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

Glastonbury town is unpleasant and doesn’t want you there. i hated it.

It's taken years but I'm learning to trust my senses when it comes to people who are best to avoid. A lot of things that people bring up are red flags for abusers. One thing I've belatedly learnt is to be wary about people who overshare on first contact and keep on doing it for a long time. Difficult for me as I do like to chat to people, at the bus stop, on the train etc, but that sort of chatting is at a different level to the sort of oversharing I mean. Been bitten that way on several occasions and if I could turn the clock back I'd act very differently
I've been on Prevent training and that encourages you to trust your instincts too if you pick up on worrying vibes. And self-defence for women too.

Always felt freaked out by Jimmy Saville, right back to being a child, and Michal Jackson. Not so much by Rolf Harris though, so maybe my creepometer isn't as finely tuned as it ought to be. I was shocked when I read in the paper that someone I'd sold something to had been jailed for being a paedophile. He'd been a postman too, so a familiar figure seemingly trusted by everyone in the village he lived and worked in. But various friends' husband who ended up behaving badly prior to leaving them I had always thought what on earth does she see in him, I felt a really odd vibe come off them. And I've had a bad vibe once when camping, hated the spot we were on so glad to move on next morning, a holiday cottage too, one of the rooms had a really doom-ridden heavy atmosphere, of course, we;d hired it for a week, so I only went into it when my husband was in there with me. But I've been in a room that I later found out had had a murder in 60 years earlier, the person whose house it was never knew, we only found out after she'd died. And the site of a house where someone had murdered a baby, no vibes, when you read old newspapers or local histories, there have probably been murders all over the country that we've forgotten about as they were so long ago

MulticolouredMophead - yes, the only thing I have seen with him was just the episode from the dating show he was on we were analysing psychopathic behaviour, he is seriously creepy. We watched it not knowing which one he was and all guessed it right. What channel was the docu drama on so I can watch it? Also what does MH mean?

exWifebeginsat40

So what is it re Galstonbury looking around on google maps looks fine to me or do you mean the festival or that Tor place?.

I had this feeling the very first time I met my ex-husband and thought he was a vain wanker - 7 years later it turned out he was

@RustyParker - Gosh that must have been a shock for your poor Grandmother!!

Definitely had this before - I do think it's usually when they are staring. Probably only get it about 2 times a year. Mostly I can tell when a man is thinking negative things about women > they screw up their eyes slightly and make a smirking sneer. Can be gone in a fraction of a second but it always makes me wary.

I've had this before a few times, but the worst one feeling wise was at the theatre a couple of years ago. There was a couple sat in the row behind us and I felt completely overwhelmed with the feeling of pure evil from him. He was obviously no danger to me at that point as it was a busy theatre but it just terrifies me. I never turned around to see his face but knew it was coming from him.

My old neighbour from 10 years ago, early 60's lived alone on top floor. He had a grown up son that he sometimes mentioned. Once I caught a bus home that my neighbour was already on. He introduced me to the guy next to him, his son. The guy just stared at me, said nothing. He looked like Lol's rapist dad on This is England, but with more hair & a thicker beard. I can't explain how terrified he made me.

A few years later my neighbour moved, we lost touch. For my job I was doing some research on domestic violence online. One link leads to another, and there all of a sudden, a local online paper showed they had both been convicted for dreadful childhood sexual assaults. My neighbours conviction ended up being quoshed, I don't know if it was on a technicality or if he really was innocent. I think his son got 15 years. That didn't suprise me. Something evil emanated from him. But his dad, my old neighbour, I wouldn't have ever thought it of him.

I’ve had this when walking in national trust forest, very focused looking man walking up behind me and veering off when dh came back to find me. He just looked angry and determined. Plus he wasn’t dressed like a man going for a country walk, more like he was going to a city centre bar.

I wonder how that would have played out if dh hadn’t been there.

I served someone today who reminded me of BUffalo Bill. I'm not joking.

Vibes are a real, scientific thing.
Emf from our hearts are the widest emf that we emit - and it changes depending on our mood and thoughts.
When our heart emf radius overlaps other person (that can happen from a couple of feet away) ours also changes in correspondence.
Becomes even stronger when its a group of people feeling the same thing

I've just remembered something that happened a couple of years ago. I was selling a tent that we no longer used, it was a very good one but I was selling it quite cheaply just to make room really. A man called Paul messaged me on gumtree asking about it and I replied a few times, I have no idea why but I felt like he was dodgy, so decided not to give him my address. I told him that sorry it was sold pending collection. However I later got a message from a girl called Charlotte asking if the tent was still available and could they collect it in the next hour, I was quite busy and said that if she could come ASAP then the tent was hers. Twenty mins later a man knocked at the door saying he was picking up the tent, I immediately felt odd and vulnerable, I sell a lot online and usually feel quite comfortable with both men and women, but this time I couldn't wait to get rid of this man.
A couple hours later I got a message on gumtree from Paul saying thanks for the tent, lots of love, Charlotte hahaha. It creeped me right out. The weirdo had only gone and made a fake profile as he'd realised that I'd sussed him and conned me into selling it to him anyway! I told dh and he was a bit mad but nothing we could do.

