Submechanophobia: Fear of the Submerged
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- Опубліковано 23 вер 2024
- In this captivating video, we delve into the mysterious and chilling world of submechanophobia - the fear of man-made objects and structures submerged in deep waters. Join us as we unravel the psychology behind this unique fear and explore its connections to our primal instincts and uncanny feelings.
From the eerie depths of the ocean to the uncanny allure of abandoned flooded buildings, submechanophobia takes us on a journey into the unknown. We'll discover the surprisingly large community of individuals who share this fear and learn why seemingly harmless objects underwater can trigger such intense emotions.
Through intriguing anecdotes and thought-provoking analysis, we uncover the deep-rooted fear of the unfamiliar that submechanophobia exposes. Delve into the psychological parallels with liminal spaces, where the absence of context triggers unease, and find out how man-made objects lurking in the depths evoke a sense of dread.
Witness the haunting allure of shipwrecks, where the ocean reclaims its dominion, leaving us vulnerable and humbled. Explore the connection between our delicate technology and the vast, unfathomable ocean, and understand why submechanophobia triggers emotions that go beyond the rational.
Discover the eerie allure of flooded abandoned buildings and their role in this fear. Journey into the unsettling world of the "Poolrooms," where submerged architecture combines with the fear of the unknown to create an uncanny experience. We'll even delve into the terrifyingly atmospheric game "Iron Lung," exploring the terrors of a lone submarine navigating blood oceans and uncovering forgotten civilizations.
Underwater animatronics add another layer to submechanophobia, combining the uncanny with the aquatic to create a double dose of unease. Learn why these artificial yet lifelike creations trigger such visceral reactions, making even the most innocuous animatronics an object of dread.
Join us on this intriguing exploration of submechanophobia, where the fear of the water is more than just the fear of water itself. It's a fear of what our creations encounter when they trespass into a world that remains largely unexplored and mysterious. Dive into the depths of this fascinating fear and gain new insights into the intricacies of human psychology.
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I actually have this. Couldn’t put my finger on it growing up, but I vividly remember getting scared by submerged objects. I remember swimming out to a buoy in a lak and then getting really freaked out when I looked down and saw the chain going down into the abyss. Such a freaky feeling.
Same, I was always uneasy with pool-cleaning robots, especially when they were moving,and never wanted to get too close. I get uneasy with buoys and seeing a plane underwater gives me the creeps
I remember kayaking on our pond as a kid and going around the shallow edges and going over submerged trees. Always freaked me out.
Maybe that was more a fear of the depth. The fear of what abyss below.
Submechanophobia seems to be more about man-made things that are below water. Not considering the abyss or disgusting algae-covered surfaces, it is still a phobia and is basically irrational.
@@Poodleinacan fears of tangible objects and proven concepts arent irrational. irrational is like worrying bigfoot is dating your mum.
also my mum says she fears seaweed. i never got what she meant til i was at a lake and looking over the dock i saw the tips of long seaweed emerging from an imperceptible void. i got a long stick, for science, and watched that sink into the void. water is spooky in so many ways 😨
@Poodleinacan No, it's different, he specifically said that the chain going down in the abyss was scary. I have this, and I'm not afraid of deepness, besides the very rational fear of being caught underwater, but the object don't need to be submerged deeply in the water to be scary. I think it's irrational too. There's no good reason to be afraid of inanimate object.
My biggest fear is diving somewhere in the Atlantic and opening my eyes to see a gigantic propeller or the front of some giant shipwreck. I get goosebumps just thinking about it.
Same whenever I shower I have bad thoughts like I leave and boom I’m underwater though it won’t happen
@@Youraverageterribleditorsame, wtf
Reading that made me want to throw up
Idk why but submerged propellers scare the shit out of me
I grew up going to a man-made lake that was once a small town. When the creek feeding the lake was damned under a FDR-era program, the entire town was submerged. As a kid, the idea of an entire town at the bottom of the lake I was swimming in left me with nightmares.
But, more specifically I find the sight of bridge pillars disappearing into dark water the most terrifying. Such a large man made object spanning the entire depth of a body of water is so chilling. Swimming next to one makes me feel claustrophobic. Really the sight of any man-made object descending to the the bottom of a body of water, like a dock cable or boat anchor, gives me chills. All I know is these man-made objects are not supposed to be there and I perceive it as a threat.
In Oregon? 😅 We have some of those here and they make me feel sick
If anyone wants to see pics of one of the dried lake beds they can look up "Oregon ghost town rises from drought-drained Detroit Lake." There are a bunch but that's the best known
Also totally agree, i commented and said flooded towns too lol. It's not right
@@no_peace The lake I used to visit is in Northern Arkansas, Lake Norfork.
It’s sad to know so many towns were destroyed this way across the country. All I can think about are all the homes and memories lost :/ I know I would be devastated to have it happen to me.
