To get an overwhelming sense of danger from a stranger?

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The weirdest thing just happened. I’m in the supermarket and as I’m stood selected and bagging vegetables I suddenly feel very uncomfortable.
There is a man about 50 something stood with his elderly mother a few feet away to the side of me and I felt very sick and uncomfortable when I looked at him.
Absolutely no reason for it but it was overwhelming, like a sense of fear he was not a good man.

Completely clueless why I felt that way I moved along quickly but I crossed paths with him again in another aisle and knew he was there before I saw him because the sick / anxious feeling returned.

Anyone else ever had this? I don’t have anxiety or anything but this feeling was so odd, like I could sense he wasn’t a good person.

Never met him before, he could be perfectly lovely but my physical reaction to him was so strong

Has anybody ever had the opposite experience? I always considered myself to have an accurate radar for a “baddun”.

However, recently an ex-colleague (a youngish lad) was convicted of child pornography offences. There was literally nobody in the workplace who had a bad word to say about him or a negative feeling about him when he worked for us. If I didn’t know of the conviction and you asked me to describe him I’d say “very smiley, dead helpful, a bit ditzy but a lovely lad”.

It made me feel so very sad.

I've got very strong instincts when it comes to other ppl - my husband calls it 'spot a wrong-un'

When I was a kid (lates 80's) another girl and I went to this block of flats to see this mans budgie. London kid, never seen anything other than pigeons and foxes so it was a draw. She told me she'd been before and her granddad knew him. Anyway, went to the flat, he got the budgie out of the cage and started walking towards me. Next thing this dark feeling came over me, even the room blackened and I just had this little voice telling me to run. I turned and fled out the door, knocking into my friend who then swiftly followed.

Turns out he was a sex offender. And my friends granddad knew!

Had a few things happen over the years, similar to you op with feeling sick etc. Mostly though it's that inner voice

I felt the same before about a couple living in our area but took no notice of my instincts. Both became v close friends to the point where they had access to our house, were left with my dd to babysit etc. There had been situations when I felt totally undermined when it came to my parenting but as they were so unusually caring I left it to me overthinking.
One situation was when she mentioned in a text message about my next door neighbours arguing too much. My NDN were expecting their first child. The friend then said “you never know...maybe the HV will see this and we (her and her husband) might get to adopt their baby”. Even at that point I took no notice of it. Then months later she said there’s something wrong with my dd and that she’s been showing videos of her to strangers to diagnose her.
Since then I stopped all communication with them. These people were a threat and I didn’t follow my instincts.

@Iwantacookie

I also find a certain celeb creepy I thought it might of been his character but no he's plain creepy in everything.

Me too!

DS wanted to give up a club and I thought it was probably just some other boy being unkind. He is 7 and very sensitive but he loved this club. He eventually told me it's that one of the helpers gives him the creeps. Funny thing is this club is massive with about 15 staff on many different level groups. This man is not even with his group but I knew instantly which one he meant.

It happens, don't worry about it.

We had the most wonderfully soft natured crossbred dog (half doberman, half greyhound), he NEVER growled, he barely barked and was a mans man dog, any male who came to the house or whose company he was in he gravitated towards them for petting and would sleep at their feet. Was at my friends with him and their next door neighbour was out the front the same time as us and my dog went mental in his company, straining on the lead, teeth bared and fully intending to savage him, the second time the neighbour came round the dog behaved in exactly the same way yet had NEVER been in any way aggressive to anyone before or after, only to this man... my friend said that when they had a dog theirs behaved in exactly the same way towards this neighbour... makes you wonder abiut the mans nature...

I had this years ago when working in A&e got a call of a a gp about a patient we’d had in and got a really odd vibe off him. Months later he got arrested for killing old ladies (it was Harold shipman ) my patient was an old lady and it was his interest in how bad her injury was and what medication she’d be on that sent my spidy senses off. Even more so as he wasn’t her registered gp she’d given a different practice to the receptionist, so I wouldn’t tell him anything and he kept saying but I know her she lives near my surgery I’m her gp of choice. He was t a nice man

We went to Belgium back in the 90s on a field trip. The moment we arrived I felt dreadful - dizzy, disorientated and scared. I was unable to express or articulate how I was feeling, and it was put down to travel sickness. I couldn't shake the foreboding and unease I felt the whole time we were there.

Some months later news of a murderous paedophile network in Belgium broke. It was widespread, and involved aristocracy, politicians, judges, police...

I remember watching the news at the time and feeling sick remembering how I felt. I now know I had felt and sensed pure evil.

I've had this on a few occasions, one with another passenger on a train. He was in the seat in front of me but I just started to feel dread. Thankfully he got off a few stops up.

