"A Sense of Evil"

[Fredo Batali]

I Know the feeling well. It has saved my bacon on two occasions. I'm here to post because I moved when I was "told". Call it God wispering in your ear or instinct if you want. I believe God protects his own just as Satan mentors his own. I also believe some of us have been given the ability to recognize the evil among us and the "dead eyes" stand out. I think that explains why the serial killer or child molester next door always seems to his neighbors to be, most times, "a really nice guy".

De Oppresso Liber

 

[PA Reb]

Hi:
I had an experence when i was in high school (1950s) that I had not thought about for years.
One afternoon I dozed off on the living room couch. I was the only one at home.
I partly woke and was unable to move my limbs but was semi-conscious.
I thought I had died. I thought that if I could at least move a finger I wouldn't die. I really tried to move the little finger of my left hand. I was finally able to move the finger, than the hand, than the arm, and finally my legs. Then I became totally conscious and was able to sit up on the couch. It was like my body was totally paralysis but my mind was barely conscious. I never related this occurance as I couldn't explain it.
Jimmy

Hey jimmyj, the keyword in your experience is " semi-conscious". That all has to do with REM sleep my friend - we are basically paralyzed when we are in REM sleep, its a safety mechanism in our brain to keep us from hurting ourselves while we sleep. You came into a semi-conscious state but your brain was lagging behind thus not allowing you to move. Once it caught back up with you, movement was allowed again. I'll bet it was pretty scary though! There's a medical term for it but it slips my mind right now but you're good to go!

 

[TACC1]

I've occasionalyy had the sense of threat, sometimes to the point of hair-raising. I was working Late at a little company outside Madison.
Had access to the building, and frequently came in at night. The
equipment I was running was pretty loud, too. I suddenly got that
"not-alone" feeling, and it scared the heck out of me. I can't deal
with fear, so I picked up the nearest hammer, and went hunting.
Never found a thing, but the feeling persisted. I went home very
soon after the tour. Why go hunting for trouble? Anything that
scares me that bad has to be confronted. Hadn't thought of that in
years, What's left of my hair is trying to stand up, and I think
I'll go out and check around. TACC1

 

[Sprefix]

My oddities......

I've not had experiences like some posters, but numerous times in my life I've had a thought just erupt in my head that said "Get out of where you are, NOW!" I've always done it and never heard of anything bad happening where I had been. I still listen to my minds eye immediately. Another time, A drunk pulled out in front of me on my motorcycle and I knew in a millisecond that there was no choice but to hit him. An incredible feeling of calm came over me and a "feeling" poured into me that communicated "I got you and you will be fine." Never in my life have I been so at ease as in that very brief few seconds. I also have an uncanny sense about people VERY close to me when something is not right with them. It usually manifests itself with a sudden filling of the mind with thoughts of them, then a Very sour stomach, shakes, and finally, a trip to the restroom. A call or contact with them then fills in the blanks. Strange, but it has happened many times. I've also had lots of "deja-voo" instances. Many from as far back as five or six years old. I don't ignore it, but don't bring it up at parties either.

 

[truckemup97]

I've not had experiences like some posters, but numerous times in my life I've had a thought just erupt in my head that said "Get out of where you are, NOW!"

Me, too. I certainly wouldn't discount anything someone else has felt, it just hasn't happened to me. I have, though, had that "Something isn't right and I need to leave" feeling. I always take the warning and get out, so I don't know if there's anything to it or not, but I'm guessing there is. Many times I've exited my truck to check the seal on the trailer or throw away some garbage and the little voice has told me to bump my tires. I rarely find a flat, but I have seen unsavory types hanging around where they shouldn't be. Maybe the sight of a weapon (a 20" long piece of solid hickory) deterred them, or encouraged them to move on to a different "customer". Who knows? All I can tell you is that I will always listen to that little voice.

 

[godlessgael]

Hey jimmyj, the keyword in your experience is " semi-conscious". That all has to do with REM sleep my friend - we are basically paralyzed when we are in REM sleep, its a safety mechanism in our brain to keep us from hurting ourselves while we sleep. You came into a semi-conscious state but your brain was lagging behind thus not allowing you to move. Once it caught back up with you, movement was allowed again. I'll bet it was pretty scary though! There's a medical term for it but it slips my mind right now but you're good to go!

it's called sleep paralysis. it is what I am talking about in my "episode" too. Absolutely terrifying experience. A lot of alien encounters and other "unexplainable" events are more likely than not a byproduct of this natural phenomenon. This experience is found in almost every region and culture of the world. A rational explanation makes it none the less scary when it is happening though.