That sounds AWESOME. Not the loss, but the end product of a submerged town.
@@lpnp9477you'd love bioshock probably
Dude you were in Wet Dry World.
My biggest fear is I'm swimming in a big body of water and my foot brushes against something hard under me. I look down and it's a rusty airplane under the water. I'd simply freak tf out.
Very creepy thought.
Reading that just gave me chills.
its a weird feeling both having submechanophobia yet still having a fascination with shipwrecks and even the occasional thought of learning how to dive to face my fears to visit said wrecks
Same, I find shipwrecks awesome to learn about, but as soon as I see a giant submerged propeller I get freaked out
I have Aquamechanophobia specific to pool drains and lights, so I can totally understand how someone with Submechanophobia could be affected by things as such.
Damn i had the exact same thing while growing up. Drains felt like they were gonna suck me in 😅
Honestly after I heard a particular story I don't trust the drains. I don't remember if it was a drain or something else but it sucked this girl underneath a hot tub and she drowned because it was too powerful. So now I'll stay away from the drains and jets.
Interesting, so I wasn’t the only one scared of those things lol.
I always hated those but the worst was the automatic vacuums that crawl around the surface
@@762dreamsyesssssss
My particular submechanophobia sub-group is being utterly creeped out by shipwrecks or underwater vehicles, but only when seen from the surface. And weirdly enough, the knowledge that, for example, a buoy has a chain reaching all the way down to an invisible bottom below it also gives me the heebie-jeebies. Maybe I should hop on the subreddit and see if there's a word for my version out there too.
WHAT IS IT ATTACHED TO
EXACTLY
Same on the chain.
omg I was just realizing this as I watched the video. The guy sitting in the engine of the plane didn’t bother me so badly, just kind of unsettling, but the plane with all the bouys above it made me physically recoil and screech lol.
Or very specific military vessels at the bottom of the ocean. I get very creeped out by images of ships like the Bismarck, Kursk, Yamato, Yorktown, etc. all sunken at the bottom of the ocean. I think it’s because you know that these are all war graves; places where hundreds, if not thousands, of sailors have lost their lives. But it’s not just that, it’s also seeing them in a state of such rustic decay and disrepair. Also because shipwrecks almost never go down straight up and down: they’re always one one side or split in half or completely upside down. That’s another thing that creeps me out to no end.
Your videos are amazing... Even without being too complex, the way that your voice and the images is completely insane. I can feel goosebumps with your other videos. Keep on doing these videos.
Agreed
I wonder how many billionaires have this now
None
They have no soul so they have no phobias
@@ackvevo Lizards experience fear so I don't see why they can't
AYoooo
I wonder how many Americans are scared of towers and planes 🤔
@@Jajawalizards are actual living beings though
Submechanophobia definitely has evolutionary factors involved. We are wired to be afraid of submerged objects as it is a natural human instinct to fear unfamiliar objects underwater.
My source is that I made it the fuck up!
I am deathly afraid of vents inside swimming pools. Especially the ones that make waves in surf-n-swim. Even black tiles in pools freak me out. I’ve had nightmares being stuck in some kind of underground tunnel filled with murky water. There was giant black vents under my feet with pool lights illuminating the holes beneath the vents. Terrifying.
This comment awakened a memory for me of the fear you’re describing. Looking at underwater vents always made me nervous especially in deep pools. Never thought much about it until now.
@@zachloken8219 oh man, I’m sorry! I honestly don’t even know why I’m afraid of them. I’ve forced myself to touch them and I know that they are generally harmless, but it’s just an irrational fear that I can’t explain haha
@@dalatina911 no need to be sorry haha. Your comment just made me realize that I have this fear to some extent. It helped me discover something new about myself, which is pretty cool actually.
Dude, there's a diving story from Mr. Ballen about these guys that find this huge submerged concrete building and swim inside it to check it out, only for one of them to get sucked into this huge tunnel in one of the walls
@@OMG.youre.right. 😳 omg that is nightmare fuel. I have to see if I can find that episode now haha
I remember being absolutely repulsed by toilet tanks and buoys from a very young age. When I was about 9, my mom took my two younger siblings and I to a water treatment facility and I was TERRIFIED of the dark, deep, dirty water with rusty stairs and gears partially submerged. I could never understand why, especially as a kid who always loved the water. More recently, while snorkeling in Bali, I was completely fine (if anything, relaxed) looking down into where the shallow beach met the deep trench, but almost lost it upon seeing the rope of a boat anchor just a few meters from me. CRAZY that so many others feel this way too! I will say I have more of a specific aversion rather than a phobia per-se.
Well I mean I think I'd be a bit more scared of tanks of water if they happened to be like 70% poop. Like... falling into a treatment plant tank would be an absolute horror. Potentially fatal.
