Written by Hannah Duffee
Welcome to October! This is the month where your deepest, darkest fears come to life! The boogie man lurks in your closet. Snakes and spiders crawl over you at night. Ghosts and shadows haunt you whether you’re at home or the grocery store or even at a doctor’s
appointment. Nicolas Cage watches your from your TV and-
Wait. Nicolas Cage? Can you really fear a TV actor? Yes, you absolutely can! A person in my Psychology 101 class admitted that Nicolas Cage terrifies her and she’s not exactly sure why. This type of fear is called a specific phobia and can be linked to Anthropophobia (fear of people).
There are a ton of different phobias. So what exactly do SOAR students fear most?
Fears | # of Students that fear it | How many? |
The Dark | |||||||| | 8 |
Heights | ||||||| | 7 |
Death | ||||||| | 7 |
Crocodiles/Alligators | |||||| | 6 |
Insects/Bugs | ||||||||||| | 11 |
Sharks | |||||||| | 8 |
Ocean/Drowning | ||||||||| | 9 |
Clowns | ||||||||| | 9 |
Tight Spaces/Open spaces | |||| | 4 |
Trypophobia (fear of lots of holes bunched together) | ||| | 3 |
Parents | ||||||| | 7 |
Aerophobia (fear of flying) | || | 2 |
Thunder/Lightning | || | 2 |
Autophobia (fear of being alone) | |||||| | 6 |
Hemophobia (fear of blood) | | | 1 |
Spiders | ||||||||||| | 11 |
Snakes | |||||||||| | 10 |
Needles | ||||| | 5 |
Dentist/Doctor’s office | ||| | 3 |
Elevators/Escalators | |||||| | 6 |
Robots | | | 1 |
Dogs/Cats | | | 1 |
Being buried alive | |||||||| | 8 |
Germs | || | 2 |
Some surprising results, right? Obviously, each individual person’s own fears are going to be unique, but there were a few fears that quite a lot of people feared, such as the dark, insects, and snakes, spiders, clowns, and the ocean!
What do you think about the results? Have any funny stories about a phobia? Did I forget a popular phobia/fear to put on the list? Fill out the form below and let me know!
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