What gives you the heebiejeebies?

[AnnieCartwright]

For me it's people (especially men - yes, I'm being sexist) who shake hands like a limp lettuce. Takes all myself control not to wipe my hand down my side ....

What's yours?

My DH gets the heebiejeebies about the Tesco Express on Holland Park road! I just asked him about it and he said “it’s just not right, that place”. Luckily for him we no longer live in London so he doesn’t have to go in any more!

@PerditaMacleod

The seeds in the middle of peppers, also melons.

Omg I thought I was the only one! The inside of a pepper disgusts me, really makes my skin crawl. Those clusters of seeds... 🤢

Ventriliquist dolls scare the shit out of me, and this fear is extended to some other types of puppets.

Also art deco buildings. This fear began when I watched a horror called house of wax. Then the fear escalated when I worked in a mental hospital that used to be one of the early asylums. In the grounds were all these deserted art deco buildings which really didn't help the general creepy feeling of the place.

@PrincessHoneysuckle
I posted it to show what I meant about my weird fear of large objects in water. I remember seeing the image a while back and being really freaked out by it!

@stormwhale
Omg I remember that film House of Wax, it was horrible! Really scary!

Seeing huge man made things close up like dams, tall bridges etc. I hate when you go on a plane and have to see it before you get on it rather than go in through the tunnel thing.
On the same note ships out of water or massive ships in water. I don't think I could go on one of those huge cruise ships.

Moths and butterflies.

Eggs, they're just so weird.

Seafood, it's like eating insects.

Loads of food ones, although I've got much, much better. I once gagged because I ate cucumber that wasn't from my usual supermarket

People touching my nose.

Breathing in hot air, like in a sauna or when you get off a plane in a hot country.

Oh god sloths - yes!

Touching potatoes. It's all right once the potatoes are in water, but there seems to be a special kind of dry, potato-specific dirt that sends chills up my spine, the same way nails on a chalkboard will. I don't mind dirty carrots, and it doesn't seem to be a problem with sweet potatoes...

Derelict buildings and derelict empty swimming pools. Angel statues

Wet wool
Polystyrene
Banana skins
Any kind of sauces that mix eg gravy and cauliflower cheese sauce or juice from a fruit pudding and custard
Seaweed

Also those logs with pennies lodged in them. Why for the love of god why?
Or trees with fungi on them.

Bare feet, especially when they're in manky sandals with the dirty footprint imprinted in the sole 🤮

Spiders, beetles, daddy long legs, cockroaches and sea weed. I can't explain the latter

So relieved other people are scared of sharks in swimming pools. I've so many evacuation strategies prepared in my head incase it ever happens!

Also, drinks served in black containers especially, shudder, tea in black plastic like on thermos flasks.

Men in flip flops
Woodlice

Dead animals on the road. Gives me shivers down my spine every time I pass one.

MrsJayy I share your horror for fungus on trees 😱. I used to live in the middle of nowhere and the main road to my house had a huge tree with the hugest horror you could imagine growing on it. I used to do a detour of a good few miles just to avoid it. I also appear to have trypophobia - I've seen some real horrors that have actually made me gag. The fake infected boob that did the rounds on FB stayed with me for a long time. I also get the shudders about hyperdontia - I've shuddered just typing the word.

The floors of the changing rooms in public swimming pools

Eels and Lamphries

Vintage carousels/merry go rounds . The plinky plonky music makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

The thought of foil accidentally touching my teeth.

Dam/reservoir walls, regular sized ones, with basically a concrete slab separating 100m of water on one side from a 100m valley the other. And those reservoir drains you see.

Swimming in very deep, open water, when you know there's at least 1000m of water beneath you (yacht crewing experience in the Pacific).

Deep water that is enclosed - like in a pool. I remember 20 years ago my GCSE physics textbook has a picture of a nuclear reactor or something with this deep water tank. It didn’t look that big until you looked closely and could see a tiny little man standing next to it and suddenly realised it was huge and incredibly deep. shudders

The moveable floor in our local diving pool similarly freaks me out. The pool was used for swimming lessons with the floor at around 1m but I was always aware that underneath my feet was 4m of black empty water.

Also hate sponge (not the cake, the thing you would wash with). It makes me feel hot, cold and goosebumpy.

And steam-driven fairgrounds organs with the little animated figures, pretty much until the time my wonderful dad told me he hated them too, which 'normalised' my fear.

@Badtasteflump Isnt it horrible, like a parasite living off a tree

'Greensleeves' the song. Less now than before, it's been parodied on medieval spoofs enough for me to disassociate a bit.

Tho Harlequin 😳

My kids have that play doh hairdressing set.

When the play doh comes through the holes...I swear it makes me sick in my mouth. I can’t look at it.