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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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TinklyLittleLaugh · 08/10/2015 23:00

Green just out of interest, was the orthodontist based in the north west? DS had one who just wasn't right. Perfectly polite, pleasant looking man but I hated him being near my DS.

Greengardenpixie · 08/10/2015 23:03

Tinkly well i live in Scotland if that helps.

Greengardenpixie · 08/10/2015 23:04

Maybe he moved ha ha!!!

NewBallsPlease00 · 08/10/2015 23:07

Once stood in pet shop looking at hamsters rabbits etc with 2 yo dc
Suddenly felt cold
Man with snarling German Shepard stood next to us with no expression and cold eyes whilst the dog got more and more adgitated
We left
I left so so uncomfortable and was worried as to what might happen next
I think about it more than id like and it still makes me feel cold

poolsclosed · 09/10/2015 01:45

When I was 17/18 I was doing a 12 month exchange in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. There was a shop in a rather decrepit part of town that I liked to visit on my own just about every weekend.

One day I was there, some repairs were being carried out on a part of the footpath, making it so that only one person could pass through at a time. I was walking and not really looking properly, probably busy with my iPod or something, and when I looked up, an elderly woman with very dark looking eyes was in front of me glaring. I apologized immediately and ran back the way I'd come from so that she could pass, except that when she did, she stopped right in front of me and began slapping me on my face, head and back, shouting at me in Portuguese, stuff like, "You bitch! You prostitute! I hate you! This is all your fault!" Shock

I came to my senses very quickly and managed to cross the road to get away from her, walked about a block and turned around to see if she'd gone... she was still standing in the exact same spot, staring at me.

Afterwards I was telling my friend and her mother what had happened, and they told me to be careful of old people downtown, because there's a lack of care and facilities for elderly people with no money or family over there, many of them end up homeless if they develop dementia or mental illnesses, or any medical problems really. Sad I guess the experience wasn't really "woo" or evil, but I'd have definitely thought it was if my friend hadn't told me that.

Atenco · 09/10/2015 04:26

I have been in Kamloops and it wasn't the happiest of feelings, though not such a big reaction either.

But I remember going to a town in Mexico where the feeling was really horrible. I was looking to do a thesis on caciques (a type of local leader who can have the power of life and death over the people in their town) and I had gone there especially because I knew that this place had a history of caciques. I decided to give up on my thesis as the feeling in that town was unbearably oppressive.

JoffreyBaratheon · 09/10/2015 10:02

My local parish church. I have no fear of churches a s a rule in fact I grew up literally yards from one, and the graveyard was my playground; the church interior somewhere I went often, and alone. But my local church.... For some reason if I go in there, I have to be with someone, preferably have the dog as well and even then I can literally only step foot in it if someone wedges the door open so I have a quick escape.

And no matter how often I go in there, it never feels better and I never get used to it. I feel this mounting panic - a bit like thinking you're locked in a toilet or trapped in a lift.

I felt like this long before I did some genealogy and discovered I have countless ancestors christened, married, buried there and there was an accident in Georgian times where 11 people died but my ancestor was one of 3 survivors. I read newspaper accounts of the survivors' heartbreaking crying at the funeral. I often wonder if it isn't a residual memory kinda thing.

JoffreyBaratheon · 09/10/2015 10:24

Our neighbours creeped the shit out of me, too - even before I realised they were abusive, violent and - as it turns out - criminal. (Police told us that they are very well known to them but can't tell us the nature of their crimes). They're cadaverous and toothless looking.

I was researching Victorian photos of asylum inmates and one picture I turned up, actually is the spitting image of the female neighbour. Not just a bit like her but literally the photo could be her. Even down to the centre parted greasy hair. Even the expression on her face is identical to my neighbour's. (She has a face like a slapped arse all the time).

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The husband is a very strange looking man in his 50s - also wizened and toothless looking. He can be quite personable (to other neighbours not us) but they all see through him and are all creeped out by him.

Mind you, my radar isn't usually finely tuned. A teacher at my kids' school ended up going to prison for having kiddy pR0n on his home computers. I had met and spoke with this bloke at length for years, at parents' evenings and if you'd asked me, of all the teachers at the kids' school, which was the nicest and soundest bloke - I'd undoubtedly have named him.

FruSirkaOla · 09/10/2015 11:15

PPs who've felt it in children has suddenly reminded me of a similar thing that happened to me many years ago. I was walking to the station one morning and walking towards me was a mum and her little boy - he was probably only about 4 or 5 yo. As I got closer I smiled at the little boy who looked at me with such hatred and, dare I say it, with evil in his eyes. I was absolutely shaken to the core to see such a look from a small child.

GhettoFabulous · 09/10/2015 13:18

The words people use most frequently about me are "unnerving" and "unreadable" so I'm sure there's someone, somewhere complaining about me creeping them out!

I actually have complex trauma disorder from an abusive childhood/marriage and my face is kind of "blank" unless I know you extremely well. It's a defense mechanism - I'm nice, honest!

passmethewineplease · 09/10/2015 14:12

I don't know about evil, but a few years ago when working in a salon we had a man come in for a cut, he was very quiet and seemed to be a bit of a loner. I had such an uneasy feeling about him. Something just creeped me out.

