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People you had a sixth sense about and were right

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HarryPotterISreal · 30/07/2018 22:24

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?

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DSHathawayGivesMeFannyGallops · 01/08/2018 12:05

@Graphista- is Rachel McLean the lady who was murdered by her long haired Australian or New Zealander boyfriend?

I also remember Mick Philpott crying for the cameras and whilst I didn't think he'd done it at that point and felt so sorry for his loss, I do remember thinking he was crying the way he felt he ought to be crying, it looked quite carefully staged.

DeadClic · 01/08/2018 12:24

My STBXH

Hes very manipulative and charming but I see this weird face underneath that makes my blood run cold sometimes. When someone is really properly afraid, he gets this intense look of happy fascination. He'll focus his eyes and lean nearer with a tiny smile on his face and his eyes will gleam. I've only seen it twice in 8 years but it's very scary. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

I was also abused as a child and I agree, it throws your radar right off and teaches you to 'squash' your instincts or find comfort in creepy behaviour

longwayoff · 01/08/2018 12:26

Michael Gove gives me the creeps and I wouldnt trust him further than I can see him.

FairfaxAikman · 01/08/2018 12:51

I normally chat to everyone and everyone - my friends boyfriend was the exception. Not really any particular reason, he just gave off that vibe.

He murdered her by stabbing her nearly 50 times.

MerryInthechelseahotel · 01/08/2018 13:30

As an aspie, I've learned to construct the world's largest (it sometimes feels!) database of human behaviour in my head, so I can check people's actions against the prior experience of a lifetime and make a quickly calculated decison about how to respond. The older I get, the more comprehensive the dataset and the swifter the calculation - too swift to notice but based on experience rather than anything more woo. I was pretty naive as a youngster, which backs up this idea to some extent. I'd be interested in whether any other aspies relate to that as an idea.

Is that you Saga? 😂

JustWalkAwayRenee · 01/08/2018 13:33

Fairfax Flowers

ManicUnicorn · 01/08/2018 13:57

I'd love to know why my earlier post was deleted, when other people have since posted naming all sorts of people and making strong accusations against them?

So I'll say it again, I find David Walliams and Simon Cowell creepy.

PositiveVibez · 01/08/2018 14:05

I used to work for a company and looked after our Board. One of the directors o hated on sight. Gave me the creeps big time. Colleagues all thought he was okay.

He eventually got sent to Roisin for downloading images of child abuse.

Creepy, sick fucker.

I wasn't glad to be right about him.

PositiveVibez · 01/08/2018 14:17

*prison

TorviBrightspear · 01/08/2018 14:24

ManicUnicorn could be your post referenced someone else's post, so if that was deleted, yours might also to remove the reference.

eyycarumba · 01/08/2018 14:42

@Teachtolive I also met Ian Watkins and never clicked! Infact, my ex was friends with the band and regularly stayed with one of the members for 'jamming weekends'.
I thought Ian was a bit of an arrogant perv but that's all. I must admit, when it first came out he had been arrested I thought he had probably got with some underage groupies - still wrong - but the truth is so, SO much worse Sad

BethanyCourt · 01/08/2018 14:44

many years ago I worked in a supermarket. I remember telling my boyfriend at the time that I had a weird feeling about the manager that i couldn't put my finger on. he'd never done anything wrong, but it just felt weird to be near him. He told me i was overreacting.

A couple months later i found out that he's been suspended and made to move stores because he'd been caught using the in store phone system to have phone sex with a young girl. Shudder.

I was 17 at the time and relatively naïve, so it could have quite easily been me Shock

Scientistic · 01/08/2018 15:02

A friend and her dh who I didn't have much contact with wanted to look after my very small dc. They were quite insistent. I had a feeling about the dh so obviously said no.

A bit down the line and something was found on his pc. Yuck.

IDontLikeZombies · 01/08/2018 15:17

I loved JS on the telly but I served him in a shop I worked in when I was 15 and have yet to come across a more repellent man, he was like a wee malevolent gnome.