Blimey @Mitzicoco that is truly disturbing!

One of the managers at a place I worked, never said anything inappropriate but it was his eyes, he used to mentally undress you when he talked to you. Women hated being anywhere near him and if he went to talk to a group of people in an office all the women quickly walked off.
One man said he was a voyeur and a curb crawler.You could just tell he was a pervert and thinking disgusting things.

@fluffy that wasnt Bolton abbey was it? Same happened there, we saw a man walking really determinedly back out of the wooded area with a suit on it just looked really off, it's definitely not somewhere you'd go on a dinner break, especially as you pay to even get in!

A bit outing of my mum is on here.

I had recently broke up with an awful ex. I went out for the day and had a couple of drinks, not drunk or tipsy. I was living alone. I returned home to find I hadn’t shut my door properly and instantly felt anxious. I tried to go to bed but felt uneasy. Had the most horrific feeling of a presence in the flat. I was in bed in the dark for all of 2 minutes when I suddenly jumped up, ran out of the flat and sped to my mums house. I couldn’t even look at the windows once I was outside. I can’t ever fully describe the immense fear and this god awful impending sense of doom

Slightly off topic but for those of us who were old enough, do you remember feeling that there was something very, very wrong about Jimmy Savile even in the days of TOTP and Jim'll fix it? Not just that he was weird but worse than that. I saw him sitting in the bar coach of an overnight sleeper train once - he stared at me as I went past to go to the loo, and I did get that extremely uneasy feeling, like I didn't want to be in the same space as him.

Bish that impending sense of doom you feel is the one you really need to listen too and run like the wind, just as you did.

The Jimmy Saville thing: my mum was reminded of something which happened years ago when i was a child.

Our neighbors back then (1970s) were mad about JS (each to their own! ) Two or three times they wrote to Jim'll Fix It to try to get their DD on the show. Anyway they managed in the end and the mum went with the DD to the studios for the day to have their 'fix it' filmed and meet JS. They were full of excitement and the mum was on about it every time they spoke.

When they got back from the day of filming my mum asked how it went. The DD was perfectly happy with her day but the mum would hardly say a word about it. Seemed very sad and quiet which was totally out of character. When pressed she just said that JS isn't such a nice man and she wished she hadn't met him. My mum asked if he'd been rude or there'd been a falling out. No, nothing like that. Her DD had talked to the director about filming what she wanted to do and then they'd met JS. He'd asked to take the DD off somewhere afterwards to show her around. The mum had said no and they got on with filming. But now wished she'd never written to the show. She wouldn't/couldn't explain beyond that.

I'm guessing she had experienced the very thing this whole thread is about. Lucky escape for the DD. I think the mum knew that deep down once she'd met him face to face.

PeppyPiggy MH is mental health. I saw the prgramme on one of the documentary channels, ID I think. Has been repeated at least once.

It's this one and I guess it'll be repeated again sometime.

I had a physically revulsion uncomfortable feeling towards someone who was helping me cross the road, unnecessarily. A couple of years later he assaulted me. Decades later I had him sent down and thank fuck he's now dead in the ground. Dead and can't hurt anyone. Dead.

@CitadelsofScience I’m full of goosebumps even thinking about it. I never even returned to the flat. My dad had to go there to collect all my belongings

Trust yourself. You are picking up on something.

My friend randomly decided to walk the lomg way rather than down a path she uses every single day. A girl was attacked at the time she would have been walking on the path. My friend had a really hard time dealing with it and her counsellor told her that she probably smelt the attacker's adrenaline or saw an unusual shadow/sonething out of place but just didn't realise.

My son reacted very strangely when he met a neighbour. It was so out of character for him and he has never reacted like that with anyone else so was obviously picking up on something. We purposely have very little to do with the neighbour now.

This thread is fascinating
And educational - as so often we don’t listen to our bodies and doubt ourselves

Only had this once that I can remember , when walking in a deserted nature area with newborn in Pram and saw someone lurking in bushes at a bit of a distance

I remember so vividly my heart beating and turning and running back to the streets . On the one hand anyone lurking in bushes is a threat but the area is populated by drinkers and have walked past drinkers since and not felt threatened

But nothing like what some have experienced

Very interesting about the mum who met JS - she had it didn’t she