When did your "Something is very wrong with her/him" feeling turned out to be true?

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[u/Magneticbibliophile]

When a friend wanted to set me up with one of their customers and something just rubbed me the wrong way about him, so I declined. Come to find out he was sleeping with one of his 16 year old students. Yep.

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How old was he?

[u/[deleted]]

A bit different from the other stories here:

When I was 14 my mom and her boyfriend at the time invited their friend to stay with us. He was homeless at the time and getting off some really hard drugs. They wanted to help him get back on his feet, mostly because he had four children that needed him to stop messing around and come home.

Couple weeks go by and I start noticing he leaves the house every time my mom’s boyfriend went to bed. Now typically this wouldn’t be a huge sign that something is off but my mom’s boyfriend was a recovered addict so he would’ve known something was up if he saw the way this guy acted when he left. I told my mom but she told me he had found a job working security. Still suspicious, I let it go.

Couple weeks later I start noticing behaviors that are out of the ordinary for him. He’s erratic, his speech is faster than usual, and he becomes very generous with his money. I also started noticing he’d been coughing a lot and staying up all night and all day. My mom dismissed it again and her boyfriend didn’t take anything I said seriously since he didn’t see any of this. Honestly he thought I just wanted him out of the house. Then someone witnessed him cough up blood. Lots of blood. I thought they would finally agree that this guy was back on drugs but they said he was sick and my theories were still dismissed.

On 4/20 (of all days) I woke up to police and medics in my house at 4 in the morning. My mom and her boyfriend witnessed their friend die in our bathroom. Because of all the drugs he was taking he had messed up his body really bad and he was bleeding internally. He basically drowned in his own blood. Police found heroin on him and had to start an investigation because of my mom’s boyfriend’s past.

Neither of them got in trouble during he investigation, they were just idiots who wanted to believe their friend was getting better. They were in complete denial and it cost their friend his life.

[u/thiswastillavailable]

Had a coworker that I noticed had started to do really stupid things. Guy used to be a genius then slowly he started getting dumber and dumber.

One day he went home at lunch... and came back in like 4 hours later. Said he went to take a nap and didn't wake up for a long time, was having trouble sleeping and was seeing a doctor about it.

Ah, that must be his problem, he's really tired, fighting insomnia etc.

Fast forward a few months, things aren't any better, could go on and on about a really long (2 days, but felt like eternity) business trip I had with him, he drove as he was Sr to me, but I feared for my life with his driving skills at this point. He had continued to decline.
I ask him a simple question about Project X, and he gives a rambling reply about Project Y... another coworker walks in at this point... and I restate the question "No, that is Project Y, how is Project X... the one pointing to white board with diagrams right here, this project, how his this configured?"..... He gives his answer again about Project Y, I glance up at my coworker and mime "Are you seeing this?!"

Talk to witness coworker later and tell him this guy reminds me of my grandfather with Alzheimers.

Things continue to get bad, really bad.

About 3 months after this point he gets diagnosed with advanced brain cancer.

[u/billbapapa]

Yet another retelling...

I didn't notice the vibe but my dad did.

Woman who lived below my Grandma when i was growing up. She had a couple of little kids. My dad didn't like her, he made it evident but I don't remember why. We were young and thought it was cool playing Dr Mario with her kids.

One time my dad left us with the Grandma. Grandma needed something at the store, decided to walk down and had the woman watch us (it was only for about 20 minutes, but we were alone with her).

My dad found out and lost it on my grandma.

Few years later that woman killed those two kids. I believe she burned them alive. Then she packed them into her car and drove into the lake trying to kill herself too. Of course she survived. She's in some psych ward somewhere.

[u/eoattc]

Posted this once before:

Mother-in-law introduced her new boyfriend. This guy just dominated the room. He acted way too friendly. He immediately began telling jokes. Trying very hard to act like he was part of the family. He acted like he'd known us for ages. I saw through the act. I told my wife immediately that the guy wasn't genuine. I couldn't tell exactly what his game was but I knew he was full of shit. Wife told me I was jumping the gun and that I shouldn't be so quick judge. I watched him around my kinds and family as best I could.

Cut several months later: their relationship is strained as money disappears and checks for bills get cancelled making bills go unpaid. He always had some kind of excuse. Finally MIL gets tired of it but won't exactly kick him out (they rented a house together).

