Anyone had a brush with a potential serial killer/wrong 'un?

I have. I was fourteen and in a popular gay bar called The Mars Bar. I was with my girlfriend and we were drinking pints and having a fine time.
We were approached by an older woman who invited us outside for a smoke: of the ganja variety.
We walked down a few alleyways and into a Greek men's club where the occupants were playing cards and drinking coffee. We headed into the back, to the toilets. We all smoked up and a few minutes later we realized this dope was mixed with an hallucinogen.
This woman said she had something to show us. She lifted her skirt and showed us a healed wound on her leg.
She said she was shot.
When she was young and stupid.
Having cones with people she didn't know.
We legged it. Flagged down a cab, got home and tripped for six hours.

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Keraunos · 36-40, M Best Comment

About six-and-a-half years ago, I was walking alone on a road early one morning, and saw one other guy in a park across the road. He looked really deranged or confused, and was ambling about in a zombie-like manner with no apparent aims. I had already woken up that day with a palpably uneasy feeling about nothing in particular, but when he noticed me, stopped briefly to stare, and then purposefully adjusted his zombie-like waddle toward me, my impression immediately went from "Hmm, wonder what the fuck's up with that dude" to a sudden absolute certainty that "If we approach each other, one of us is going to kill the other". I had a knife, he was carrying a small metal pipe. I ended up quickly dodging down some side roads and evading him without any trouble.

A couple months later, I saw his mugshot in the newspaper. He had bludgeoned one person to death in that area, and had attempted to do so to two others (the murder had already occurred by the time I encountered him).

Cavedweller · 46-50, F

@Keraunos Bloody hell!! That would have put the fear of God into you!!