One of the things that might scare people is the fact that they know you can't properly move underwater and there is not that much light and the damaged man made things combined make the human mind sometimes make you thing you are actually there and for some people they fear this
I know genuine danger when it comes to exploring ship wrecks. If you've ever seen the Staten Island boat graveyard you'll know what I'm talking about. There's just about a million things to get tangled up and then dragged down under.
@@mrbiglarge8820 ye I get u since while diving your leg can get stuck on some wreck in wich case you have a time limit to get it out
I know I have this because two scenes from movies that stuck with me throughout childhood and scared me deeply were
1. The sinking plane in incredibles
2. The sinking CAT in happy feet
Absolute chills and I've never forgotten them
I think one reason why people have submechanophobia and not a fear of man made structures in space is that we meant to put the space stations and satellites up there but we didn’t plan to put boats and such underwater
Exactly. They only ever end up there because something went very wrong, and in some cases people would have lost their lives in the vicinity. It's an accidental totem of our flimsy mortality, left to sit in the cold, eerie silence until long after us and everyone we know have long since passed.
Similar to how I would describe it: 1) a feeling of "that doesn`t belong there!" and 2) in cases of sunken ships/submarines/airplanes the thought of ppl who went down with them (and whose remains could still be there):
Your mention of liminal spaces is extremely insightful! I’m very impressed that you put that together without having Submechanophobia yourself. I definitely have Submechanophobia and I’m fascinated with abandoned places and out of place structures and objects because they conjure up feelings much like Submechanophobia does, but without the overwhelming fear, since it’s on dry land and therefore I have much more control and full access to my senses.
I don’t know if I have this phobia or not. On one hand, I love creepy/scary things. And shipwrecks don’t bother me. Maybe because ships are meant to be on the water, being in it is the next logical step? On the other hand, submerged animatronics deeply disturb me. Like the photos of 2000 leagues under the sea when the ride was drained? Nightmare fuel
I feel the same way about shipwrecks. they were designed to be on water, so it isn't as scary. submerged airplanes on the other hand? hell no. that shit is supposed to be in the sky
I fall into the same category of submechanophobia as you, mainly because of that DAMN sea serpent!😖
I've had nightmares of giant underwater sea monsters!😭
@@cadencase5216 I hope Nessie stops haunting you! I’m sure they’ve either been completely destroyed, or restored and look all pretty again
i think one of the best things is not just manmade objects underwater, but massive ones, especially with people in frame, like that one with the guy sitting in a plane's engine, i think it combines submechanophobia and megalophobia into one, just seeing something large and unmoving stretch off into the abyss is really unsettling, especially something where it just looks like a wall that stretches off into forever, cause you have no clue how big it actually is, it could be the size of a city or the size of a large house, you can never know cause of your limited vision
The images of submerged objects are scary to me because they look uncanny (like said in the video) Like at first glance they look like they might be in air, but then you realize it’s in water. It’s like you could imagine yourself in the picture, but once you recognize it’s in water you realize you would die if you were in that image lol. It feels forbidden because you can’t survive being there. I think man made objects in space would be scary if there were abandoned spaceships just floating around out there. I think that will definitely be a phobia in the future when more people go to space and if any space stations or ships become abandoned.
I think for me it can be described most with: say you’re in the middle of the ocean on a boat. Something gets twisted around the propellor and you are asked to jump in the water and swim under the boat to cut it loose.
I was lucky enough to be brought to a small local amusement park every summer. I first noticed my Submechaniphobia when we'd be riding the log flume rides and I'd see the machinery under the water. It always made my skin crawl but thankfully not enough to make me avoidant.
Later, i end up living in Hawaii and book a tour with Shark biologists to swim with a group of Galapagos sharks while they're schooling together (i.e. not hunting) in open deep pelagic waters a handful of miles off the coast of Oahu. The biggest of these sharks was a 12ft female who decided to rudely body check me (which is normal and just means, back off, im the baddest bitch here) and i was completely unphased and very happy to be with the sharks. But i was extremely nervous because we were in the water holding onto sturdy lines, attached to the hull of the boat. So you are essentially grasping the hull the entire time to avoid drifting and preventing being snuck up on from behind. It was bothering me more than being body checked by a 12 ft shark.
I live close to a large body of water that was a town they intentionally flooded a hundred years ago or so. When the water level lowers In droughts you can see a church steeple beneath the water. I can’t hardly handle driving by it or watching other people cliff dive into ig let alone get in the water myself. I basically clung to the cliff faces in 5 feet of water the last time I was invited to go with friends, lol. Thankfully I wasn’t alone, a couple other people with me were freaked out by that place too!
Idk if they moved the cemetery/relocated the coffins before they flooded it or not, but that creeps me out even more than thinking of the people who’ve drowned or have drove off the roads into the water w/o being found. For some reason lakes scare me more than the ocean. No idea why.
You are so underappreciated man! Please keep making such amazing stuff!!
