Have you ever felt the presence of evil?

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I mean, without having any rational reason to feel it? It could be a person or a place.

For me, a friend's father used to really radiate evil - much later, my friend confessed that he had been physically and emotionally abused by his father

I also knew a woman who had a senior job with the police. She was a friend of a friend and I had a bad feeling about her. She eventually got struck off and imprisoned for stealing huge amounts of money from a children's charity she was in charge of.

Yes - I think it's called a night terror, but I remember feeling stuck in bed (trapped) with a sortof faceless figure at the end, staring and watching. I can't really explain the terror and evil it felt like. I've got very messed up dreams. I don't know of it was waking dream, or not.

As a toddler, I always felt ominous around a neighbour's husband. Very, very creeped out, and for years didn't like anything associated with them - the wife would play carebears on the tv for me. Hated them and the colour pink. Anyway, fast forward a few years and turns out he got his daughter pregnant and was called "britain's worst pedophile" by the case judge.

Day to day of course there are people I get bad vibes from, and wouldn't trust as far as I could throw them.

Yes, my gut feelings haven't always been right.

Even so, well, I found The Gift of Fear persuasive and if your gut instinct is right only 50% of the time, if you -and- your partner both feel something is wrong .... that's your little son who can't speak very much who's at potential risk. 50% is a pretty high rate of being right, as well as being a pretty high rate of being wrong. In this case it's high stakes with a small child, if she -is- right.

Also, the poster has seen the nursery woman regularly and face-to-face contact can be more powerful than simply seeing someone on TV.

Cloppysow yes he regularly served in the wine shop at his stately home, Althorp. He wore old ratty jumpers and was lovely.

I'm enjoying this thread. Am on page 5 atm and will go back to read further.

I don't consider myself woo. I don't believe in a God so can't then believe in evil but I think we all, as human animals, have a very tuned sense of safe and unsafe. I do think there are things we don't yet understand. I couldn't say what they are but I think they are there. Forces of nature maybe? Am I a closet pagan! I think it's been bred out of us over the years and we tend to dismiss our initial feelings more readily than we would've in the past.

I wanted to post because others have mentioned Conwy Castle and it was there, in the first tower when you walk in and go right, that I felt a feeling of just, sadness. My daughter was 10 at the time and very into spooky stories/castles/ghosts so was very excited to visit this castle. I wanted to cry halfway up the tower (I'm not a crying type) and I had to leave at the top when I felt so sad I could've thought about jumping off. Never before, never after felt like that.

I guess I'm hoping that some people just "come across" badly ... Poor social skills or a face that says to others "I want to kill you" but they have no idea. I'm a very smiley bubbly personable person so she might come across bad to me and my mother because she's so polar opposite. My son is happy as Larry. Don't worry everyone.

Also - while we are talking about it. I shouldn't say it out loud... But I don't like the future mother in law. Think her husband is alright but think she's a bit of a fake. She gives zero fucks about her son or our kids. Anyway I'd never mention it/ say it. I don't like conflict. But last time I saw her we had had a few drinks and she said something rude about my fiancé (very subtly mind... Always subtle) and a shiver went down my spine when I looked at her. She was smiling but I could see "her true face" only way I can describe it is like in the devils advocate when the wife can see those devil faces in the faces of the ladies she's with. It freaked me out - however - I had been drinking to get through the ordeal!!

It was me who mentioned Conwy Castle earlier in the thread. I just had this overwhelming sense of dread when approaching it and I could hardly stand to look at it. I've visted Caernarfon and Harlech Castles previously and never experienced anything like this, but it was a very dark and rainy day when we went to Conwy and maybe that added to the sense of terror I felt? Either way I've no desire to go back, and just recently a Facebook friend uploaded a phot of it in the fog and it looked terrifying.

I had a similar experience when visiting Hack Green Nuclear bunker in Cheshire years ago, obviously decomissioned after the Cold War and now open to the public. It just had the most awful atmosphere and I coulndt wait to leave.

It was a lovely sunny day this summer and I was with husband and a group of friends.wed been looking at a very old building at the edge of a quiet village and then the group decided to go over to the churchyard.

As we got to close to it I felt very uncomfortable. I tried to ignore the feeling but it wouldn't be ignored. I said to my husband Ill have to leave . He came with me and wanted to sit on a wooden bench at the end of the graveyard but no, I needed to be further away from that. I felt like I'd picked something up. I dowsed it and sure enough I had picked up something negative. I cleansed my aura and that felt much better. A friend checked my aura and whatever it was had gone. In the graveyard he had found several Templar graves, some so close to the church they were practically in it.

That doesn't normally happen to me.

Great stories. The lady who found Edward lll's body felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand on end.

She was doing device less dowsing. Using the sixth sense that we all used to have but most of us have lost.

Those of you who've had these extreme reactions should make a pendulum. A heavy weight on some string is enough to get you started. You can start from not moving or do a search swing backwards and forwards. Then ask it to show you yes. Then to show you no.

With practise you can get your pendulum to help you with decisions. I use it to help with health matters. Others use it to help finding water/ water leaks.

Don't ask it for lottery numbers . It doesn't like that.

If you get a good response there's loads of sites on the Internet where you can find more.

I checkedmy house for geopathic stress using it and then was able to clear it.