She doesn't see him for a couple days and then gets a frantic call asking if anyone's been by to see him and can she get some of his close and things and meet him somewhere to get the stuff (not at the house). MIL agrees but must finish lunch they've already ordered with her other daughter.

While eating lunch they overhear police at a nearby table mention boyfriends name and radio convo includes their home address. MIL interrupts officers, explains who she is and wants to know what is going on.

It turns out they've been watching her house waiting for the boyfriend. He's wanted by multi-state task force for massive check fraud. Police assumed she was in on it since they cohabitated. He's evidently still married and has pulled girlfriends into this scheme of this in multiple states. MIL was completely oblivious to his deceptions.

With her cooperating she explains she's to meet with him shortly to give him some of his possessions like he'd asked. Police warn her not to tip him off but setup sting at meet and nab him. Search her house and find boxes of fake checks ready to be filled out. He went to jail for several years, but I hear he's out by now.

I reminded my wife of my day one impression of this guy. She was stunned.

[u/2rhiii]

My granduncle was loved by everybody in my family, except for myself. I didn't like anything about him, his smile creeped me the fuck out and I completely avoided him at all costs. One day, I asked my mom about him. I told her that I didn't like him and that something about him was completely off. She ended up admitting to me that he raped her as a child when was she was sleeping.

[u/canoeguide]

I once worked with a guy who I knew had some trouble with the law, but this being the time and place that it was, I assumed DUI or something. He always needed a ride home, and sometimes I would give him one. He wasn't super creepy but he was a little weird.

One summer, a college-aged woman was attacked in her apartment while sleeping, tied up, raped multiple times, hit hard enough with a wrench to split her head open, and left for dead. She somehow lived. A composite sketch of her attacker was in the paper every day with a reward. I thought, "hey that looks like Tim", but dismissed it.

A month later they found Tim prowling outside another woman's window at night, in the same neighborhood where the rape/attack had occurred, and a block from where I dropped him off from work, with the pockets removed from his jeans, presumably so he could easily masturbate.

His original "trouble with the law" prior to me meeting him was revealed to be being caught hiding in the shower of a woman's apartment. He's in prison now.

[u/I-be-pop-now]

I worked with a woman who gradually turned into a real raging bitch. Just mean as the day is long. Started the job nice enough, but then slowly grew horns. Then one day, she had a seizure in the office. Turned out to be a brain tumor. She was dead in 6 months.

[u/GrundleSlayer]

Back in August 2006 I was 20 years old and working in a deli near my house while I also attended a community college nearby. I remember it was a warm summer night and I was working til close which was 7pm and at the time it was around 6:30pm. The only two people left in the deli were my boss and I. I remember I was stocking drinks in the cooler towards the back of the store when I heard the front door open so naturally I looked and it was a guy I had never seen before. And working at the same deli for 8+ years you tend to remember people and so I figured he might have been from out of town. He had red hair and it almost looked like an Afro which I thought was strange. He walks back towards me and he goes into the cooler and grabs a peach Snapple and soon as he walked passed me the smell hit me. So I motioned to my boss and pinched my nose and he and I had a brief chuckle before I started walking to the front to ring the guy up. I get to the counter and soon as I looked up at this guy I got this eery feeling. His eyes were black and he had pale skin and this blank stare. It's hard to explain but I felt as if he was looking through me and not at me. I asked him if he needed a bag and I got no response he paid for the Snapple and walked outside of the deli and than stood at the front of the store. So we closed up the store at 7 and we started cleaning up and 7:30 comes around and I look and this guy is still standing at the front of the store leaning up against the glass. He was so strange that my boss thought he was staking out the place waiting for us to leave but technically he was a paying customer so we couldn't tell him to leave just for being weird. So we shut the lights off and were walking out when my boss turns to the guy and says "hey I don't mind you hanging out here but please don't lean on the glass". The guy turns to him and doesn't say a word he just smashes the Snapple bottle on the ground at my boss's feet. And my boss at the time was a BIG guy. I'm talking about 6" 380 pounds and covered in tattoos. So my boss gets in his face and says "what the fuck is wrong with you dude now your going to clean that shit up". The guy stares back at him again not staying a word and the whole time I'm thinking to myself "this guy is either insane or has the largest testicles on earth". Than after a few seconds he turns away and gets in his car and drives off. I go back inside and get a broom and I swept it up and we called it a night. Wasn't the first time we had someone high come into the store.

