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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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wannaBe · 08/10/2015 12:17

Actually when I was at school in this country we had a teacher who I really didn't like. I was nine when I left but I remember distinctly that I didn't like him at all. My mum had met him and I remember her saying that he seemed like a nice bloke. Ten years later I came back to the UK and learned that he had in fact been sent to jail for abusing young boys.

queenoftheknight · 08/10/2015 12:20

Ooooh, I have experienced this a few times.

On the route home from school, a car appeared, every day for about a week. Every single child walking that way got the creeps, and even children who didn't usually talk or play together, looked for validation of their feelings from the others. We told the teachers and parents etc, and he disappeared. No idea what the conclusion was, but the strength of feeling was extraordinary.

Some people do have a bad vibe, and some places do too. I have always loved walking, and never feel scared. But I do where I live now, and will drive somewhere to walk, even though I live surrounded by beautiful countryside. It's rather odd. No one will visit this house either. There are stories of ghosts, and I have sensed stuff, but not bad stuff. Odd.

On the other hand, I have also been to places that have an amazingly positive vibe too, and find myself drawn to them.

bodenbiscuit · 08/10/2015 13:02

worldgonecrazy - psychopathy is very difficult to treat because it's usually caused by the brain not having developed normally.

Notasinglefuckwasgiven · 08/10/2015 13:16

My ex husbands first wife gives people the creeps. She's very ' nice ' but he always said be wary of her. I believe now she's a sociopath. She lies indiscriminately and even if caught just says OK and shrugs it off. She's been convicted of fraud ( benefit ) many times but just gets outraged and does it again. She threw her 7 year old ( 4 kids now by 3 men ) when the little girl reported abuse from her last boyfriend to the school because he was paying for her car so it was better her daughter wentShock so the man could stay. She's cheated on every partner and seems to not be even slightly upset when caught or confronted. Just no reaction. Ever. She does whatever she wants and expects to be allowed to. She's done horrible things to me and others I won't go into. Very odd.

Notasinglefuckwasgiven · 08/10/2015 13:20

Oh yes, I'm being cagey and haven't mentioned her before because she scares me that much. If she's on here and recognised herself I'd be very worried. Her own kids have suffered so much ( I took them when was still married to live with me ) that I am unsure just what she's capable of.

darksideofthemooncup · 08/10/2015 13:22

Yes, many years ago a close friend brought her new boyfriend round for the evening. It was all quite pleasant until at one point he turned to look at me and it was like looking into a vacuum, there was nothing but blackness radiating from him and I had to leave the room as it felt like I couldn't breathe.
She eventually left him after he beat her up really badly and she had to go into a women's refuge and get a court injunction out against him.
The thought of him still makes my skin crawl over 20 years later

myotherusernameisbetter · 08/10/2015 13:57

I now have no belief in anything supernatural, but as a child/young adult I was very susceptible.

We grew up in a house that felt very wrong quite a lot of the time. When it felt bad, it was very bad to the point where I would regularly wet myself. Some days I'd come home for lunch to an empty house and would feel evil emanating from the door and I just couldn't face going in.

I sometimes had nightmares about evil parties going on in the loft to the point where I couldn't walk past the hatch.

Seems I wasn't alone though, an uncle who used to come and stay from time to time would talk about being watched from the top of the stairs. Always explained of by my parents that we should ignore him as he was drunk. That's where the loft hatch was. I regularly fell down the stairs as I had to run down them so fast. When we moved my mum said "that's one place I am glad to be leaving" and that sparked a conversation with the rest of the family agreeing that they had felt bad in it too. Including one brother who swears he saw someone sitting on the heater at the top of the stairs one night when he had come home late.

I also went to view a flat as a young adult and couldn't wait to get out of it as it felt so bad.

LooseAtTheSeams · 08/10/2015 14:07

Odd thing - both my DF and a friend commented on feeling a real sense of dread or evil in Glastonbury, of all places. Not the festival, I should add, but I think just on a street there. I haven't been but always associated the place with happy people so it was interesting that they both had such a strong feeling. My friend was a bit woo but dad definitely wasn't!

MySordidCakeSecret · 08/10/2015 14:19

fairy it wasn't the christadelphians was it?!

queenoftheknight · 08/10/2015 14:19

I know what you mean about Glastonbury. I didn't like it one bit when we went.

Ditto George Osbourne actually. He has a really weird vibe, REALLY weird, but it was as much terror, as terrifying. It felt like something dark around him or following him, as though something REALLY bad had happened to him.

Rather similar to Ed Milliband, who we were at an airport with. He had the vibe of a terrified child too, but not as darkly scary as Osbourne.

I met Cyril Smith once too, and he made my skin crawl too, but he didn't "feel" scared in the way the other two did.

I know it sounds ridiculous, but that's what they "felt" like.

DuchessofMalfi · 08/10/2015 14:21

Dachau. Visited it as teenager. The evil presence will never leave there. Was glad to move on. Have never forgotten that feeling to this day and I will never want to go back there.

StandardEEEK · 08/10/2015 14:33

I have had feelings like this about numerous places. Particularly in village in Cornwall where I used to live.

Glastonbury is a bit classic for it...blame the ley lines.

I also get a decidedly bad vibe from someone I recently met and have to regularly deal wit. But maybe she is just a bit of a cow!

Berylpeep · 08/10/2015 14:41

Intuition is a very powerful thing and I've learnt to trust it, even if it seems irrational.

