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?

I came on to say that, even thinking about them makes my mouth water like I'm going to be sick 🤮

Dams. I get an awful feeling in the pit of stomach if we have to drive past one. And on a smaller scale, used stickers make me cringe 🤢

Ooh I love these threads!

Submarines. For some reason I'm chilled to the bone whenever I see a picture of one

Also OP top marks for use of "heebie jeebies". So underused these days

They actually sleeping triffids. Fact

Stairs with no backs on.....takes me forever to go up those 😕 also raw chicken, I wear disposable gloves if you have to chop any up.

Diggers, large machinery. I once had a dream that they became sentient and attacked, and I’ve never got over it 😂

The sound that fake nails make when people use their phone or any touch screen. That tap tapping sound just makes my stomach flip.

See also false nails in general, I always feel queezy as I imagine them all full of dirt and grime.

Dry cotton wool, wet wollen jumpers.

Donald Trump and the sound of his voice, shudder

Another vote for huge industrial things, swimming pool drains, wave machines.

Also human sculptures that are either high up on a building or larger than life size.

I think it's a perspective thing. Things that look a bit wrong in relation to the ground or wrong in size to how they should be.

Open curtains at night so you can see the dark outside.

I have an irrational hate/fear of the weird sprouts that grow from potatoes when you've forgotten about them/ they've been lost at the back of a cupboard.
I refuse to touch them and make my husband clear them out

The sea. Big hulls of ships. Submarines. Broken glass

My husband’s phobia too.
I hate seeing large fish in pools, the sea, aquariums, anywhere where they’re swimming. I don’t mind seeing them dead though.
Clowns freak me out, there’s something very sinister about them.

Custard powder. I think it’s the squeak.
mice and rat’s shoulder blades. Bit niche but there it is.

Walking round a lake behind people who are fishing. Always imagine I'll get hooked when they cast or whatever it's called

Stairs with gaps at the back

Raw chicken - especially watching other people touch it

Having one hand wetter than the other. If one hand gets wet I have to get the other wet to even it out. Makes me squirm.

My husband has a fear of armadillos and pangolins. Luckily we don’t encounter too many in the UK! Even looking at a picture of them makes him feel sick.

@Squit

Same here! Especially someone running up stairs behind me, urgh I don't know what it is but I've been the same since I was a child.

Anyone going near my neck. I was tickling my son the other day and his face touched the side of my neck and the feeling of terror that runs through me is absolutely horrible!

Anything with holes in

Big bodies of water

Ships. Possibly boats of any size actually

Touching raw meat

Those adverts where a mouth is superimposed on another mouth (adult/child, human/animal).

Chimpanzees.

The crackling sound of a badly tuned radio.

Clusters of holes.

Allotments, it's where the bodies are buried.

Also, cotton wool and belly buttons.

People touching their eyes. Wiping them, rubbing them you name it. It makes me feel faint and nauseated.

Another vote for clusters of holes. There is a medical term for it, which I've forgotten.