Have you ever felt evil or that something was deeply wrong?

[crochetmonkey74]

Inspired by an experience I had recently that has really rattled me. It's very outing as I've talked to everyone in my real life about it, it bothered me so much so I'll keep it brief.
I met some people I hadn't met before to buy an item from FB marketplace. Its a fairly rare item, and an expensive one so I went off to see if it was the right thing. The house was beautiful, it was a very large manor house that has been turned into huge expensive period flats,the grounds were amazing and the people were nice but a few odd things happened that were boundary testing and also some oddly timed things happened. While I was there I felt OK, it was a beautiful place, very quiet and entrancing but as I drove away I had this overwhelming sense of relief that I was leaving, and I was scanning my brain for any information I'd told them about myself in case they could find me. I am not a scared person or one prone to flights of fancy , this has never happened to me before. I had a physical reaction to the street they live on when I drove past some days later. My brain said "I'm never going up there again" and I keep having that feeling of having been in a bubble, it bursting and me being glad to be away from it. A weird story I know. Anyone had similar? I just know there was something deeply wrong there. I even asked my lovely neighbour to send a prayer up for me to protect me , and I would consider myself a non believer!

This sounds terrifying! I’m scared just reading it

Its unconsciously reading body language IMO.
I've had it a few times, most serious one was as a 18 yo coming back from work on a train. Fairly busy train, 2 men get on together, sat opposite me. I had a feeling of unease that just kept building. As I reached my stop I felt pure panic, I dashed off at the last second, got to the top of the stairs and they had followed me, I then sprinted as fast as I could home ( I was a sprinter in the school athletics team).
Next day at work I found out that another colleague on the train after mine was followed off and sexually assaulted. They had waited for the next train & got back on, police confirmed it was the same men.

I was in my local wetherspoons. I went upstairs to use the toilet (toilets are on the second floor). When I was coming out, there was a man coming out of the men's toilets at the same time. There was nothing unusual looking about him and he just said "Evening, love" but I sensed so much evil radiating off him that I retreated back into the ladies and hid there for a few minutes until I felt that he had enough time to go downstairs. The ladies toilet was quite busy as it was a Saturday night so I didn't put myself at risk going back in there. I have no idea why I sensed what I did. I had never had an experience like that with someone before, and I've never felt like that with anyone again. Even now, I feel unsettled thinking about it.

Yes me too! I have had a very bad feeling about him since he came on the scene.

When I was a young teenager, I remember Tony Blair becoming the PM and everyone thinking he was the best thing since sliced bread, 'Blair's Babes' etc etc. I was 14 and knew absolutely nothing about him other than he was on the news for being the new leader. Apparently I said to my mum, 'that man is evil'. She didn't understand why I would say such a thing but his true nature did eventually show itself through the years. I have to turn the TV over when he comes on. She always reminds me of what I said, and that I turned out to be right.

Another one was when I was out with my dog. She was as soft as butter with humans, loved children and babies etc. She had never growled at anyone. Apart from one time when we were out walking along a busy main road. A man came out of one of the side streets and started walking a couple of metres behind us. For me, there was nothing threatening about him, he wasn't behaving suspiciously, I didn't get a strange vibe, it was broad daylight and there was nothing to suggest that he wasn't just going about his business. My dog turned around and growled at him. Full blown growl, her face twisting like a gargoyles so she was trying to look fierce and warning. I was so startled as she had never done that before, and then I started to feel so uncomfortable about the man behind us that I crossed the road. He stayed on the other side, walking along on the opposite side of the road not really paying us any attention, again nothing suspicious about his behaviour. But my dog had her tail between her legs and kept throwing him anxious looks and she didn't relax until we turned the corner of the street towards home and he was no longer in sight. That was the only time she showed any aggression towards anyone, and to this day I believe that she, like animals can, sensed something very dark about him.

I used to walk into the town where I worked, along a path that went through farmland and brownfield sites (most now built on) at 7.30 in the morning. Never had a problem or felt unsafe.
Decided to walk home the same way one afternoon and there was a young guy who cycled slowly past me, then stopped, checking something on his bike. It felt ‘false’ somehow, like he was only pretending to sort his bike out, so I slowed down a bit. He wheeled his bike down a little side path into some bushes. Nothing particularly unusual about that, but I just sort of knew he hadn’t carried on down that path to the nearby housing estate. I had an umbrella with me and as I passed the side path I sort of hefted it in my hand and glared. Sure enough, he was standing almost concealed by the bushes, having turned round to see me pass on the main path. Not fiddling with his bike, just staring at me.
Now, I fully concede I might have alarmed a perfectly normal person “She was shaking her umbrella at me and I was only trying to get my bike chain back on!” but it certainly didn’t feel like that at the time and I really felt like I’d headed off some sort of encounter just by showing I was aware he was there and that he wasn’t behaving normally.
Don’t work in town any more, but use that path 5-7 times a week for walking the dog and I’ve never had that vibe again, even when other low level antisocial behaviour is going on (drug dealing, kids arsing about etc).

As a young child I would hate visiting one of my friends at home when her father was there. I sensed something v wrong and he scared me. Years later it came to light that he had abused his daughter’s

A friend of my DH’s I met at SIL wedding. He is stereotypically attractive and famous. I hated him. Felt sick by him. Everyone thought I was a dick for not wanting DH to spend time with him (they’d been friends since childhood).

last year he was in the news (not mainstream - not a big celebrity but known) for rape / sexual assault.

5 years ago when we met I had said to DH “I feel like he raped me in a past life” - seeing the news about him spooked me as my intuition was so right.

