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 developed a weird phobia of a grain silo. Massive and ugly building which suddenly appears when driving to nearby town. Also twitchy with wind turbines, to a lesser extent.
Silo was built before I was born and had no problems with it until about 10 years ago. Heart would pound and on verge of panic attack when I parked nearby and had to walk past it.
Think I'm largely desensitised now. But strange.

I think we're good at subconsciously putting details together that we don't consciously recognise and we just get a feeling something is off.

I once went on a Hinge date with a guy and as soon as I saw him I got a bad feeling. We were walking and talking about nothing in particular and I just got the most intense bad feeling I've ever had. It was like a black cloud. My heart was racing, I felt sick, I had to sit down and said I needed to go home.

Stupidly I didn't - he acted so thoughtful and concerned, directing me right to the station, that I changed my mind and we had dinner together.

He told me he had killed another student as a teenager in his home country and seriously injured two others. His family had covered it up and sent him to the UK. His eyes were so wide as he was telling me, and he was kind of smiling. He told me that the sight of blood just 'turned a switch in him'. I remember being acutely aware of controlling how I reacted and feeling that my safety was hanging in the balance and I needed to act like it was all normal.

I met someone last month who was very friendly but I got a really weird vibe off them that really unsettled me. I didn’t want my children anywhere near them after our conversation, despite them
being friendly enough that one of my children commented on how nice they were. Wondered if I’d over reacted but I got exactly the same vibe off them when I bumped into them a few days later. I noticed then that her eyes were really cold and I got a really evil vibe off her. I’ve worked with the general public for years and people who have done all sorts of things but I never usually get a vibe like this. I think you have to trust your gut in situations like this.

@Daisybuttercup12345 jeez that's spine chilling!!

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There's more spooky threads? Where?

There's a whole topic of them here www.mumsnet.com/talk/the_unexplained

@crochetmonkey74 OP this was very clearly a dream 🤣 Have you been laid on the sofa recently? Dreams often feel as real as dammit! Bless ya!

Unfortunately definitely not a dream!

Yes. My neighbour. My brain has gone to all sorts of places to work out her dark secret(s).

Supposedly the majority of communication is non verbal, so even if someone is pulling the right faces and saying the right things, if their body language is ‘off’ and conveying the complete opposite sentiment, then it’s going to make people uneasy. At least the people who pick up on the incongruity, anyway.

on a related note, I’m pretty sure I’ve creeped at least one person out in such a way. I got told once I had ‘cold eyes’. I didn’t know what to say in response to that one, given that I wasn’t actually plotting a brutal murder, I was just focused inwardly and mentally running through a list of shit I had to get sorted that day. I’m neurotypical, incidentally.

I'm confused. First you say a few odd things happened that were boundary testing. Then you say you don't really know, or cannot explain, what happened. How were these things boundary testing if you don't know what happened?

Voted YABU because of this lack of clarity.

My dd’s instincts probably saved hers and her dad’s life. They were at the Ariana Grande Manchester Arena concert and her dad wanted to leave sharpish at the end to get back to where they had parked to avoid the crowds but dd said she had a overwhelming feeling to stay put in Arena. This gut feeling probably saved them as they would have been in the spot where those poor people lost their lives.

I listed all the boundary testing things In a previous post
YABU for not reading my updates 😀

There is really important warning in this.

Laura Richards, former head of the homicide prevention unit at Scotland Yard, has reiterated often to ALWAYS TRUST THAT SO CALLED INTUITION or sixth sense as it COULD SAVE YOU. It isn’t nothing, it’s actually a product of all kinds of things your brain has subconsciously or subtly noticed and processed. I guess occasionally someone might be in a fanciful mood but never risk ignoring it, because the kind of feeling you describe might not seem as if it is based in fact and empirical observation, but in a very important way it is.

TLDR: CRIME ANALYSTS CAUTION…IF YOUR INSTINCT SAYS SOMETHING IS BAD, ASSUME IT IS BAD…THIS COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE.

when I was working as an eho student, I went to a house which had grant aid for some repairs (long time ago, not available now!) every time I went there I just felt completely sick and because it was the roof mainly that was being repaired had to keep going up these horrible narrow stairs always with the feeling that someone was behind me and coming down them was just horrible. my skin creeps even now thinking about it. We had to go back a few years later for something else to the same place and whilst there the tenant mentioned that he had been in 4 months but couldnt wait to leave and had fallen down the stairs on more than one occasion. We met the landlord who told us no one stayed more than the bare 6 months, some even less and wondered what he could do about it. Weirdly, in the house we live in at the moment, several people including me have seen our ghost and I feel nothing but calmness here. but that house was vile.

I was supposed to get on a train and I was there literally waiting where I always did, to get on to the last carriage. It came and I just didn't get on. Decided to go back in to town and get the next one. There was an accident and the train crashed and some people at the back died died. So strange. I don't know why I didn't get on, I just didn't.

Think it may have turned round actually so it became the front. Can't remember tbh I was only a teen.

I've had 'the voice' too, in the last days of a relationship with (what turned out to be) psycho-ex. The 'voice' is you, it's the bit of your brain that's been gathering real-time information and desperately needs to over-ride the logical bit of your brain that thinks it knows what it's doing. So, never ignore it!

It's all explained in a book called 'Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind' by V.S. Ramachandran (a neurologist, so not a 'woo' book). I read it after the psycho-ex induced breakdown, and it made a lot of sense how my brain reacted to it all.

Sorry, I had missed the crucial update!

OK, I withdraw my YABU and replace it with a YANreallyBterriblyU but still... you don't need to go back there so that's good!

How am I making it all about me? I just find it incredibly disturbing that the poster was happy a man dies because he was weird.

I went to look round a school for my DC.. for some reason as soon as I got out the gate I felt incredible tightness over my back and neck.. I RAN to my car as fast as I could... it felt like I was being chased ... I have no idea what it was about and my children didn't go there..

Oh, thank you. That'll keep me occupied for a while!

This happened to me once. I saw a car collision outside my workplace and the policeman handling the situation came in to my office to get a statement from me. He made me skin crawl for no obvious reason at all. All my colleagues found him pleasant, young and attractive - but he made my hairs raise and I just had the most awful gut feeling being in his presence.

I have experienced this a few times in my life but mostly in relation to places.

One of the most vivid was years ago whilst I was a student I attended a service at church that I attended regularly and was hit by the most overwhelming fear of something evil being there. My friend who was sat next to me said I turned a deathly shade of white.

I got out of there as soon as I could and the sense of dread/fear left once I was outside.

A couple of days later I spoke with an older couple at the church who were on the leadership team, as was trying to make sense of the whole situation. Was informed that the previous night to the service there has been a break in to the church and that the altar had been messed with.

During the week the leadership team did some kind of prayer blessing over the church. It felt fine again the next time I went there.

Like a pp I also thought of Rosemary’s Baby when I read the first few posts. I can get the creepiness from what you are saying OP.