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?

@Tistheseason17 My younger brother once met a cousin of Cliff's 'housemate'. They'd holidayed in his villa and said they were pretty sure his housemate was his partner. A friend of a friend also installed a 2 person loveseat in Cliff's bathtub.

Don't ask me why I've got so many
Cliff stories!!!

Mine's slightly different.

Does anyone remember a few years ago in France there was a man who decapitated his boss? He dressed it up to look like a terrorist incident (there were a few around the time). As it was happening there was a news report, just barest bones, calling it terrorist . My immediate reaction was that it was staged, I said it out loud. A few days/weeks later it came out that I was right and a few people who had been there couldn't believe I'd called it.

This has happened a few times. Anytime I think about it though I get it wrong - it has to be pure instinct.

I'm rubbish with people though as I always think the worst of anyone new!

I wish some of you could come and read me and the people in my life.

My instincts are not turned on.

I used to wish Bill Cosby was my dad and wanted nothing more than to go on Jim’ll fix it.

I did know there were no weapons of mass destruction if that counts.

@Graphista I looked the case up today as I recalled reading about it and it niggled me. The police were sure he'd done it, that q&a was designed to flush him out. They pointed out what he'd done to make himself look iffy during that press call.

Anyone remember Rachel O'Reilly? Her husband killed her and I think most of Ireland thought he was (rightly) guilty after he was interviewed on TV. He came across so poorly.

Does anyone remember the guy who went on This Morning when it was still Richard and Judy to say he didn't kill his wife? Was later found guilty - murder I think was on Merseyside

Also though think he got off on appeal Sion Jenkins the headmaster had nasty, creepy, fucker stamped on his head, and whether or not he killed Billie Jo, there were so many sinister stories about him in the press

Yes. At 12 yrs of age - My best friend's mum's boyfriend. He was nice and friendly but there was just something about his interaction with her that was off. A few years later he pleaded guilty to years of sexual abuse towards my friend. Awful.

I know this will probably irritate people but I find the McCann husband chilling and also Amanda Knox. I think they are terrifying and make my blood run cold.

I used to hide behind the sofa whenJS came on the TV, he reminded me of the old witch from Snow White, I used to squeak and trill and dart away to hide.
I had no idea as a child what he was up to but I certainly didn't like him.
As a child I loved art and didn't pick up anything about RH until my teenage years and I got the distinct impression he hated women and probably liked a drink too much.

I grew up in a very physically abusive home from birth and one of my very first memories is watching my 'father' smash up an internal door to get to us, destroying the furniture and smashing things against the walls.
Lived in a woman's & children's refuge for a good while, living with many different people, adults and children lots who had behavioural and boundary issues you learn quick about how you have to act around certain people.

A few years after that my mother remarried a man very quickly, I did not like him at all, I think it was 2 weeks after we were introduced he was living with us and not very long at all until he was taking control of my punishments in agreement with my mother by putting me over his knee, pulling my knickers down and smacking my bottom.
Never been so humiliated.
He was generally shit and abusive in every way yet portrayed a very convincing 'nice guy' image, everyone loved him and he would help anyone out at the drop of a hat etc.
I used to retaliate, break his things, scratch his records, put his computer games in the fish tank or toilet.
One day he had some new work friends over for a BBQ and they were all drunk and smoking weed (including mother) I was dragged from my bedroom and dumped into one of his colleague's lap who wouldn't let me get up so I pissed all over him.
I made it 4 more months and then removed myself from the home and went into foster care, where there is also a wealth of knowledge about the variety of dysfunctional human behaviour available, including the Foster carers, their biological families and even psychotic social workers 🤗👍🏻.

As a rule of thumb, from my background I just do not trust 'charming' people, the more I hear about someone that everybody loves the more cautious I am.
I don't like people in general, most people have let me down considerably so I don't feel the need to be liked and I've never sought out popularity or attention because from a young age the attention I was given was inappropriate, abusive or unwanted.

