15 Shocking Interactions That Made Someone Think "Oh, This Person Is Really, Really Dangerous"
Note: This article contains animal cruelty, murder, and child abuse.
Sometimes, when you meet a person, there may be a particular thing about them that doesn't sit right with you. So when Reddit user Ok_Sample_1624 asked: "What was your 'Oh shit, this person is a psychopath' moment when meeting people?" over 20 thousand people had a story to tell. Here's some of the most shocking below:
1.I (20F) was dating this dude (23M) for a few months, and we were getting on really well. Then, we both ended up having to move for our jobs at around the same time. He wanted to try long-distance, so we did. We called most days and watched movies together during our off time. The time zones messed it up a little bit, but it wasn’t too bad. Out of the blue, one day, he just said he didn’t want to be together. I’m like, wow, okay, a little blindsided, but sure. So I start just going about normal life again and hanging out with friends, the normal post-relationship stuff. After about a month, he BEGS, like absolutely begs to get back together."
"It was movie-type stuff: sending flowers to me at work, sending handwritten cards almost daily across thousands of miles, and even buying me a ticket to fly out to see him. So I’m like, okay, whatever, I’ll go and see what he has to say. In the worst-case scenario, I just fly home. So I got a ticket for two days after because I just figured I could head out if he were being a dick.
He picked me up from the airport and acted basically how he used to. He told me he missed me, regretted it as soon as it happened, and it was the biggest mistake of his life, the usual. So we stayed with his family because he’s like, 'Oh please don’t get a hotel. I already feel bad enough about the whole month; just stay with us.' I just thought, hey, a free room, I guess.
Everything was completely fine for the first few days, and then I got this alert on my phone. It was a hurricane warning saying they were pushing my flight for four days later. I’m like, crap... I need to get back to work. I only took three days off. When he got back to the house from work, I told him about it, and he was like, 'Oh, I know. We already started boarding up the windows.' I was a little freaked out, but not too much because I guess that’s normal for big hurricanes.
So the next morning, he shook me, woke me up, and told me to go to the living room. I was like, okay?? When I do, it’s him, his two brothers, his sister, his mom, and his dad, people I have only met in this one instance, and he has a binder. They sit me down, and each of them reads a passage from the binder of why we shouldn’t be together and why I need to move on, and he BROKE UP WITH ME in his parent's house, in front of his siblings in the middle of a hurricane power outage.
Then, because of the hurricane, I was stuck there for four more days with them. Probably not the most psychopathic person I’ve met, but this story is still just so strange to me, I had to share it."
2."I was friends with a couple. The wife made up an affair with me to hurt the husband's feelings. The husband showed up in my condo with a gun and was detained by the security guards and later the police. I had no idea about any of it until later when the condo security contacted me."
3."I was casually dating a guy for roughly five months; I moved into a new apartment and had sent him pictures of the interior before I moved. He went on a trip to Scotland and got upset that I wasn’t answering his FaceTime in the middle of the night. I decided I wasn’t interested in pursuing anything further because of his persistent pestering and insecurities. I had moved in and was working on unpacking when suddenly, I got a knock at my door."
"He found where I was living with just a picture of the hardwood floors and some windows. I don’t have the location for my photos turned on, so there’s no way he could have found it from something simple. He saw absolutely nothing creepy about it and proceeded to push the door and beg me to let him inside. I promptly shut and locked the door, then made sure he heard my shotgun cock. He left, and I haven’t heard from him, thankfully."
4."I was chatting away with a guy in a pub. He seemed like a normal nice dude; we got on really well. At some point in the conversation, he casually mentioned he's not long out of jail for torturing a guy. (He never said torturing; he said what it was he did to him.) He slipped it into the conversation so casually, as if he was telling me about running to the shop for a pint of milk. Never saw it coming. I asked around another day and confirmed he wasn't full of shit."
5."I was walking my dog down a main road (on leash), and a lady was walking her dog off-leash. Her dog stopped in the road, causing cars to stop. She had no control of it. Her dog lunged for my dog. I asked her to put her dog on a leash. She said she would stomp on my dog's head and let her dog kill mine. I knew it wasn’t even worth arguing with her, so I carried on my walk. She then set her house on fire two weeks later with her children inside. Luckily, they were ok, but yeah, madness."
"Yes, I made a statement; yes, she’s currently in prison (was released after the arson!! Then rearrested for further crimes). Her children are aged four to seven. And the dog is also okay."
6."I went on a date once, and she casually dropped how she killed her brother's hamster with perfume as a kid because she was mad at him like it was just a quirky little story to laugh about. Needless to say, I started looking for an exit strategy at that point."
7."It was an Uber driver. My wife and I took an Uber down to the bars one weekend. Once he picked us up, I could easily tell he was on something. While we were crossing a bridge on the interstate, about halfway to our destination, he said, 'Isn’t it crazy that I could swerve off the road and kill us all right now?' I told him to get off on the next exit and canceled the ride. I also reported him to Uber, so hopefully, nobody will have to get in a car with him again."
8."I met the new boyfriend of an acquaintance, and within 10 minutes of the conversation, he was referring to women as 'holes.' It was amazing how I suddenly remembered that my husband had requested I come to help him with something."