Underwater animateonics is spooky, but also the thought of submerging my head underwater and hearing the motors and hydraulics working freaks me out too
Your videos give me the same vibes as EmpLemon's video docs, and frankly I love it and I hope you keep it up.
I’m the most scared of the animatronics in the water. Like they were left there to rot
I resonate with your specific fear of submerged animatronics.😣
I am scared shitless of underwater animatronics!🏃♂️💨
The weirdly specific stuff that freaks my out the most is the bottom of ships, giant ship propellers, and the sight of a chain/ rope coming from a bouy or anchor just going into the abyss
I think you explained it perfectly. I Never understood why the images of the Titanic, Giant ship propellers and massive anchors and cement columns going down into the depths made me uneasy. The comparison you made to liminal spaces I think is spot on. There's an eeriness to seeing manmade things in the abyss.
you're the type of youtuber I put on when I paint or do homework at the middle of the night, and then I draw something related to it (please make more i love these)
When i was a kid our public aquatic center had this separation structure between the deep end and the lap pool. As kids we had rumors about kids trying to swim down under the barrier which had a small space at the bottom of it that if u really wanted to u could swim under it and to the other side. I remember being so afraid of it, attempting to try it. Knowing i could if i just push myself but if anything did go wrong it really could have not worked out. I ended up overcoming my fear and it felt good but the rumor and respect lived on about the things that could have gone wrong over the course of time. So i can relate to this feeling, the best thing is to be smart and respect these things because we are definitely not meant to handle much in the water so always be smart and respect the water.
Good video, about 5 years back my family and I went snorkeling off the coast of Cartagena and I got really spooked when we observed one of Escobars submerged planes.
So I live very near Lost Creek Lake in Oregon, and we swim in it frequently in the summer. Now, I can swim out nearly to the middle with no issue. However, the bottom of the lake used to be a town that got flooded, people typically refer to it as Old Prospect. So it's a man-made lake. And the place where we swim is known as the stairs, because there are concrete stairs that go all the way down to Old Prospect. For obvious reasons, you'd need diving gear to go all the way down to where the old town is. However, sometimes they let a lot of water out of the lake so it doesn't flood from all the run off from the high mountains. So the climb to get down the stairs gets further and further down, and along the side of the stairs there's these big slabs of concrete that were under water but can now be seen when the lake is low. When I swim too close to the stairs, and I'm right next to these slabs that are half-submerged half-not, looking up at them as I'm floating in the water, I always panic and quickly swim back to where I feel safe. I never realized this was part of a real phobia before.
Man you are seriously so incredibly underrated. I'm subbed.
I think the source of the fear is that it was once an object that was built for humans to exist around and live in. Now that object is completely engulfed in a hostile environment. You picture yourself using that machine that is currently too dangerous and mutilated to be used.
Just a thought.
Edit: As I got further into the video you explained my exact thoughts 😂
Also, everyone that likes the vibe in these pictures should check out a game called SOMA. It’s underwater like this and it’s a horror game of sorts.
I think it's a simpler reaction, even. I think it's simply coming across something we know we made in a clearly ruined and abandoned state. With the shipwreck we know already the ship ended there due to tragedy. I think it's just a very stark proof that death happened near there. Death caused by the very thing you'd be submersed in while seeing the wreck.
insane video… i too have this IMMENSE fear and i couldn’t even LOOK at some of the pictures you presented lol. I remember back then it was such a distinct fear of mine i didn’t even know the term of it. But as i was watching this video you gave the perfect outlook on it, brava!🙌🏻🔥 What a bizarre fear right?
Shipwrecks don't bother me at all. but active mechanical structures underwater really freak me out (so like, dams, hydroelectric power stations, those pump station things you see, etc)
And it's pretty rational in that, you don't wanna be sucked into any of these things....
This phobia is just four words for me: Jurassic Park Water Animatronics
I don't have submechanophobia, but I totally get it and can see why manmade objects or machinery underwater would be scary. I do find them unsettling.
I have a fear and a fascination of shipwrecks. On one hand not all submerged man made objects give me such a strong feeling of dread and fear, but others very much do. I feel fear towards very specific shipwrecks. To give some examples: Titanic, Lusitania, Britannica, Andrea Dorea, Yamato, Yorktown, Bismarck, Kursk, Taiho, and many, many others. I think there are multiple reasons as to why I’m so terrified of these ships in particular: one being that they are all graves in which hundreds, if not thousands of people lost their lives. Another being the rustic sorry state of decay all of these ships are in after being underwater for upwards of 100 years. And finally the last being how they got there. Shipwrecks almost never go down straight up and in one piece; they’re always on their side, or split in half, or completely upside down. I think it’s all those factors that lead me to think that these shipwrecks are so terrifying.
Same
I feel like I have a fear of just the ocean in general and everything in it
Yep. Keep me as far away from that mess as possible, thanks.
