Feel Free to post odd or unusual Phobia here

Ok I feel ok to post this cause I know no one will laugh at me. I was thanking Devi's Darkness for the vid's she posted on the profile forum.
the reason I thanked her is the nature of the videos they involved Knott's Scary Farms which back in the day if I wasnt a chicken I would have gone to in a heartbeat but alas I know have a very weird phobia that prevents me from going near a haunted house at Halloween..

I grew up on em every year as soon as I was old enough to handle it my mom would driver herself me and my cousin all over the midwest to check out whichever one looked really really good. This trend cont. after we moved to Denver. Even after I grew up I still went with my mom and my friends. Then something happened that would change my love of Haunted Houses forever.

It was Oct 1992 I was oh maybe 3 months along with my now 14 yr old wanted to go out have some fun cause here soon I wouldnt be able to see my feet lol.. So me and my Best Friend decide to hit the local radio stations haunted house it was ok kinda boring kinda sad we walked thru it mostly laughing. we get to the end long dark hall stairs leading up and out we think nothing of it, we go thru nothing happens were like well that was lame so as we are leaving a guy walks up and asks if we had a good time we tell him yes a proceed to walk away well all of a sudden out of no where the sound of a chainsaw fills the air and this same guy is chasing us with his chainsaw apprently he was suppose to be in long dark hall to scare the ppl as they come thru and was on a break. Anywho not a big deal we go were fine..

So halloween comes we decide to dress up and go to the the biggest and best of em all we go its great were having fun the process well were going thru we pretty much know what to expect we come to the part where "Leatherface" is suppose to come out our guide says to us now we are going to walk very slowly but if I say run then run well of course she wouldnt tell us to run not how it works lol.. Anywho like I said we had been to this one before one of the best Denver had to offer at the time well lets just say the min I heard "Leatherface" start up the chain saw I was gone I passed my best friend my boyfriend at the time the guide hell I even past the things that were suppose to happen to you before you get into the inside there I was waiting by the door for everyone with a look on their faces like WTF 😮 Didnt think anything of it Halloween was over was great loved every min of it..

Ok heres the weird phobia part I cant touch go near or ever associate myself with a Haunted House that has a chainsaw. Please dont ask why cause I myself dont even know. Might have something to do with the guy that chased me and my friend oh so long ago.

Now I can watch Texas Chainsaw Massacare til the cows come home I am a big horror movie fan just like I am a big Halloween fan alas that part of the Halloween fun I cannot do.

I will Lie my way out I will not go and if I do go and I am cornered by that thing I will hide in a bathroom and have security escourt me out of the bld trust me I have done it..
There is a plus side I actually went this yr to a haunted house bulit for a 5 yr old did it have a chainsaw yeah did I almost kill my mother trying to run and alienate everyone around me cause I just knew and I wasnt going to go but was made to go anyway sure but I went. I dont think I could do the ones that have em hardcore but I took one tiny baby step..

So there ya go my long drawn out story if anyone else has something to share or ask me any questions feel free...

I have 2 phobias -

1. I hate ants and they scare me to death.
2. I will not ever touch with my bare hands a bathroom door handle when entering or leaving the bathroom

OMG!!! I have the same phobia about the chainsaw leatherface thing in those stupid haunted houses at Halloween! I DREAD that last walk through the dark hall KNOWING I'm going to be chased out by Leatherface! So...I don't go anymore..what a baby I am. I remember the first time I saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre YEARS ago when it first came out at a drive in movie. The next day I was home alone (still lived at home with my parents, I was a teenager) and somebody in the neighborhood was using a chainsaw. I was in the kitchen doing some ironing and when I heard that chainsaw start up I thought I was going to pass out, the fear was unbelievable...well...guess since I had just seen that scary as hell movie the night before it was believable the fear I felt. I just about passed out I was so scared.
My second phobia is heights....especially at Glacier Point in Yosemite where you look straight down 3,500 feet...I have NIGHTMARES about falling from that.
Okay...third phobia...SNAKES !!! GREAT GOOGLYMOOGLIES...ewwwww

