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!

I cannot even say that I would have had any specific concerns to report. It is something akin to the "uncanny valley" feeling, as in, they look human, but not quite. I would not even describe it as a feeling of "evil presence", as other posters put it, just a very strong, very deep feeling of unease and an almost somatic urge to do something.

Read thinking fast thinking slow. It explains that we take in more information than you think and how that Effects our behaviour

I maybe had a similar experience. I love travel and whenever I go somewhere with a lot of history I try do a walking ghost tour. I don’t at all believe in ghosts, but I love history and enjoy hearing the sordid past of a place.

I was in Port Arthur, Tasmania, which is an old penal colony. I was enjoying exploring the place during the day. Some buildings are ruins, but the ones that are not are set up how they would have been back in the day. I walked into one house and didn’t stop to look at anything, just walked straight through out the back door as quick as I could. I can’t explain the feeling I got, but I physically did not want to be in that building.

That evening I did the ghost tour. The first place we went was that house. Turns out it is one of the most haunted houses in Australia. I’m still a firm non believer, but that feeling hung around me for a while.

When I was about 20 I lived in an upstairs flat in a house in Brighton. Directly opposite me was another flat and a creepy bloke used to look out the window at me directly into my bedroom.

I tried to avoid looking into his flat but would see him doing press-ups sometimes, he was covered in tattoos like the guy from Cape Fear.

He absolutely creeped me out.

Turns out he was this lovely man who had been released on bail to appeal his sentence for rape and murder and was on the run in Brighton nice guy

You've just reminded me. When I was at college a man I knew and liked from a society we were both involved in, invited me to dinner. I assumed a dinner party but when I got there it was just the two of us. He started talking about how much he liked flesh and he wasn;t sure I was fleshy enough. he was doing a very academic degree but started saying he;d love to be a butcher and cut through all that flesh. He also had the most MASSIVE bottle of red wine on the table, How he thought the two of us could drink that, I don't know.

I made my excuses and said I had to get home but he followed me, It was dark and I lost my way and ended up beside a canal lock with water rushing into it. He started saying he could push me in. I talked my way around it by pretending I thought he was charming and funny and just messing around until he got bored that I showed no fear. He wanted me to be scared. It clearly turned him on. Later, a very curvy, beautiful friend of mine went to dinner with him and I asked how it had gone (didn't know she was going or I'd have warned her) and she said it was fine and quite normal.

Years ago I was heavily pregnant and had just popped to the shops
it was getting dark-as in the street lights had just come on but nowhere near pitch black
I’m walking back with my handbag in one hand and my carrier bag in the other
suddenly a bloke comes out of nowhere,with his hood up and I swear his face was just black-as in blank
i could feel the evil just radiating from him
he looked at me and I ran-I know if I had hung around,he would have done something to me

my cousin has always given me the creeps-even as a child I hated being round him
anyway about 4 months ago my son rang to tell me that not only had he been arrested but has been charged
his crime?
shagging and getting pregnant,4 14/15 year old girls-he’s known for hanging around schools,chatting up the girls and has been fired from 3 jobs for it
his laptop had a lot of children even younger being abused (I refuse to use the term ‘kiddie porn’)

a child I knew years ago-he just had a ‘vibe’
i can’t explain it-just something,which I felt dreadful feeling at the time as he was only 9 years old
i remember saying to my mate,just out of the blue-‘he’s going to kill someone one day’
came true 10 years later when he murdered his mothers new boyfriend

my old boss-he had ‘something’-i could feel it
he’s married to the nicest lady you’ll ever meet and has lovely kids
but he oozed evil-I could feel it
turns out he has a ‘thing’ for young girls-hed follow them round and act really creepily round them
it was laughed off but I’d warn them not to go too close to him
he quit before he was pushed for trying it on with young girls-he’d give them their first job if he liked what he saw and try it on with them
perfectly legal as they where all 16/17 but not moral in anyway-he’s in his late 50’s
It’s all been shushed up but it’s an open secret between us girls

my Dds dog adored everyone-apart from our old neighbour (who I thought was a nosey twat)
the dog would run if he saw him
the bloke is going to prison for dv-he’s hidden behind the ‘white,middle class,high earner father and husband’ but his wife has had enough and pressed charges

What on earth were you buying?

