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

The most un woo person I know once told me about meeting a celebrity. The story was told because 30ish years later we were at the same location.

It was a chance meeting at an event in the late 70s. The celebrity was talking to various visitors to the event. This person said that when the celeb spoke to them they got an awful creepy feeling and couldn't wait to get away to the extent that they moved away losing the good view they had been waiting ages to secure.

The celebrity was Jimmy Saville.

This story was told to me before the full truth came out about his crimes.

Another one

I was about 7 months pregnant,kids at school so was on my own and noticed we needed milk and bread

So I got the dog (German shepherd) and walked to the shop

Got the milk,bread and a few other bits and started to wobble home (I was massive)

My route home happened to go via a small snicket-not too busy but short and out of sight to anyone passing by-it would take less than a minute to go through

Suddenly a guy came out of nowhere-black hoodie,Hood up and evil just poured from him

It oozed from every pore-his eyes where black and dead

The normally calm and soppy dog went apeshit-fur on end,snarling,ears and tail up-a bundle of fur and teeth

If I'd let go of her lead,she would have had him

He took one look and ran off

I firmly believe if I'd been on my own,he would have raped or murdered me-he was that evil-the dog saved me

That's quite the long game there!

Thats scary!

Not got anything with any scary outcomes but have had the feeling when people are just horrible.
I've always thought David Walliams was weird too - never met him tho but would go out of my way to avoid him!

Once that I recall. I was doing a viewing on a property to let, prospective male tenant set my spidey senses off. He came in to the property, refused to enter first so in I went and then attempted to close the door behind him after I’d gone in. I waved him down the hallway, and made sure the door was left ajar and I just kind of shouted which room was which from the front door whilst frantically thinking who else is in the building at this time who’ll hear me scream.

Nothing happened, I’ve conducted hundreds of viewings before and since but there was something about this man that I honestly believe he meant me harm given half a chance.

Yes. A car salesman. Refused to talk to him or allow kids to sit beside him when we test-drove the car. So he remained in the front with driver.

My DH said I was taking the "dislike a car salesman" thing too far.

A year after this he raped and killed. Made the news.

My DH trusts my instincts now.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-32622946.amp

Hang on, this is the opposite of what the OP is talking about.

You picked up on the fact that this man wasn’t a dangerous lunatic.

@TheDefiant Holy shit. What a depraved man, that is truly awful, the things he did to those poor women. What was it about him that made you instinctively know he was evil? The article said he was a boring man living a boring life, it just give some chills to think what he really is. His little son was in the house at the time?! Horrible.

My sister's BIL gives me this feeling. He's a good looking bloke, always friendly and says hello, chats and has a laugh. And yet I've always felt like there is something off about him, like he's wearing a mask. I've caught him watching me a few times- not in a fancying kind of way- but like he's thinking mean things. And when I've caught him doing this he immediately changes his facial expression- so it switches from a cold stare to ultra friendly in a millisecond. And when I've been alone with him the room feels overwhelmed by his presence even though he's not saying or doing anything. It's hard to describe but it's like how I would feel if someone was shouting angrily, a feeling of trying to make myself small so that I wouldn't be noticed. A few years ago, without having previously mentioned anything to my sister about how he makes me feel, she confided that he made her feel uncomfortable as well but she couldn't work out why as he's always friendly.

My sister and I took his dd (13) out not long ago, and she didn't say much and back tracked quite a bit after confiding in us, but the gist is that he controls her, he controlled her mother, and now she controls his wife (my sister's SIL). My sister has heard other things about him recently and he's a very unpleasant man if it's to be believed.

My area manager in a previous job gave me the creeps. Most people like him or at least don't find him creepy but I have always maintained one day he will be in the papers for something bad. He's quite insipid in a way, I don't get a violent vibe from him but I wouldn't want to be stuck in a lift with him.

There was also a guy who started working with me several years ago. Everyone said he was so lovely and funny. I did not like him or trust him at all. He ended up taking our loveliest manager to a tribunal despite her doing everything she could to support him. He made up a lot of lies about her and other people (thankfully all easy to disprove), lost the tribunal, went to work elsewhere and did exactly the same. Never trust anyone who is too nice!