9."She came late to our date, immediately ordered a drink and burger, then told me she was late because of a family thing. Before the burger arrived, she mentioned she’d have to cut our date short because she was having a family dinner. I was like, 'Ok, all good.' Then she told me that the craziest thing had happened when her sister met a dude on Tinder, and they ended up going to a family barbecue, and it ended up with them getting married. Before her burger even arrived, she said, 'Wouldn’t it be funny to pull a prank on my family? Like, you and I went to my family barbecue and let everyone assume we were really hitting it off, and they’d totally think we were gonna get married!' I’ll admit I’m also the psychopath in this story because I went. Good mashed potatoes. She spent all night introducing me as her future fiancé, and I had to take a Tinder break after that."
10."At a party, I met a friend of a friend who worked as a nurse at a local hospital. She was someone who would sigh heavily and use the unique stresses of her job to bring her the attention she was looking for. She took the spotlight with pleasure and started talking about how hard her job was. When I asked if there were things she liked about her job, she beamed and explained that she worked primarily in maternity. However, her anecdotes had nothing to do with mothers or infants; she spoke primarily of how wonderful it was to be in charge of these women's lives. She explained how fragile they were in those moments and how, even after delivery, she was the only one on the floor for hours which would be able to forecast if there were going to be life-changing complications."
"She absolutely glowed as she explained how these people's lives were in her hands. The conversation steered in other directions amongst party-goers, but she reclaimed it on the topic of high school experiences. She shared an anecdote on how she was rejected for an advanced choir position and blamed it solely on the poor judgment of the instructor. Years later, she got to sing at the instructor's funeral. I'll never forget the pride she took in having control over other people's lives. It struck me as the most basic display of evil."
11."I’ve been a public school teacher for a decade. I’ve only ever been scared of one student. First of all, this was in my first few years of teaching. This student was of myth in my school; I taught at an alternative school for students who had been expelled from every other school, but overall, my students were chill. They weren’t good students, but if you met them at their level, things were usually fine; the exception was JT. JT was a sophomore when I met him, but, at that point, I didn’t teach him — but boy, did I hear about him. Somehow, his mom was able to game the paperwork and education system enough that this kid was unpunishable; everything was technically covered under a litany of 504 plans and IEP paperwork, so much so that this kid literally pushed an 8-month pregnant teacher down, and he was back two weeks later. He could literally punch a kid in the mouth and be back two days later, and because of this, he was just a massive problem."
"The first terrifying discovery for me was that his mom was very vocal about not wanting him home because she was scared of him. She had a good reason to be: JT, as a small child, tried to murder his family by lighting their house on fire, specifically trying to murder his brother by duct-taping him to his bed while he slept. His brother survived but had horrific burns, but, somehow, that didn’t stop him from supporting his almost-murderous brother; JT was ruthless, but he was also about 5’4, and his brother was about six foot and much physically stronger.
I finally had the pleasure of teaching JT in his senior year. He had approximately ten credits, all Gym-based, and was nowhere near graduation. My first note was that this was the only kid I’d ever met who just had… nothing going on behind his eyes. He was shark-like; he never smiled or laughed unless someone got hurt. Cruel for cruelty's sake.
One day, JT wasn’t there, which, frankly, was odd; he had a great drug business going at school, and he only had to avoid one cop. The next day, we found out why he wasn’t there: JT murdered a kid. Shot him in the face for 12 bucks and a little bit of weed. His lawyer tried to get his sentence lowered by arguing that it was technically his first offense since everything else happened when he was a kid. He got 25 to life."
12."On my first day at my new job, my coworker told me she traps spiders under glass cups in her bathroom and cranks up the heated floor to cook them alive."
13."When my ex's dad told the story of the time he put a wet towel on top of an ant hill, and then threw the towel at my ex. The wet towel stuck to her skin and she was immediately covered with ants, who bit her all over her body. He was laughing when he told the story like it was the funniest prank. My ex told him that it actually hurt a lot, and it traumatized her quite a bit, and he just said, 'Well, I'm okay because I already asked God for forgiveness.'"
14."My friend's fiancé went on a rant about how Charles Manson didn't deserve to be in jail because he didn't kill anyone. He just went off with no precursor to the conversation. He started it himself. I tried to ignore him, and he kept coming at me and trying to convince me that he was right, and I knew it, but I just wanted to be 'politically correct.' My friend has since passed away, and I steer all the way clear of that guy."
15."A kid I went to primary school with invited me to his house after school one day. Not many people talked to him because it was a private school, and he was only a student there because his dad was a groundskeeper. I didn’t want to go but didn’t want to be a dick like everyone else, so I said yes, but I couldn’t stay long. We went behind his house, and there were several bare spots in the grass. Some of them a single stick sticking up in the middle while others had a thin plastic tube poking out. He was very excited as he started digging up one of the spots with a hose poking out. He pulled up a jar with a dead baby bird in it."
"The hose was poked through a hole in the lid to let air in. He went on to tell me he likes burying things alive. Sometimes, he seals the jar tight, sometimes gives an air hose, and even puts a little food and water in to keep them alive longer.
He said you can’t bury them too deep, or you can’t hear them trying to escape. Occasionally, he would pour water down the tubes to drown the animal. I was 8-10 years old at that time. I’m 52 now, and it still makes me sick to think about that."
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