I'm obsessed with the fact that I have submechanophobia. Sometimes when I'm in the shower, I close my eyes and visualize with my mind's eye the hull of a ship underwater or a submarine passing right over me while I'm underwater. Terrifying! I'm obsessed, I can't help it. I'm also terrified of being in a pool's deep end alone (I'm fine if there's other people). An earlier commentator (@cadillacdevile) mentioned ''Aquamechanophobia'', I don't know if that's a thing or it's all related to submechaphobia but I have that too... the fear of pool drains and lights along the wall. I dread olympic sized pools and deep underwater apnea pools. I have many other fears related to water, I think it stems from a childhood traumatic event in a pool where I almost drowned if it wasn't for my dad that saved me. Anyways, I'm glad I'm not the only one with this phobia... Is there a facebook group for this?
I have a version of this fear, which is to be trapped in or under a submerged object. Had it since I was a very young - your use of Silent Hill music to start the video is apt, as when I played a scene drowning in submerged car in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories had be drenched head to toe in nervous sweat.
I am terrified by submechanophobia, but it still fascinates me. Same with thalassophobia and sea creatures. I would never, NEVER scuba dive in deep dark ocean waters to find gigantic sea creatures and man-made objects, but I love seeing them as terrifying as they are.
Horizon forbidden west does underwater really well like at one point in Horizon you explore the ruins of Las Vegas under a dome but it’s flooded and there are machines robots swimming around I would think that this might combine many phobias for some people
I had a dream once when u was 6ish, i was in the water as a large tanker ship moved by within arms reach . From that point forword i have been very uncomfortable in any water with anything man made in it . However a pool is completly fine .
Reactors don't hit that button tho , or flooded areas . The pools rooms look like paradise in some ways
Just found and subscribed today. I suffer from this and i agree its only man-made things like ships, subs and planes which is also an extension of the megalophobia and thallassophobia that i also suffer with. The pictures of ships and props from underwater literally make me have to look away. Same with videos that show saturation and regular divers while they are working on those gigantic oil rig posts.
As awesome as scuba diving ship wrecks would probably be, i couldn't get anywhere near it.
I also have that same issue on dry land there's no way i could be anywhere near a jet in the tarmac without being on the gangway to get on the plane, or be near a ship in dry dock, but neither of these come anywhere close to imagining being on something like a military ship or any other big ship and like I've seen people do in videos jump in the water and swim right next to something that huge. Just sends me into a panic attack.
Theres another phobia i have that i didnt know was a fear others felt also and thats called "call of the void" which is the intense fear of wanting to jump off very high structures when at the top of them whether its a building or a bridge and it isnt a suicidal impulse but it is at times very scary with how strong ans intense the urge can be and it seems to get worse the higher the structure is.
I have a fear of large underwater geographical features such as mountains, valleys, canyons etc. Not sure what to call this fear.
Just the thought of swimming in the ocean and then looking down just to see a valley or the top a mountain directly below me freaks me out.
I don't have any phobias except thalassophobia,I was standing on top of the highest dam in my country and the meltwater was so crystal clear that i could see giant fishes swimming deep...scared the shits out my arse.
What really gets me is the touching of an object which is submerged, the thought of touching a chain with your foot which you can't see, and which would require you to enter a world which you are not adapted to surviving in to observe
The pool rooms would be my perfect afterlife.
An unending maze of simple places would be bliss.
I have this so strong haha. One of my uncles works as an underwater welder….scariest job ever to me 😂
5:30 For me at least, a major part of why machines underwater are scary and machines in space *aren't* is because of how the water & depth shrouds the former. Images of, say, the space shuttle show you the whole vehicle clearly visible; likewise for the ISS. Heck, that's even the same for other planets & moons.
By contrast, pictures of even something as relatively small as a sunken boat (consider some of the small fishing boats or harbor vessels seen in this video), even when sunk in the shallowest, clearest waters, still have some occlusion thanks to the water. So the voice in the back of my mind keeps going "Okay, you see *one* spooky sunken ship. How many *more* are there, just outside of visible range from the camera?" Similar effect for the large sunken machines which are down deep enough (or in water murky enough) that you just can't see even a large portion of the machine all at once. Think of the famous image of Titanic's upper bow, where the railings and hull just disappear off into the darkness.
Great video, you just showed the essence of those complex fear-related feelings, and I love that you have amplified that feeling with music. I'm especially fixated on the 2:22 moment in the video. Could you share what music you used at that moment?
Six Forty Seven - Instupendo !
Idk y but I find flooded buildings extremely relaxing
I would say I have submechanophobia, but it isn't triggered by every underwater man made object, nor do they need to be wrecked to cause it. For me, it can be triggered by being underwater and seeing a large ship pass overhead, by submarines (whether wrecked or not), and definitely by shipwrecks, especially propellers. However, the size of the shipwreck matters; for some reason, smaller ones very rarely trigger it for me.