 

[PA Reb]

it's called sleep paralysis. it is what I am talking about in my "episode" too. Absolutely terrifying experience. A lot of alien encounters and other "unexplainable" events are more likely than not a byproduct of this natural phenomenon. This experience is found in almost every region and culture of the world. A rational explanation makes it none the less scary when it is happening though.

I imagine it would indeed be a terrifying experience. Thanks for posting the correct terminology

 

[Armyphotog]

Wow, another reason not to hunt.

 

[A10]

I Know the feeling well. It has saved my bacon on two occasions. I'm here to post because I moved when I was "told". Call it God wispering in your ear or instinct if you want. I believe God protects his own just as Satan mentors his own. I also believe some of us have been given the ability to recognize the evil among us and the "dead eyes" stand out. I think that explains why the serial killer or child molester next door always seems to his neighbors to be, most times, "a really nice guy".

De Oppresso Liber

Believe it guys. Fredo has seen the elephant....

 

[quneur]

it's called sleep paralysis. it is what I am talking about in my "episode" too. Absolutely terrifying experience. A lot of alien encounters and other "unexplainable" events are more likely than not a byproduct of this natural phenomenon. This experience is found in almost every region and culture of the world. A rational explanation makes it none the less scary when it is happening though.

It happens to me all the time. I will be sleeping and having a nightmare but in the nightmare I know I'm still asleep. In order to stop the nightmare, I know I have to wake up and the only way to wake myself up is to move a limb or hand or foot. I then concentrate hard on moving my hand which I force it to do and then I'm suddenly wide awake. No haziness but wide-eyed awake.

Not all my nightmares end that way. You know those dreams where you're falling in a deep hole? I once dreamt it all the way through - maybe because I was curious - but I hit the bottom and died. The dream went blank and I said to myself, "This all it is?" Then I awoke.

 

[Gasman1972]

Now we're talking about dreams? I hate those dreams that are scary and so real where you end up hoping you are in a dream but sure you aren't. Then finally you wake up.

 

[Engine 21]

I don't pretend to understand it, call it premonition, sixth sense, first sniff - whatever, but from time to time I've had the sense that something wasn't right and always had the good sense to act on it or leave. The Chief of Department, being a grunt in the Vietnam era and as he has said "stumbled into the war as a 19 year old, knowing everything" came away with life 101 expierence always said " A Gunny Sergeant once told me three ways to stay alive. First rule - in combat, your first sniff is generally right - something doesn't feel right it's not. Second - check six. Third - always carry a BUG and a Kbar."

I don't carry a Kbar but I do sniff, check six and carry a bug.
And, yep, there has been times that sense of evil is close and the hair is standing up.

 

[gamedic]

I have never been one to believe in mythical or supernatural things. If I don't see it with my own eyes I am usually suspect. Until I see a ghost or bigfoot or a ufo I'm not biting. With that being said I do believe there are spirits that roam this world. I think there are evil ones that cause bad things to happen. I remember once listening to the scanner at work and hearing three cardiac arrest occur two counties away. Next there were a couple or three in the county next to me and the three happened in my county and then finally in the next county down the road. It was like something was moving through the area and causing these deaths. I know some of you other public safety guys have noticed some days seem to have a theme to them. Yesterday was car accident day around here. Some days are chestpain days and some are overdose days. It seems like some days you can just feel what is comeing. I believe there are good spirits as well. When I first built my new home it was a cold place, not temperature wise but had a foreboding feeling to it. After we moved in and spent a few days there and praying about it the feeling changed completely. Its now a peaceful place and there is no other place I would rather be. I guess when it was first built there could have been an evil spirit to the land or perhaps no spirit at all. Now that the home is inhabited by a god loving and god fearing family I think it is protected by a good spirit.

 

[feralmerril]

Durring world war two my mother heard the negro spiritual, "Oh dem golden slippers" playing on the radio. She walked through the rooms to shutt off the radio and none was playing, yet she kept hearing the song!
She instictivley knew Eldon her brother in the 82nd glidders must be in trouble. At that time she wasnt real religious, (That came latter) but she got down on her knees and prayed for him. Nothing was heard for a long time. Latter when they got together and compared notes they found that at that exact time he was severly wounded when his glider was crashed, only he and one guy out of 14 in his glidder wasnt killed. He busted his back, smashed his face in and his buddy and him watched as the germans finished off all the rest. They had to hide out for several days and nights and watched from a haystack the germans gun down a farmer and his daughter that had helped them!
We dont understand these things, but I belive in them!
I have only had 3 or 4 nightmares in my life. I had one where I was walking on my rounds high up on a balcony at night time at work when this guy that I knew who was a janitor there jumped out of the dark, swinging a iron bar on me and snarling not careing I was armed and kept comeing. I pulled my revolver but it wouldnt fire. I woke up. I had nothing against the guy in the dream. Later I told my buddy about the dream. He was also a guard with me and knew him better than I did and told me that was a evil guy that was into satinism, black magic etc. I hadnt known that. I think there is something to all that.
Another time I had a close friend that I worked with in yosemite in 1960. About 5 years later I was driveing through clinton missisippi where he told me he was from. A co worker was traveling with me and I decided to pull over to a resturant and see if I could find him in the phone book. After finding a relative or two I got his number and him. He says wait there and I will come. While waiting I told my partner, I dont know why, but I have a real funny feeling about him. He showed up, looked thin and pale. He said this is the first time I got out of the house in close to a year. I was in a bad accident, in a comma for about 6 months and today is the first time on my feet!

