People who feel 'off'

[NomDeGuerre]

Wanted to keep this separate from the 'creepiest things' thread, but have you ever met / encountered someone who gave you the creeps (maybe for no good reason?)

I remember, when I was about 12 or 13, walking into a man in an aisle in WH Smiths in Birmingham. He apologised, but when I locked eyes with him I got the most profound sense of dread and terror that I'd ever experienced - literally, full-bodied chills and the sense I needed to get out of there now.

That was fifteen odd years ago, now, and I can still remember his black jacket and curtain of greasy, black hair.

Has anyone else experienced anything similar?

 

[Booington]

Also Birmingham, many years ago when I was at school I was very shy and well behaved, we had a teacher who always had a go at me even though I wasn’t doing anything wrong, I hated him and without it being a well formed thought , I thought he was weird. Turns out he was sexually abusing kids at school for years before getting caught, thankfully he’s dead now.

 

[LaurieLaurie]

My ex creeped me out and I often felt uneasy around him but I could never say why. I met him when I was 16 and felt stuck with him for years, it was only when I was 27/28 that I woke up one day, left and never looked back. This was two years ago and he still tried to come back but I have recently cut all ties. In the end he said he wanted to strangle me, there wasn’t any arguments just the urge to do it.
I’m a size 4, 7st and he’s 6ft5 built like a rugby player.. I wouldn’t have stood a chance.
I’m certain he will be on the news one day.

 

[Phoenix Lazarus]

My ex creeped me out and I often felt uneasy around him but I could never say why. I met him when I was 16 and felt stuck with him for years, it was only when I was 27/28 that I woke up one day, left and never looked back. This was two years ago and he still tried to come back but I have recently cut all ties. In the end he said he wanted to strangle me, there wasn’t any arguments just the urge to do it.
I’m a size 4, 7st and he’s 6ft5 built like a rugby player.. I wouldn’t have stood a chance.
I’m certain he will be on the news one day.

Did you leave because he said he wanted to strangle you-or did he tell you that after he left him?

 

[kittypaws]

I went on a date with a guy once, we’d spoken a little bit online and he was desperate to meet. We went for a drink and it was so obvious he wanted me to go back to his. He had this creepy persona about him, I couldn’t put my finger on it but something didn’t feel right. I sort of gave him the benefit of the doubt and when we left the pub I let him kiss me. He was trying to touch me up all over and begging me to go back to this, being quite demanding. Luckily I stood my ground and said no, he got angry and I ran off. I’m still convinced now that if I’d gone back to his even for a drink he’d have forced himself on me.

 

[NomDeGuerre]

I went on a date with a guy once, we’d spoken a little bit online and he was desperate to meet. We went for a drink and it was so obvious he wanted me to go back to his. He had this creepy persona about him, I couldn’t put my finger on it but something didn’t feel right. I sort of gave him the benefit of the doubt and when we left the pub I let him kiss me. He was trying to touch me up all over and begging me to go back to this, being quite demanding. Luckily I stood my ground and said no, he got angry and I ran off. I’m still convinced now that if I’d gone back to his even for a drink he’d have forced himself on me.

Thank God you trusted your intuition. I've only had that 'gut instict' feeling a few times in my life, but I always know to trust it. I guess its similar to knowing to leave a bar / public space when the undercurrent of a fight is brewing.

 

[TJ90]

Anyone who asks me to tell the time! I just can’t do it.
I got asked when I was walking home from sixth form when I was 17 and when I went to look at my watch the man started to fondle my boobs through my coat. I froze on the spot then ran home and cried to my mum.
Anyone asks me the time now and I just freeze. People must think I’m mental.

 

[TwooTwooTwitTwitTwoo]

When I was 12 ish, my friend and I were walking in our local park and this man jogged past us. I felt all my hairs stand on end and after he'd passed us, I whispered to my friend that I was worried about him and that he was a flasher or something.
A bit further on the path forked and in between the two paths was woodland. He went left so we took the right hand one and we heard a whistle. We looked and there he was, in the trees with his dick out, wanking at us. Ugh. That wasn't the first time I'd been flashed at either which is probably why I was alert to it.

 

[Doc]

Gosh this happened to me only the other day! I was walking through the park with my daughter, she got a scooter for Christmas so was trying it out. I saw two men hovering around near a bench on the path in front of us. I don’t know why but I got an inexplicable rush of adrenaline and there was no way I was having us walking near them, so I grabbed my daughter to her protests and walked down a different path near some other people.

They didn’t do anything, or say anything, but my whole instinct just said to avoid going near them.

 

[Omzig98]

A guy at the collage i went to always gave me weird vibes. He was a loner type and quite withdrawn, but i can be like that too so i gave him the benefit of the doubt. Only 2 years ago he was sent down for raping a girl at knife point.

 

[TheScarletgirl]

One of our teachers was obsessed with girls shoes in my college . he would always comment on girls wearing high boots. I heard he was texting one of the students dirty things..