OMG!!! I have the same phobia about the chainsaw leatherface thing in those stupid haunted houses at Halloween! I DREAD that last walk through the dark hall KNOWING I'm going to be chased out by Leatherface! So...I don't go anymore..what a baby I am. I remember the first time I saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre YEARS ago when it first came out at a drive in movie. The next day I was home alone (still lived at home with my parents, I was a teenager) and somebody in the neighborhood was using a chainsaw. I was in the kitchen doing some ironing and when I heard that chainsaw start up I thought I was going to pass out, the fear was unbelievable...well...guess since I had just seen that scary as hell movie the night before it was believable the fear I felt. I just about passed out I was so scared.
My second phobia is heights....especially at Glacier Point in Yosemite where you look straight down 3,500 feet...I have NIGHTMARES about falling from that.
Okay...third phobia...SNAKES !!! GREAT GOOGLYMOOGLIES...ewwwww

Thanks Judy now I dont feel so bad

Hey Ms Lola, I got to thinking about your phobia and what lead up to it and my thoughts are, you had walked down this long dark hall and nothing happen's you get outside where reality has come back and you know you are out of "the danger zone" so to speak, all the monsters are safely inside the building where they should be. Then this guy who looks normal I'm assuming comes up and asks "Did you have fun", you answer him and start walking. Next thing you know here comes that normal guy with a chainsaw after you...some how the danger zone had now left the building and was behind you and running after you...Fake was now mixed up with reality and your subconsious was not able to process it quick enough and fear took over and continues when ever you get around a haunted attraction and a phobia is born. When your in a haunted attraction you know it's fake and nothing can happen to you, there is saftey in that, but when it over flows into reality that is another matter and the mind has a hard time dealing with that, suddenly your safe zone is gone...This is just an idea and you can pretty much think I'm full of it...but I would so love to see you enjoy the thrill of haunted houses again..I love them so much and hate to think someone else has lost the fun of it...
My phobias are big spiders and clowns..I love the evil crazy clowns but those crazy silly ones freak me out...

😆 I'm cracking up about Tim's phobias...ants and germs??? Too friggin' funny!! He wouldn't be afraid of Ouija Boards, demons, anything like that of course! 😉

Hey Ms Lola, I got to thinking about your phobia and what lead up to it and my thoughts are, you had walked down this long dark hall and nothing happen's you get outside where reality has come back and you know you are out of "the danger zone" so to speak, all the monsters are safely inside the building where they should be. Then this guy who looks normal I'm assuming comes up and asks "Did you have fun", you answer him and start walking. Next thing you know here comes that normal guy with a chainsaw after you...some how the danger zone had now left the building and was behind you and running after you...Fake was now mixed up with reality and your subconsious was not able to process it quick enough and fear took over and continues when ever you get around a haunted attraction and a phobia is born. When your in a haunted attraction you know it's fake and nothing can happen to you, there is saftey in that, but when it over flows into reality that is another matter and the mind has a hard time dealing with that, suddenly your safe zone is gone...This is just an idea and you can pretty much think I'm full of it...but I would so love to see you enjoy the thrill of haunted houses again..I love them so much and hate to think someone else has lost the fun of it...
My phobias are big spiders and clowns..I love the evil crazy clowns but those crazy silly ones freak me out...

thank you Donna I have figured out thats what it was the guy took away my feeling of being safe but now a days in haunted houses thats usually what they do chase you in out doesnt matter.. I am trying this yr I will maybe make it to the local one that a guy does in his house see I know there is a chainsaw and the reason I know is cause my finacee went this past halloween I swear I would have took off w/o him if that guy so much as came near my car lol.. But thank you again I dont think your a raving lunatic lol you have backed me up on what I have thought to be a very odd phobia and it doesnt help that the ones that you love around you think your nuts lol..

yup i have some too

1/ knives..not steak knives but butcher knives..i have to keep my hidden away as not to see them..if i have to cut something...i try anything but the butcher knife..or hope if company is here they can do the cutting...i have a large fear of being killed by one..if im anywhere i will look away or leave the room

2/ a fear of aluminum ladders..refuse to go up one at all even at work ( that fear i know as my brother was electrocuted well on one..

