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

When I was in school there was a young man who would come in where I worked at weekends and just sit and stare at me .or stand outside staring in the windows after my boss refused him entry ...he made me very nervous so much so my boss and coworkers insisted I was never to be left alone in case he came in and my boss always drove me to and from my home herself …. I moved away for college got a job got married forgetting about him until one day my old boss rang me to tell me the guy had turned out to be responsible for the assault murder of a young girl and more than likely responsible for the disappearance of other young women who lived in towns surrounding my old home town ..

Wasnt the Natalie Holloway case solved involving a Dutch guy

that’s an obvious one

@wonderings2 wow!!! Dogs really are heaven sent

My black lab is terrified of Henry Hoover.
When I was 11 I was walking my dog when a teenage boy cycled past on the other side of the road with a crowd of friends.

For some reason he stood put to me and I got goosebumps and a cold feeling.

Five minutes later I'd turned into a lane and he came cycling towards me on his own, he must have doubled back...he got off his bike and smiled and asked if my dog would bite. Before o could answer he pushed me down on the grass and was assaulting me. My yellow lab charged off barking like mad and within seconds a man appeared, my dog had actually grabbed him by the jacket and was pulling him into the lane. The boy managed to run away.
I always wondered why she didn't just bite him!

@FredaFandango i think sometimes animals understand that a situation is too serious for them to handle and human help is needed. That attacker could have seriously injured your dog and then you. Or worse. I'm sorry you went through that, it sounds terrifying.

My thoughts exactly.
It's like 'I'll never pull this off alone , but this guy - I can smell 200 yards away is big enough to sort it.
What a clever dog. And the guy also for understanding what the dog wanted.

One day at work,an older bloke walked in and just made me freeze

Perfectly mannered,very pleasant etc etc
He got his food and walked off

I commented to others that he made my skin crawl and my turned my blood to ice-the girls agreed and so did a few of the lads

My colleague asked if I'd mind pointing him out on the cameras-I did

Turns out,he is a nonce-hes been sent down at least 5 times

He had chased her down a path (she was a teen at the time) and thankfully,just as he tried to grab her,some lads she knew came round the corner and he ran off

This pervert comes into work all the time and sits watching the kids with a sick smile on his face

The police do nothing as he's served his time and is doing nothing wrong (!)

For some reason,I'm told he can not go near schools,swimming baths or parks but coming to a fast food restaurant and stare at kids is fine

I think he should be reported to the police if he's staring at children when he's meant to avoid them. What a creep.

This isn’t about being scared but just picking up on inappropriate driving instructors. I was about 20, working away in London, and had a few driving lessons. My instructor was friendly & chatty so I told him about an ad I had answered for a flatshare - basically I would have free rent if I cleaned for the guy & provided sexual favours! This prompted my instructor to ask if I wanted to pull over somewhere quiet & basically satisfy him for a free lesson! I should have reported him but I was quite immature & naive.

So a man you’d just told about an agreement you’d entered into where you bartered sexual services for accommodation asked whether you were prepared to trade sexual services for a driving lesson?

No big reveal here, but I have had "the feeling ". A few years ago as a planner for a local council I had to do lots of site visits as part of assessing planning applications. I visited literally hundreds of sites every year, probably thousands over my time. Most were just ordinary houses, take a look around the outside, a few photos and on to the next. One house though, I drove up and before I even got out of the car I got a bad feeling. I got the car turned round and into position for a quick exit. As soon as i got out i felt watched. I knocked, nobody in (not unusual) so carried on with my site visit. I had to go to the back garden to take some photos and the feeling was almost unbearable, like the air was pressing down on me and my vision started closing in, like tunnel vision. It was awful, I quickly took my photos and got the hell out of there. I'm sure there was someone watching me, there was evil there. As it happens I'd forgotten my council camera that day so had to take photos using my phone. Every now and again (actually surprisingly often) they pop up as a "memory" and it still makes me really uneasy.

I'll never understand how Jimmy saville got so much influence/fame/admiration. As well as being creepy, he just doesn't have any superficial charms and now we know what we know about him - I guess he doesn't have any non superficial ones either.

Because of this an a few others, i don't trust anyone that calls themselves a philanthropist - I suspect there are many creepy people doing unsavoury things under that guise. Looks like a way to get people to assume you are a good person and also access to young and/or vulnerable people to me.

Philanthropy is one thing if it's discreet. The late George Michael apparently helped a lot of people, did it privately, didn't make a song and dance about it. But anyone who publicly announces their good deeds is immediately suspect, I agree.

She didn't say she had accepted the accommodation "deal", only that she answered an ad, and they don't put the dodgy offer in the ad!

The poster didn't say she took up the flat offer, just that she answered the advert, though I agree the post is not clear

I was expecting it to say he got her to pull over somewhere quiet & then gave her a serious talk on why she shouldn't take the flat share.

Many people say they always "knew " about Jimmy Saville but its easy. to say that now
The thing was im from a generation of Kids that watched Jim,ll.fixit and while he had the catch phrases Now then ,Now then Boys and girls
And the over the top Jingley,Jangley jewelry he wore a suit so he didn't appear that strange and kids loved the show
And lots of celebrities had their well known catch phrases at the time
Obviously looking back its horrifying that so many people in a position of power did know or strongly suspected
Yet he was saint Jim who raised millions for charity and wss also allowed. Free reign in some hospitals with very vulnerable patients

I meet Ricky Gervais quite often on Hampstead Heath walking with his partner. He is always pleasant and friendly and chats to my dog - so I don’t get any feeling like this in real life.

@Nave I’ve heard Gervais say a few times that he doesn’t have a dog because obviously he travels a lot and can’t commit to it, but he absolutely loves his walks on the Heath, the main purpose of which is to say hello to lots and lots of dogs!

@x2boys I always feel a bit sheepish in those conversations where people go ‘Oh it was SO OBVIOUS that Saville was a complete wrong’un’.

Not to me it wasn’t, nor to my mum who twice got tickets for us to go up to the BBC and sit in the audience of the show. 😐

Yes I agree and I remember reading some threads on here where there were loads of I always knew he was wrong un,comments
Then someone found a thread from when he died the difference was striking in attitude

Yes. Joran van der Sloot. He was a local chap she met in a bar, he wasn’t a security guard.

??????
Why would you tell somebody this & what did you expect ?

I've been away and for some reason this thread played on my mind as one day, about 40 years ago, I was going to meet my then boyfriend at his sister's house. This meant a tube journey and there was a man in the carriage who made me feel uncomfortable so I changed carriage and so did he. At my final station I tried to leave as late as I could but unfortunately he followed me. I'm glad I was fit then as I ran up the stairs and then over the road and I'd managed to go a short way up the road when a bus pulled up and the driver told me to get in as he'd seen the man chasing me he dropped me off outside the house and didn't leave until I'd opened the door.

A couple of weeks later there was a picture of the man on the front page of the local paper , he'd been charged with multiple rapes