I saw that thing about the baby frogs coming out of holes on the mommy frog’s back and believe that is the absolute grossest, heebie-jeebiest, creepiest thing on this planet, maybe the whole solar system. Eeeeeyyyyyuuuuuucccccckkkkkkk!!!
You’re darn tootin’ they are!
Opal - I’m with you on the water thing. I freak in deep water. That’s why I don’t go swimming off a boat in the middle of a lake. Ponds? No problem. Pools? - pshaw. Deep lake? Nope.
I have a variation of Slortar’s “bottom of the canyon” fear. I hate walking by tall buildings - anything over 20 stories. I won’t look up. I don’t know what the fear is. But even before 9/11 I have just been afraid they will fall on me. I could never live in a large city.
I also have this insane fear that one day, while I’m standing at a public urinal, someone will walk up behind me and shoot me. Then my last sight will be my innards splattered all over the inside of the urinal. I tense up if I’m all alone in a public restroom and someone walks up behind me.
Call me strange.
I had to stop reading the thread; I was getting lots of new ideas for phobias.
I really don’t think any fear is irrational; life is damn dangerous. I can get terrified in about three seconds in any situation you can think of.
Ever since I saw “Memento” I have had nightmares about having an injury that causes me to lose my memory. It creeps me out. I find myself frightened of anything that could injure my head - I won’t ride rollercoasters anymore, that’s for sure.
You know those warning labels on deodorant? The ones that say not to put it on broken skin? My fear is accidentally placing it on broken skin.
I have this one too, probably because I live in Los Angeles. I’ll slam on the brakes if I spot anyone riding even with me on the freeway.
Every time I step into the bathroom, I peek inside the shower to make sure that no one is hiding in there waiting to ambush me. I’m also very uneasy at the public urinal, especially at highway rest stops. I always think robbers are waiting to literally catch me with my pants down.
And I absolutely hate the Emergency Broadcast System. This wave of panic jolts through my body, and I don’t calm down until I am assured that “this is only a test”. They used to make the announcement before the tone, but now they just abruptly cut in with this loud screechy noise. I always expect the voice to say that the missiles are in the air.
I saw a tv show once about these guys who found an abandoned video camera inside The Catacombs underneath Paris. When they played the tape it showed a guy who was just poking around filming bones and stuff in the beginning, but as it progressed the guy realized he was lost and started freaking out and just running down corridors in a panic. At one point he drops the camera and all you can see is him running into the blackness. The show then went on to say how there are miles and miles of uncharted and abandoned corridors down there, and if someone got lost deep down in there they’d most likely never be found.
Well, that just scared the pants off of me. I will never, ever go to Paris in case I happen to fall through the sidewalk and get lost in The Catacombs.
(The same thing goes for Seattle!)
Ugghh, I had this one too, also before sept. 11 and the worst thing was…I got it while in the world trade center. This was a long time ago and they were doing some kind of construction on the first floor of one of the towers and they had these giant pillar-things all over as part of their scaffolding/stuff. Anyway all I remember was getting this horrible creepy feeling as I realized how tall the building above me was and what would happen if the pillars were removed and the entire building just crushed down on me.
At the time people would have told me I was insane to fear that happening, but now I REALLY don’t like tall buildings…not being next to them, but being on the bottom floor of one.
I’ve done that. It wasn’t a big deal, it just burned and I wiped it off. But I can understand the fear.
I’m always afraid that a ladder or a log or something like that will fall of the back of a truck and come through my windshield and kill me.
I stay SO far behind vehicles carrying things like this.
I’m with you people who have problems with holes. There’s one brand of computer monitors that have sort of a fractal pattern of round holes for cooling on the side. I can’t even look at them, they creep me out so much.
And crab legs. I can eat the meat, but I can’t stand to LOOK at them. They look like big bug legs to me.
I ordered them just once. Before and after I ate them, I had to hide them under a napkin. Now I stick with crab cakes and deviled crab.
MARINE ONE: Whatever you do stay out of the Field Museum and The Shed Aquarium in Chicago…just a minute I think that’s where you saw the whale
Quite a while back this happened to someone here, except it was like a fence post thing, Yikes.
Wow, almost too many to count! The big one is getting stuck in an elevator. I try really hard to stay out of tall buildings, and if I have to get in an elevator, i have to stand with my back to the door. Freaks people out!
I also can’t sit with my back to a window when I’m watching a scary movie on TV. The back of my neck gets all crawly!:eek:
Oh, and closed shower curtains (not when I’m in it) and getting trapped in the stall in a public toilet.
I have an odd fear of knives too. I’m not scared of most of the usual things, such as rodents or snakes, but I’m afraid of vampires. I KNOW they’re not real, I really do, but ever since I was little and watched Dracula, I’ve been terrified of them. There’s no way I’d watch any of the Anne Rice based movies or read her books. I’d have nightmares forever.
Another weird thing I’m afraid of is the NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) machine at work. This thing has a huge ultra-strong magnet and even though it’s in a room by itself, whenever I walk down the hallway past it, I check to make sure I’m not wearing anything metal that’s going to be attracted by the magnet and cause me to be sucked through the door and into the room.