IRL Psychos You've Met - Psychopaths, sociopaths, and individuals in general who have given you a glimpse into the darkness of the human psyche.

[Gog & Magog]

I was watching Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock the other night and wondered if anyone here has met a psycho? It doesn't have to be as dramatic as an encounter with a killer, or even mentally ill, but just someone whose clearly disturbed personality has deeply unnerved you.

Spoiler: SPOILER

The character of Norman Bates vaguely reminds me of a man I once knew. He was an acquaintance who was married to a friend of mine. He had a family with her and seemed like a good man. Then one day I heard he left them in the middle of the night, taking nearly everything of value with him. His own mother came over to help him take it all. No one could wrap their minds around why he would do that.

Except the kids. He had been molesting their children for years, and something or someone finally risked exposing it all.
Norman Bates is a fictional character but they do share a few things in common; Feigns sincerity, lives a double life, dark sexual urges, and a warped relationship with his mother. He never went to prison for this. Not enough evidence and it was in the middle of a divorce. Now the kids are grown up and the psycho is still out there.

 

[DumbDude42]

sometimes i watch my cat kill and eat the mice she hunts (she brings them inside alive most of the time)
does that make me psycho?

 

[Autumnal Equinox]

Used to work with a guy who, if not sociopathic, definitely had a severe lack of empathy for others if you want to count that.

His daughter's friend gave her a kitten. They couldn't or didn't want to take in another pet. Instead of rehoming it or giving it to a shelter, he shot it in front of her. She was around 8 or 9.

A female co-worker needed a ride home and he offered to drive her. She came back the next day telling us that the moment they pulled out of the parking lot, he showed her a gun he was hiding and told her that he's always prepared in case someone (emphasis on the word someone) tried robbing or assaulting him and just wanted her to know that. She was this petite little thing who weighed maybe 110 pounds and never had a mean thing to say about anyone.

Another co-worker some time later found out his mom was diagnosed with late stage pancreatic cancer. He was obviously distressed and we were trying to console him. Asshole co-worker just looked at him, said "sucks for you, but at least you don't have it." and walked off.

This was a guy who was probably in his mid 40s when I knew him. Long past the "edgy teenager" attitude. I dunno, just always felt like there was something off or wrong about him when I had to work with him. It was like he could not process basic empathy or decency, not even faking it.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

I'm happy to say the only such people I know of who're like this are lolcows like Russell Greer- nobody in my offline life behaves like this.
Then again, I don't have much of an offline life.

 

[The 3rd Hooligan]

My neighbour has altzheimers

 

[Chive Turkey]

I've seen homeless people before, yes.

 

[Twolegstillmidnight]

When I was a freshman in high school I dated a senior who wasn’t a psychopath, but was definitely a sociopath. Dude had a meltdown and I thought he was going to kill me and hide my body behind a dumpster after I bought a shirt from Ross without trying it on for him. He dragged me out of the mall by arm to confront me in the parking lot to demand to know why I didn’t ask his permission, and the whole time he had his fists knotted up in his hair like he was going to rip it out.

 

[Monika H.]

In University there was this girl in the same group of friends as me and my wife, and although she wasn't exactly a psychopath and did have some empathy, she still mostly didn't give a damn about anyone.
She had those narrow, cold eyes just like a snake. You noticed something was wrong with her because she smiled in the most inappropriate ways in the most inappropriate moments, a la Ted Bundy. She was kind and softspoken, but you knew there was something wrong with her from the start.

Thankfully I've never had a problem with her, but she did creep out my wife, a notable feat since usually my wife was the one creeping out others.
Some two years ago this woman either stabbed her boyfriend or broke a glass bottle on his head (versions vary) because she wanted to date a younger guy.
Said guy did not even know she wanted that and was best friend with her boyfriend of the moment.
And still against every good sense, he still went with her.
Didn't hear of any of them since.

 

[glass_houses]

I'm kind of dreading tomorrow, because our ex-housemate is coming over to pick up the fuckton of mail that's accumulated since we kicked him out. When he moved in he seemed a bit off, but other housemate and I have our own strong personality quirks so we're much very live and let live when it comes to others. (This is not necessarily a good thing.) He bought groceries daily citing concerns over 'contamination' and quickly began to borrow money off of me. He always paid me back but it was bizarre. He had a job and made over twice what I do on a pension and he was borrowing money off of me. Turns out he had a bit of a thing for the pokies. Then, about three weeks into his residency, he came home agitated saying he'd quit his job because of all the people at work talking about him on social media. His phone was bugged, there were forums online dedicated to talking about him, he had no privacy, none at all. Okay then.