I thought I was crazy but, I have a fear of space. The thought of the fact we live here on earth and are actually on a planet being surrounded by others terrified me growing up.
Great video! Ate this while eating pesto pasta which greatly enhances the viewing experience 10/10 I recommend
I’m about to actually eat pesto while eating this too!
@@BlenderRenderChickenTender LOL
pesto + chicken + pasta = godlike experience
@@jaywinged +crededex
How was the pesto?
The New World Mall in Bangkok actually has a very interesting story behind it. The reason the roof was removed was because of the owner disregard of zoning laws. They somehow be able to build and almost finished the building but the government filed a lawsuit which leads to the removal of the mall's roof and subsequent abandonment of the mall itself. Without the roof to prevent rain water, the mall become flooded. Then comes the mosquitos. And people who lives around there solves this problem by putting fish there. Which leads to the spectacle you can see in those pictures. They even become some sort of travel attraction at some point. But now, they have cleared the fish out and already drain water out in a plans to renovate into a new community mall.
Part of submechaniphobia is the effect of things like rust and barnacles forming on metal which makes it very painful to get caught on and it feels dangerous to be around highly rusted objects since you can get infections from them
I think I have whatever the opposite of this fear is... I remember as a kid in a waterpark I used to imagine myself swimming through nuclear plant cooling systems, underwater research labs etc. I'm still fascinated by underwater infrastructure to this day and I'd love to try diving a wreck once
That's it, I'm creating a Phobia Playlist. After watching this video, I realized how many Phobia-related videos I've collected, so many, I need to create its own playlist.
Fear of Cold
Space is Terrifying - Astrophobia
Astrophobia - Why is space so terrifying?
Fear of Depth
**Megalophobia: Fear of The Huge**
Fear of Big Things Underwater
Thalassophobia
**Submechanophobia: Fear of the Submerged**
Fear of Forgetting
It looks like it's slowly becoming a new genre on UA-cam and I love it, I need more. I must consume more.
I do have Stomaphobia (fear of mouths or inner mouth interior)
I have this to a degree. My #1 irrational fear is pool vents/drains/filters & lights. Terrified of most pools & water parks as a result, but I can manage. I can get into pools, swim & such, but I panic if I step on a filter or a light and have had panic attacks while swimming before. Deep, dark caverns and pools that disappear into a dark abyss freak me the heck out. Shipwrecks are fine for me to look at, but I’m really anxious when it comes to pools, water parks, lazy rivers, etc. The concrete, man made structures. There’s a picture I’ve seen of an abandoned factory with submerged stairs, that makes me very anxious. But, most of my fear is more ~recreational~ I guess? I refuse to go on waterslides, especially if they have a funnel. Poolrooms make me nauseous. Maybe my particular fears are an offshoot of claustrophobia or a fear of being trapped & unable to escape, combined with some aspects of both submechanaphobia and thalassophobia.
What stumps me, though, is that I developed this fear in high school. I grew up swimming, taking lessons & almost getting my lifeguard cert, so I’m not sure how or why I developed submechanophobia, aquamechanaphobia, thalassophobia.
this is crazy i could never put my finger on this growing up! Ive had nightmares of huge sunken submarines and ships beneath me, oddly enough I chose to be a commercial diver for my career doing underwater construction such as welding and also maintenence. I did ships husbandry and it was scary asf! I had to swim out to a cargo ship, and go to the bottom of the ship to clean the bottom and take photos for proof of inspection and cleaning all at night. It was terrifying! and to make matters worse, my comms and light on my helmet went out for a few minutes because the generator needed fuel and there was heavy current! It feels weird touching the metal of the ship and being right next to/beneath that huge object in the water let alone at night and its a feeling I can never forget. I was hyper ventilating and my heart was racing the ENTIRE time. Crazy how theres an actual term for this! Submechanophobia!
I remember going to Lake Tahoe in 2023 and I went out on the lake in a kayak. Whenever I looked into the water, I'd see all kinds of strange debris and structures on the lake floor. I saw what looked like train tracks that jutted and bent before disappearing in the dark of the deep water. I'd see odd twisted metal that would come close to the surface, sunken boat motors and I gotta say, I wanted to cry like a little baby. I hate the water I hate the ocean I hate it all, I'll never go in another boat ever.
And now I have a name for the fear I've been trying to describe for so long. Thanks!
I believe the first time that I got really scared by something manmade underwater was when me and my mom where swimming under a big brige, and decided to dive to the river bottom to find something left after the construction, just for fun. And there we were picking stuff of the bottom and then, when I was doing one of the dives I picked up some kind of wire and started pulling it up... but I felt that it was a long one, wasn't just a short piece of wire. I don't know how to describe that feeling, but I freaked out, thew it away, and quickly went to the surface. I never searched for anything on the bottom since.
