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?

Re the 'being proved right' point, obviously I am not sure if anything bad would have happened. But I think it would have been right to be scared of that man. There was a spate of rapes near where I lived around that time but there was always stuff going on so who knows.

My uncle, my mum's sister's husband. Creepy, dead-eyed freak. I felt uncomfortable around him for as long as I could remember. Thankfully my dad felt the same, and when I was an adult told me he would never let me be alone with him and I was never allowed to sleep over at their house.
Turns out that he abused my two female cousins, and was sacked from several jobs over the years for sexual harassment. Totally estranged from his children by the time he died.

Jason Bateman - he’s got ‘gas lighter’ written all over him.

I think my experience with regard to Jimmy Saville was fairly common- I found him quite sinister (without knowing why of course) and I told my parents that I didn't like him at all and didn't want to watch him on television. I was told off at length, because he did so much for charity and I was just being nasty.
My parents were extreme in lots of ways and I'm sure not all children got such a prolonged bollocking about it, but I think it was fairly common back in the '70s to dismiss children's concerns. It certainly didn't encourage me to trust my own judgement.

This is making me worry about an ex of mine. He was totally charming and in many ways the perfect boyfriend. Never did anything bad to me. However, I just had a funny feeling about him and couldn’t quite put my finger on why but I ended up breaking up with him over it.

Nobody could believe it when I told them I had ended it as he seemed so perfect and I couldn’t really give anyone (including him) a reason for why I had. Nothing has come up yet but I genuinely wouldn’t be shocked if he is in the news for murdering his future wife one day. I really can’t explain why I think that though as he was never violent or mean and not at all “creepy” - he was very sociable, had plenty of friends etc.

I hope I’m not right about him btw, but I guess only time will tell...

I never liked a friend of my Dads as a child and neither did my brothers. A couple of years ago I reconnected with someone whose Dad is part of the same social group and this chaps name came up. She immediately grimaced and said that she’d been really creeped out by him as a child and her and her sister made sure they were never alone with him. It’s odd that the kids saw something that the adults didn’t. He is now in his early 70s and lives in Bangkok for most of the year. And his daughter refuses to have anything to do with him or let him see her children. I have an awful feeling that something terrible has happened in that family.

The worst is that when he is in the U.K., the various Dads (now in 70s and 80s) all still see him. They think he is a bit odd and annoying but harmless. It shows the generation gap in understanding signs of abuse.

A deputy manager at a store I trained in. I instantly thought he was iffy, but told myself I shouldn't judge. His manager thought the sun shone out of him. My Manager and a member of staff at my new store agreed with me and didn't like him covering. It came as no surprise to me to hear that he has been arrested for operating a refund fraud ring. However, my lovely, bubbly ex manager at work, none of us thought she'd steal from work. Total shock from all of us when she turned out to be a thief. Also met an assistant manager my friend worked with and decided instantly that she was a bitch and a poisonous snake. I felt utter suspicion and revulsion- the spite came at me in waves. Friend later confirmed this & said poison girl had been fired for bullying and back stabbing!

DM always disliked JS, as did my aunt. They are Yorkshire bred, near to Scarborough and said plenty of local people weren't keen. I think as women we do often have spidey senses about men in this way. I once insisted on going home alone after a date with a charming banker who got me pissed on champagne around some good London bars. Alarm bells kicked in that I MUSTN'T go home with him despite his insistence. A girl in my class at school also always insisted that the IT tech was a bad man despite other people crushing on him. She just never liked him. She was right, he's now been done for child porn offences.

Celebwise, would not be at all surprised if stuff comes out about Stephen Mulhern and/or David Walliams. Both make my skin crawl.

A friend and I also get a very strong feeling that our female friends dp is actually homosexual.

And don't get me started on Trump. I honestly cannot look at him on the TV. I have to walk away; he gives me very very bad vibes. I've got a feeling that all the smoke around him is really just the tip of the iceberg.

My cousin’s then partner used to ask my DM if I could go and stay at their house during the school holidays, I was 7 at the time and my cousin was expecting their daughter. Both myself and my DM weren’t keen and used to make excuses, could never put my finger on it but something really didn’t sit right about him, my mum felt the same. I could tell that my cousin was a bit hurt but it never came to anything. My cousin had their little girl and they split up when she was 4. When she was 8 she told her Mum that he had been abusing her during weekend visits.

Yes to Chris Ingram, even DD2 skips over bits with him in and when I ask her why she just says he’s creepy. Quite pleased she has those reactions!

Oh yes- watched a show reviewing the Jeremy Bamber case and interviewing his relatives. Watched it away from my parents but chatted about it the next day with DM who'd also watched. We both agreed that his cousin, if not the actual killer, had been obsessed with the murdered sister and will probably turn out to have done other things. Complete spidey sense tingling from him.