Around about then he told me that he'd done a lot of time in jail. And tried to give me all sorts of graphic descriptions of what he'd like to do to the people who were 'following' him. I didn't care to listen, but he was persistent, usually while I was eating.

This was the beginning of a pattern. Roughly every six to eight weeks he'd have an episode where his paranoia intensified deeply, and he'd either quit his job or be fired for attacking someone at his work. Since he was a truck driver, there was always another depot to go to. He told me eventually that he'd been in jail for attempted murder and GBH and that he didn't regret it. He was also a former ice addict and I've no doubt it fried his brain. Soon these episodes began to be linked into a grand screaming tantrum while he was at home. Only if I was the only one home, mind; if our other housemate was home he'd keep it to himself, but if she wasn't, he'd be screaming, shouting, threatening people (sometimes me) and punching walls. While he was pretty friendly with me to start with, I myself eventually joined the endless ranks of people who talked about him on social media, who discussed him on multiple online forums (including the drug forums that the coppers watched and who were going to make it so he'd never see his kids again), the anonymous individuals who watched the house (I spent enough time in the front yard doing the gardening, take it from me, there was no one watching the fucking house), the radio announcer who gave him secret messages (no really, he legit believed he was getting secret messages over the radio) the shadowy cabal who'd bugged his phone, and the people who followed him around everywhere just because. Over time, he accused me of:

* Going into his room on a regular basis to go through his shit (I didn't)
* Going into his room to randomly steal some papers for shits and giggles (I didn't)
* Discussing him incessantly online on social media because he's just that fascinating (I didn't)
* Discussing him incessantly online on online forums because he's just that fascinating (I didn't)
* Spreading rumours about him online (I didn't)
* Tampered with his toiletries (I didn't)
* Broke the lights, mudflaps, and something else on his piece of shit ute that I don't remember (I didn't)

In return, he threatened to:

* Kill my rats
* Set my car on fire
* Shit in my food
* Contaminate the rest of the food in the shared fridge

At this point I'd had enough and told other housemate that we were giving him his two weeks notice. In actual fact we should have just kicked him straight out with no notice because he owed me $300 and he owed her $1000 in bills and rent, but he's a fuck huge Pacific Islander with a penchant for weights and boxing, and not to put too fine a point on it, he could easily turn us two women into smears of red goo. So the polite way it was. Two days after we gave him his notice he seemed calm enough, but during civil conversation over breakfast he turned the topic yet again to my alleged participation in social media and online forums focused on the discussion of him. As I tried to patiently explain to him that he wasn't that interesting and there were in fact no forums, he told me that there better not be, he told me that, "There had better not be. Because I know where you and other housemate live, and I know how to get into the place. And I'd show you what true evil is all about."

I ended up taking my rats and staying the rest of his notice period at a relatives. I consider myself thick skinned but my nerves were paper thin my that time. This man ended up knocking three kilograms off of me. I needed to lose the weight but I wouldn't recommend the method.

He had other fairly dramatic personality quirks but I won't get into them here. I'm just bewildered that he accused me of all this heinous shit violating his privacy yet we've still been getting his mail for a fucking month.

 

[Clovis]

I've known a lot of wonky/damaged people but the ones who stand out do so because there was something inherently wrong at a personality level, not because they had a shit upbringing or took too many drugs or whatever.