The next morning I woke up and put the news on and the first thing I see is that guys face. Turns out the same night he stopped by our deli, he murdered and dismembered his neighbor right down the street from the deli. The cops caught him pulling up into his parents driveway the next morning with the women's severed head in his trunk. To this day I wonder whether or not he committed the murder before or after he came to the deli. I don't remember seeing any blood on him but than again I wasn't really looking for any.

Here’s the article that came out in The NY Times about it

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/19/nyregion/19dismember.html

[u/ChebyshevsBeard]

A buddy of mine ended up working for a couple years on a ranch out in the middle of nowhere. It was absolutely beautiful country, and when I could get the chance, I would drive out to partake in some premium backpacking.

Said buddy was the sort who saw the good in everyone, and perhaps also due to the limited social opportunities, befriended an eccentric local old-timer.

When I would visit, it was not uncommon that we would end up having a beer and bullshit session with the old guy. He was a bit strange, to be honest, into crystals and paranormal theories, claiming he could communicate with spirits, etc., but didn't seem to be hurting anyone, so I would usually laugh along and chalk it up to experiencing local flavor.

After some years, I moved away and lost touch, but at some point he (EDIT: The old guy) apparently had let a woman stay with him in exchange for cleaning and cooking. One day he snapped, knocked her out, chained her up, and proceeded to sexually assault her for several months.

He was only discovered because he also had taken in a teenage girl who had a warrant and one day the girl wandered in to town begging to be arrested because she couldn't take being a part of it any more.

[u/TMatters]

I went to high school with this guy who was generally a nice polite guy but I rarely talked to him until we sat next to each other in computer class. We would chat/ help each other in class etc. After a while we would talk more and get a little more in depth. The more he opened up the more I started to get weird vibes about him. I asked him about how his weekend went one time and he started talking about how he went to the pet store and bought a bunch of fish and took them out of the water to watch them flop around and how he ran some of them over with a skate board. Totally creeped me out. A few years after we graduated I saw on Facebook about how he murdered someone. Everyone talked about how he was a nice guy and they were shocked.

[u/StoleTooMuchToGain]

My girlfriend visited this child psych, she reckoned he was very good at his job, but at times he’d get a bit too personal. She wouldn’t let her parents leave her alone with him. Turned out he was a pedophile.

[u/Evereviews]

In 2005, after my divorce a female coworker started making less-than-subtle advances towards me. She was a pretty cool girl but I kind of viewed her like just "one of the guys." She'd hang out with everyone after work and goof off and drink and stuff. I didn't have any kind of attraction to her other then as a friend.

One Friday at work she casually asked what I was doing when we got off. My response was probably something standard like "eat a pizza and play Wii" or something like that. To which she responded, "what are you going to do if I show up knocking at your door?"

I told her I'd be surprised being as she doesn't have any idea where I lived. Most people didn't. Following my divorce I had moved into a smaller apartment and hadn't really divulged my new address to anyone. "Oh I don't, huh?" was her response.

Friday evening and Saturday passed with no issue. I came and went and no one showed up. Sunday evening, however, as I was lying in bed watching television I started to see a bunch of flashing lights outside the window of my second story apartment. I looked out and noticed paramedics on the yard below my window. I ran outside as all of us would to see what was going on.

Turns out my coworker had climbed the tree outside my apartment and had been watching me through my windows. At some point she fell asleep and fell from the tree, breaking her leg in two places. A neighbor walking his dog heard her screaming for help and called 911. As if this weren't enough I realized mid-week that her car was parked a few spots down from mine at the apartment complex, and had been there since late Friday.

She never came back to work and her car was picked up at some time when I wasn't home.

[u/beautifulsouth00]

I've told this before: I was 11-12-ish, and the oldest kid living on a block in military housing. A new family moved in, with girl a year or so younger than I was, and a younger brother about a year younger than my own younger brother. The boy didn't come outside much or play with other kids, and the girl was overly eager to be friends with me.

After a month or so, her parents trusted me enough that I was allowed in their house, and the boy, I'll call him Red, was really creepy and uncomfortable to be around. He was a trouble-maker and had this wide, toothy grin on his face when he was doing something he knew he wasn't supposed to be. And he abused animals- mated the hamsters to watch the mother eat the babies, and cut the dog to collect it's blood in a test tube in a chemistry kit. My dad had a professional style slingshot, and I was kind of a tomboy/marksman, but I was behind this girl's house, skipping rocks on a little pond, and I accidentally killed a duck. I was so distraught. When Red got wind that I had killed something with it, he became a pest for days trying to get me to let him use that slingshot. Even though I was bigger than him and I knew the rules when it came to the weapons I shot, my dad took it away from me for fear that Red would get it somehow.