I mean it was an ancient antique sex chair so maybe I should have known...

(joking obviously)

I would bet a gold clock they were into swinging. The sex 'mentionitis', the flirting compliments about your appearance. I'll bet there was also quite forward body language 'pointing feet', open crotch mansplaying etc, that you picked up on subconsciously..

That would be quite the drip feed 😀

I really don't think it was swinging- I have experienced that sort of person before who were scoping me out- this felt much darker than that

Sounds very Rosemary's Baby!

Wasn’t from Royal Family staffers by any chance? 🤣🤔

I think I read this years ago but never watched the film!

Yupp, sounds odd and creepy. I've had these feelings too qnd it's not "imagination" as you're not sure what to imagine. Your mind doesn't know why you sense danger.

I agree with posters who say we sense more than we understand.

I remember staying in a holiday cottage a few years ago and finding the place so unsettling that I did everything I could to stay outside the building as much as possible. My FIL and MIL had paid for the accommodation and were staying with us, so I didn't feel it was OK to insist on coming home. But barely slept all week, despite having DH next to me. Interestingly my DS, who is normally an excellent sleeper, would not sleep there either. Woke up constantly and screamed for us. Can't describe exactly what it was, other than the place had a 'darkness' about it.

Wonder how much is the uncanny valley effect. Psychopaths, Narcissists etc have shallow affect and don’t feel emotion in the ways ‘normal’ people do, so in order to fit in with the world around them they act out the correct emotional responses for any given situation. There always going to be a difference between something naturally developed, and something constructed, no matter how good the actor. Some people will better perceive that than others.

my birth country is one that broke apart in a war, and I have encountered people that committed hideous acts. The ones that frighten me most are not the ones that give off an aura of malice, but the ones who could without hesitation commit atrocities one day, and the next day put their weapons down and return to regular life like nothing had happened.

I thought this too.

What very distinct thing happened?
Dear bloody god...it's like teenagers watching a 'scary' movie

I once went to see a venue to hold an event for the charity I volunteered for. I got a really bad feeling about the guy who owned the venue, and decided not to hire it, despite my colleague wanting to.

Found out a couple of years later that the man had a record for embezzling money from small charities he got involved with.

Fuckin hell!

I was walking on Cannock Chase many years ago alone.
My BF had just relocated there for a job and he was at work that day. It was a beautiful sunny day, I was walking along a quite light coloured almost sandy path with I think beech trees along the side, lighter coloured trunks anyway.

I then had the most awful feeling of evil, dread, pain and misery I have ever felt in my life. I ran back along the path and got off the chase asap and back in my car.

We had dinner that night with two new colleagues of his. I relayed how lovely the Chase was but that I had felt terrible and had to leave as had those feelings.

They told me that many young girls had been murdered and buried on Cannock Chase in the 1960’s. This was the 1990’s and I had never heard of them or ever been to the area.

No it really wasn't, ypu weren't there and don't know me.

Fucking hell. And maybe he was just an ordinary bloke who was a bit weird. I’m sure you were beyond relieved at his death but I suspect his family wasn’t.

It sounds awful because it is awful.

As an autistic person this thread makes me sad.

No, that's definitely not what this thread is about. This has been about my experience , which was not with autistic people. Other PPs have described places that have made them very frightened. Other people have described encounters with individuals who have turned out to be very dangerous. There have been a few posters who described getting scared by random individuals. There has been nothing in here about autistic people. I have an autistic family member and I find it really offensive when threads on here portray people with autism as strange people who might frighten others as they act so oddly. Also it's offensive to assume that neurological people can't identify and allow for autistic difference.