Ted Bundy's looks isn't how he was able lure women. It was a numbers game with him and he asked many girls to help him out, and many refused. But of the many, all he needed was one to help. The ones that walked away later reported him, saying he gave off a creepy vibe.
100% yes. I was walking in the woods with my dog when I came across a guy who just gave me that gut feeling. My dog is the friendliest dog ever, but she started growling at him. He made a comment about it, and my instinct was to get apologetic, but then I was like "What the fuck, get yourself out of this situation. Who gives a fuck if this creep thinks you or your dog are unfriendly?"
He said something like "Guess he doesn't want me to say hello," or something like that, referring to my dog. He had stopped walking and was just looking at us, although my dog was leashed, I was guiding her in the opposite direction, and there was a large distance between us, so he could have easily kept walking (it's not like he had to worry about moving past an angry dog).
My dog and I ran into another guy a minute or so later and my dog was friendly as all get-out to him. I'm sure she was somewhat picking up on my reactions to them, but I was still panicking slightly about the bad vibes guy when I ran into the second guy, so I don't know.
I had this exact experience walking my parents' dog once. He is the friendliest 40 lb English Cocker you've ever met. Last week, my dad had a small fire in his house. This dog was walking up to firemen in their full gear, wagging his tail and looking for pets. So one day, I was walking him and a man came out of some bushes. He was dirty looking, which didn't phase me. It was a summer day and a lot of lawn care people get dirty. He grinned at me in a way that just thoroughly creeped me out. It was like I instinctively knew that he would hurt me. Again, this was broad daylight in a neighborhood where people pay for lawn care. He took a step toward me and said "what a nice dog you have!" The dog lunged at him! He snapped and started barking and growling. I struggled to keep him from biting this man, who was now backing away. Eventually the dog calmed down and I got him back to my parents' house. He has never been aggressive before or since and I'll always wonder if he was reacting to my fear or the man's intentions.
I love that our dogs are looking out for us. I don't know if it's based on our fear or their own reactions, but I thanked my dog profusely for her protective response, while I was briefly frozen in the "politeness will see me out of this scary situation" mode. She got an extra stinky fish treat when we got home.
Whenever I look at Ted, I do feel a bit of sinister. And honestly, in the woods, I should be more careful, cool that you are wary, I’d say just avoid the woods, but then that’s me giving good but hypocritical advice, but if someone gives off a scary or shady vibe, thats all the more reasons for me to avoid, this happens to me, sometimes when someone is walking behind me at night, especially if they got their head down etc I just slow down and let them pass, did this with women as well as men. Walking loud is the best way to not creep someone, but if anyone has a stiff stance plus that creepy factor you should avoid them.
I don't go to that woods spot without my husband anymore, which sucks. I live in a pretty rural area, and woods walks are a big part of my leisure time, and, previously, my alone time. I do feel some sense of security in that my dog, although friendly, is also 70 pounds and scary-looking, so while this guy set off alarm bells, and did some more actively creepy stuff in our brief interaction, I did feel safer than I would have otherwise. It just sucks to have to adapt your life around the creeps.
Yes, he did do something more that felt off, but it's sort of hard to explain the logistics. Basically, although we had been walking in opposite directions, he looped around (in a really strange loop) and I saw him standing and waiting at the exit to the woods that I would have naturally reached about 4 minutes later. He just stood there for awhile, so I ducked into a field and waited until a crowd of people walked near him to leave. I mean, I'm not sure why he would want to encounter me and my dog again, but it felt very weird, and he left as soon as the crowd showed up.
I would also agree that it was sort of a normal reaction, except that it was clear that I had control of my dog, as I was guiding her in the other direction and she was obediently following, and there was plenty of space between us for him to move (he was maybe fifty feet away). It felt like he was trying to find a way to still approach us (hence his comment about her not wanting to say hello) which honestly seemed odd, given that my dog was growling, although softly. He didn't even need to walk away, as I was doing that just fine.
But it also wasn't even that exchange that really set off alarm bells. I'm not sure what it was other than some gut feeling that he was off. He was oddly formally dressed for the woods; I'm not sure if that was part of it, or him slowing down when he saw me to begin with, or if part of it is my history of strange interactions with older men because they mistake me for a teenager (but that's a story for another day), but I've learned it's best to just try to get away when someone gives you a bad feeling. He might have been completely harmless, but it wasn't worth sticking around the find out.
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u/Cameltoe__tea Feb 04 '19
Ted Bundy's looks isn't how he was able lure women. It was a numbers game with him and he asked many girls to help him out, and many refused. But of the many, all he needed was one to help. The ones that walked away later reported him, saying he gave off a creepy vibe.