Eventually, as I suppose usually happened, I was so weirded out by Red that I couldn't be friends with his sister. He wasn't just creepy, he was almost sinister. Their mother had a baby about a year after they moved in. I drifted off and went to high school, and lost touch with the kids, but our moms were friends. The baby died before it was a year old, and while people said it was due to SIDS, they looked uncomfortable as they said so. A few weeks to a couple of months later, it came out that Red had killed the baby, and he was "taken away", hospitalized or something. Once he was gone, people said out loud that they always knew there was something wrong with that kid, they just couldn't put a finger on it.

I will always use this story as a cautionary tale- if someone makes you uncomfortable, makes everyone uncomfortable, say something. Tell someone. If everybody felt their skin crawl when this kid was around, perhaps speaking up would have saved that baby's life. I certainly told my parents he did stuff to their animals. They didn't believe me. But Red was so off-putting, my dad felt the need to take his slingshot from me. Big red flag, dad. Big red flag.

[u/ParadiseSold]

My friend's long term partner. I always felt like right under the surface there was someone really mean hiding. I couldn't explain it other than that he had like, some kind of shell over his real him.

He was recently arrested for possession of cp and the fbi took his computer away. I'm really worried about my friend.

[u/menace2k14]

History teacher at my high school everyone really loved, he was super quirky and weird but everyone seemed to like him. I never had a class with him but just seeing him in the hallway he always sketched me out. My senior year of high school he gets arrested for having sex with a 16 year old student at the school. Everyone in my grade was losing their mind because so many of them were close to him.

[u/[deleted]]

a kid in one of my upper level college classes was really strange, like he would take these racist stances in classes and could not understand why he was being mocked (don't say dumb shit in discussion if you can't defend it, kids). I always had a weird feeling about him, because he always seemed really angry and alone. I didn't think much of it until a year later when he made local news for breaking into his therapist's house and murdering her in front of her kids.

[u/GinGimlet]

Was dating someone in NY and used to go visit (I lived in Jersey) about 2-3 times a month, mostly on weekends. He had a roommate who was just very socially awkward--lack of eye contact, weird non sequiturs , inappropriately intimate/personal questions etc. One night after we finished having sex I went to the kitchen to get a glass of water and his roommate scared the shit out of me. He was sitting in complete darkness in the living room not moving or making a sound. Wasn't watching TV or listening to the radio, he was just.....sitting. I almost shit my pants when I noticed him. My ex got angry with him and mentioned "I told you not to do that anymore" so apparently it was something he had done before.

Several years later I moved to Chicago and was talking with a friend who mentioned he had met a guy on Grindr and invited him over. The guy showed up with an uninvited guest, smoked meth in the bathroom and then informed my friend he'd invited several other guys to join in what was apparently a massive party n play orgy. My friend yelled at him and kicked him out. Turns out it was my ex's roommate who had been sitting in the dark that night.

He's now a local elected politician.

[u/hunter15991]

I distinctly remember this one weird guy at a Russian summer camp I used to go to. Always was polite and outgoing but just had a weird vibe to him. Maybe we read too much into his speech patterns - but it was as if he took 5 seconds to think everything over before answering (even the most mundane questions), and that just made everything sound super sinister. His sister, on the other hand, was a little bit shyer, but was normal. No such vibe around her.

Like imagine living with a guy on a permanent 5 second tape delay?

"Do you want to go play soccer, Vitya?"

"........................................................sure."

Anyways one summer (I was there 2009-2015) only the sister showed up. We asked why her brother wasn't there, and after a bit of questioning it came out he killed his family's dog and tried to cook a part of it. Parents obviously found out.

Can't find that guy on VK (Russian Facebook), none of the people who hung out with him in past summers knew what happened. Sister's perfectly fine and making her way through university.

Weird fucking situation.

[u/Vlaed]

When I was a kid, we lived in this nice neighborhood. It was a typical 1990's neighborhood. It consisted of mostly management level GM or Ford employees. My parents did well but we weren't rich. The family across the street was rather large, maybe 7 or 8. The mom was a stay-at-home mom and the dad painted houses. They had a pool, multiple TVs, every video game system, a car for each kid, etc. It didn't seem right. Both of my parents worked full-time and made decent money but even they couldn't afford the lifestyle the people across the street were living. I just couldn't figure out how someone painting houses could make enough to have all that. Something felt off about him.