Spoiler: Narc Manbaby

I shared a house with a guy with narcissistic personality disorder for several years. Ive tried to block most of it out to be honest, but a few incidents stand out.
He was like a toddler, a monstrous overgrown manbaby who only had emotions, no rational mind. I remember me and another housemate standing over him while he writhed on the floor in a narc chimpout weeping and raging because when his girlfriend had broken up with him she hadn't been sufficiently heartbroken. The relationship had been effectively over for many months and shed moved on with a weight lifted from her shoulders. So we end up with a grown man rolling around the floor of his filthy room screaming "she's not even upset" over and over again until he suddenly gets over it and calmly gets up like nothing happened. He physically attacked me on many occasions, always precipitated by something unrelated. He'd get his ego bruised at work or lose face over something in front of his friends, take a few days to seethe over it subconsciously then erupt. He was very much like Russell Greer, in that he just re-wrote reality all the time to protect his ego, and was utterly impervious to logic. But unlike Russ, he could and would fight.
I remember the day (while he was tard-raging as usual) I realised he had no core sense of self, he was just an ego façade around a blank void where his personhood should be. I genuinely couldn't see him as human after that, it was like looking into the abyss, something man was not meant to know. I know that sounds melodramatic but it was genuinely horrifying to see a human body with no real human at the controls.
He was a sexual deviant, obsessed with his own physical beauty and was terrified of aging, had munchausens and used to ring the police or ambulance over his personal crises. It was a wild ride and if I remember any good stories I'll post them. Mostly it was just horrorcow territory, though- he hated other ethnicities and women, especially women who he felt had snubbed him and would hate stalk them and fantasize about them getting assaulted, humiliated or whatever. His rich parents would have done a lot to keep him out of trouble but I wouldn't be surprised if he's locked up by now. Or very successful. Could go either way, as he was superficially plausible and charming.

I also worked with a middle aged guy who was weirdly emotionally stunted, always seemed to be barely suppressing rage. Vocal in his hatred of his ex wife. Used to joke about the murder and torture of children. Had joint custody of his own kid. Admitted freely that he couldn't abide his own company and had to be constantly around others. Haven't seen him around for years, thank fuck. I worry about his kid though.

 

[snailslime]

they were just kind of strange and emotionless. not all batshit insane like in the movies

one did have a foot fetish though

 

[Monika H.]

Another one that popped up from memory, an ex manager of mine.
He looked very much like Lavrentji Berjia and I found out he very much acted the part - from being a badtouch with 20- years old interns to an amateurish yet scary secret investigator.

For starters, I had the chance to meet his wife and she was a woman way out his league, very beautiful, yet he made a point in explicitly ignoring her in public and even wrestling his hand away when she tried to hold it.
But he was full on Joe Biden with the female interns and the secretaries.
Second, he terrorized all the other managers and made them quit so he'd have more power and positions.
One of them was a cruel bitch herself so she kinda deserved it, but another one was just fine and quit because of this fat bastard.
Why you ask?
Well, during a meeting he answered her criticism by "casually" mentioning how he had more free time to work overtime than her, because he "didn't have to pick her 6 years old daughter from X school (he knew the name of the school) at X hour (he knew the hour) or take 8 years old daughter to volleyball in X gym at X hour on Y days".
The poor woman was terrified and quit two weeks later.
Like his historical husbando, the fat fuck never got sacked because he was that competent and made every office he worked in improve the performance and profits up to 70%.
I'm pretty sure that he beat/raped someone at a certain point.

 

[Guts Gets Some]

There are lots of insane homeless people who hang out in an alley by the house.

I've seen people banging in public over there, one bum actually called an escort to his alley once (), one time a bum was sleeping underneath the discarded remnants of a car tent I was tearing down in my yard, and worst of all, one time one stole one of my baskets (I use it to keep a board over the hole in the attic) and I went out to chase her down, bringing a metal club for protection.
As soon as I accused her of her action, she flipped the fuck out; clearly on meth and I just let it go. Of course I could've snapped her in half with one hit, but it wasn't worth the can of worms that would open. I let her have it.

Worst of all, she regularly came back to sleep in the middle of the street for a few nights until I finally called the cops on her. Homelessness and drugs, powerful combination.

 

[NIGGER ASS PEE POOPY RAPE]

* Discussing him incessantly online on online forums because he's just that fascinating (I didn't)
* Spreading rumours about him online (I didn't)

he turned the topic yet again to my alleged participation in social media and online forums focused on the discussion of him. As I tried to patiently explain to him that he wasn't that interesting and there were in fact no forums, he told me that there better not be, he told me that, "There had better not be. Because I know where you and other housemate live, and I know how to get into the place. And I'd show you what true evil is all about."

and there is a small chance he will find this forum post you made about him someday.

 

[ApatheticViewer]

True story I used to know this cousin up in Ohio who lived on a farm. He seemed ok and nice enough.

