Some of the weirdest Phobias...

BOO!!! Did I scare you?? Ok so probably not but, perhaps some of the topics that I will be talking about just might. That’s right I’m talking about Phobias!
A Phobia is an irrational and excessive fear of an object or situation. In most cases, the phobia involves a sense of endangerment or a fear of harm.


Ablutophobia: Fear of washing or bathing
Aerophobia: Fear of swallowing air
Ambulophobia: Fear of walking

Anablephobia: Fear of looking up

Anemophobia: Fear of wind

Anthrophobia: Fear of flowers

Arachibutyrophobia: Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. Arithmophobia: Fear of numbers
Aulophobia: Fear of flutes

Barophobia: Fear of gravity

Batophobia: Fear of being close to high buildings
Bibliophobia: Fear of books

Blennophobia: Fear of slime
Bogyphobia: Fear of the bogeyman

Cathisophobia: Fear of sitting
Catoptrophobia: Fear of mirrors
Chaetophobia: Fear of hair
Chionophobia: Fear of snow
Chromatophobia: Fear of colors

Chronophobia: Fear of time
Cibophobia: Fear of food
Clinophobia: Fear of going to bed

Cnidophobia: Fear of string
Deciophobia: Fear of making decisions
Dendrophobia: Fear of trees
Eisoptrophobia: Fear of mirrors

Eleutherophobia: Fear of freedom
Eosophobia: Fear of daylight
Epistemophobia: Fear of knowledge
Ergophobia: Fear of work
Ereuthophobia: Fear of the color red
Geliophobia: Fear of laughter
Geniophobia: Fear of chins

Genuphobia: Fear of knees
Gnosiophobia: Fear of knowledge
Graphophobia: Fear of writing

Heliophobia: Fear of the sun

Helmintophobia: Fear of being infested with worms
Hemophobia: Fear of blood

Homichlophobia: Fear of fog
Hypnophobia: Fear of sleep
Ichthyophobia: Fear of fish
Ideophobia: Fear of ideas

Kainophobia: Fear of anything new
Kathisophobia: Fear of sitting down
Lachanophobia: Fear of vegetables

Leukophobia: Fear of the color white
Linonophobia: Fear of string
Logophobia: Fear of words

Melanophobia: Fear of the color black
Melophobia: Fear of music

Metrophobia: Fear of poetry
Mnemophobia: Fear of memories
Mottephobia: Fear of moths

Nebulaphobia: Fear of fog
Neophobia: Fear of anything new
Nephophobia: Fear of clouds
Nomatophobia: Fear of names
Octophobia: Fear of the number 8

Ommetaphobia: Fear of eyes
Oneirophobia: Fear of dreams
Ophthalmophobia: Fear of opening one's eyes

Panophobia: Fear of everything
Papyrophobia: Fear of paper
Peladophobia: Fear of bald people
Phobophobia: Fear of fear
Photophobia: Fear of light
Phronemophobia: Fear of thinking
Pogonophobia: Fear of beards
Sciophobia: Fear of shadows

Scolionophobia: Fear of school

Sitophobia: Fear of food
Sophophobia: Fear of learning

Trichopathophobia: Fear of hair
Triskadekaphobia: Fear of the number 13
Xanthophobia: Fear of the color yellow