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

My childhood piano teacher I didn't like, but my Mum wanted me to persevere with lessons, so went on for years.
I read a few years ago about his historical paedo convictions.
Luckily for me he liked little boys.
I never liked him even as young child.

My mother is a psychopath. Everyone tells me I am so lucky to have a mother like her. I am definitely not lucky at all.

Not scared of, but similar gut feelings.

But years ago there was a lady lived down the street from us.

Whenever we passed while walking our dogs I'd smile and say hi but she didn't generally engage back and I'd always feel so sad when I saw her. Like she just oozed sadness. No matter how I tried to smile or talk about the dogs etc. (She lived with other family and they'd sometimes talk back.)

One day I was driving home and there was ambulance and police in the street.

I just knew it was because of the sad lady. A couple of days later we found out she'd killed herself.

Poor woman and her family.

30 years ago I was a Nanny to a gourgous 5 year old boy and his darling 15m old sister.
This old man sort of latched onto the boy, ignored the girl. As both the Grandads had passed, the mum loved the idea.
It freaked me out so much I refused to leave him alone with the children.
He kept offering to babysit.
Guess what... He was arrested about 3 months later for assaulting a child.
So please I refused to leave him alone my the boy.

Yes, got on a bus when I was a student which was heading into the city. The bus was packed and I didn't want to sit up the back. There was one seat left next to an older (probably mid 50's) man but smartly dressed, suit and overcoat. Not sure why but I got a weird feeling. I didn't want to stand (long journey and lots of heavy books) so I went and asked "excuse me is someone sitting here"? He said no and remarked how polite I was. I explained that although the phrase made no sense to me I appreciated it was nice to ask in case someone didn't want anyone else sitting with them. He told me he was heading to meet friends and go to listen to jazz music and asked if I knew any jazz. I said no I didn't and explained what music I was into. He asked what I was studying and I told him. He then asked if I would join him at the jazz club, and quickly said but you're a polite girl that wouldn't accept an invitation from a stranger (I was about to say no!). I said he was correct and that I had studying to do with friends. He then said he wished me well in my life and studies and to never accept an offer from a stranger. He got off the bus at the start of the city. I saw the man's picture years later on the news, he was wanted for murder of a young woman.

@Mikimoto Michelle Keegan😂

thanks for looking out for those girls, hopefully the management will take you seriously as they are obviously not bothered about their staff!

When I was 11, this was in the late 90s (not in the UK). I was walking my dog with a friend, she was year younger than me, so we were just two kids. We lived in a small town and it was about 3pm, but at that time the streets were almost empty.

A man, totally normal looking, was waking on the street and came next to us waiting to cross the road. He started to ask questions about the dog, which is not that unusual, and it was in a casual way,but something felt off. Then he told us to take the dog to a park nearby and I just knew we had to get away from him. I pretended to look at my watch, yelled at my friend “it’s late, we have to run” and we ran until we got home (we were neighbors). Once there, we looked through the window and saw him going back…he had followed us home. My dad went to the police and apparently they told him they knew there was a paedophile in the area, I’m quite sure it was him.

Ha ha - I think it must have been 15 years since I read it! Will maybe re read and see what it’s like.

Yes!! I think he’s creepy too.

There was a bloke in work who everyone seemed to really love, he’d hang out with a big gang of them outside of work. I absolutely hated him, he gave me the creeps, couldn’t stand to be in the same room as him. If I ever voiced this to anyone they acted surprised since he was “such a nice guy”.

Eventually the police came to arrest him one day in work. Turns out he was caught with thousands of indecent images of children.

His best mate also gave me the creeps, and he took far too much of an interest in trying to contact the first guy after he was arrested so I think he was involved in the same stuff but didn’t get caught somehow.

@YeahBrackie thats horrifying 🙈

Yes, there's a man that must live local to me, a bit eccentric looking with wild Einstein hair, scruffy looking.

Seen him around for years now walking his equally scruffy dog, I really thought he was starting to revolve his life around my comings and goings to work, going to the gym etc, totally creeped me out. He always looked at me if I was on my own but never when DH was with me.

Common sense tells me he's just walking his dog and it's a coincidence but I totally hate him and would rather walk a different way or drive round the block if I see him coming my direction. I'm not really stalker material either!

Once. When I moved to Canada from Belfast as a teen, I had one year of school left. My parents enrolled my sister and myself in a private christian school. It was a small school and there was a lovely, very wealthy family there that owned nursing homes all over ontario. They had a massive house with an indoor pool and lots of things for everyone to do and often invited whole classes at a time. The lovely mother would sometimes show up at school just before lunch with enough burgers from mcdonalds to feed a whole class depending on which of her childrens turn it was for her. I hated her husband. I did not know why. Just really really did not feel comfortable with him. Her name was Hannah Buxbaum. She was an amazing woman. Her husband staged a roadside murder looking like robbery. Her young nephew was in the car. She was shot. He played the distraught husband for a while, and then he was found out. Family was ruined, and the one that was my good friend , died in 2014 at the age of 46, destitute. RIP Phillip Buxbaum and your amazing mother Hannah. If there is an afterlife, I hope that you met up again.

Yes a guy from the local pub who befriended a group of us in dh.
I always said there was something about him. Everyone said i was ridiculous. Dh said i was paranoid.
He came to our house once after a year and he kept talking to my then 2 yr old dd. I kept her on my lap i just felt i needed to protect her.
Literally 2 days later it came to light that he was a convicted pedophile, who changed his name. We were sent the newspaper articles to a group what app
Wasn't so ridiculous after all. No one ever saw him again.

@CookingFromScratchVirgin thank god you listened to your inner mama lion!!! You knew something was off and you were right. We all need to listen to our inner voice.

OMG! Yes! Jimmy Carr is very unsettling. Creepy

Can I ask how long ago this happened? I had a very similar experience in the exact same place (MK but on way from London) it was late at night and I was very young and terrified. I jumped up and got off the train at next stop. But I going back to late 90s. I never told anyone and have felt awful about it ever since!

Not giving me evil vibes either.
I am glad the boy was playing with his own willy though

What rumours? He gives me the creeps.

I would have told him never touch any children! FFS that’s not allowed!!

I haven’t, but my daughter has on several occasions when we’ve been together and I can honestly say I’ve never felt the vibes at all. As a young child she always despised Savile, too.

I was fairly young and clueless, pushing my niece in her push chair and an oldish looking man stopped and said ‘she’s a beauty’ . He had big pale blue bright eyes and was smiling - a totally empty big broad vacant smile. I knew we had to get out of there and skedaddled. A couple of weeks later I found out he was a known ex offender paedophile.

That's exactly how I feel about him. I can't stand him.

i went to the history museum in new york when i was a teenager. was exploring on my own and realised the same man hovering near me no matter where i went (it’s a huge museum). i was so so scared, i ended up running to find my sister because something about him didn’t feel right i was so uneasy