As someone with thalassophobia I actually find submerged structures to be comforting, I feel safer around stuff like that, despite realistically making no difference. Probably a part more to do with that fear of the unknown aspect to thalassophobia than anything else. Though I do definitely hate those pictures of the pool rooms with the bottomless looking pits of water. Something like that implies intent, and for something like that I dont like to think about the intent of those holes or what may live in them. Ive been swimming in a cenote before, hated it.
For me its a fear because its a testament of the power of nature and how insignificant we tiny humans are.
I have this phobia and I only just found out it even had a name. What I find strange is I am not a person who has any other phobias or fears for the most part, I wonder what was the trigger to make me feel this way about submerged man made things. I remember being at the peer as a kid and seeing the bottom of a ship underwater creeped me the hell out
when i was a kid, i used to swim in a lake where an abandonned boat was decaying since years ago, i got baited by some pals to get close to it. when i got close, i couldn't really see anything w the murky water, then the dirty propeler were right into my face. since then, everytime i go to the beach i just walk by the shore
i feel like in my opinion the difference between manmade objects in the ocean than to space is that the ocean is so dark, seeing such objects makes us wonder what happened. how strong the ocean actually is.
while to space, seeing space as of itself is so scary, so seeing objects in space makes us feel safe.
As someone with a severe case of Astrophobia. I can very well understand submechanophobia or thalassophobia without really having it myself.
I am the complete opposite of you lmaooo. Unfortunately I'm slow and I didn't know astrophobia was a thing, even tho space is like the scariest thing ever. But I'm completely fascinated by it, I absolutely adore all subjects and I'm so interested in figuring out whats out there. I would die to get to visit the ISS.
Great, another thing I didn’t know I was afraid of until UA-cam told me about it… 🤦♂️
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my biggest fear, ever since i was a child were and are mooring blocks, also bouys and chains, but specifically mooring blocks.... i dont know why.. but if i see one in the shallow waters it absolutely terrifies me and i could never swim there ... its so weird and silly...
Gotta watch out for them mooring blocks. They'll getcha
Literally my worst fear i always have a stupid crappy thought of what if i teleport out of nowhere down there while im in bed falling asleep ? ( I hate my brain so much sometimes )
Great video. I've always had this and didn't know it had a proper term.
When I was a kid in the 80s, I remember going on the 20,000 leagues ride at Disneyworld. It was terrifying, it always stuck with me. All those underwater animatronics and buildings were a nightmare. (Here is footage from the original ride: ua-cam.com/video/aOgI0UIdkHg/v-deo.html&ab_channel=MikeKarschti)
The squid at Disneyland Paris was taken down and replaced with a screen that shows dolphins and a few sea things instead now. Major downgrade. Pretty sure it was gone even before this video was uploaded. Makes me wonder if people complained enough to get it removed or such.
5:21 literally jumpscared me and made me anxious af
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i’ve had this fear for as long as i have been alive. One of my earliest memories is a dream i had where i fall off a boat and slowly sink as the boat floats further away from me. I also can’t play any sort of game with underwater missions or anything like that. When the cayo perico heist came out for gta i fr was mad i couldn’t do it because of the whole submarine aspect of it. So much so that i have never taken my kosatka underwater and everytume it spawns in out of nowhere when requesting it it actually jumpscares me. Also there was this one time where i jumped my motorcycle in paletó and fell into the ocean right next to that crashed plane and had to legit turn off the game.
I was always freaked out by the buoys while swimming in the sea as a kid. I'd stay way clear of small anchored boats too, that was too much. It's funny because even as a kid I knew this was irrational, but yeah to this day it still freaks me out and I'm just finding out it's a thing shared by a lot of people lol
I love this video and all of the other ones your videos just make me feel different kinda comfortable but also curious you should make a video about like music like six forty seven or like the “backrooms music” cause me and other people feel different when they hear that.
I don't have submechanophobia per say, but I do have a fear of large objects very specifically *floating* in the void. Submarines are the obvious go to here, but it can also be a vessel in the act of sinking (as opposed to an already sunken wreck, which doesn't bother me.)
It's not the object itself, or the fact that it is underwater, but the fact that it is out of place and very noticeable, and as such may draw the attention of a monstrous, predatory being.
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Omg I was hoping you'd cover this, thank you!
I dont think i have the whole phobia, idc about shipwrecks itself, but the propeller gets me every time.
I have submechanophobia, but I only have the fear of bottoms of boats/propellers, buoys, mines, chains, but I don't have a fear of flooded buildings. I am also very fascinated with the ocean, ocean life, and shipwrecks, so I land on both sides. Weird
It’s most just giant propellers and just the sheer massive size of these ships. Just the thought of sinking down into the vast ocean is terrifying. It’s hard to wrap my brain around how gigantic these cruise ships are now. Idk it’s irrational, but I guess I’m just scared of objects/animals soooo much larger than humans.
ive had this fear my whole life now i have a vid to show people so they can understand
I've had this for as long as I can remember. The only thing I can tie to it's origin is almost drowning after getting stuck under a wheelchair ramp into a pool. When I surfaced finally after nearing blackout, no one had noticed (lifeguards and other people) that I was under there. Comforting to know there's more people out there that also freak out over metal things underwater lol.
