23 Horrifying Underwater Photos That'll Make You Say, "I'm Gonna Pretend I Didn't See That"
You may have heard of thalassophobia, aka the fear of deep bodies of water.
Terrifying from thalassophobia
Perhaps you've also heard of megalophobia, which is the intense fear of large objects.
Well, thanks to my obsession with terrifying subReddits, I've discovered a phobia that seems to combine both of these. It's called submechanophobia, and it's the fear of partially or fully submerged man-made objects. If the following 29 photos cause you extreme discomfort, there's a chance you have it.
1. This fish blood pipe:
2. This smiling shark statue:
3. This wreckage from the Titanic:
Magite Historic / Alamy Stock Photo
4. This birds-eye view of a car with a skeleton in it at the bottom of a pond:
Google Earth photo of pond helps find car with skeleton of Florida man missing since 1997 from submechanophobia
5. This abandoned shipping container:
Just occurred to me how the sea bed must be littered with shipping containers. Yikes. from submechanophobia
6. This morbid sign:
7. This creepy oil rig:
8. This lurking U-boat:
9. This enormous engine:
10. This leering relic:
After 2300 years underwater, a cache of ancient relics have been rediscovered off the coast of Thonis-Heraclion in Egypt. They’ve been waiting, watching. from submechanophobia
11. This sunken plane:
12. This one, too:
13. This flooded autopsy theater:
14. This surreal dolphin enclosure:
This is where I realized my fears; the Indianapolis Zoo dolphin enclosure. I always refuse to return here. from submechanophobia
15. This weird water-filled stairwell:
16. These submerged mine shafts:
17. This subway reef:
18. This enormous gear:
Credit: Rotary Action Group for Peace
19. This horrifying model of Jason:
Some artist made a life-size Jason Voorhees statue and placed it at the bottom of a deep lake in Minnesota. from submechanophobia
20. This trace of former life:
21. This reactor:
22. This deep, deep, launch pad:
131 ft deep swimming pool in Padua, Italy. That “landing pad” at the bottom especially freaks me out. from submechanophobia
23.And finally, these nightmare gnomes:
H/T: r/submechanophobia