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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "To be a phobia, it needs to substantially interfere with your functioning, and the person usually knows that it doesn't make ...

We all know people who suffer from phobias, from being scared of the dark to having an irrational fear of flying. But one of the less common phobias is trypophobia. Officially defined as a "fear of ...

You may have heard of various ‘phobias’ such as ornithophobia, claustrophobia, hydrophobia and more, but trypophobia is probably the most disturbing, strange and unheard of them all. Read on to know ...

If just looking at honeycomb is enough to make your skin crawl, you might suffer from trypophobia. Trypophobia, or the fear of small holes, only came to the attention of scientists in 2013, but ...

TRYPOPHOBIA is the term used to describe those who have an irrational fear of clusters of small holes or bumps. Believed by some scientists that it’s in our genes to dislike tightly packed shapes, ...

Picture a boat hull covered with barnacles, a dried lotus seed pod, milk bubbles on a latte, or a honeycomb. Images of these objects are harmless—unless you're one of the millions of people suffering ...

There was a brief but unforgettable period in the late 2010s — specifically 2017-2018 — when the internet collectively decided it had a phobia of holes. One BuzzFeed quiz, a few cursed lotus pod ...

Trypophobia is the creepy phobia you've probably never heard of. It's been in the spotlight this month after people claimed to be distressed by a TV show's adverts for an apparently innocuous reason: ...

When some people look at the above photo of a harmless lotus seed head, the skin on their necks crawl, their hearts flutter, their shoulders tighten, and they shiver, breaking out in goosebumps. What ...