Look, you might play it all Billy Big Balls to your mates but at the end of the day, everyone’s scared of something. It could be anything.
Perhaps you’re scared of spiders or maybe birds or simply just heights. And while there are plenty of different phobias, some are a little more unusual than others.
From nomophobia to misophonia, you might not even realise you have it until it’s explained to you. And the test to see if you have submechanophobia has people’s ‘souls leaving their bodies’.
Very likely something you’ve never even heard of before; this phobia is the fear of man-made objects being partially or totally submerged in water.
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So basically, if the sight of something someone’s made being underwater has your skin crawling or terrifies you, then you might have the rare submechanophobia.
And really, it could be possible you haven’t even realised you have the phobia because realistically, how often are you looking at things which are submerged in water?
A video compiled by TikTokers @br1ghtfacts, has a selection of images which someone with the phobia would find scary or unsettling.
So, if you look through them and feel creeped out, it's possible you just found out a little more about yourself.
Some people who've taken the test have realised how scary it actually can be to gaze upon the images of man's creations having been claimed by the water.
Pictures of sunken statues, abandoned mineshafts flooded with water, debris of abandoned ships and a stairway leading down beneath an icy surface and into dark water were all part of the test.
However, there was one picture in particular that was setting people off whether they had submechanophobia or not, and it was the image of a sunken statue.
One person said the jump scare it gave them had them feeling like their 'soul left my body for a second'.
Lots of other people taking the test who weren't put off by the other images were still scared by the submerged statue.
Others watching the whole thing wondered 'why am I getting scared' and admitted they 'flinched' when looking through the images.
For some, it confirmed they 'don't have that phobia', while there were a few who thought they might actually have discovered a new phobia they didn't realise they had.
Someone else said they were 'scared of what's in the dark' and since many submerged objects stray far from a source of light it can give a mundane item a significantly creepier aspect.
Jess Battison