Agree with previous posters about Jimmy Saville. I remember him being on Jim'll Fix It and Top of the Pops when I was a child and in my teens,and I recall disliking him intensely,and thought he was creepy. I could never quite put my finger on it,but he made my skin crawl. Many years later when the truth about his horrific activities came out,I remember feeling vindicated and not at all surprised.

Yep spotted my sisters exbf as a nasty narcissistic abusive bastard straight away. The family all thought he was wonderful until his true colours shone through.

He reminded me so much of my own ex, I could see it in his face as soon as I met him.

One of my Dad's friends used to creep me out a bit. He was a bit OTT and fake. My DM wasn't a great fan of his either. It later came out that he was a serial adulterer.

I remember watching Mick Philpott in a press conference and felt that there was something wrong about how he was behaving.

My stepbrother, 13 years older than me, is a vile, twisted individual who creeped me out living in our house when I was a young teen. He told me awful stories (about sex with random women) that I just tried to block out. He finally sexually assaulted me, having tried to ply me with gin and watch porn, when I was 16.

What I came on to say, however, was that even before he attacked me, FOUR of my friends commented that he was creepy and they didn't like the way he acted around them. He has a nasty, slimy way about him, is utterly abusive and has dead shark eyes.

Wish I'd reported the bastard after his father (my stepfather) died. So basically, they thought he was a wrong 'un and he proved them right.

Went on the QE2 years ago and Jimmy Savile was on it. He made my flesh crawl and I couldn't go near him.

When I was 18 I lived in a small two up two down near work, the girl I should have house shared with was never there so she gave notice n they found someone else. The landlord actually expected an 18 girl to share with a 40 yr old bloke. I met him on the Monday, was told he'd be moving in at the weekend. He seemed nice enough but gave off this vibe I couldn't get out of my head, by the Wednesday I was a puff of smoke heading down the road, no way was I gonna live with him.

@ChazsBrilliantAttitude yes to the Mick Philpott comment! I thought he was odd in the press conferences too.

I remember when that young girl went missing from her grandmas (sorry I can't remember her name). I turned to my husband and said "she never left the house, her body is in there". They found her body in the loft about a week later and grandparents were arrested.

the various Dads (now in 70s and 80s) all still see him. They think he is a bit odd and annoying but harmless. It shows the generation gap in understanding signs of abuse

A generation gap, or maybe a gap between male and female? Maybe the guy presents no threat to them.

Retired neighbour across the road near our holiday home. Outwardly very friendly, talks to everyone, takes neighbours bins in, waters plants but I've always thought there was something deeply unpleasant beneath it all. No rational explanation.

Recently I've spotted him (we have blinds) staring at children and young teenagers, when they're alone, even walking up to the end of his path to do so (he doesn't speak to them), and will often be inappropriately dressed (shorts, worn alone, not covering him properly) in his front garden where he spends most of the day. It sounds ridiculous now I've typed it.

I had no clue about JS, though he did seem a bit odd inappearance and habits I suppose, so wasn't a great surprise as bad as that sounds. Rolf Harris did surprise me, though of course I didn't know him other than TV persona.

in appearance

The one that’s recently really creeped me out was a man who befriended my sister at about 17. My sister made a lot of questionable friends and lied about where she met them,
But at the time she had a picture of my DD as her profile picture, I never met the man but I saw that he was a new Facebook friend of my sisters. I said he’s a pervert, no real reason to think it as I was told he knew my sister because she was friends with his niece and she does add everyone she’s spoken to once or twice on Facebook.

For some reason I was very vocal in my reaction, I told her not to discuss me or my daughter with him, not to tell him anything about us, or where we lived and literally pretend we didn’t exist.

About a year later she told me that she would babysit, she had friends who would come to my flat and help out. I just knew he was involved in some way.

My sister was never alone with DD again, because I knew she hadn’t taken my concerns seriously. I wanted that man nowhere near my child.

About 6 months ago he was in the local paper having been found with a knife and rope in his bag, when he intended to meet a child for sex in the woods.

I did some digging, he has been done for something of the same ilk previously.

I knew years ago, I’d never seen him in real life and I’d never heard of him, but I knew, he’s been investigated a lot if the information I found a few months ago is to be believed.

I remember an interview with David Cameron about the possibility of an EU referendum a few years back. I had a horrible, horrible, sense of doom and thought “shit! This twat’s going to do it.”

Correct.

When I was at secondary school in the 90s a female P.E teacher had an affair with a 16 year student. They got caught having sex in the sports hall.
They had a daughter together