 

[bigchuck83]

seems like some people learn the hard way to trust the voice inside us that says don't go there today, or get out of there quick. most memorable experience from me was when i was 16. My sister had just graduated high school and was going to our mothers' house to get some of her things since she was moving out on her own. i had a bad feeling and told her i did not want to go with her to help cause something bad would happen and we should wait until the next day. After arguing for an hour i finally gave up and went with my sister to help load up some things. on the way back to the small town where i was staying with my grandparents and my sister had rented a house we were passing by a small cemetery when a deeer came out of the trees struck the front bumper of the truck coming towards us, hit my sisters truck and came through the windshield and hit me . i think what saved me was partly my superstition that every time i pass a graveyard i take off my hat and as we were just passing the edge had my arm up putting my hat back on. that and wearing safety glasses instead of regular sunglasses. wound up with 5 staples in my arm lots of cuts and glass in me and a scar on my nose from where the glasses broke from the force of the deer hitting my. its an odd feeling having something brown and hairy hit you in the face that hard. left an impression in the seat of the bow and arrows that were behind seat. have heard voices that arent really there a few times and always puts me on high alert. sorry for the longwindedness

some good stories/experiences on here.

 

[LVSteve]

Back in the English county of Cornwall there are lots of places where "the bones of the Earth show through" as I call it. One vacation with some buddies part of the group decided to go and look at an old ruined tin mine while myself and the other guy continued our leisurely walk to the pub. The other three appeared a little later wide eyed and pale telling of the "awful quiet" up by the abandoned mine. They realised that the lack of birdsong was all wrong and described the light up there as "looking funny".

I am personally blessed/cursed with the ability to know when I need to see somebody urgently, usually for then last time. I also seem to know when it is the last time I shall see a person. My late wife's aunt is similarly gifted, or not depending on your point of view. The worst ones have been with a healthy friend and a family member who were pregnant, but I knew that the child will never see the light of day. That has happened twice, and it is twice too often. Sometimes it is just better not to know.

 

[wbraswell]

Great thread, very interesting.

 

[Rugskipper]

In my teens, I worked in a movie theater which was, for lack of a better word, haunted. Paranormal events happened so often that employees considered them no big deal. It sure was fun to watch new hires freak out, though. Eventually they would get used to it or quit.

I had a "BRAKES" moment like one of the previous posters. I slowed down as I approached the intersection on a green, and for some reason stopped. As I sat there wondering why I had done that, a car ran the red doing at least 80 in a 30 mph zone. I would have been t-boned in the drivers door.

As for "dead eyes", I was in line at a convenience store, and all of a sudden got a real uneasy feeling. Cold sweat, hair on end, eyes and ears went on high alert, and right hand went into my front pocket to rest on my ever-present 642; all without any conscious thought on my part. I looked around directly behind me and saw the dead eyes two positions behind. I knew they were there before I ever saw them. Two of them, and they looked like these guys.
Wichita Massacre
I got out of there toot-sweet.

 

[Spacer]

I have one occasion that comes to mind. I was maybe thirteen. I used to cut through the desert to get to and from school everyday. Well this guy bought the property and started building an apartmet complex right next to my wall that id jump at the start and finish of the days journey. after a few months he would bring his full grown doberman( which was just as big as me!) with him during the day and let him roam around. I remember one day i was just barely comin up to that familiar wall and a voice in the back of my head shouts out "DOG". Kinda confused about it i turn around and see this huge dog come around the corner!!!! Needless to say ive never jumped a wall so fast in my life lol! That dog eventually got put down for. Attacking some other kid a few years later.

 

[lawandorder]

Very important that folks read the link Rugskipper put up on the horrendous crime known as the the Wichita Massacre.

That is proof positive that evil walks among us every day.

Stay safe everyone!