Anyways like 6 years after I met him he brutally murdered my grandfather by stabbing him to death. My grandmother hid under a car and had to get stitches across her face. No idea what happened to him. Still in prison I assume.

 

[drfuzzyballs]

An individual I know age 27, female
-Selfish, lying whenever its convenient
-Still mooching financially on mom sometimes racking up large expenses without permission
-slanders and screws people over for no discernible reason
-steals, makes promises with no expectation of keeping them

Nothing violent in her recent past though

 

[Wraith]

I've met a bunch. One was a fat ugly 3/10 chick who loved crap like serial killers and cannibals, tried to get someone to commit acts of pedophilia and constantly smelled like a sewer mixed with a pile of decomposing dead silk worms. Turned out she not only had ADHD but borderline personality so it explained the crazy, but didn't explain the pure evil. I think right now she's probably consuming a toddler whole as I write this.
Minus the obvious jokes, I'm not kidding about the other stuff. Terrifying cunt.

 

[Next Task]

I've known creeps, liars, drama queens and of course troons (who can be all three), but I don't know that I've spent time with actual psychos.

I've met several men - always men - who are quite cavalier about saying how they are borderline sociopaths according to tests, but they're inevitably online tests and it seems to mean they're just less invested and more emotionally distant than other people, rather than not being able to feel anything at all. Generally, if people are being particularly self-obsessed or selfish, though, I tend to avoid them before finding out if they're fully Cluster B or psycho.

I've known two people who have had psychotic/schizophrenic breaks, but they were friends of friends and I only ever spent time with them before the break happened, not during or after. But your brain betraying you and giving you all this false information is a nightmare scenario for me, so I can't help but feel bad for something like that, when someone's acting insane because, all of a sudden, their brain/body has decided to fuck them up. And that's very different to the people with personality disorders.

 

[Arcturus]

Well, there was one that I thought was just an edgelord at first. He was in his 20's. It was someone I had known for a few years but hadn't been very close to. We eventually did become closer friends later on and as he got more comfortable with me, he began sharing some very disturbing things. He told me he had a deep desire, not a fetish, to kidnap a woman and slowly torture her to death. Again, thought he was being edgy or possibly a guro weirdo. But then he went into vivid detail. Explained to me exactly what he'd want the woman to be like. That he'd recognize it in her eyes first. It had to be someone highly intelligent, but not so much so that he'd be depriving the world. Defiant. He wanted her to struggle. No drugging or gags. Had to remain defiant. He wanted to take her somewhere remote and strap her to a table so he could alternate between raping her at knifepoint and shoving spiked dildos into her ass and pussy. He said that he didn't want them to bleed to death, that it would be horrible and make him sad. He wanted to be sure to give them a good death and burial. He showed me several knives that he wanted to use. Preference for serrated knives.

I mostly responded with short questions instead of scurrying away because I was a teenager and more curious than cautious. (Yes, this was an adult man talking to a teenager. Yes, I was stupid.) He started showing me pictures of women he actually knew in person, most of them his friends' girlfriends. And told me they were exactly the type he wanted. I asked him at one point if he wanted to kill me and he said that he didn't want to tell me because it might scare me off. He also professed an interest in doing things to children. He told me he was surprised he was telling me any of this, but that he knew no one would believe me anyway so it was fine.

Unfortunately for him, I tricked him into having a more detailed conversation over AIM and sent the log to his friends. Including being able to show where he sent pictures of their girlfriends and described why he'd pick them. None of them were surprised and they told me that he'd always given them the creeps and that he said weird shit all the time but they'd assumed he was joking. The child comment obviously tipped everything into even more horrifying territory and his room mates wound up being so freaked out that they voted to kick him out of the house. I still have the chat log. I'd post it but I'm too lazy to fully redact names and picture links. I will post a small excerpt that I cleaned up though. It may be a bit difficult to follow because of the timestamp formatting. Looking back at this, I'm even more disturbed because he was really encouraging me to keep asking questions. Even when I didn't reply for about 20 minutes.