Met a couple of genuinely evil people, one guy when I was working for the Probation Service, he actually seemed evil, he'd killed two people in a car accident, but he managed to survive. Not just that he didn't show any remorse, he just oozed malice.

Another guy who I saw once when I was waiting for a bus, extremely attractive dark-haired stranger type who was staring at me, I just got a huge sense of 'Do not talk to that guy'. The next time I glanced over he wasn't there.

When I was a kid I went on an 'outward bound' type trip to the Dales. One of the coordinators there gave me the real creeps. He used to pick me out of the crowd, it felt like bullying but in a sexual way (not that I realized that then).

Ugh.

spiderlight · 08/10/2015 14:55

I can't go to Glastonbury town at all. I love the Tor and the springs, but twice I've tried to go and potter round the shops in the town centre with DH, as it's theoretically just my sort of place, and twice I've become physically ill within minutes and had to leave. There seem to be some very damaged people there.

LooseAtTheSeams · 08/10/2015 15:58

That's interesting Spiderlight - that's exactly how my friend described her reaction. With my dad it was more like a feeling that there was something very bad associated with it and he didn't like it but my friend was ill and had to leave.No idea if there's a rational explanation!

afghanda · 08/10/2015 16:18

Two boys at my DS's school. One's 6 and one's 8 and they're not related or even friends. There is something about both of them that makes my skin crawl, a real evil feeling that radiates from them. I feel terrible for feeling like that about children, but there is something extremely off about both of them and I can#'t shake it. They are both seriously horrible to other children in a cold, calculating way. Other kids are horrible to each other, but these two are different. I'm pretty sure they're sociopaths (or sociopaths in the making). Every time I look at the 8 year old, I imagine him bursting into a school and gunning everyone down as a teenager. I can't stress how guilt I feel for having those thoughts, but they're automatic.

MissMarpleCat · 08/10/2015 16:26

Just looking at George Osborne gives me the creeps, like he's not human Confused

Rowgtfc72 · 08/10/2015 16:27

Wordsworth's Cottage in the lake district. Visited with the school and from the moment I stepped in I needed to get out. Can't really explain it but it was like a blackness sitting on me and filling me with panic.

PalcumTowder · 08/10/2015 16:36

I don't know if this is quite what you mean but I have definitely had this feeling.

I have a sleep disorder that means I wake up during REM sleep, so I'm still dreaming but I can open my eyes and see my room. When this happens I'm completely paralysed.

I was in therapy for it at the time as I convinced myself I was possessed (stupid I know, but I wasn't diagnosed back then and had no idea this disorder existed). I had one dream in particular that stands out. Don't read if you're likely to be upset beause it's scary!

I woke up, in bed, lying on my front with my head turned towards the door. I looked at the door and saw it creak open slightly. Then a bit more. Then it swung fully open. A man was standing in the doorway, very very tall and slim, dressed entirely in black. I tried to sit up but I couldn't. He walked towards the foot of the bed and out of sight, then I felt the end of the bed dip with his weight, he started crawling up on top of me, I couldn't breathe, I felt his nails digging in to me. He crawled up until he was on my back, then he lent round so his face came level with my face. He licked my cheek and bit my ear - I could feel it as real as anything - and I have never felt anything as evil as that before or since. The whole room just felt oppressive and I knew he was here to do me harm. Then he put his mouth to my ear and whispered "I'm your real therapist and I'm not leaving until you're cured". He got off me and walked backwards towards he door, closed it after him and then I woke up and could move again.

I've never forgotten that feeling of complete dread and evilness. Logically I know it's just a neurological thing, a symptom of the disorder, but emotionally I stil feel like I was visited by something evil that night.

Fucking terrifying.

Gruntfuttock · 08/10/2015 16:38

This year we (husband, adult daughter and me) went on a fantastic holiday in Canada, including 2 days on the Rocky Mountaineer train. At the end of the first day on the train we stopped at Kamloops for one night. We went out of the hotel to look for somewhere in the town to eat, but were all struck by a very strong feeling of 'menace' and all said how threateneing the town felt. This has never happened anywhere else and we were at a loss to explain logically what was the cause of this feeling that we all had so strongly. We found somewhere to have dinner and afterwards we all wanted to go straight back to the hotel, whereas we would normally explore the town a bit. It was a warm and light evening at the end of May, so it's not because it was dark and a strange (as in unknown) place. None of us could fathom what was going on but all felt it.

howtorebuild · 08/10/2015 16:39

George Osborne went to school with Boris. Mrs Johnson, his Mum was driven mad by her husband and children.

LeChien · 08/10/2015 16:50

Dh and I went to Glastonbury when we were on honeymoon, the town was awful, had a weird still, dead feeling to it.
The abbey was lovely though, and felt fine.
Powderham castle in Devon (I think?) had a really awful feel to it, even outside in the gardens.

CheesyDibbles · 08/10/2015 16:55

Ha! I felt the presences of evil at Glastonbury festival '97 - but it may have has something to do with the 'special' flapjacks I had just eaten. Pure terror, huddled in my tent with my sis who was feeling the same way.

CheesyDibbles · 08/10/2015 16:55

*presence

ImTakingTheEssence · 08/10/2015 17:13

Yes my dowstairs neighbour give me bad vibes from the day I moved in. He made my skin crawl. He used to lurk around the doorway to our building stand and watch when I put the washing out and always found a reason to touch me or invade my personal space.
There was just evil radiating from him I felt sick when I heard his voice. He's recently moved and I found out a neighbours daughter has pressed charges against him for what I don't know.