Many, many years ago on my regular commute, I ended up sitting opposite this guy who really terrified me. Ordinary looking, sandy hair, suited, etc. but he looked me in the eye briefly and it was that which was so horrific. I'd go so far as to say his eyes were dead.
I spend the journey on high alert and got off the train as quickly as possible.
I saw him a few times and always went out of my way to be nowhere near him. It felt as though at any point he might flip and pull a knife or gun.

Haven't ever had that feeling since.

My Mums sister. I wasn't frightened of her, but always thought I should watch her and not get involved with her. I was right about her. Even now she's a old and frail, I wouldn't trust her or leave anyone vulnerable with her.

A child in my class almost 20 years ago. He wasn't just nasty he was evil and yes i know we shouldn't say that about children but the truth is he was evil. One day he will be headline news.
Elton John, the first time i saw him on tv in the 70s he made my skin crawl. He is probably a nice guy but i can't even look at him.

@VelvetShrimp

I've never understood that defence.

I don't really know what set my instincts off. It was visceral.

I couldn't look at him, speak to him, listen to the sound of his voice, his eyes were awful. He also kept lying to us (wouldn't be honest about the APR of buying a car etc) and just loads of tiny things that set me on edge. The way he held himself, the way he looked at me. It was truly awful.

In the showroom I stayed at least 150m away from him. I delegated all the negotiations and paperwork to DH.

There's only been one other person I've felt like that about. A male parent at my DCs primary school. I had to tell the teacher that my DD (5) bent down to pick up a pencil she'd dropped and a boy (this man's son 🙁) was as she put it "fiddling around with his willy under the table, his willy was out and I could see it"

Shortly after I told the teacher that, the whole family moved at very short notice. 🙁😢 I don't remember the child's name and I often worry about him.

This gave me, and I am sure others, Suzy Lamplugh vibes.
Glad it passed off well for you, but I have often wondered about the general safety of women estate agents.

I worked with a man just the once, nightclub setting. He was really nice, cool with me but I’ve always thought, he’s definitely killed someone.

it was years ago and I never forget him. I’ve never felt anything remotely similar before or after.

Rita Ora too. Something about her is rotten.

Quite a long time ago I had a bad feeling about a student and was always careful not to be left alone with him. He was only young but there was something so off. He was later in the paper having been jailed for a long time for raping and beating a woman. My mum got major creepy vibes from a man who ran an activity that my brother went to. She refused to leave him there and stayed for the sessions so he could still take part. This man was well liked, popular, charming etc and on paper a pillar of the community. He was also a paedophile and it all came out in the news when my brother was older and had left the activity in question.

I had a work colleague who always seemed very nice, jolly, easygoing etc.
However I got the feeling that this was all an act and that there was something much darker underneath.
This turned out to be true as she left suddenly (after writing the boss a vicious piece of hate mail) and it turned out virtually everything she’d told us about her life was a lie.

Yes, a former colleague who thankfully worked in a different department so we didn't interact often. She was a tiny woman in her late 50's, entirely physically unthreatening, very very softly spoken so you'd have to stand very close to hear her. She made my skin crawl in a way I've never experienced before or since, every time I was near her it felt like a visceral reaction where my body just wanted to get as far from her as possible. I'm not a woo believer, I can't account for why I reacted the way I did to her but it was horrible.

Yes.

A lot of people in my work thought he was a “nice guy”… he made my feel unwell and my skin crawl. I couldn’t get far enough away from him

he was eventually on the front page of the evening standard in one of those “do you know this man?” Campaigns after glassing someone in the face in a seemingly unprovoked attack.

when he was arrested senior management were totally on his side kept him on full pay for almost a year and actually formally disciplined members of the team who had the audacity to talk about it / the fact he had physically attacked someone and put them in hospital….!

he argued that it was racially aggravated 🤨 and despite the victim losing partial sight came out fairly unscathed.

He is now out in Dubai (of course) pretending it never happened…

fucking spidery little creep…

Nothing woo about it by the way. Humans have the ability to sense danger by picking up on subtle signals.

Some people are better at doing it than others.

Dogs know.