People you had a sixth sense about and were right

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I’ve just been reading one of the spooky threads here and a poster talked about someone she got a bad feeling about and some months later was arrested for abuse or something. When someone is arrested who is a ‘pillar of the community’ someone always says ‘I never liked him, I could always tell’.

Do you have a story where you genuinely knew someone was bad news, though everyone else thought they were wonderful? How could you tell and did others eventually see their true colours?

A man I worked with for over 3 years, he didnt drive but often asked me for a lift home as I would pass the town (via the motorway) on my way home, I always ended up going on elsewhere and was never available to take him home. He was always pleasant to me and kept asking. Even offering to wait while i did whatever in the city before heading home. I just didnt feel right about him and avoided being on my own with him After I was signed off work sick for almost a year, in that time I had become engaged else and about 2 weeks later, he rang me not knowing I was engaged. He asked me out, this was the first time he asked and was straight out about it, I declined and said I was recently engaged. He slammed the phone down after calling me a "whore". I medically retired due to ongoing worsening illness and he had left about 2 months after that phone call. About 2 years later, i turned on the news and saw there had been an incident in X place and first thought was thats where he lived which was about 15 miles past the town he lived in where i knew him but had talked about moving to and gut yelled at me he was involved. Yes he was, he was arrested on the scene. One dead, one critical and several police severely injured. He got life. The dead and the critical people were his family members.

I think judging by what I have read that I have no sixth sense at all. I though JS was gay but in the closet, for example, after seeing the Louis Theroux documentary.

Rolf Harris

Otherwise, I'm afraid that I have no sixth sense at all - but I am very suspicious of almost all men due to early abuse. Sadly I tar the good ones with the same brush as the bad.

I'm the same. I wonder if early abuse by people who you were supposed to be able to trust screws up any natural instincts you're supposed to have? I went on to be abused further when I was slightly older, by people who everyone else seemed to think were creeps to begin with, but to me seemed perfectly normal - because everyone is creepy, and I was trying to be social.

Someone I knew (although not well) went on to commit a horrendous crime later on (national press, life sentence etc). Plenty of people said they had always had a feeling about. No, I didn't have any "sense" about him. I didn't particularly like him, but that would go to most of the guys I met.

You know that feeling when you think someone is following you?
I was walking my dog through the park st about 15 and there was this bloke who seemed to be trailing me. He gave me a really horrible “ew” feeling. Every time my dog stopped to sniff or pee, I looked around and he would be sat on a bench, or looking st his phone etc. Made me really uncomfortable, and scared so in the end me and the dog ran home.
About a week later a mugshot of the same guy was on the front of the local paper. Turns out he had followed a woman from the factory over the road from the park, all the way to her front door. Attacked her, pushed her inside, stole the underwear from her laundry basket and left

Also I remember a poster a few years ago on another thread (tell us the story if you’re here!!!), who was approached by a man at a train station as a teenager who gave her the creeps. He offered her a lift home, but she declined. After it all came out about the murders at Cromwell Street, it triggered the memory and she said she’s believes that the man from the train station was Fred West

I'm sorry to say that, and I have only ever told my DH this before, I have a strange talent. I can tell if a person is going to die soon. To be fair, I work in medical and probably have just got used to the look of people with not much time left. I will be in the middle of talking to a patient and all of a sudden get this "this one won't be here much longer" feeling (with that sentence sort of spoken in my head.)

@CricketMum84- Tia Sharp. That child haunts me. I remember friends commenting as she was missing-headline news that they were sure she'd never gone out and would be found closer to home as nothing seemed to add up.

She crops up uncannily. When I was a trainee primary teacher I was on placement with her old class teacher. When she'd gone missing, as they were quite local, this woman's husband said they should join a search, teacher replied no point, that she was never allowed anywhere alone and was clearly already dead.

It was also semi local to me; I worked in the charity shop that received a lot of her belongings and I used to drive past where Stuart Hazell was arrested. I hope she and her family have some peace now.

I remember that one, Eggy!

WTAF.

I get it a lot - I mean a good few times a year. And family often come back to me and say "you were right". I can't always say exactly what it is, but I definitely get a feeling.

A few years back a family friend started dating a new girlfriend. I got that gut feeling and couldn't shake it at all. 5 years on, since they got married she has become psychotic, manipulative and controlling. She has destroyed his relationship with his mother and cut the ties with family friends. We're no longer 'allowed' to see him. His mother isn't allowed to see her 2 grandchildren.

I just sort of... felt it.

