39 Bizarre and Unbearable Phobias

#1 Ambulophobia

The fear of walking or standing.

#2 Automatonophobia

The fear of a ventriloquist's dummy.

#3 Pentheraphobia

The fear of your Mother-in-Law.

#4 Eisoptrophobia

The fear of being put into contact with the spiritual world through a mirror.

#5 Pediophobia

The fear of dolls.

#6 Somniphobia (Hypnophobia)

The fear of sleeping.

#7 Neophobia (Cainotophobia)

Neophobia is the fear of new things or experiences.

#8 Gymnophobia

Gymnophobia is a fear or anxiety about being seen naked, and/or about seeing others naked, even in situations where it is socially acceptable.

#9 Taphophobia

The fear of being buried alive.

#10 Demonophobia

The fear of demons.

#11 Phobophobia

The morbid fear of developing a phobia.

#12 Ithyphallophobia

The fear of erect penises.

#13 Paraskavedekatriaphobia

The fear of Friday the 13th.

#14 Arachibutyrophobia

The fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.

#15 Epistemophobia (Gnosiophobia)

The fear of knowledge.

#16 Counterphobia

The preference by a phobic for fearful situations.

Re-read that definition. This is an arcane, mind-bending phobia if there ever was one. So, we have a phobic, and this person actually SEEKS OUT those situations or objects that cause them intense discomfort and fear. This may sound like some sort of strange, twisted masochistic syndrome, but it's thought that counterphobes engage in these activities in an effort to combat their phobia. So counterphobes try to conquer their intense fears by placing themselves in their peculiarly fearful situations, which evidently does not work, so the counterphobe is in a constant oscillating existence of fight-or-flight.

#17 Agyrophobia

Agyrophobics have a fear of crossing streets, highways and other thoroughfares, or a fear of thoroughfares themselves.

#18 Deipnophobia

The fear of dinner conversation.

#19 Mageirocophobia

The fear of cooking.

#20 Decidophobia

The fear of making decisions.

#21 Ephebophobia

The psychological and social fear of youth.

#22 Cathisophobia

The fear of sitting.

#23 Coulrophobia

The fear of clowns.

#24 Chronophobia

The fear of the passing of time, or more generally of time itself.

#25 Cibophobia

The fear of food.

#26 Ergasiophobia

The fear of work.

#27 Acousticophobia

The morbid fear of sounds, including your own voice.

#28 Pteronophobia

The fear of being tickled by feathers.

#29 Xanthophobia

The fear of the color or word yellow.

#30 Omphalophobia

The fear of the navel.

#31 Triskaidekaphobia

The fear of the number 13.

#32 Uranophobia

The fear of heaven.

#33 Pogonophobia

The fear of beards.

#34 Hylophobia

Hylophobia is the fear of wood, forest, or trees.

#35 Turophobia

The fear of cheese.

#36 Ablutophobia

The fear of washing or bathing.

#37 Caligynephobia

The fear of beautiful women.

#38 Ombrophobia

The fear of rain.

#39 Pantophobia

The fear of everything.

At first, you almost want to laugh at this phobia. "The fear of everything? Really? That's just absurd." But then the realization sinks in and you finally understand the gravity of this phobia. Think about it: the fear of EVERYTHING. One source describes this phobia as "a vague and persistent dread of some unknown evil."