I was in a deserted beachside villa in India my friend had gone off with a chap. Some men saw me in there (was packing for early flight) they all trooped to the door and hammered on it. One piece of flimsy wood between me and gang rape. Turned lights off and was literally gibbering in fear. That really is a thing. That was my twenties and kind of ended intrepid travel for me. Will stick to Italy with my 6 ft 2 Dh.

Some of these remind me of that poor lovely lady killed while walking her dog. Sounds so similar.

I'm sure these "fear" threads are set up to advertise "The gift of fear" Book.
Don't fall for it! I bought the book, it's utter crap.

The most chilling encounter I’ve had was from someone who had a full-face tattoo - a badly done “prison-type” one.

Sounds like they were swingers and possibly trying to see if you swing too.

I’d hardly call anything you have said dark or cultish. Just too much information. Definitely being dramatic.

I met someone who had several face tattoos including two tears from his eye. I had no idea what they meant. He was a really nice chap and we got on well as we were working in the same place. He told me how he wasn’t allowed to return to his country and said it was due to his mother not being from there originally.

only later when I found out what the various symbols meant did I put two and two together and realised he was probably involved in some very dark things and had committed some serious crimes.

I don’t feel scared by it or anything, he was very pleasant to me and everyone around him. Hopefully his face tattoos didn’t indicate what they are said to or he had at least turned over a new leaf.

The darkest/most evil thing that has happened to me is sexual assault and attempted sexual assault, but I don’t feel that’s quite what this thread is about!

I saw exactly this with a tradesman who was working at my house with his son and another lad, both about 19. He came across as a lovely guy - really chatty & personable, nothing was too much trouble, and all his smiles and chat felt very easy and genuine.

Then one day he made a really minor error and his son said something jokey which we all laughed at. I’ve never seen a mask slip so completely. He looked at his son for just a micro-second with pure rage and hatred before plastering the smile back on, but we all saw it and it was so weird and shocking we all went a bit quiet afterwards. I can’t forget the look on the boy’s face - instantly fearful and red-cheeked, he was totally flustered and I just knew he was in for it later. There were other telling incidents after that day that confirmed the kind of arsehole he really was. It must have been exhausting for him to be constantly disguising his true nature under this ‘lovely guy’ facade.

When I was younger, if I watched my mum outside in the garden for a bit, I'd see her start looking around her and acting uneasy. She said she could feel someone watching her.

@YouOKHun

Re Batophobia

Thank you for your very useful post, as I had never heard of this phobia before.

Once I went to a BBQ, with others, at a house I'd never been to before. As we approached the estate I saw a huge electricity pylon. I made a joke about it and said the "some people have fairies at the bottom of the garden but someone has an electricity pylon instead !". It turned out it was the address we were going to !
The driver was really annoyed at having to take me home but I couldn't stay as I was so anxious.
Some more sympathetic members of the group said I must be oversensitive to electrical force-fields.

Another time I went to look at a property in an area I didn't know. What the EA's photos didn't show was a huge water-tower right in front of it! I became anxious and wanted to leave but the estate agent tried to persuade me that as it was to the North of the property it wouldn't block any sunshine.
It didn't persuade me and we left.

Now I know I have a known phobia!

I can understand and accept that 'evil' exists, along with goodness or benevolence. Surely though it is always attached to a person (or group of people). An inanimate object like a statue or carving cannot enact anything alone. It needs an agent to enact it's wishes. How can a vase or statue have wishes?
People are the cause as OP reported, the object offered for sale was just inanimate bait to attract random people.
All above: In My Humble Opinion

The only thing I get is when the season shifts from summer to autumn. For the past few years, I've had quite a weird sensation. Just going about my business and it's kind of a smell that triggers quite an intense reaction on a deeper level - a really weird sensation and pretty impossible to describe, but it's like a brick to the head. Then sure enough, the mornings suddenly turn cold. I know it sounds daft, because we all know when autumn comes, but it's a really intense physical reaction.

Why do you think it is crap? I read it before all the "fear" threads, I thought it is ok and very thought provoking. I've been in a similar situation to "Kelly" in the book, it described the thoughts / actions dynamics spot on.

Had to get the priest round because my clothes Airer picked itself up off the floor about 3 foot and launch itself through the air right in front of me and my six-year-old daughter it was an extremely frightening experience At 1 am where we both run out onto the street her in my Arms having grabbed from my bed,Unless these things happen to somebody people generally don’t believe
I had been having other things happen in the flat- a new build prior to that but since the priest has been round the flat has been quiet

I love these kind of threads too! Can you give me a link to the other one please? Thank you

I had this feeling towards a man my dad knew from childhood. Couldn't stand to be around him. Made me so on edge for no reason.

Anyway because he's friends with my dad I ended up having to get to know him. Absolutely lovely man, probably on the spectrum, had a difficult upbringing. He's actually probably very vulnerable to being exploited because he'd help anyone without question. He's now someone I'd always make time for, basically I put a lot on those gut feelings in the past and I'd not ignore it either. But I'm quicker to accept I could have it wrong now.

I read this as B&Q, was ever so confused

In the middle of the pandemic I was unwell but needed to get a toothbrush or something similar. The only thing that was open at that time was a petrol station.

I went there and I decided to stay outside and ask the member of staff if they could sell me a toothbrush (they were behind the counter there). They often sell items through the hatch in the evening. Around that time they were shutting the doors.

As I was standing waiting by the hatch I glanced inside and there was a man queueing and he was absolutely staring at me. He didn't look away or anything - he was looking directly at me, straight on. I looked away, and when I looked back up he was still staring at me. This carried on for a few minutes. Every time I looked back he was just standing there staring. It was deeply unsettling and uncomfortable. And then he smiled. But something wasn't right about the smile. It didn't look natural and was sinister. I don't know what happened after that, but I left.