Intuition.. people who made you go cold

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Right so I'll preface this with it's my night off I can't sleep so I thought I would listen to 'let's not meet' do not listen to this podcast when alone at night! and god the stories have creeped me the fuck out.

My own story is that I once met a coworker on his first day. Something about him just made my blood run cold, I didn't want to be around him and I absolutely didn't want to work late alone with him.

6 years later he was in the news for being a serial rapist.

Mega creep.

Share your 'no this person is bad I cannot be near them' stories

Also my dog is an amazing judge of character if he doesn't like something or someone there's a reason

@Wheresthesanitygone

Definitely nearby. Mathers toy shop....I remember it well and with fondness.
JS was utterly vile. Never understood anyone liking him. His arrogance was transparent. He used to prowl Street Lane to boost his own ego.

I get an off feeling from Adam Levine from maroon 5.
Don’t know if it’s emotional immaturity or what but I can imagine he could be nasty. No idea why I feel like that.

I also used to get on a bus to work and there used to be a man get on, sometimes with his girlfriend/wife and my hair would just stand on end. It was horrible. Even if I couldn’t see him I knew he was on the bus, he used to get off a few stops before me.

At Uni there was one guy who was definitely coercive around women. He definitely tried to get women into a vulnerable position where he could take advantage. I think he probably stopped short of actual rape, but he was definitely on the pushy side. He tried it on with me as a Fresher and I very loudly and publicly called him out on it so he backed off. He always made my flesh crawl.....

Years later I read that he had lost his job because he had pulled similar stunts with vulnerable clients. He was in a public service type of job so it was all very very inappropriate.

About the prison thing, I wonder if posters working in prisons don't get the vibe is because the individual isn't in predator mode during their interaction. Maybe the bad feeling doesn't come because we're picking up on bad character, but we"re picking up on microtells that show predatory mode, eg the intent gaze you see in a hunting animal.

(Had an abusive ex - it was like a switch flicking him into abuse mode).

NCG I second you on the Adam Levine thing. I’ve always thought he was in the closet and that manifests with his excessive tattoos and ‘off’ stare, there is something about it him that isn’t right.

@sugarcherry He used to prowl Street Lane to boost his own ego sums him up perfectly.

My RE teacher at school. He made some strange comments in lessons. I was very aware that he was trying to steer the conversation to sex and to make children use sexual terms. I was 12/13. I was petrified of him. I told my mum and she wrote to the school about him. He then told the class I had complained about him and it was even more awful at school. The school told my mum he was the head of RE and a very well respected teacher.

Some years later he ended up in prison. He was abusing children in his office and on school trips. He got caught when abusing children outside of school. I don’t think he was ever punished for the abuse at school.

Some of the comments on here are not intuition, but simply observing what people actually do and say and taking it seriously.
So i would not be surprised to discover a friend's dad sexually abused her when she was young. I was at her wedding and her father's speech when he said how pretty she looked had a strange sexual vibe to it.

I hope not me *@Mlou32.

@Ncg123 I agree re Adam Levine. He seems to ooze anger.

@Summerwhisper I agree about him. I get the same vibe from Martin Freeman. So angry inside!

Such an interesting thread.
I had a family member who was extremely sexually inappropriate to me as a preteen but for my own reasons I won't drone on about on here, I kept it to myself. Years down the line my DD who must have been 5 at the time was with me on a very rare mandatory Christmas evening visit to the entire extended family and he was there. For the record, she never left my side and it was a very short visit. Fast forward to bed time and she looked concerned and deep in thought so I asked her if all was ok and she said to me "mum I hope this doesn't get me into trouble but I feel like uncle *** is someone I shouldn't like and he makes me feel all wobbly and floppy and sick".
Whether that came from her feeling my body language tensing around him is still a possibility but she specifically said he made her feel sick.

HelloBambinos post possibly scares me the most.

In the late 1980s my family were on holiday in either Weymouth or Bournemouth. Can’t remember the exact year or the exact place. I had popped my DBs large rubber ring with a pen so my DF had taken him to the shop to get another one (paid for with my spending money). I didn’t want to go into the shop so DM and I waited in the car.

