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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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HerdOfRhino · 07/10/2015 23:00

This thread has creeped me out. When will I learn not to look for creepy stuff before bed!

CuttedUpPear · 07/10/2015 23:06

I was in a room with George Osborne once. His aura was frickin scary. Nasty.

madmomma · 07/10/2015 23:17

Yep my husband's aunt. She came into the room and I felt cold. Even my toddlers backed away from her. I would not turn my back on her for a second. She is my sister in law's mother in law (pakistani family, sil was promised to the aunt's son). Apparently she's been horribly abusive to sil since she married her son at 16. She had the aura of someone who would kill. Horrible.

ClareDeLune · 07/10/2015 23:19

We had a lovely first home, little old terraced house. DHs niece would come and visit but categorically refuse to stay and she always said there was a weird feel to the house.
One night DH and I were sitting watching tv when I felt the most awful sense of foreboding and I was really scared. Didn't say anything for a while until it became unbearable and I asked dh if we could go out. He said he'd been feeling exactly the same way and was desperate to go out too. We walked around in the pouring rain for a couple of hours until we felt better.
On coming back to the house, the feeling was completely gone and it was our lovely house again. We still reminisce about the weirdness of that night.

Muckogy · 07/10/2015 23:23

Tell us more about George Osborne. he seems like a complete prick.

lastuseraccount123 · 07/10/2015 23:31

i just googled him. yikes.

Pobspits · 07/10/2015 23:35

None of dc's teachers. He just creeps me right out. NOt really evil but just a horrible feeling

CactusAnnie · 07/10/2015 23:36

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Troubletutmill · 07/10/2015 23:36

Out alone on a Beautiful sunny day on Cannock Chase, it was a feeling of pure evil and petrifying and I ran back to my car. Was visiting my BF who had just moved there and not local to area. Workmates of his at a dinner the next day told me after I related my strange feelings that 3 little girls were murdered and dumped on the chase in the 1960's.

It was along a wide sandyish stoney path with silver birch trees either side not too far from a car park.

Pobspits · 07/10/2015 23:36

One of dc's teachers not none!

StarkyTheDirewolf · 07/10/2015 23:38

My DM used to know a woman who I am now convinced was Voldemort incarnate. She was evil, she loved making people's especially childrens lives a misery and would always wiggle out of the consequences. A pox on her house!

Crankycunt · 07/10/2015 23:42

I work in a department store, and one particular customer just absolutely unsettled me. Just an awful vibe coming from him, made my skin crawl.

He came in every weekend for about a month, only visited my department, he stopped visiting when I dyed my hair a different colour.

Sometimes you just get a feeling in your gut that something isn't right.

lastuseraccount123 · 07/10/2015 23:47

yes, a family member. oh well.

howtorebuild · 07/10/2015 23:48

I was at a talk once, there was a Man there. During the break he struck up conversation with me, there was something about him that gave me the creeps. When the talk started up again, I didn't go back in and left.

bodenbiscuit · 07/10/2015 23:48

When I was 16, I was on a German exchange trip to Mainz and I went to a pay phone to ring my boyfriend. This was before the days of teenagers having iPhones! While I stood there, a man was walking around outside and looking in at me. I had a very strong feeling that I needed to get away from there and away from him. I was very freaked out.

Other than that I've briefly dated someone who I think is a sociopath and he would have this look of utter contempt which was close to evil.

TheSwallowingHandmaiden · 07/10/2015 23:52

When I see pictures of the late Queen Mother's teeth I get a whiff of evil.

WhatsGoingOnEh · 07/10/2015 23:55

Where I used to live, I had a lovely friend who had had the odd "woo" experience. For example, the night she met her DH. She was sitting in a bar chatting to a friend, when all of a sudden a man walked in. She'd never seen him before but suddenly she KNEW he was her future husband. (I get that feeling every time I see a Matt Damon film.) And they did get married!

But anyway, she was an air stewardess. One day she was standing in the plane, doing that pre-flight meet-and-greet thing as the passengers walked in. A man walked on and she had an overwhelming, physical reaction to him. She said she just felt he was filled with pure evil. She couldn't shake hands with him or look him in the eye. Evil just radiated off him.

Sadly for this thread (but luckily for her), he was a very dull passenger who actually did nothing weird at all. But she said she'd never forget that feeling.

ComposHatComesBack · 08/10/2015 00:02

I think two things are happening here.

  1. Reading body language and verbal ques.It is no surprise that if someone acts as a creepy, sexually predatory fuck when you meet them, that they display creepy sexually predatory behaviour in other parts of their lives. That isn't instinct or gut reaction.

  2. Confirmation bias. 'I had an odd feeling about this place/person/situation and then my worst fears came true.' You don't remember the umpteen other times when the fear proved to be unfounded.

pieceofpurplesky · 08/10/2015 00:03

An old uncle used to make my skin feel dirty just being in the room with him (never alone). Found out later he abused another of my aunts and my mum when they were younger. He remained married to my aunt but their son's first wife upped and left and never said why ... She was only 18.

A pupil at the school I teach in who left ten years ago. Staff still talk about him today and how much he scared them. He just exuded pure evil.

Funnily enough a pp mentioned Conwy Castle. I had to leave a room there as the pressure in there was suffocating - I thought I was going to die. It was horrible

shadowfax07 · 08/10/2015 00:21

The only one I can remember at the moment was in the Ellis Island museum in New York. I literally fled outside in tears, I just could not stay in the building a moment longer. Later in the same trip we went to Alcatraz, and I didn't have the same reaction there as I did in Ellis Island, even when we were in the wing where prisoners were held in solitary confinement. Weird.

Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 08/10/2015 00:28

Yes. Years ago when I went to view a house. I'll never forgot the evil uneasy presence I felt. What it was I don't know, The house not welcoming me or an evil spirit. I Didn't hang around to find out.
The house I'm in now, well I felt like I'd lived here forever. No first night nerves or anything.
Houses definitely have personalities. Some welcome you, some don't. Some will welcome one person but not the next.

DramaAlpaca · 08/10/2015 00:38

Yes, many years ago we had a milkman who made me feel extremely uncomfortable whenever I opened the door to him. I couldn't put my finger on why, he just made me feel very uneasy.

He disappeared after a while and I was glad he wasn't coming to the house any more. A few months later I saw his mugshot in the local paper. He'd been convicted of a particularly nasty crime.

Qwebec · 08/10/2015 05:25

it haooened twice with people, they gave me the creeps. Don't want to talk about it. But for a place: one evening I was walking in a park with DP, and when we passed a particular spot, i freaked out, I was shaking all over, i did not say anything to DP besides "let's go". When I tried to explain to myself my reaction, I had the feeling someone had been raped there recently. When I asked DP if he noticed something, with out hearing my side of the story he told me exactly what I had sensed. I never returned there.

Rosa · 08/10/2015 06:20

Working at Earls Court at a sports event and my trainers broke. Went out and walked to the shops at the other 'side' to replace them. As I was walking back on a street parallel to the station I got this really scary feeling that I was being followed .I stopped and a guy stopped on the other side of the road. I carried on and he followed. He crossed the road and I stopped this time to pretend to tie my shoe and then I crossed the road back towards the shops. He followed. I then bought a tube ticket and walked through earls Court station to get back to the show.

Nonnainglese · 08/10/2015 06:44

School friend and I were coming home from a Geography field trip (1971?) and having a coffee at Birmingham New Street station while waiting for a train. We were approached by a very creepy looking man who freaked us when he asked where were we going and when we told him he said he was going there too and his car was outside.
We said no and after he left we told a station security man.
The man was short, dark haired and to this day I'm sure he was Fred West....