Strange things that give you the heebie jeebies?

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Was chatting about this with some friends recently. Lighthearted!

I have an irrational fear of sunflowers. They're HUGE! I also go a bit cold when I drive past big industrial structures like cooling towers.

Anyone else get the jeebies over something strange?

Very high ceilings, especially double height ones. They’re OK in a church, but I don’t like very high ceilings in houses. The thought of painting them, cleaning them or putting up Christmas decorations makes me shudder. I mentioned this to a friend and she said that one of her colleagues had died in a fall while putting up her Christmas decorations.

I went ice-skating a few times when I was younger, but one day I had this vision of falling over on the ice and someone skating over my fingers. I don’t think I’ll ever do it again.

So true - sali hughes shoehorns it into her guardian article almost every week and it’s made me dislike her irrationally!

Sorry!!

Another one for me is snot. Even with the kids, I could never handle snotty noses or even cleaning up snot if it ended up on something. My toddler nephew once sneezed in my face and snot landed on my cheek. I have never moved so fast in my life!

That is precisely the one. All right coming back towards Bristol, but heading into Somerset on the elevated section makes me wish my brother would move from Devon... I'd close my eyes only I'm always driving.

Looking at photos of shipwrecks makes me want to leave planet earth.

I have a recurring dream of being in a massive house with very high ceilings shudder !!

I didn’t know what this was so Googled it. (the drain thing, not ketchup obviously)

Wish I hadn’t. 🫣

Sorry! There are others but I used to live near that one and sail on the Derwent. Heebie Jeebies is the right expression!

Horizontal high rises. They look like they’re going to stand up right by themselves.
Those huge containers falling from cargo ships into the ocean. (That’s your fault TicTok)🤣
As you’ll can probably tell by my UN I adore Spiders. However dead ones terrify me.

I don’t like tomato soup or tomato ketchup as it makes me think of blood. 😱

This thread has opened up some deep fears recessed in my mind.

As a child I was petrified of operating theatres with surgeons with masks on. No direct experience, but I think it was possibly the fact that half their faces were obscured and it just seemed so sinister. I thought I had grown out of the fear - until Covid when it all came flooding back and the thought of everyone, including myself, wearing masks filled me with horror. When it was announced that we would be required to use them in public places, I started feeling the old panic bubbling up again. I coped because we had to, but avoided public interaction as much as possible so I didn’t have to deal with a face covering on myself or others. It seems so bizarre that that worried me far more than the virus. Even now if I see someone in the shops with one on, I have to look away otherwise I can feel my heart pounding.

I totally get the post about WW2 gas masks as well. I think it’s a similar thing to do with obscured faces. I absolutely hated the Christopher Eccleston Dr Who episode where the monsters were children whose facial features had morphed into gas masks and they kept knocking on doors asking, “Are you my mummy?”
Aaagh! 😳

Yes it was horrible

I had a tooth extracted as a dc and the rubber mask they put over your mouth to give anaesthetic was frightening

I think it was that or a bit of rubber within mouth, can't quite remember but was traumatised

Can I add the sphinx in Egypt? If anyone could explain why that is so horrifying to me, I would love to know. I hate seeing it in pictures.

Oh- I need to add reconstructions of hominids. Australopithecus and all those. I cant do people in gorilla costumes either!

Wooden ice lolly sticks …. my blood is running cold just thinking about them

Walking barefoot or in socks, in the kitchen and feeling crumbs underfoot and stuck to your foot or sock.

Loading the dishwasher and getting food debris on my hands.

Caving and pot-holing. When those Thai boys got stuck in the caves in 2018 I couldn’t bear it.

Lorries driving behind me, especially at night. Passing lorries on the motorway, especially when in a small car.

I've just remembered another one. When I worked in an office, there was a woman who took her shoes off at her desk and padded about in her tights all day. The flooring at the time (1980s) was really bristly green carpet tiles, and the thought of her tights scratching along on the tiles still gives me the horrors!

Electricity pylons if I'm close to them. Seeing them in the distance is no problem, but seeing them close up gives me goosebumps.
Especially if there's a cluster of them.

I’m don’t feel safe around pylons either. I blame the public information films which terrified me as a kid. I was never going to make the mistake of flying my kite next to a pylon or throwing a frisbee into a substation. So I guess the films worked.

I’m also convinced that pylons make a horrible, high-pitched crackling sound that’s barely audible yet hurts my head.

I think there's something in the pylons thing, especially when wet. There is one in my old horses field and the grass got steadily longer from about 10 feet away until it was untouched underneath.
Even the bastard bane of my life rabbits steered clear, especially when it was raining, and they were fond of eating and digging holes in the grazing generally.

I think it might be they emit a frequency or something that we can sense but not hear?

Yes!! The one that sticks in my mind was the woman who's ridiculously fake bazookas exploded on the plane. Although I'm not ashamed to say I laughed way more than I should have done at that.

Oh yeah I hate masks. Those Venetian ones on a stick.

Caving and pot-holing. When those Thai boys got stuck in the caves in 2018 I couldn’t bear it.

The nutty putty story knocks me sick. What on Earth is fun about that?🤮

Getting the cuffs of my sleeves wet