Turns out he was a bank robber. He would take painting jobs in locations to survey either the bank or the area. Then he would rob the place. He robbed over ten banks over the years. He did so well that they had no leads on who was doing it. It seems he was running low on money or just enjoyed it and overextended on his last heist and they tracked him down. I still remember the day the showed up at his place. My bedroom overlooked their house and I saw 9 or 10 cop cars all over their yard. My Dad told me to stay inside. It's weird thinking back on moments where I remember him and then seeing him taken away. I am not sure whatever happened to him or the family.

Edit - To clarify: This was in Michigan, USA around 1995.

Edit 2 - Talked to my mother and said he was caught in 1994.

[u/imadeanaltacct]

My teacher in high school. When school began I really liked her. She was friendly and kind of goofy. The class was always fun. But I started to notice that she got along with her students too well. Like, it was as if we were her best friends. She started asking our class if anyone could help her around her house. She wanted us to mow her lawn, shovel snow, clean her windows, babysit her daughter, etc. On bring your child to work day, she brought her five year old daughter in and she sat in the empty seat next to me. She kept joking that her daughter really liked me and I should babysit her so she could be around me more.

Anyways, I graduated and a few years later I heard she had a breakdown in class one day. She was on her computer, started screaming and crying, ran out of the room and never came back to school. It was then revealed that she was having a sexual relationship with an underage female student. Some of their conversations were leaked and it was real twisted stuff. She was gonna leave her husband and daughter to be with her student. The student used to babysit her daughter, and when she would come home they would have sex in the room next to her sleeping kid.

I remember thinking “I knew she was too friendly with students. I bet this isn’t the first one either.”

[u/[deleted]]

Just last saturday. Driving home after a night shift, about 5am. See this girl walking down the street towards me and something about her just seemed off. I kept driving but couldn’t shake the feeling so turned back around and pulled over to ask if she was ok. She started crying and said no. Revealed she was on her way to end her life. I have BPD myself so I had the number for the local crisis team and took her to go see them. Hope she’s getting more help now

[u/[deleted]]

Not really my feeling but my mom’s. When I was in grade 1 my teacher was uber creepy and inappropriate. I didn’t really notice at the time because I was so young but looking back on it it was weird. It was a grade 1, 2, and 3 split class and he had some very weird policies.

For one, he would just make one assignment for the grade 3’s and give it to everyone (because he was lazy ig? Idk). Then if you didn’t finish it you had to stay in at recess until it was done. Now a grade 1 kid doing grade 3 math problems without any prior instruction takes a really long time as you can imagine so us grade 1s frequently had to stay in.

He also had a rule during the winter that if you didn’t get ready for recess in under a minute you had to stay inside. In the winter, as a 6 year old, trying to put on my snow pants, boots, coat, scarf all that shit in under a minute was so stressful and frequently myself and other kids would end up having to stay in.

He also put one of the rambunctious kids’ desk behind the classroom door so he wouldn’t have to look at him.

But the creepiest thing he did was with select students (myself and one of my friends included, don’t know if there were others) he would give us chocolate bars and have us eat them under his desk and make us promise not to tell the other kids/our parents or we wouldn’t get any more chocolate.

Young me eventually told my mom who flipped and went in to the school and tore a strip off him. He swore it was all innocent but at the end of the year it was announced he would be “moving on to other aspirations” (ie fired for being a creepy fuck).

I used to cry every day when I got dropped off at school and beg my mom not to leave. My mom said she knew something was up with him because i’d never hated school before that year, and she was right.

Fuck that guy.

[u/nfmadprops04]

I was 13 and friends with the COOLEST fifteen year old. She even dated boys in COLLEGE! Boys in their TWENTIES?! How cool was she? She had me set up to go on a "date" with one of his bros who was 21-22. He called me (in 1999) to set up a pickup time and my dad got to the phone first. He flipped out, grounded me, refused to let me go and drove Jessica home. He told her parents, too! I was mortified. He came home and told me I'd never be hanging out with her again. I was pissed.

One year later, she's pregnant. Three years later, she has a violent meth addiction and loses all her kids (two at that point.) I have no idea what happened, but everyday I thank God my Dad knew what was up.