I was on holiday when i was 14 . The bar man noticed my bra strap had fell down . he came over and fixed it for me ... he then blew me a kiss (he was middle aged ) It was so weird i was terrified at the time.

 

[TheWitchIsBack]

This guy used to come into our local... total obnoxious loud mouth, always saying vulgar and disgusting things to women and overly sexual. He was a horror and made my skin crawl to the point if he came into the pub I’d have to leave. Everyone could tell he was dangerous but hardly anyone would stand up to him because of how nasty he was. Thankfully he was eventually barred from the local for his behaviour.

10+ years later he’s just been given a 12 year sentence for drugging and brutally raping women over a ten year period. Some of things that came out at trial were absolutely horrific but not even remotely surprising that he did them and the worst part of all was he had some of his male friends lie on the stand to try and keep him out of prison.

 

[Isa Drennan]

My old supervisor in a hospitality job. Seemed well respected by management, but got total off vibes from him. Had a lingering feeling, that anytime he was behind any female, he was staring at their arse. Turns out he got done for child pornography a year later

 

[watermelon sugar]

Once, I must have been about 16/17 I went to A&E. I was sat there for ages and they eventually called my name out and I got up, went and got seen to. I left and looked at my phone and I had a friend request. He did have mutual friends and back then I'd accept anyone because I was young and stupid. Deffo don't do that anymore. So I accepted this guy and straight away he messaged me saying 'hi I was sat opposite you in A&E. I added you when your name got called out.' I didnt even notice him. I thought it was a bit weird and didn't reply straight away because I was on my way home. I looked at my phone probably about 20 minutes/half an hour after and he had messaged me 4 dick pics and called me a 'bleeping dirty witch" for not replying. So I blocked and deleted him!!

 

[rosemarina]

I’ve been saying for years that they should never use your full name when calling you in for an appointment, and sinister arseholes like that are exactly why.

 

[Skyeball]

That's something I go over and over with my kids, if you meet someone even if it's someone you know and you get a funny feeling, you get out of the situation.
You don't ever have to explain it or apologise for it. If you get the funny stomach feeling you just go.

 

[Norfolking Good]

In my third year of uni I lived on campus in a flat of 7 people. I knew 4 of them because we could choose who to live with but on the first day this first year girl walked in and I literally said hello but had the strongest sense of her being utter bad news.
It turned out as the year unfolded that she was indeed a total shitbag. She was a predatory bisexual who seemed to push herself on all the females in the flat just in case they were curious. A few were and did whatever with her for them to be utterly spooked by it after and it made the atmosphere so awkward.
I really liked a guy and she made a point of bringing him home and then knocked on my door at 2am to see if I had a spare condom.
She sexually assaulted me in the Union toilets by coming up behind me and groping my boobs. When I asked her to stop as I’m not interested she proceeded to call me homophobic and told some twisted version to my flat mates so they stopped talking to me. My advice is if someone gives you the fear you’re usually right.

 

[Herefortheteeeee]

This one was entirely my own fault but it still makes me cringe 15 years later.
Went on night out, took man home. I didn’t actually do anything with said man, I was completely intoxicated and enjoying my youth. Said man wouldn’t go home so I had to drive him home. Two days later, he turned up at my flat & wouldn’t leave. Had to drop home again. Then starting messaging me devoting himself to me & giving his love to me. Had to be very gentle in my approach & say I wasn’t interested.
it was my fault, I was very irresponsible of me, not uncommon for me at that age. But it concerned me that someone would be that intense.

 

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Once, I must have been about 16/17 I went to A&E. I was sat there for ages and they eventually called my name out and I got up, went and got seen to. I left and looked at my phone and I had a friend request. He did have mutual friends and back then I'd accept anyone because I was young and stupid. Deffo don't do that anymore. So I accepted this guy and straight away he messaged me saying 'hi I was sat opposite you in A&E. I added you when your name got called out.' I didnt even notice him. I thought it was a bit weird and didn't reply straight away because I was on my way home. I looked at my phone probably about 20 minutes/half an hour after and he had messaged me 4 dick pics and called me a 'bleeping dirty witch" for not replying. So I blocked and deleted him!!

You said he had 'mutual friends' with you. Had he just added them after learning who you were or did he have them already?

 

[rosemarina]

This one was entirely my own fault but it still makes me cringe 15 years later.
Went on night out, took man home. I didn’t actually do anything with said man, I was completely intoxicated and enjoying my youth. Said man wouldn’t go home so I had to drive him home. Two days later, he turned up at my flat & wouldn’t leave. Had to drop home again. Then starting messaging me devoting himself to me & giving his love to me. Had to be very gentle in my approach & say I wasn’t interested.
it was my fault, I was very irresponsible of me, not uncommon for me at that age. But it concerned me that someone would be that intense.

No, this was all on him, not you.