The other two were colleagues/friends of my DP. They both creeper me out. DP told me I was paranoid. Turns out I was right on both accounts. One has the characteristics of a psychopath. The other is violent

It's not a psychic ability. I think it's more to do with growing go witha violent narcissistic mother. You recognised the micro-aggressions/behaviour changes from a young age

In regard to animals and Hindley. The LL of one of our locals (may be outing) said that as a child he'd been in the garden when a blond woman appeared at his gate and was trying to persuade him to come closer to her. Apparently his dog was up on his hind legs barking and snarling at this woman so much so that she left. This was at the time of the murders and also in the same area.

I used to be a housing support worker doing lone visits. I had one client who I really didn’t feel comfortable around, the feeling grew and grew. I tried to bring it up in our staff ‘counselling’ meeting and the facilitator shouted at me. Two weeks later the client kicked and beat someone to death. I never got an apology from the facilitator. Left the job shortly thereafter.

Arrrg. Reading this thread is freaking me out as I had the very same feeling last month when I met a strange man who was standing outside our front door. He approached my dd and I felt myself almost go into fight or flight the vibe I got was so horrible. It turns out he’s going to be our new neighbor and I’m terrified of him

follow your instincts

Once I was arriving home with my baby on a pram and passed some people on the pavement outside my neighbours house. Their door was open. They were watching me when as I was approaching and when I got to my door I was shaking and got in as fast as possible and locked the door. Later I learned that they were robbers and cleared out everything of value. I was so scared I didn't get a good look at them and was not much use to the police but they were caught in the end. I think sometimes is instinct but we also read the situation almost unconsciously and notice when something wasn't as it should be.

I get a feeling of avoid avoid and don’t make eye contact with some individuals but when i was pregnant the fear was 100 fold and very disturbing all the time and I could almost see what was going on with a few strangers like a Bosch painting. Never got any proof. In the end I left the father and I heard he ended up in prison for dv.

I had someone view my house last week, I had an immediate physical reaction to and couldn’t wait to get him out of my house.

Those who say Taxi Drivers are rarely as dodgy as people think. I'm sorry, I deal with Taxi Drivers, both Private Hire and Hackney Carriage all the time, and while the majority are brilliant, the bad minority are terrible.

ModreB can you quantify that at all? Is it that the bad drivers are just that bad drivers or are they a shade short of personal communication skills maybe?. Or maybe sure a bit surley with passengers?, are they in a job they don't like perhaps?.

I had an ex that all my friends and family just didn't like, I couldn't work out why at first. I'm close with my neighbours and they had a big dog, I've brought loads of people next door for a drink or a BBQ and the dog was all over them, saying 'hello' and being friendly. But with my ex (who was obviously my new boyfriend at the time), the dog emitted a low growl and stood very rigidly on the other side of the room to him. He turned out to be very abusive and a bit odd about my young child. I ended up getting a non-molestation order against him a few months into the relationship. Shortly after the relationship broke down I had 3 of his other exes messaged me to let me know he'd been horrifically abusive to them and never got more than a slap on the wrist from police... All 3 had young children, too. Almost waiting for the day his mugshot crops up on the local news!

The woman that chose Ted Bundy on the blind date show he was on actually refused a date with him because she had a sick feeling when meeting him he seriously spooked her.

That wasn't Ted Bundy, it was Rodney Alcala.

I've had it once. A chap I worked with set my teeth on edge. Everyone else thought he was a really nice guy, but there was something creepy about him and I hated even being in the same room. I left the company and 2 years later he murdered his wife

MulticolourMophead - Yes you’re right. Oh my gosh I feel so silly I was having an hour long conversation about that with someone the other day in reference to Ted Bundy lol. It wasn’t Ted Bundy it was Alcala, another serial killer.

When I was 19 I was at a train station and this vile man started to talk to me. I instantly found him creepy so quickly asked him to leave me alone. He then kept accosting me afterwards, whilst no one else was around and a long wait for the train. Eventually the train arrived, but he kept watching my movements and started to walk through the train multiple times to stare at me. Other passengers noticed his weird behaviour and stepped in. Long story short, he ended up following me for 3 hours. I can only imagine what his intentions were. He was persistent and determined.

I always trust my instincts. After being assaulted at age 11 by a person that I'd disliked on sight, only to be told not to be rude. The complete and gut clenching fear that something wasn't right meant that I managed to talk my way out of the room that I'd ended up cornered in, and run for help. I got away with 'only' being touched, rather than being raped.

It was all brushed under the carpet though. Took me years of MH problems to realise that it should be have been dealt with differently instead of me being made to feel ashamed and told to keep quiet.

I will always remember that terror though and consequently I am incredibly protective of my home as my haven and safe place. I've refused to let in tradespeople who have come to quote because I have had bad vibes off them when they have turned up. I will always trust my instincts and I don't give a shit if doing so offends someone.

Our instincts are there to protect us even if we cannot fathom why the feeling occurs - just go with it and keep safe.

Still a serial killer, though. I saw the docu-drama that was made, and it looks like he may have had a MH issue/personality disorder. Scary.