Things that give you the willies

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Inspired by another thread, what are things that give you the willies?

My biggest one is houseboats.

desperately hoping other people get the willies too

Broken pretzels...I can't look at them.

Polystyrene

Empty swimming pools

The phone ringing after midnight.
Spiders and woodlice and earwigs.
Tourists on the Fell trying to navigate with a mobile phone. (Never ends well)

Collarbones- yuck yuck yuck

I hate pylons. Really freak me out.

Scraping cold food into the bin makes me feel physically sick, after dinner I have to sort of sprint into the kitchen to get rid of the food before it turns cold and gloopy and as for the food bin well.....🤮

I had a lot until I had kids and now it’s silence that gives me the willies (I have 12 month old twins 😂)

Oh - and the tops of tomatoes (leafy bits) when I pull it off and and set it aside so I can chop the tomato and EVERY time I think it’s a spider when I see it in the corner of my eye!

Aside from that,

When your fingernails get wet and soft and bend backwards

Open tread stairs, especially ones without carpet

Wrinkly feet/hands from being in water too long.

Sticky gloopy lipgloss

YY to deep water and also to water with plants in (river beds etc). Those natural pools you can have are my nightmare.

Canals, especially locks.

Most of mine are water themed.

The feeling after you have been on a beach - damp, sandy and sticky with suncream..yack! Can't bear putting clothes on over just-been-at-the-beach-skin, and wet drippy sea-water hair...noooooo!

Spiders

At night

Rubbing their willies over your face

Messages of any sort from people who are now dead. I've had my current email account for ages. Recently I accidentally pressed a button which sorted them oldest-first, so I saw all these chatty emails from my mum, who died 13 years ago.

Mind you, my mum herself had an even more eerie experience. There was a financial advisor with whom she was on friendly first-name terms. He had the same name as my dad, and sounded exactly like him. In the months after my dad's death, my poor mum used to get phone calls and answerphone messages to her landline which started off, "Hi there Sue, it's Jack" (the very phrase my dad would have used on the phone to her) and she thought my dad was calling her. My sis and I urged her to just tell him, and ask him to identify himself with his full name whenever he phoned, but she was too embarrassed.

Oh yes, further up thread has reminded me, more maritime freak outs

Big ships

The underside of piers. The rusty, rotten, dark, seaweedy, barnacly nightmare.

the sound paperclips make when they're dragged off paper - not envy

Eyes. I never knew I had an aversion to them until Ds brought a book home with loads of aliens with either single or multiple eyes. It was vile honestly, about twenty bulging eyes on one page
DS thought it was hilarious that I couldn’t stand it.

my (male) next door neighbour's nipple piercings, when he wanders around shirtless in the summer. He has a Prince Albert too, and I really really dont want to see that... (lovely bloke tho!)

Ice skaters

Hands being rubbed over any carpet, but especially bad with cheap nylon carpet. I can’t bear the noise it makes.

Oh God, those fecking flappy ear stretchers. Especially without the metal in when they look like human calamari

Rivers in the dark

Dark water. Whether it’s swimming pools or oceans - any water I can’t see into.

Killer whales and dolphins. Make me shudder.

Leaning over edges. But not heights oddly.

Also I have a recurring nightmare about holes. Especially when I’m sick and hallucinating. I feel like I’m suffocating and have hole nightmares. But just googled photos and have no negative reaction to them unless I’m asleep.

davethecat talcum powder is your friend!! rubs off the wet sand etc

Spiders - some brain/optical trick makes them bigger as I stare.
Unlikely to bump into these but penguins, especially marching ! .
Plus aforementioned earlobe stretchers and see through stairs, thanks pps for including these so I don't even need to type them out [shudder].

The people on the Sanex adverts.
Watching people eat big lettuce leaves - I nearly projectile vomited in Nandos once because someone at a nearby table did this and sucked it in slowly. Heaving thinking about it!!!!
Trypophobia- -the holey hand pic, not envy!
Soggy supermarket sandwiches- especially with lettuce!!
Big bird feathers like ostrich or pheasant or peacock. I'm terrified of peacocks.
Lumps in "smooth" food like yoghurt or soup.
Anything to do with eyes (although weirdly I put my own contacts in).
The ocean- especially the idea of not being able to see land. Shipwrecks give me nightmares! The thought of the ocean floor and sea creatures is too creepy. Especially Squid.
The feel of a pulse in a wrist or neck. Veins in wrists & feet, too. Bleurgh!
Anyone touching my neck & shoulders- no massage for me.
Hands in gloves- too many episodes of crime shows from a murderers eye view. One episode of Miss Marple in particular which had flash backs to gloved hands really scared me!

When people itch over leggings/tights. Just the sound makes me cringe and even thinking about it now blehhh.

I also do that thing when I fall asleep.

I can't cut my children's nails, I make DH do that.