But I am very grateful for the skills it's given me, the older I get the better I am at picking up signs/signals, I people watch as a point of survival and always have done, it's lead me to my career that I love and am good at it.

An aunt by marriage is a nasty piece of work, she's caused so much destruction over the years. The first time my mum's cat met her he hissed and ran away. It took a day before he came home and he reacts the same way each time she visits.

My husband took up a volunteer within an organisation. The “boss” had military grade clearance, was working daily with vulnerable children and adults. They often went to schools and prisons to demonstrate their hobby, so they had clearance for that. He worked closely with the government and police and was often the “first on scene” person. (I hope this all makes sense) basically everyone thought he was a good man.
The first time I met him something was off.
I met his girlfriend and I assumed she was his daughter. (She looked about 12. Was in reality less than half his age at 20) He gave me the creeps.

Funnily enough earlier this year he was imprisoned and stripped of everything for raping a 15 year old girl. He won’t be out for a very long time (luckily) as there were an awful lot more victims, some as young as 12.
I periodically ask my husband to check on the girlfriend (who is “standing by him as it was a single moment of stress” 😷) as I believe she was also groomed to (she was the only child living on her island and met him aged 10, when she was 15 he offered her a “job opportunity” on the mainland and she ran away with him.)
It disgusts me everyday that I’ve actually spoken to this piece of scum.

I don’t believe in a 6th sense. Some of us are just more alert to befaviour and body language that’s a bit off
But that IS the 6 th sense!

My first impression of someone is always right. I've never been wrong about someone based on my first impression. It astounds my friends every time. I sometimes wish I didn't have this weird "sixth sense" as it stops me making friends but then it also stops me getting screwed over

Agree about Amanda Knox. Something very off about her, such a shame that whole case was such a cock up.

I have had suspect feeling about people but mostly nothing has ever came of it or rather I haven't heard them yet if it's true.

When I was 16 I worked as a cleaner for a security company, there was and older gent there who was far too complimentary of me and I distanced myself and eventually left the job. My jaw hit the floor a year later when he was in the local Scottish news about being on the run for child sex offences and the like. I felt sick.

I hate that people forget about Meredith and focus on Amanda (agree there’s something off about Amanda).

People thought there was something 'off' about Joanne Lees too, but the poor woman is innocent. Because she didn't wail and gnash her teeth, people figured that she must have had something to do with Peter Falconio's disappearance, not thinking that a) she was in shock and b) different people grieve in different ways.

And it's important to remember that it's often not reliable. It would be interesting to run sister threads on "when you thought someone was great and were proved wrong" (many threads on here fulfil this criteria) and "when you had a sixth sense about someone and were proved wrong" - there are some famous examples upthread but there will be many more in real life.

Yes, and it's a bit worrying if people can't see that Keith Lemon is a character...

it's important to remember that it's often not reliable. It would be interesting to run sister threads on "when you thought someone was great and were proved wrong" (many threads on here fulfil this criteria) and "when you had a sixth sense about someone and were proved wrong" - there are some famous examples upthread but there will be many more in real life

Of course, you may think someone is dodgy and they are perfectly ok.
However I would still advice people that if they feel that they are in possible danger and there is no obvious reason why to get out of that situation immediately.

Oh I agree. Esp if you rarely feel that way and the situation seems otherwise normal.

It’s funny you mention Gerry McCann, I never got that impression from him. His wife washing the cuddle cat struck me as odd though.

I also remember going out for a meal when Jo Yeates was missing, and someone at the table was adamant her parents had done it! They hadn't come across to him at all well during their press interview. I thought they looked corroded with worry and grief and admired them for somehow keeping it together in the midst of hell.

I personally think Gerry McCann is strong for the sake of his family and grieves privately. Washing cuddle cat is odd to me, as scent is one of the last things to go, I'd be hanging on, but perhaps it made sense to Kate. We're all different.