A fascinating hobby . I've met people from all professions, scientists, engineers, doctors, lawyers, businessmen etc

winchester there's a doctor who episode with these scary creatures who you can't remember (ie you can see them when you are looking at them, but the instant you look away you forget you ever saw anything!).
In order to keep track of how many are in the area the doctors assistant makes tally marks on her body, even though afterwards she can't remember what they are or how they got there.

There is a moment when she looks around the room, and finds all the walls and furniture covered with tally marks as there are so many hundreds of them right there that she ran out of skin.

I am a nurse and had the misfortune to look after a now very infamous mass murderer while he was in hospital under police guard at that time. I can't remember why he was in (if l was ever told) or why he was under police guard-but that man radiated evil and l really didn't like going into his room despite the police presence.
The nature of his horrendous crimes didn't emerge until years later but some had already been carried out.

I was one of the people who (along with my husband and daughter) was freaked out by Kamloops, and I have only just seen the posts mentioning Conwy castle, which is my favourite place EVER (closely followed by the Great Orme). I feel completely comfortable at Conwy and have been all over the castle. Unfortunately I live on the East Sussex coast and the chance of me ever seeing Conwy again is virtually zero. I wonder what is the cause of these strong feelings of dread or even terror in certain places. It's really intriguing.

I can happily pinpoint panic attacks. I know some people like to attribute fearfulness to good old panic attacks. I've had general anxiety disorder for 20 years. I know when I am going to trigger an attack and I know when I'm not. Conwy Castle was not a panic attack. I had one at Caernarfon Castle because I couldn't cope with the height, the backstory, the winding staircase. I'm not so stupid that I can't differentiate between a PA and a feeling of run away now dread.

The only gut feeling I had in relation to Christopher Jeffries was that he was innocent. The murder of Joanna Yeates, to me, was sexually motivated as was proved subsequently. Christopher Jeffries was clearly gay and I was utterly baffled as to why the media was obsessed by him as a suspect.

Looe in Cornwall creeped me out hugely. I felt like I was walking on dead bodies.

Just going back to a point earlier about paedophiles and vibes being given off to children rather than adults. My df met someone my DM knew and his immediate gut reaction was that my db should never be around this man. Wasn't worried about me. And the man was indeed convicted of offences against boys :(

I used to attend a Christian school which was located in a former nunnery for a few years. That place gave me the creeps. The school was strange too - one of those 'all you need to know in life is in the Bible" /creationist focused places and very much focused on 'Christian warriors'. Which sucked because my public school friends and myself had ancestors who bore the brunt of that kind of stuff. The Bible is full of massacres. My parents got convinced to send us there through people in the church - they pulled us out after two years. Some people within the churches have a eugenic prototype of a perfect Christian..they are very scary (and powerful) too.

I used to work as a police officer. One night I went to an address to speak to a woman about a petty theft. It was something like her wheelie bin had been stolen or something like that. She was perfectly polite and gave me the details in a normal fashion. There was just something about her that I really really didn't like. She completely gave me the creeps. I couldn't get out of there fast enough. After I left I decided to check her out on the Police National Computer and discovered she was a convicted paedophile.

i keep wondering whether to post mine or not.

i'm another hypersensitised to danger, especially people who are dangerous or are wearing a mask, by childhood experiences.

in terms of and inexplicable presence of evil though (as opposed to reading a person on some level which to me is explicable). i spent part of the day alone with my grandfather's body in his house whilst my father ran round making phonecalls etc after we found him dead.

despite being young, about 16, i wasn't scared about being with a dead body. it was my grandad who i had adored and actually there was a lot of peace in being able to see how he had died. for example i could see he couldn't have been feeling terrible as he'd had his usual supper and had carried his cup and saucer and plate to the sink where they were broken in the bottom as if they'd dropped from his hand and from how he had fallen you could see he hadn't even 'flailed'. it seemed it had been a peaceful death in the midst of his usual routine.

anyway later in the day when they took his body and i was again left alone in the house i went to the sink to clear up the broken crockery in a still peaceful though sad state and suddenly out of nowhere with my back turned on the open doorway between the kitchen and lounge i felt this horrific... 'something' behind me. it was as if a huge hole or doorway had opened up behind me that was filled with sheer evil. i was absolutely filled with terror and ran from the house to sit on the doorstep shaking and trying to talk myself down.

i couldn't make myself go back in and i've never forgotten the feeling of this opening onto evil just behind me and as if it could reach out and touch me and pull through this opening. i remember feeling so guilty because i shouldn't have felt like that and i shouldn't be scared of anything to do with my granddad because he was such a good man and i guess my brain didn't go to it being 'other' than about my granddad or 'other' than something from my head itms. i've tried to rationalise the experience when i recall it over the years but it was so visceral and... tangible.

That was so well described I can actually feel a horrible sensation myself ...

I have to say I am a bitby the suggestion that you should "always trust your gut." even to the point that people say someone should remove their child from nursery purely on the basis she doesn't like someone there.

I advised the Hanging to move her son on the basis that you should be 100% comfortable leaving your child at your chosen childcare. If you're not comfortable then it's not the right setting. This isn't a suggestion that this staff member is a "wrong 'un", simply that it may not be the right nursery for this family if it's going to be a source of worry.

Amber Diamond was it Smailholm tower in the Scottish Borders? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smailholm_Tower I Have a friend who found it very creepy!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitage_Castle

My first thought was Hermitage Castle. We are historic scotland members, have roamed many a castle, but this one gave me the nheebies