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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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VickyEadie · 31/07/2018 15:57

It's impossible to find anyone who doesn't say they thought Savile was an absolute creep, but for years people apparently loved him (including politicians and members of the Royal family - mind, Prince Charles is currently demonstrating the fact that he has no sixth sense whatsoever).

I was never a massive fan of Rolf Harris, but was taken aback when it came out about him.

Michael Jackson - got away with it, IMO.

Needlemaker · 31/07/2018 15:58

I can't stand my dhs uncle (married in not blood) but always put it down to generally not being a people person

It's not till he came to get a free sofa and walked towards dd1 2 at the time and pregnant me when the dog went for him that I thought more of it, our dog had/has never gone for someone other than that day only warning barks if the door bell rings but I do belive if I hadn't of grabbed him he'd have tried to kill him he's a big lad I couldn't hold him back then being pregnant if he'd decided to cary on attacking

Turns out this uncle is financialy abusive to his wife and I have my suspicions as he works one on one with older teens but can't prove anything

PyongyangKipperbang · 31/07/2018 16:01

I do wonder how many people say now about JS because we all know. I cant honestly say that JS was on my radar as a kid, but he certainly came onto it when I was an adult. I think it was mainly due to that doco Louis Theroux did about/with him, it really showed up what a strange bloke he was. So no surprise at all when the allegations started.

Hofty · 31/07/2018 16:04

I’ve never noticed about David Walliams before, but now it’s been mentioned I can completely see what everyone means. I think it’s his rubbery expressive features and the over the top, salacious, character he puts on, combined with ‘dead eyes’ that don’t match the character that makes him give out a very definite vibe.

@VickieEadie That’s interesting. What do you mean about prince Charles currently not having a sixth sense?

eyycarumba · 31/07/2018 16:05

Michael Jackson - yes, absolutely believe he was guilty. He freaked me out as a child, and not just because of how he looked.

VanellopeVonSchweetz99 · 31/07/2018 16:08

Nothing woo about it imo interesting though! Read 'The Gift of Fear' (old and sexist as it may be).
I'm a freak magnet (friendly face? Hmm ) and particularly enjoy a good old pathological fantasist.

user546425732 · 31/07/2018 16:12

needlemaker Turns out this uncle is financialy abusive to his wife and I have my suspicions as he works one on one with older teens but can't prove anything

You should mention it to somebody, not as an accusation but as a piece of information in case other people have other suspicions which do have proof.

InfiniteVariety · 31/07/2018 16:13

MY DSis & her DH, both doctors, had a doctor friend who I loathed on sight - I felt there was something very very wrong with him and that I wouldn't trust him an inch or want him as my doctor.

8 years later he was struck off

Genevieva · 31/07/2018 16:14

One of my relatives shared an office with one of the Cambridge spies in the late 40s. He would come home and say how much he loathed him and how he felt there was something untrustworthy about him, but he could put his finger on why his gut was telling him this. I don't think it is a sixth sense. I think it is body language.

InfiniteVariety · 31/07/2018 16:15

Hofty presumably it's a reference to Prince Charles writing letters of support to Bishop Peter Ball, a paedophile

Librarybooksandacoconut · 31/07/2018 16:17

Not me, but my dm used to work in advertising in the 70s which involved lots of contact with celebs doing product promotions. The only one who she had a vehement dislike for was Rolf Harris - she described him as weird and creepy. Turns out she was right.

MrsMarigold · 31/07/2018 16:20

I've had this a few times but nothing memorable apart from a plumber we once used. He came back and tried to assault me.

My DMum always said Bill Cosby was dodgy after she heard him the radio talking about people with SEN.

HildaZelda · 31/07/2018 16:28

Why was my post deleted?