A guy was stood a few yards away, leaning on a wall or something and having a cigarette. He was just staring into the car and sort of smirking at us, enough for my mum to say she didn’t like the look of him and wished my dad would hurry up. I remember feeling absolutely terrified, he never took his gaze away from us. It was the middle of the day on a busy shopping street in a UK resort at the height of summer and we were both petrified. She locked the car doors from the inside, which he saw her do and smirked even more.

He finished his cig and made as if to walk towards the car, remember my mum saying “Oh God!” then at the last second stepped out and crossed over the road. No idea why we didn’t just get out and find my dad, would have meant leaving the car but it wasn’t a high value one. I think we were both paralysed. I doubt he’d have been able to do anything had we done so as it was a busy summers day.

No ending as such but even though a few details are sketchy 30+ years later, I’ll never forget that feeling of fear.

My GP 30 odd years ago. Found him quit creepy, couldn't really say why.
When I got pregnant I was concerned about examinations etc so I changed GP.

Few years later he was tried and found guilty of assaulting women and went to prison.

When I was fourteen I was on a bus when a man, probably in his thrities, got on. I remember thinking: "If he sits next to me it'll be suspicious." Sure enough, he sat next to me and proceeded to fondle my breast. I'm not sure this was intuition on my part so much as a combination of bias (his hair was greasy and he looked generally unkempt) and the way in which he looked at me.

In my early twenties I was walking down my road one late afternoon when I noticed a figure towards the end of the road. I don't remember thinking anything specific that time, but certainly felt uneasy. As I got closer I realised that it was a teenage boy, which allayed my fears somewhat, but as I approached he grabbed me and attempted to sexually assault me. I think I was too far away when I felt uneasy for intuition to have really been a factor but I must have unconsciously picked up on the strangeness of somebody hanging around on a pavement without doing anything else or looking as though they were waiting for somebody.

More recently, I've had a 'bad feeling' from seeing pictures on social media of the husband of somebody with whom I went to school. I've never met the man and the feeling is irrational. I hope there's nothing in it as he works with potentially vulnerable people.

@Devlesko I also guessed Ian Huntley was guilty, glad I'm not the only one. He was filmed and it was broadcast on the news before he was arrested and I sat in front of the telly going 'it's him!' and thinking it was odd that I felt so sure.

Adam levine
Mr. Depp
Gordon brown
Madonna
they all just really creep me out even though I can't put my finger on its just no not right!

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I taught a little boy for around 2 years (age 7-9) who was utterly horrible, I am 100% convinced he will be a rapist/murderer/both by now. He was incredibly charming on first impressions and had some staff fooled but he gave me the chills from the moment I met him and all the other children were terrified of him. Never come across anyone so cruel or manipulative in the rest of my life, had me and a whole class of kids utterly terrorised. God help anyone he meets as an adult.

I knew Huntley since his Barton days and knew it was him as soon as he was mentioned. Was a creepy bastard anyway.

He used to stare at you silently with those brown eyes like he pitied you

Mine's a bit predictable I'm afraid: the local priest I met years ago when he visited the family next door. He had the most piercing stare and originally I thought it was this which made me uncomfortable, but no - gut instinct told me there was something else

Of course I felt terrible when told he'd got cancer and gone home to Ireland to die. Except he didn't have cancer at all ... he'd skipped just ahead of the police investigation into his child abuse

I grew up in quite a creepy town. The main 'feature' was a high security prison, and we really were in the middle of nowhere (not even a train link out of the place). I was blissfully unaware, but my more intuitive younger sister remembers a definite higher-than-average number of people living there. Looking back, I think she was spot on. Growing up, we had a female Staffie. I can't tell you how protective she was. I'm sure it's because of her that we escaped many a sticky situation. She was a formidable judge of character. I must say though, that she never took against any women. It was only ever certain men, including one very creepy postman.

Sorry, that was supposed to say 'higher than average number of weird people living there'.