Innocuous things that make you irrationally afraid (etc)

i'm gonna call a preemptive shut the fuck up on the first "clowns" response. like, why does everybody engage in this stupid affectation that clowns, as a conceit, are scary –- and then 'prove' their response with a picture of a terrifying, sad, pathetic clown? like, funny clowns are funny, sad clowns are sad, and you know what is scary? scary clowns, not /every/ clowns.

EVERY CLOWNS ARE SCARY

whoa chill out remy bean.

Having someone skate across my arm and open up an artery (this happened to a kid I went to high school with...it's irrational, because I go skating approximately once every two or three years).

remy otm

Everyone's frighted of obvious things like spiders/bugs, heights, flying, confined spaces. But what about the more bizarre things?

I thought mentioning clowns in that list went without sayin but ah well :)

I am afraid of Dick Van Dyke.

When restaurants put uncooked grains of rice in the salt shakers. It always puts me on some "how are those maggots, michael?".

pictures of huge white families

i am not afraid of them but they give me the creeps
so many people, and they look alike and they are all white
it's unnerving

http://photobyhailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/no.jpg

it's not the photographer's fault, apols to her
but i found this pic by searching "white family matching clothes beach"

it might be the photographer's fault! We did white family matching clothes beach once as a family and were told to dress in that scheme.

just the four of us though so less uncanny

that is kind of an unnerving photo

It's only unsettling because I assume they're American.

I have an irrational anxiety about strong wind, especially if it howls. I get this sensation like I'm going to be picked up off the ground.

I've also always had extreme anxiety looking at tilt-a-whirl type rides. The one that gets me the most is the spinning one with the swings that fan out.

Strong “pre-mass suicide group photo” vibe from that pic

that photo was literally just the first one i found that looked vaguely like the ones i find creepy -- there is a cult vibe but when i think about what the cult is all i come up with is "big white family"

i was afraid of wind for a long time because of this song. i had this record as a kid, right around the time i was hearing the three little pigs story and learning not to build using flimsy materials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO9uUhYMyZQ