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Have you ever felt the presence of evil?

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Petridish · 12/08/2015 13:56

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 Sad

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.

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Orange1969 · 12/10/2015 20:04

Original OP here but name changed!

I am so glad I started this this thread as it has comforted me and intrigued me.

I am very sad and sorry for all those people on this thread who have experienced fear, cruelty and abuse - how dreadful that you had to endure such horror.

As an addition to my original post, I have felt evil from several individuals I have had the misfortune to encounter -

A teacher at my high school who delighted in verbally abusing her pupils and who was very ready with The Belt (legal at my school until the 1990s).

A family friend who, in her 80s, had a stroke and came to live with us. I was ten years old and was living, with my own family and my grandmother, in the enormous house that was the "family pile".

The friend turned into an evil person after her stroke.

She tried to burn the house down, shat in our beds, sexually abused the family dogs, hid my teddy and made me kiss her on the lips when she "found" him.

She hit me and my siblings with her walking stick and left us with bruises. I and my siblings hated her and believed her to be evil.

She told anyone who would listen that I (aged ten) was a witch and I was a frightful child.

The woman was mentally ill but she was evil. Her favourite trick was to groan and gasp in her armchair as though she was dying.

I would walk up to her, as she sat with her mouth open and, apparently, not breathing. She would then jump up at me, screaming and cackling, and scare the shit out of me.

flippinada · 12/10/2015 20:14

This is a really fascinating thread and I hope it stays.

I've never met anyone who has given me the feeling that many people describe on here but have experienced it in a place.

Many, many years ago my friend lived in a big old Victorian tenement flat in Edinburgh, in a very sought after location.

I visited her there a few times (and stayed over) but never felt entirely comfortable there. Each time I stayed overnight I slept terribly and had the same nightmare...I was in a room and a horrible looking man with a knife was was trying to break in through the window. It was very vivid, very frightening and I can recall it now.....

Orange1969 · 12/10/2015 20:26

Flippin - I lived in several tenement buildings when I was a student in Glasgow. They were all disturbing.

I was friends with a very non woo girl who lived in the flat above mine. For months, she and her flat mates heard the sound of children screaming from behind the wall of the living room. When the flat got renovated, a large box room was discovered when the wall was knocked down and there was a pile of child sized clothes lying in a pile :(

flippinada · 12/10/2015 20:34

Oh, how awful Orange. You can't help but wonder what happened there, poor kids.

I remember talking to my friend about her old flat. She was very taken aback by my experience and said she'd never picked up on anything odd while she was living there.

Dogsmom · 12/10/2015 20:49

We moved house few times when I was a kid and it never bothered me but I instantly hated one house we moved to when I was 9 and constantly felt scared there.
We only lived there 18 months but I didn't have a single good night's sleep as I was so frightened and unsettled, I can still remember the wonderful contented feeling on the first morning after we moved from there and I'd finally slept.

flippinada · 12/10/2015 20:58

That sounds similar to the feelings I experienced in my friends flat Dogsmom. Thank god I didn't live there!

All this happened 20 odd years ago and I've never forgotten it. It's actually giving me the creeps now just thinking about it...

MadeMan · 12/10/2015 21:07

"This is a really fascinating thread and I hope it stays."

Yes, I was disappointed when the Creepy Room thread disappeared after the 90 days. Sad

twoboystwogirls · 12/10/2015 21:09

Iguana, the headmaster wasn't in Bucks, was he? The way you describe him matches a headmaster I worked with around 15 years ago...absolutely evil to the point where I still feel scarred just having met him and 'experienced' him.

Ahardmanisgoodtofind · 12/10/2015 21:09

One was a girl i worked with. Everyone just dismisses her as a racist homophobic twat, but I feel genuinely that she is evil, dangerously so, I can't be around her without feeling sick and angry, oddly another lady who likes Everyone agrees.
The other is my friends ds, since he was born I've had an uneasy feeling about him. It's not just that he's mean and naughty there's something more, im afraid of who he will grow up to be.

LeChien · 12/10/2015 21:11

There's an Unexplained topic, MNHQ would probably move the thread there is asked.

LeChien · 12/10/2015 21:13

I feel quite sad reading posts about children.
Ds has been likened to a murderer because he often stares blankly and can have "dead eyes" (thanks to whoever pointed that out to me!). He has ASD and can go still and blank when overwhelmed. He's not evil though.

MadeMan · 12/10/2015 21:17

"There's an Unexplained topic, MNHQ would probably move the thread there is asked."

I close my eyes and imagine one of the Mumsnet mods sitting in there in the dark with a single torch lighting up their face, telling ghost stories for the huddled masses drinking Bovril from chipped mugs.

Ahardmanisgoodtofind · 12/10/2015 21:18

LeChien my ds does a similar thing, like he's looking through you.my friends ds doesn't do this, I'd liken it more to the eyes of a shark, there's an intelligence there but zero emotion.Very difficult to describe. Im probably overly nice because I feel a bit guilty for having such a negative feeling about this child.