Back in the days when I used to get chatted up I was pretty good at spotting BS, though. Although that may have been due to the unfeasibly large numbers of marines, Navy Seals, members of the SAS, spies and men who could help me forge a career as a catalogue model who were hanging about my arse end of nowhere in the rain town rather than any talent on my part Grin
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anitagreen · 01/08/2018 15:30

As a small child my parents would more a less let alone babysit us Shock. And there was a family that lived above us one 19 year old boy and a teen girl with there parents. My mum let them look after us and then brother kept saying he wanted to bath us we said no and was really naughty so the girl phoned my parents to come home to us. Anyway a few days later he knocked to come in and play barbies with me and my parents said no that's strange find friends your own age dad had already said he was weird and gives of funny vibes and didn't realise he'd actually been babysitting us at the time. A few months later he raped a little girl a few doors down in the garden Sad was moved overnight and we never saw them again . Years later he came back to the area just before we then moved and he had had a child of his own no idea what happened next I was around 7-8

deydododatdodontdeydo · 01/08/2018 15:37

Had a guy in his 60s join a club I was a member of. He was very outgoing and everyone loved him, but I couldn't stand him.
He wasn't the kind of person I like anyway - very loud, centre of attention, always cracking jokes, but also I thought he was creepy.
In fact I referred to him as Creepy hisname.
Suddenly he was arrested, tried and locked up for abusing 4 year old girls.
And everyone in the club was shocked because he was "such a nice guy".

DiagramFan · 01/08/2018 16:00

@DiegoMadonna

I just want to acknowledge the brilliance of your post as it's got lost in this thread!

strawberrisc · 01/08/2018 16:06

I meant Fred Dibnah, the chimney guy.

I’m surprised nobody has said Keith Lemon yet. He gives me the willies.

soloula · 01/08/2018 16:16

When I was about 14 there was a guy moved to our area. He didn't go to our school so ooking back I think he must have been a couple of years older than us. He used to really creep us out and we used to try and get rid of him if he was hanging about with us.

Years later I'd bought one of those trashy take a break type mags at the airport going on holiday and there was an article in it about the parent of a guy convicted of a pretty horrific, high profile child rape/murder case. I knew about the case, knew the name of the guy but never realised it was the same guy from the park when we were younger. He'd put on loads of weight and had been unrecognisable in the photos in the media at the time but when I was flicking through the magazine and saw the pictures of him as a child I suddenly realised it was him and I can't describe how i felt knowing someone I knew had done something so terrible. It left me shaken up for a very long time. Still does to be honest. I always knew he was weird and freaked us out but you don't think something like that is going to happen. Horrific.

HopeClearwater · 01/08/2018 16:22

Graphista Does anyone remember the murder of Rachel McLean

Yes I was living in the city at the time. Apparently the police were pretty sure the boyfriend had done it and let him go on tv to do the ‘please find her’ business to see how he would behave, not because they thought the tv appearance would make any difference.

QueenOfTheAndals · 01/08/2018 16:38

I’m surprised nobody has said Keith Lemon yet. He gives me the willies.

But he's not real, is he? He's just one of Leigh Francis's creations, and I assume he's based on a creepy TV host like JS.

Graphista · 01/08/2018 17:16

Mrstark - yes same with my dad. I've noticed it on nights out in pubs/clubs too when someone's just about to kick off. Now ex thought it was amazing because at that point I didn't know how I knew either. I could just tell the difference between those that would just be a bit mouthy and those that would glass someone soon as look at them!

DSHathaway yes he was a New Zealander.

HopeClearwater - yes I heard later that was why he'd been used for the tv appeal.

I just really strongly remember even now exactly who was on that train platform waiting for that train. Me, 2 other women and 3 guys all with short hair, city suited types. Definitely not him. I just remember how strongly I felt even before that part was mentioned "he's lying through his teeth" and in my own head when he said that and "I knew it!".

longwayoff · 01/08/2018 17:17

You'd have to be blind and deaf to not see straight through Shannon Matthews' mother.

YeTalkShiteHen · 01/08/2018 17:18

@longwayoff definitely! She’s the only person I’ve ever seen do a press conference and actually thought immediately “it was you!” Others I’ve had a funny feeling, but she was so bloody obvious it was unreal!

strawberrisc · 01/08/2018 17:34

@QueenoftheAndals Ok then, Leigh Francis. He makes my teeth itch.