BlueThesaurusRex · 31/07/2018 16:31

I am absolutely the opposite- my first impressions are nearly always wrong 🙈

user838383 · 31/07/2018 16:32

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notacooldad · 31/07/2018 16:36

This thread is about people you find creepy and were PROVED RIGHT.
So to mention people like Shirley Ballas and David Walliams is not fair or in the spirit of things.
We can all not like people but these haven't actually done anything wrong except look a bit shifty or have an attitude someone doesn't like!

itsBritneyBeach · 31/07/2018 16:37

My dad's friend always used to offer to babysit me and ask me to sit on his lap or do silly videos when I was around 10-11. I always hated going to his house and refused most of the time. My dad fell out with him over money or something and we never saw him again and I felt so relieved.

A few years later he was convicted of raping three young girls and owning over 1000 indecent images and videos of young girls he'd taken himself 🤢

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 31/07/2018 16:44

DW totally plays up to the camp or creepy persona on TV

The case with JS was that it was often remarked on how creepy he was and I heard rumours about him being into necrophilia long before the Internet was about gossip has always been away of protecting people but still not sure how the rumours got to us it was like a standing joke

But then we all know our woodwork teacher was a what we called dirty old man he had a very close relationship with a girl in the year above. A troubled girl in care of course. There rumours were known by friends who went to different schools. We were too young to really understand what was going on

boomboo · 31/07/2018 16:49

Many years ago when I was young barmaid one of the local drinkers always gave me the creeps. Very overfamiliar and always offering to give me lifts back which I always declined.
Anyway turns out he was Fred West's cousin Confused

thenewaveragebear1983 · 31/07/2018 16:54

Many times working in prisons. Some men just brought a cold breeze in with them. Often not the really horrible murder criminals, but the drug dealers particularly (and when we’d look them up and find out what they’d been charged with doing to women, domestic violence, and to debtors- just evil)

We have this gut sense for a reason, I firmly believe it can save your life. You must trust it.

Pashazade · 31/07/2018 17:04

@NotWeavingButDarning your school wasn't near an American airbase by any chance. Did he have a colleague who always smelt of fags? Cause it sounds like one of my old teachers. I always liked him 😳

VanellopeVonSchweetz99 · 31/07/2018 17:10

P.S:
Tawdrylocalbrouhaha yes I totally felt Gavin de Becker was over egging/making up his examples. Still some useful stuff in there imo.

TeeBee · 31/07/2018 17:14

Oh lordy, I pick this up all of the time. Child abusers, kidnappers, general wrong uns...I can spot something wrong the minute I meet them. The worst was probably someone I knew at university. I always knew there was something not right with him...he ended up in the news a few years ago for murdering his partner in front of her child.

AromaticSpices · 31/07/2018 17:24

I was walking home from work once and walked past this man, who had a grey coat with the hood up, despite it being not rainy or cold. Something about his face made me feel frightened, the look he gave me was very odd. It was like he looked through me, with horrible grey eyes and very pale skin.

Although he was walking in the opposite direction to me, I started to walk faster. I turned right down my side street and when I approached another road I saw that he was coming towards me - he'd done a left then left again to catch up with me.

I was terrified but still tried to convince myself it was coincidence - but with hindsight it definitely wasn't. I upped the pace again and managed to get to the front door of my block of flats, let myself in fast and pulled the door closed behind me rather than waiting for it to shut on its own (one of those strong magnet doors that local authorities install). I raced up the stairs and felt like my heart was going to pound out of my chest. As I got to the first floor I started to slow a bit, thinking 'thank christ for that', then I heard each of the buzzers go in each of the flats (they were horrendously loud buzzers) - he was trying to get someone to buzz him in. He didn't live there, there were only 6 flats in the block and I knew all my neighbours.

I got to my flat (whose buzzer was going off, he obviously tried them all) and made sure I didn't turn any lights on so he couldn't work out which flat I'd gone in to. Then I called a male friend as I was massively freaked out and my boyfriend was away with work. He encouraged me to call the police and I'm so glad I did. They took it really seriously. And gave me a number to call if I was ever followed home again, and they put a marker against my number so it would be flagged up. But I did NOT sleep well that night!!! This was central London. Makes me go all funny to think about it, and this was about 8 years ago.

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