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Offshore wind farms are absolutely the exact thing made of my nightmares. I CANNOT stand even watching videos about them fully because I legitimately start freaking out…….it just doesn’t belong there. Short and simple.
There are certain images which trigger me far more than others. A picture below the surface in pristine waters with the entirety of a sunken ship isn't so bad but remove that pristine water with the murky depths where any kind of object, natural or man made, just trails off in to the abyss regardless if it's three feet or three hundred feet below the surface and hello anxiety.
It's the same reason images of planets and other objects in space give me anxiety when put against the backdrop of the infinite emptiness of space.
For me any type of building underwater or man made objects just freaks me out!! The only example I can really think of is the quarry in fallout 4 man that was creepy
I had the chance to go to a snorkeling spot in Palawan where a Japanese sink sank in WW2 called Skeleton Wreck. I was quite exited to see it.
when I jumped in the water and looked under, I didn't see it yet. but as I waddle around the area more, it appeared slowly and that made it much more scary. to see something appear slowly underwater did make me feel more sacred and intrigued rather than amazed about the sunken ship. Thankfully I wasn't that scared to trigger Submechanophobia because there's many tourists there, it was beautiful sunny day, as well as people diving and taking photos under there. If it was gloomy and not crowded, I would be much more scared.
I do have it. I also don't like manmade objects that float. I love the sea, I love swimming in the sea, I love diving to reefs and watching sealife, but I can't come close to anything manmade that's on or under the ocean I get itchy and triggered, I feel uncomfortable. A simple rope alerts me. I don't like swimming near any short of ship or boat ( canoes are ok, anything larger isn't ).
Those giant ship hulls, propellers and submarines scare the shit out of me. Flooded spaces and interiors, chains, cars and planes underwater, even small boats - not at all.
Out of all the hyper-specific fears discussed on this channel, this is the only one that I’m absolutely sure I have…. I think it’s kind of funny (or ironic… idk the correct word to describe this) because OP more or less said that this is the only fear that he’s sure that he doesn’t have, but I digress.
Although OP cited the Egyptian statues as extremely haunting, I personally found those images to be some of the least haunting images in this video. I don’t find the poolrooms or any other room that was specifically designed to be filled with water to be scary either.
I also personally don’t find flooded buildings to be frightening, mostly because there’s still a chance of escape so long as your feet can touch the ground… but I’m not trying to speak for everyone with submechanophobia, I’m just trying to describe my own feelings about this subject.
I don’t think I have generalized thalassophobia, but there’s something about seeing a massive shipwreck that disturbs me on a level I can’t fully explain or understand. I’m fully aware that there is no real threat posed by the existence of a shipwreck, but it certainly strikes a chord.
Maybe it’s summed up by the last sentence in this video “our creations, try as they like, can never truly breach the horrors of the water”…. I think it might just be that our industrialized world gave me a sense of safety, and seeing a relatively modern shipwreck just reminds me that humans are not the all-powerful creatures that we often claim to be. It reminds me that nature is still more powerful than humankind. Ancient Egypt might be so far removed from the post-industrial era that it can’t evoke the same fear as an image of the titanic.
Maybe it’s a combination of Thalassaphobia, and Megalophobia… neither of which evoke any strong feelings for me, but maybe when they’re combined it creates a sense of dread.
Or maybe its just the fact that it simply shouldn’t be there, or the fact that there’s potentially dead bodies onboard the shipwreck.
Maybe it’s a combination of everything I’ve already said, or maybe I’m just over-analyzing this… maybe this fear just makes no sense. I’m honestly just trying to rationalize an irrational fear of mine.
I’d still scuba dive into a shipwreck if I were given the opportunity, so I don’t know if my fear is strong enough to really speak on this, but I am also just drawn towards scary things (I’ve explored supposedly-haunted abandoned asylums at night, and just have a general sense of morbid curiosity I guess)
Overall; these images give me the same feeling that you get when you’re alone in the woods at night: You know there’s no real danger. You know that animals are the only thing that are even potentially able to hurt you. You know that you’re statistically safer than you would be in a highly-populated area…. But there’s just some primal feeling that something/someone is going to hurt you.
I don’t know if any of this made sense, since my fear doesn’t really make sense to begin with… but this is my best attempt at rationalizing it.
i have trouble even watching this without feeling the fear in the back of my head.
6:20 “Gives off the feeling you might be next..” this quote is so potent. The reality is that we aren’t far off as of now for this to become a reality.
Climate Change and the melting of glacial ice could sink hundreds of cities and that will live on in the memories of millions of people.
Submechanophobia might be niche now, but people will have a very real view of it if the glaciers melt completely.