3/ being locked inside a small place..also was at a haunted house as a teen and was wondering thru with my girlfriend..got into the bathroom..only candles going..went to exit the bathroom the door was locked..went and turned around to go out the other door, it was locked to..in the walls where what i believe to be holes..with little light..and my girlfriend and i panicing..suddenly arms where trying to grab us everytime we moved..they could see us but we could not see the hands...we were locked in the bathroom for 15min...not a joke...but it was part of the haunted houses joke..they made everyone who went into the bathroom have to wait it out for 15 min....

4/ fear of driving over high bridges over water, like in ontario we have the Burlington bridge..i have panic attacks when going over them..and i refuse to drive on the bridge..

train 😳

aww Lola. Well unfortunately they do have chainsaws at Knott's Scary Farm and the monsters do enjoy chasing you (none of them in normal attire though. That's get them fired) Chainsaw guys can scare me at times too. When I went in '06 I was walking out of a store at the evil carnival/circus themed section where clowns run around with Chainsaws (these guys are good at what they do)....well turns out one of the chainsaw wielding clowns was standing right outside the doorway waiting for the perfect victim (happened to be me and the girls behind me at the time) and started up his saw. Needless to say I ran back into the store and hung out there for a while lol.

Here's my weird phobia(s)

1) my mind doesn't like to process that the glass at big aquariums are able to hold all that glass. I'm pretty much ok when it's a wall-like thing (it took work to be pretty much ok with it, but I'm better at it now and can even get close enough to touch the glass), but you absolutely cannot get me to go through a tunnel-like one calmly. I've worked on this part a couple times at Sea World's Shark Encounter, I went from not being able to go through at all (I'd take the emergency exit right before the tunnel after nearly having an anxiety attack a couple times) and now I can manage to walk quickly through it. I can't even go through the tunnel-like ones in my dreams. They'll give me nightmares. Another one that freaks me out is the floor aquariums. I found this out one year when I went to Sea World in Florida and they had a floor aquarium and some little boy ran in and began jumping up and down in the glass part. I ran out and wouldn't go back in. What's funny about this phobia is that it has nothing to do with the animals that are in the water. I love marine animals and even wanted to be a marine biologist until I discovered this phobia of mine and it lead me to a different path.

2) my other phobia, somewhat related to the previous one, is that I can't get myself to go into the ocean deeper then my shoulders. I get freaked out at the thought of very deep ocean water.

A friend of mine recently mentioned that these might be a sign of claustrophobia and if it I might know where it started. Back in elementary school when a couple "friends" of mine played a nasty trick on me in the school bathroom and with the Bloody Mary legend. To this day still I won't be in the same room as someone messing around with the Bloody Mary legend because of it. If you want to know the trick feel free to ask. It was a long time ago so I'm ok with talking about it.

3) my third and a more common phobia is one of spiders. I don't mind daddy long legs (even though they're said to have the most poisonous venom). I honestly can't even look at a picture of a spider without being very uncomfortable, but I can watch movies where the spiders are cgi (i.e 8 legged freaks, arachnophobia). I even once spent the night sleeping on my computer chair cause a spider had crawled across my pillow and I couldn't catch it in time to kill it.

oh know the carnival talk, reminded me of one more phobia i have

😮 CLOWNS 😮

never liked them ever...then my real father comes home one day when i was like 7 and took down my moms picture in the livingroom and put up a huge picture of clowns...whenever they went out, i would take that sucker down and hide it and put it back up before they came home..i cannot go to any type of circus at all, nor watch them on tv...i remember even trying to watch house of a 1,000 corpses..loved that moved but the clown get ups would have me living the room to get a drink....good lordy they are scary..and they are supposed to be fun for children...even Ronald McDonald has me running 😮

train
haha yea laugh....clowns terrify me.....im sure there are others

thanks DD and I know that why I avoid places like that like the plauge only back in the day I mean back in the day ie before phobia I would be the first to sign up to go..