Spoiler: Chat portion

Him 6:28 am
(06:28:01): I'd have other tools if I had them captured.
(06:28:39): Ie: Dildos with spikes coming out
Me 6:28 am
(06:28:46): .. ow.
Him 6:29 am
(06:29:11): She won't feel it for long.
Him 6:29 am
(06:29:55): man....
(06:30:06): actually telling someone this...is so...exciting
Me 6:30 am
(06:30:45): So, wait. Would you be planning to make them bleed to death then?
Him 6:30 am
(06:30:53): No.
(06:30:5: That is a horrible death.
(06:31:23): If I pick someone I pick them for their beauty, I pick them for who I see when I look into their eyes.
(06:31:54): I haven't seen someone I'd consider in a long time.
Him 6:31 am
(06:31:59): I am picky as hell.
(06:32:29): and I'd give them a good death and good burial.
(06:32:5: or the best burial I can afford given the difficulty of transporting dead bodies.
Him 6:34 am
(06:34:30): but if they accidentally bled to death I would be sad.
Him 6:36 am
(06:36:43): any more?
Me 6:37 am
(06:37:57): Trying to think.
Him 6:38 am
(06:38:54): Now that I think about it
(06:38:59): I would like screams
(06:39:0: but I would also like a girl who was defiant
Him 6:52 am
(06:52:55): ?
Me 6:53 am
(06:53:12): Hmn?
Him 6:53 am
(06:53:2: I'm waiting
Me 6:53 am
(06:53:49): On what?
Him 6:53 am
(06:53:59): you to ask something else lol
(06:54:00): XP
Me 6:54 am
(06:54:3: Is the fear a factor as well?
Him 6:55 am
(06:55:1: oh god yes
Him 6:58 am
(06:58:33): It is why I would want to look into their eyes
(06:58:4: to see them being truly and honestly terrified to die.
Him 7:07 am
(07:07:33): just thinking about it...
Me 7:07 am
(07:07:45): What?
Him 7:08 am
(07:08:17): gets me aroused..
Him 7:10 am
(07:10:2: like...physically..
Me 7:10 am
(07:10:33): Is the urge to do it really intense?
Him 7:11 am
(07:11:03): yes...
Me 7:11 am
(07:11:54): Do you think you would do it though?
Him 7:12 am
(07:12:23): If i find my perfect target, possibly.
Him 7:14 am
(07:14:23): I would make sure I knew if they had family or anything like that.
Me 7:14 am
(07:14:31): What exactly would your perfect target be anyway?
Him 7:14 am
(07:14:36): I would refuse to have anything to guilt me about it.
(07:15:5: a beautiful woman, sexy and strong willed, someone with intellect but not so much so, I wouldn't want to hurt our race by ridding it of someone with a future.
(07:16:14): pale skin
Him 7:16 am
(07:16:35): and blonde with easy to read eyes
(07:17:09): age 17-26

Spoiler: No one would believe you

Him 7:50 am
(07:50:54): I also can't believe I have told you half of this...
(07:50:5: especially not names
(07:51:4: not that anyone would believe you
(07:51:51): lol

 

[Enola Straight]

Maybe? Not sure if she qualifies as a psycho but a dumb/crazy bitch with no morals for sure. My oldest sister
+ Lied about being pregnant, lied about getting an abortion, lied about the paternity of both of her kids and only a paternity test reveled the truth.
+ Swears up and down she owns half of one of the leading hospitals in the country after slipping on a floor while living the bathroom because a jannie left their mopping equipment out (yet lives in a two bed apartment)
+ Says her oldest son is a professional athlete drafting by the NFL, told him he was lying when he said "ma, you know that ain't right"
+ "Borrowed" about $12,000 for my mother and then got made when our mom got pissed, demanding it back and then proceeded to stop talking to her for the better part of a decade (a ploy to not pay her back, I'm sure)
+ When our mom died she started nasty rumors about her; mom owed her money, mom beat her, mom stole from etc
+ Again, "borrowed" $5,000+ from my dad who has a soft spot for all his kids. My dad is a geriatric, with a fading mind, and barely gets by financially, he took what little he had saved up and gave it to her - she promptly stopped answering his calls
+ Stole my others' sisters identity by giving a police offer her name when she was pulled over, resulting in my good sister getting a warrant for failure to appear in court. It was all worked out when the police officer who issues the ticket looks at her (at least 200lbs skinnier, younger) and realized this isn't the deranged hambeast he pulled over.
+ And my favorite quirk of hers, constantly posts Bible quotes on FB and tags myself and all the family about "You are forgiven"