Kanaham · 12/10/2015 21:18

When I was a student I lived with three other girls in a top floor flat. Our rooms were all side by side with the sitting room next to my room. One night I was awoken by a loud crack on the wall behind my bed. It felt like something had gone through the wall and then me and then onto the next room. All of the other girls were woken up by it too. I was terrified and stayed in bed but one of my housemates woke up needing the toilet. As she came onto the landing she realised the the toilet light was going on and off and on and off. She made her boyfriend come to the toilet with her she was so scared!

Another time in the flat everyone was out bar me. I was watching tv in the sitting room and heard a loud booming knock on the door. I felt so inexplicably afraid by this that after a couple more knocks I rang my housemates boyfriend who lived in a flat downstairs. He came up quickly and rung me to open the door and there was no one there. I am not very woo at all but I burst into tears of relief when he got there!

A few other odd occurrences happened in that flat .. Feelings of being watched etc. This led me to research the area. Turns out that the flat was built where a mental asylum had been.

LeChien · 12/10/2015 21:33

""There's an Unexplained topic, MNHQ would probably move the thread there is asked."

I close my eyes and imagine one of the Mumsnet mods sitting in there in the dark with a single torch lighting up their face, telling ghost stories for the huddled masses drinking Bovril from chipped mugs."

You've been there too then?

Orange1969 · 12/10/2015 22:05

LeChien - of course your boy isn't evil Flowers

I don't think that eyes and glances are definitive indicators of evil - for me, it is tone of voice and posture and a general feeling of something being not quite right.

Justaboy · 12/10/2015 22:10

Yes a vote here from me to make it a permanent thread. Seems to me that some research is well overdue. I used to be a bit sceptical on such matters but no longer. There is i think something there.

One of the problems is what we refer it to it as like say radio waves a electromagnetic phenomena that's easily explainable, but this is something else we have nothing to reference it to like not a physical thing but sort of manifests itself as that.

In the meantime while prof JAB thunks more on it keep the posts coming:)

AgeingArtemis · 13/10/2015 08:09

Not remotely evil but a bit woo, did anyone else feel an earthquake between 11 and 12 last night?
I definitely felt one, and was 100% expecting it to be in the local paper, and was a little excited actually because I've never felt before, even when one is reported ( I don't think I'm very sensitive lol)

However checked this morning, and nada. No large magnitude earthquake elsewhere in the world within a reasonable window either.

It has since occured to me that it might be a cruise ship (I live in a port city, but some distance from the actual sea) but I doubt it as I've never felt one before...

poolsclosed · 13/10/2015 10:44

My DM doesn't like her neighbors. She is from Thailand, where it's quite normal to be superstitious and have shrines and little houses where you can make offerings to spirits in exchange for good fortune. People call it the Land of Smiles, but it's totally Land of Woo.

There's a ritual over there called Kumanthong which is shunned by most people except the truly nasty. It basically involves turning the body of a fetus or small child into a kind of magic ornament or amulet, in order to have "control" over the spirit of the child, which is said to bring good fortune and wealth to its "owner". They are also believed to be quite vengeful if they're displeased. They are shockingly easy to acquire from certain dealers and even online.

The neighbors invited DM over to show her something. They have form for being very materialistic and show-offy so she assumed it would be something like a new car or furniture. Nope. It was two Kumanthongs. DM told the neighbors in no uncertain terms that if they knew what was good for them they would find a way to get rid of the ornaments.

She doesn't talk to her neighbors much anymore, but ever since she told them off she's been having dreams where she keeps waking up at night from hearing what sounds like children playing in or around the house and knocking on doors and windows.

Cerseirys · 13/10/2015 10:50

Interesting article in today's Guardian about sleep paralysis, which a few posters here have mentioned.

Gruntfuttock · 13/10/2015 11:16

AgeingArtemis I'm sorry but I can't understand your post. You said you felt an earthquake, but now think it might have been a cruise ship? Confused

Justaboy · 13/10/2015 11:31

AgeingArtemis

Have a look here or report it here interesting site;)

earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/

Cerseirys · 13/10/2015 11:33

I was once woken up at about 7am by what I thought was an earth tremor but it turned out to be an explosion in a factory in Hemel Hempstead. I was living in west London at the time, so it is isn’t beyond the realms of possibility that you could feel something even if it happened miles away. Not sure that a cruise ship is quite the same thing though?

Meerka · 13/10/2015 12:06

christ poolsclosed that's vile!

is your mother in the UK now? can she report them to the police? surely it can't be legal to own such appalling and disrespectful things

poolsclosed · 13/10/2015 12:24

Meerka I know. It's disgraceful. Sad Angry

She lives in Thailand. I think it is illegal, but the authorities don't really care about that sort of thing so would most likely just make the owners pay a fine or something.