Ok remember in my orginal post I said that I had security escourt me out of the building once no lie it actually happened.. About a yr maybe 2 I think my son was 12 before we moved from Las Vegas to the midwest they had something called Frighdome at Circus Circus which I guess you could say is a minature Knott's scary farms anywho.. So my son was just getting over being afraid of haunted houses he never went into never had my passion for em ect so we were really exicted to take him the only condition was it couldnt have things like the bigger attractions ie ppl walking around scaring the guest. So I called ahead cause this attraction was expensive like 40 bucks anywho and they assured me that no no actors were wandering the park all the actors were confined to inside the haunted houses. I know I was calling for my son but in a way I was calling for myself also, so we convince him to go my mom and her best friend were gonna go in the haunted houses while my son and I would be nearby enjoying the assorted rides and such well we were on our way to do just that when bam the sound of a chain saw fills the air.. OMG I didnt even have to see the sucker to know he was around boom I grab my son and we take off to some utlity area behind the concession stand, I wait for the coast to be clear I figured maybe it was just coming from the haunted house so when we didnt hear anything we go to leave and there it was again only this time not only do I hear but I see his shadow around the corner omg we flew into the woman's bathroom so fast it wasnt even funny, long story short too late I know lol I convince one of the cleaning staff that I am pregnant which I wasnt btw to go get security so they could escourt out of the attraction so we could leave without being messed with.. then I proceed to wait outside said attraction for my mom and her friend to finish up having fun... After that I swore it off all together to big a risk in my mind..

I do however really think what Donna said is true they have crossed the threshhold from fanstasy and into your reality, now a days its in your face and in the line before you go in and it follows you and chases you and traps you in a corner and we are going to push you until you cant take anymore..

Gone are the haunted house where the boo is just enough or the following too close to scare you is just enough or the being in a dark room knowing someone is going to scare you was just enough...

I have tried several years after 93, I tried in 95 and 96 in 95 same haunted house I went dressed up too in 93 only this time it was in a hollowed out log oh hell no you aint getting me anywhere I cant run and in 96 went to a haunted house thought I could handle it saw the guy with the chainsaw behind the couch thought I would have enough time to run nope boom they had a guy in the corner I was outta there... Doesnt matter I think it was then and there I swore off having that type of fun.. Do I miss it? Yes I do Halloween is one of my favorite times of year.One day I hope I can overcome it very doubtfull I have been living with it for a very very long time..

My biggest fear is WORMS. That is a shame due to the fact I love to to fish. Give me a minnow,spring lizard,cricket what ever and I will bait my own hook without blinking and eye. I am not touching no freaking worm LOL. Another draw back of my fear is I love to garden...well where there is dirt there are worms....yuck.

I don't like the dark and I can not sleep without a light or my tv on. I see shadows and things. Which is unnerving when I don't expect to see them. I am an avid paranormal investigator and I would be the first one in at a creepy graveyard or old abandoned house...but I am not sleeping in the dark LOL.

My biggest fear is WORMS. That is a shame due to the fact I love to to fish. Give me a minnow,spring lizard,cricket what ever and I will bait my own hook without blinking and eye. I am not touching no freaking worm LOL. Another draw back of my fear is I love to garden...well where there is dirt there are worms....yuck.