About 8 or 9 months ago a mate invited me to her house for the evening, a mate of hers unexpectedly turned up, I thought he was strange the whole night.
When I left my mates house I said to her- what the fuck was that? There’s something way off about him, she said nah he’s alright, nah he’s alright, just don’t mention to my eldest he was here... so I let it drop. She text me a few hours later (I got it at 1am anyway! So about 3 in the morning) so you don’t like xxxxxx? Which I thought weird but said, let’s put it this way, I’d prefer to not be invited to your house if he’s there, he gave me a weird vibe.

The whole evening he was telling me what to think of him, and how to view him, whilst acting the complete opposite. He kept saying I’m the quiet one in the corner of the room, but wouldn’t shut up. I don’t really talk to people, I don’t care if I’m rude, if I don’t like someone I won’t talk to them he kept saying, just really weird, I felt like he was trying to control what I thought of him, he kept saying I would spend months trying to figure him out (well I didn’t, I thought he was an arsehole! And had his number there and then!)

She then told me that he had served time for attempting to murder and raping his ex and for the rest of his life he has to tell people of his conviction before sleeping with someone. I don’t know if that’s her way of saying she was sleeping with him or what, but I knew he was off when I met him.

Dancing at a ceilidh to celebrate a friend's 60th. I'd just recovered from a broken foot, and he swung me round quite frighteningly fast, and I just thought there was a bit of an unkind look in his eye. Three months later he was convicted of child porn offences.

I met Jimmy Saville once, thought he was creepy as hell - turns out I was right!

I wish I had that kind of sense. I seem attracted to narcissistic friends who take advantage of my kindness. Also one of my very very good male friends from senior school/college was jailed last year for being part of a prolific paedophile ring who were organising to rape babies fortunately our friendship group was big so I wasn't the only one who had no idea how he would turn out. He was such a lovely bloke too, I'll never understand what happened in his life to make him do such vile things!

My son's father.. was really really unsure from the beginning but he hit me with it both barrels and I thought I'd got him wrong.. turns out he was a complete and utter narcissistic, philandering, lying, tight arsehole. I was right all along!

SILs new “stepdad” creeped me out, turns out he’s a right bastard (violent)

Her sister’s husband made the hair on the back of my neck stand up when I met him, and he’s just been convicted of abusing his stepdaughter for many years.

Obviously cannot go too much into detail but I work as a social worker and have had two families where I have had the most awful gut feeling (but hardly any factual evidence). Have pursued it rigorously and been proved right (and much worse!)

I'm a big believer in gut feeling and it's never let me down

But I don't think any of it is sixth sense, it is just that some people are very astute at reading the signals we all give off.

I can be very astute, but there are a few that I never noticed.
One was a cheeky chappie type. Husband of a friend, nice enough, no bad vibes, no hum/vibration. Then a few years after meeting them, the second daughter confided that he had been abusing her a very long time. From a baby.
I never had a clue.
Another would be too outing. But remember if we can sense them, they can sense us.
I am generally "rude" to those who set my skin crawling, or set off my spidey senses, and maybe that's what they react to, but i have almost seen them react to me as if I won't be bullied by them, no point them wasting time trying to befriend me. Kind of shrug, turn away, she won't be an ally.
weird ain't it.

Couple moved in a few doors away, and I have no idea why but I didn’t like my 5 year old daughter going near him (she was a bit vulnerable as her father had just died). Few years later he left her and it turned out he had been abusing her son.

Horrid to finger people like this - Shirley Ballas! She’s just had too much Botox!

My sisters ex boyfriend. I instantly got a controlling and aggressive vibe from from despite the fact he was very outwardly charming. He had everyone else including her fooled. It came as no surprise to me when it turned out he was a physically and emotionally abusive drug addict. Luckily he is mostly out of hers and her daughters life now. I felt bad at first for feeling how I did about him for no reason but I trust my instincts a lot more now.

strawberrisc

FRED DIBNAH! - I'd forgotten him - he was rank. There was a programme on about him and his family as I remember - I think he had a wife and four daughters - and he insisted his wife gave him a kiss and the poor woman flinched - he was repulsive (this was his first missus - before he became famous).

Did he turn out to be an offender of some type? Wouldn't surprise me.

I'm sorry to say that, and I have only ever told my DH this before, I have a strange talent. I can tell if a person is going to die soon. To be fair, I work in medical and probably have just got used to the look of people with not much time left. I will be in the middle of talking to a patient and all of a sudden get this "this one won't be here much longer" feeling (with that sentence sort of spoken in my head.)

I wasn't going to mention this, but my husband has learnt to never ignore me saying "I think we should go and visit X" because X is nearly always dead within a month. It's different to just wanting to go and see a friend, it's a really compelling feeling that I need to see them.

My godmother and her DD have a knack for turning up the day before a female member of my family dies. 3 so far! As the eldest surviving female in my family I’m dodging their bloody visits!