Submechanophobia is the term for the fear of submerged artificial objects. It is a type of specific phobia. If a person has submechanophobia, they will usually experience fear when thinking about ...

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I recently wrote a post about submechanophobia, which is the fear of partially or fully submerged man-made objects. Unfortunately (or fortunately if you're weirdly into this stuff), there are a lot ...

Phobias are defined as 'irrational' fears, but some are still much rarer and more unusual than others. One phobia which you likely will not have heard of is submechanophobia - the fear of submerged ...

If you have a phobia, you may wonder if you're the only one. While things like fear of heights (acrophobia) or spiders (arachnophobia) are pretty common, others are more unusual, like trypophobia, ...

The human mind harbors fears that go far beyond common anxieties about heights or spiders. Recent research has uncovered a ...

I think I may have submechanophobia. The very thought of being submerged underwater in a solid metal casket loaded with explosive torpedoes chills me to the core. And yet, for Adolf Hitler, submarines ...

Penny Pink is afraid of any man-made objects underwater. She first realized that as a child visiting Universal Studios. Her phobia doesn't affect her day-to-day since she doesn't live by bodies of ...