A few months later he appeared in the local paper for setting fire to a bed at the care home he worked in. Shock

CesareBorgiasUnicornMask · 09/10/2015 14:48

Nonna I felt like that on Lindisfarne too. Went with a group from my college chapel on a retreat/holiday thing. One night we held compline in the ruins of the Abbey, and afterwards wandered down the road to stargaze. The further we walked the more and more I felt totally enveloped by a feeling of darkness and evil, it was so oppressive I couldn't actually speak. Eventually managed to communicate to my then boyfriend that I wanted to go back to the retreat house and it subsided. Never felt anything like it before or since.

Christabelpankhurst · 09/10/2015 14:53

Kamloops was so weird we changed our plans, cancelled our hotel and drove on. Just a very weird, uncomfortable vibe there.

Rhine · 09/10/2015 16:24

If we're talking about evil people then I'll admit that I never really liked Jimmy Savile all that much. I know it's probably a cliche now, but there was always something off about him and his demeanour around the kids he used to have on Jim'll Fix It. Always a bit too tactile and touchy feely with the little girl, urgghhh he used to make me shudder. All my friends used to want to go on it, but I never did because I couldn't bare the thought of being made to sit on his knee.

DuchessofMalfi · 09/10/2015 16:56

It's interesting that others on here have mentioned a feeling of evil in children. I have come across a child once who gave off such a terrible air of menace that it made me shudder.

I won't go into too much detail in case the mother is on MN but we used to go to a parent/child group when DS was about 18 months old. Another boy there was around 5 years old and he used to glower menacingly at people - adults as well as children. He never spoke to anyone. I got a horrible feeling about him. One week I left DS to play with another child whilst getting myself a drink. Next thing I knew, DS was flat on his face, screaming, having been pushed hard from behind by the boy, who just stood there afterwards, showing no remorse. The boy's mother saw what happened and told me what her son had done to DS. She didn't make him apologise, and she didn't apologise on his behalf either. It was as if she, too, was afraid of him. We stopped going after that - didn't feel safe.

HellKitty · 09/10/2015 17:38

Rhine, I was like that about Gary Glitter. I'd never get changed after my bath in front of TOTP if he was on. He scared the shit out of me and I don't know why, all the family would make fun of him and call him Terry Tinselknickers but I hated him.

...showing my age.

TiffanyAchingsFeegle · 09/10/2015 18:22

This one still haunts me to this day.

My parents work place would hold an annual cricket game, near by through some trees was a very small play park.

When I was about 8, I went off there alone and played. There were some older boys hanging about the park, it didn't really enter my brain, they paid to heed to me.

After just a few minutes someone approached on their bike and all the kids gathered round him to talk to him but he was staring through then, grinning at me. I swear my spine turned cold, my heart thumped out my chest and I went into sheer flight or fight. I fucking bolted but I couldn't pin point why I'd had such a reaction to someone just grinning at me.

I now know, as an adult that a man in his twenties should not be hanging around boys half his age, shouldn't be loitering around parks on their bike and definitely shouldn't be looking at little girls he way he looked at me.

My stomach is turning in circles just remembering it.

I had no idea about paedophillia then, and didn't until I was an adult. But by God did my instincts kick in that afternoon and and thank fuck for it.

But those boys. Sad

TiffanyAchingsFeegle · 09/10/2015 18:24

Unjust to add (because of the nay Sayers Hmm I'm not saying he IS a paedophile, he was probably totally innocent. But that's how I felt, and what I now wonder)

pearlsandbows · 09/10/2015 18:28

I work with a guy like this. To most people he is overly polite but there are a couple of us who he is very nasty to when nobody is around. He really gives me a bad feeling. I can see him going postal one day.

Qwertybynature · 09/10/2015 18:38

It's a second hand story but my dm told me that when her GM first saw her grandchild, she told her gd (& my dm), that he was evil. He was literally hours old. She had 4 grandsons in total, but never once held this one or had anything to do with him.

She was right, he's an absolute arsehole and has stolen off everyone (family, friends, strangers). He told his mum he was working in South America when he disappeared for quite a few years but I suspect he was in prison there.

Qwertybynature · 09/10/2015 18:39

Sorry great-grandchild! It was my aunts son.

Mrspeterrabbit · 09/10/2015 18:42

Not me so much, but my Dad picked up on pure evil. In the 70s we lived in Scotland on a university campus. He was playing cricket with my brother. A man approached my Dad and started chatting. He was a local Cub leader. He suggested my brother joined his Cub group. My brother was keen. Dad wouldn't let him, to my brother's great dismay. Although Dad couldn't articulate any obvious reason, he got a very bad feeling from this guy, so Mum went along with him. It turned out to be Thomas Hamilton.

TiffanyAchingsFeegle · 09/10/2015 18:43

The GM sounds like a fucking arsehole Qwerty. If a blank canvas was treated like shit from the plain white beginning then guess how it's going to look/act/feel in the end? Hmm

Qwertybynature · 09/10/2015 18:47

Point taken Tiffany but no-one else believe her, and he wasn't treated differently, until years later when he started stealing from then. I think the GM died when he was 3 or 4 so I doubt she was a huge influence.

goawayalready · 09/10/2015 18:47

my friends husband he offered to look after my dd for me while i worked to help out but i refused (nicely) as he really didn't seem "right" turned out he was a pedophile (of course loads of people have offered to babysit and are not that way inclined)