the road and sat at a bench and just watched me walk out of sight, my dog was on guard the entire time
and lunging the lead in his direction.

I have no idea who this man was but I truly believe he was going to to something bad and I’m only grateful that I had my dog with me or it could have been a very different story.

My grans neighbour

Some people are more 'aware' of psychopaths than others.

I've had this so many times.

I used to work in a pub that was also a hotel. We often had long-term contractors staying. One night, there was a new guest; he was only staying one night and wasn't a contractor but was in the area for work.

On the night, it was just him and one of the long-term contractors still in the bar. The long-term contractor wanted to turn in early, but I gave him a look to make him stay. There was something about the one-night guest that just made me scream do not be alone with him.
Luckily enough, if it was quiet, we could close early, so I told them both to go to their rooms, and I wasn't alone with him.
I fear I would have an issue with him if we were alone.

Another one, I was a little girl visiting relatives. They were friends with a family, but it was my first time meeting the family. Instantly, I got creepy vibes from the dad. I knew not to be alone with him (I was less than ten years old).
Later, he was convicted of molesting his daughter's friends.

And given many of the posts above, some people develop sinister hunches about people on no evidence.

A child I taught. He had a quiet menace about him. He was accused later of a hate campaign against his elderly neighbours- at age 9. He’d terrorised them to the point that one of them was hospitalised and the other moved out because she was so scared.

so agree with Paul on the traitors!!

@Frannyboo90 @Redlarge @FlatWhiteExtraHot I agree with Paul from the Traitors, his eyes are really scary, there’s nothing behind them. He made my skin crawl.

My uncle. My DM's sister's husband. I would never have stayed in the room alone with him. Sadly, I wasn't keen on my cousins either and was delighted when they emigrated when I was about 8. It wasn't until he started sexually abusing his grandchildren that his 4 daughters admitted to each other he'd done the same to them and he went to prison. I find it interesting that, as a child, I sensed something threatening about him but my father, a policeman, didn't. I'm also sad that I think something about my cousins stopped me from having a good relationship with them.

I felt this way the from the first time i met my cousins son he was only 4. Gave me the proper creeps being round him and i felt awful for feeling that way towards a kid. Lost touch with them, he would have been about 7 by that point. Few years ago was talking with my other cousin and he told me that X was in juvie for raping a 10yr old little girl. He had just turned 16!

Yes, someone I pass normally twice a week on my way to work. He smiles & says morning. I smile politely back then cross over the road feeling really unnerved and a sick feeling. I sometimes ring my partner when I'm walking past the part of the road I know I'll see him on. No idea why, he looks a very average, average build slightly greying man. I've not had the feeling with someone before.

Me too, I have a huge revulsion to him.

There's been a few people over the years but no one as big or stand out to me as much as my older brother's soon to be ex wife.

Me and my sister knew from the start there was something about her. I just couldn't take to her. Turns out she's more toxic than we could of ever imagined and is a narcissistic abuser, and unfortunately my brother Is in a long line of men who she has done this to. Absolutely toxic, vile woman

I assume you’re talking about anorexia nervosa? I wonder if there will ever be a time when obesity is recognised and understood in the same way anorexia nervosa is. Both are disordered eating/eating disorders.

Same here. Taught loads of delightful children but my teaching assistant and I both found one boy so creepy we nicknamed him (between ourselves only) the serial killer. He was an unpleasant, arrogant bully and slightly sadistic at 6.

Can’t say I’ve had this about a person , but I’ve had it about a building.
Years ago myself and DH went to a local restaurant, it was old with low ceilings , as I sat down I got an overwhelming need to leave. Which we did.
About 5 yrs later I thought we’d try it again. Got through the door, and a feeling of impending doom overcame me. We left again immediately.
So I will never ever go there again - just feel something awful would happen to me if I ate there .

A load of commuters used to cut across waste land after getting off the train each evening as it was a short cut to a new housing estate. I was yapping to a friend and then left her and started to walk across. You get used to seeing the same people or the backs of people every night so I realised fairly quickly that the bloke in front was not a regular. Something about him made me feel uneasy so I walked back to the station and went the long way home. Glad I did as he went on to stab another woman who was walking across. She survived and I ended up as a witness in the case. Trust your instincts!

I agree he’s far from endearing, but I think it’s mostly his wide, insincere smile — I don’t think he’s a secret serial killer or anything, I think they cast him, and flagged him up as a likely traitor, precisely because of his combination of grabby ruthlessness and that ghastly, shit-eating grin (and because all the original traitors last series were gentle/unthreatening/gormless-looking).

At secondary school, we briefly moved to England and I went to a secondary school in East Mids. There was a girl in my form who I was really wary of, nice family, lots of friends, but I just never wanted to be near her. My mum was semi friends with hers so I had to endure them coming over occasionally. In 2021 she murdered her boyfriend’s little boy, I remember seeing it on the news and feeling sick. There were allegations that she had been abusing him for months, inc broken bones and mysterious bruises. She’s been sent down for 15 (?) years I think. Leila Picker/Borrington if you want to Google (I wouldn’t!)