Weirdest phobia...

garrynolan

... so far is... Banana (bananaphobia - really)! Girl I worked with absolutely terrified of them. Lots of fun until we realised how serious it was for her mental wellbeing. Any odder ones that you know someone actually suffers from?

markyboy2005

My Wife's youngest brother is scared of leeks and for a short time I had a girlfriend who was scared of feet!!

term1te

As a student I shared a house with a girl who had a mortal phobia of tortoises. A courgette, two SwanVester match heads, a cereal bowl and a dish cloth later we had a tortoise on the table with just its head and beady red eyes poking out from under the dish cloth. When the poor girl came into the room and saw it, she went white became silent and backed out of the room very slowly. She didn't talk to us for several days.

DIESELDOG

Mines Flasheart

DD

Flasheart

Should have known you would post something like that DD

The poor girl fears I may be an Axe-Murderer.
Silly really when all my friends know I'm more a blunt weapon kind of guy. :twisted:

MichaelW

One guy at work had a Dwarf phobia.

The whole point of phobias is that they are irrational. I dont think there is any evolutionary advantage to fear of tortoises but Testudinidaephobia is no laughing matter.
Unlike Coilrophobia (fear of clowns).

DIESELDOG

Unlike Coilrophobia (fear of clowns).

Shudders... I don't do clowns.

DD

Flasheart

I dunno mate. There's some clowns that live & drive around my way that worry me :roll:

Bunneh

Scared of wind turbines.

disquieting_museeuws

I have a terrible dread of large expanses of water. This is pretty rational of course, but just being in a bath can scare me quite badly!

MarcBC

A French friend of mine who is a martial arts champion and downright fearsome lady has a phobia of frogs (the amphibian, not her countrymen).

Flasheart

disquieting_museeuws wrote:

I have a terrible dread of large expanses of water. This is pretty rational of course, but just being in Bath can scare me quite badly!

Here, I fixed that for you

disquieting_museeuws

Flasheart wrote:

disquieting_museeuws wrote:

I have a terrible dread of large expanses of water. This is pretty rational of course, but just being in Bath can scare me quite badly!

Here, I fixed that for you

Obviously the Romans had the same problem as me, so they took a load of friends in with them.

AndyF16

I don't claim to know anyone with it, but i've always loved the old pub quiz favourite Arachibutyrophobia; the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of one's mouth

re-cycles

Not quite a phobia, but I can't be in a room with more than one timepiece unless they show the same time. If there are 2 clocks and they're not the same time I get a panic attack. When I was younger this caused my friends to have much fun at my expense!

Bozman

Egg custard, Rob Brydon and that bit of water between a ship and the harbour wall.

sfichele

I have a friend who is terrified of foam and anyone dressed up in costume, such as foam banana

cyclingmev

i don't like anything in or anywhere near my belly button.... :roll:

Flasheart

DIESELDOG wrote:

Unlike Coilrophobia (fear of clowns).

Shudders... I don't do clowns.

DD

Well there goes my chance of getting laid then

Garrigou

Extractor fans. And God only knows what the Latin for that is.

DIESELDOG

Garrigou wrote:

Extractor fans. And God only knows what the Latin for that is.

quite like a John Deere or a Massey myself...

DD

verylonglegs

I've had claustrophobia but only in dreams, had quite a few where I'm almost stuck in unusually narrow, low stairways or trying to get through passageways but in the real world when I'm awake such close spaces don't bother me a bit. Work that one out!

gregster10217

Having my teeth smashed out!? Tripped on a rug in spare room a few years ago about two weeks before our wedding and couldn't break my fall. Hit the window sill full on with my forehead, but had dreams about hitting it with my mouth/teeth and them all being smashed out, and the agonising pain that would be associated with such an injury.

Pigtail

I once heard a woman phone into a radio programme to say her sister was terrified of bald men. As a child she had been standing in a queue in a shop with a bald man standing in front of her. She started screaming, as she thought it was someone without a face, and she has been scared of bald men ever since.

fleshtuxedo

I knew someone who stayed away from doorsteps, was frightened of milk bottles...

jellybellywmb

Cows!! Terrify me.

Worst is when you see them crossing over a motorway on those bridges, I have a fear they are going to jump off into my car.

Once got caught in my car on a lane when the farmer was moving cows across to another field and was surrounded, I was physically sick!

shouldbeinbed

A girl I worked with was convinced that all football mascots are the disguise of sex pests and rapists and she was terrified if they so much as looked at her.

I've never been on a plane and am very happy with that arrangement. Even decommissioned ones are off limits.

TLDNMCL

Had a girl at work who was afraid of peas (not pees!).

As a youth I did a milk round rather than a paper round - the guy I worked for was afraid of the dark & spiders; can't help thinking he was in the wrong job...

My best pal threatened to smash my face in after I convinced him that I had cleared the giant spider from the stairs he had to walk down (I hadn't - couldn't catch the bu$$er).

Strangest one - I once knew a bloke who was afraid of cotton wool :?