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Travel PR Blog » Blog Archive » Problems with pylons — Thu, 19 May 2011 08:02:52 +0000

[...] in various UK corners – but not with a photographic loathing. Then there’s a woman with a phobia of pylons. It’s one thing hating them, as I do, but quite another to say things like “I think they’re [...]

By: georgie

georgie — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:40:42 +0000

Hi there!!
I have a similar fear but one of man made water devices such as dams and water mills, I am terrified of them and cannot pass them or even look at pictures of them.I use to live near a village with a water mill as a young child and had to pass this water mill in car and some times by foot much to my horror at times!!!I am a good strong swimmer and apart from sometimes having to pass a water mill at times as a child I cannot expalin why i have this irrational fear!!I use to have to close my eyes and cover my ears as to be able to block the awful wooshing noise of water coming fromt he contraption!!!
I do not know of any one with this fear and my mum thinks it’s strange too!!!
Once as a teenager I on a day trip with the family we came across to my horror as we were taking a beautiful walka along side a river a loche which was explained to me was for changing the level of the water, as i saw the device was filling up with water for the boat i was terrified and wanted to be hugged by my mum!!!I’m sure others thought i was being OTT, but all the symptoms of fear i had as a young child came back!!!

Does anyone else share this same phobia??

By: karlii

karlii — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:43:47 +0000

OMG!!! LOL

I am totally afraid of large things. Windmills I think started when I was a kid, but I don’t remember for sure. Only that I didn’t like them.

Now it extends to a few other things. Wind turbines (what eeevil human invented those things?) Extremely large fans like in car tunnels… Clock towers.. specifically the clockworks inside.. *shudder* I HATE the things that move… *is creeped out discussing it*. Ocean-going bouys aren’t too cool when they are out of the water.. and the last thing that is totally horrible for me is large bells. larger than two feet big. But only when they are able to move.

I’ve thought a lot about what creeps me out.. and other than the objects being too large to be allowed, (large clock gears are just wrong!) what I notice is that the objects move, or are able to move.

I wonder if it might not have something to do with frequency and resonance. ??? Like, what if we (as a group) resonate on a certain frequency… and all these large items (wind turbines for example) resonate on a frequency that is disharmonious to our souls?

I’m not afraid of tall towers or power lines… (I did see a three ft tall insulator once.. eww).. but the how frequency thing might make sense here too.

Even people who don’t like spiders could just be out of harmony with the little critters… hmmm…

Hey.. it’s as good a reason as the next one! LOL

Thanks for a great site! Just a place where we can all be together!

By: John

John — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:15:36 +0000

Hi everybody,

You’re not alone with your fear of aeroplanes overhead as can be seen here If you was to respond to this thread maybe one of the specialists would be able to give their thoughts on the situation.

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:36:44 +0000

sorry me again!!…. meant to ask is anybody else frightened of looking at large rollacoasters? and hot air balloons? I think a grounded hot air balloons would be just as bad as one flying above me, they are so big! ( i too appologise if mentioning these has triggered a phobia in anybody)