I don't like the dark and I can not sleep without a light or my tv on. I see shadows and things. Which is unnerving when I don't expect to see them. I am an avid paranormal investigator and I would be the first one in at a creepy graveyard or old abandoned house...but I am not sleeping in the dark LOL.

oh my! you all sure do have some very unique phobias! thanks Lola, good thread! i like Donna's thoughts on it. i know it's all to do with how we process things and where we are etc etc. connected.

i don't think i have a phobia, but more of a fear. glad it's not worms! oh my ilook4spirits! i love worms..and bugs, spiders, ants.. in fact i love all living creatures..even down to those funky little mites. why? just cuz i grew up being around them in our massive backyard jungle! yup, dad never mowed the lawn..and we had plenty of fruit trees and corn. mmm.. a good place to snack for any kid! i wish the family still owned it today.

my fear is of pain.. needles for sure! 😮 i fainted more than i can count, as a kid, in school. i have fainted on a crowded bus where i have to stand and no windows are open (claustrophobia for sure), and i've fainted at the dentist far too many times!
what did i do about it? i got my ears pierced as a young teen, my nose pierced as an adult, a part of my body tattooed..and i survived each time without fainting! 😁 so i hope i'm over it..although i don't visit the dentist enuf.. i'm sure. hahaha! 😉

i choke up, think about it too much, my head starts spinning and i'm out like a light. 😳
i'm glad i joined a paranormal group, so that i am in the dark, and/or in closed spaces.. and i've not been afraid yet. spooked mind ya, but not afraid.

now what do we do about our phobias?

spook

your welcome spook Im glad I had a great bunch of ppl to share my wacky phobia with.. your question what do we do with our phobias?

Well I for a number of years have avoided mine seemed like the logical thing to do to take care of it.. But sometimes avoidance is not the cure. I have a legitment phobia same as Steve G from ghosthunters sometimes meeting it head on is not the way to go lol cause your brain takes over for your body so to speak and that one part of the brain that says run will maike you run even though your body and other parts of your brain want you to stay and enjoy the ride... Like I said I took a baby step this past yr I went to a haunted house with my mom my son and my fiancee who had never been to a haunted house in his life and at first I didnt want to go I bit$hed and moaned and complained wasnt doing it but then I really didnt have a choice lol you see it was a haunted hayride/hauntedhouse so if you wanted to go back the way you came you kinda had to go thru but I got thru it like it said it was kinda made with small children in mind.. But its the fact I faced it kinda and found out hey Im ok.. Now could I face one of the hardcore ones where they are in your face? Doubtful.. All I know is if I keep on trying or taking babysteps so to speak I might just be ok..

Oh I've got the phobia's too! Heights, bridges over water, piers, walk Bridges, Grand Canyon, Airplanes, any high cliffs where the dogs get to close. (My choco lab jumped down a 10 foot cliff to where I was once but that was after I had already had this problem.) Dark basements and Oh yea and Texas (jk)

I use to be afraid of crowds until I learned why. I learned that I can feel people's emotions and when in a crowd they would become overwhelming. I have now learned that I am intuitive and this is why I can feel other people's stuff. I have learned to put up protective shields when going into crowds and am doing much better at it.

I am scared to death of snakes, but where I live snakes are a part of life. Our previous dog got bit by two baby rattle snakes (both quite costly) different instances, both times I was home alone and had to kill them so as to not hurt our other dogs, then not to long after she cornered and got bit by a five foot long gardener snake. This year in the span of one month we had four snakes. Now when I see a snake my first thought is to get the dogs out of harms way. Inside the house...grab two valiums and a big drink of water. Then I get my Gopher thingie it is the long thing that you squeeze like a gun and the other end picks things up...Very handy snake grabber, mind you...I grab them, screaming all the while and I throw them into a storage container with a huge rock on top until my hubby comes home and takes care of it. The last snake we had this year I was out walking the dogs and the birds were making a commotion up in a tree. I was looking up in the tree to see what all the noise was and you guessed it up five feet in that tree, and about two feet away from my face, wound around the tree was a five foot California Knight Snake. YIKES!!!! Non poisonous, mind you but that does not make it any better. I calmly remove the dogs to the house then freak out!!!!!

Ok the other one is Outhouses and public bathrooms..... Give me a bush by the side of the road any day over a public bathroom, yuck!!!!!!!
Kiva