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From nomophobia, an irrational fear of being without a mobile phone, to xanthophobia, a fear of the color yellow, countless phobias exist out there. Now this time, we’re delving into the mind of megalophobes, people who are in fear of anything large, like skyscrapers and jumbo jets.

In fact, there’s a whole corner of Reddit dedicated to sharing examples of this phobia known as megalophobia. “A place to post images of all things large, particularly ones that are 'triggers' for those with megalophobia,” the group’s description states.

Below we rolled up some of the most interesting examples shared on the group, so scroll down. Also, when you’re done reading this one, make sure to check out part 1 of the article.

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The Tallest Tree In Wales Got Damaged By A Storm And Was Supposed To Be Cut Down, Instead Chainsaw Artist Simon O’rourke Found A Better Solution To Symbolize The Tree’s Last Attempt To Reach The Sky

The Tallest Tree In Wales Got Damaged By A Storm And Was Supposed To Be Cut Down, Instead Chainsaw Artist Simon O’rourke Found A Better Solution To Symbolize The Tree’s Last Attempt To Reach The Sky

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A Minnesota Woman Recently Captured A Cloud Formation That Appeared To Look Like An Ocean In The Sky

A Minnesota Woman Recently Captured A Cloud Formation That Appeared To Look Like An Ocean In The Sky

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Cheese and rice, Moony!
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I looked up from my phone, in the passenger seat, I would immediately p**s myself so badly-

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Angel Oak, The Oldest Tree East Of The Mississippi

Angel Oak, The Oldest Tree East Of The Mississippi

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Ukrainian Helicopter Flying With Freeway Traffic To Avoid Russian Radar

Ukrainian Helicopter Flying With Freeway Traffic To Avoid Russian Radar

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Margaret Hooper
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Clever - but it must be terrifying for the truck driver. Imagine thinking you might be hit by a Russian missile!

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#6

Imagine This Showing Up In Your Hospital Room

Imagine This Showing Up In Your Hospital Room

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#11

An Iceberg Underwater

An Iceberg Underwater

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Standing Over 7 Feet Tall And Weighing A Massive 2600 Pounds, “Big Jake” Is Currently The World’s Largest Horse

Standing Over 7 Feet Tall And Weighing A Massive 2600 Pounds, “Big Jake” Is Currently The World’s Largest Horse

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#13

Rare Jellyfish Red Sprite Lightning Found 30-90km In The Atmostphere

Rare Jellyfish Red Sprite Lightning Found 30-90km In The Atmostphere

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Cheese and rice, Moony!
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Remember "Paranorman"? Yeah, I think you know who I'm talking about in that movie

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40 Feet Of Snow, North Dakota (1966)

40 Feet Of Snow, North Dakota (1966)

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Headless Roach
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Be careful when you refer to bananas in this forum. What you have done, so carelessly throwing "bananas", means that now someone has to go and do the math how deep the snow is using the banana scale. I, for example, wasn't ready for this on Saturday morning.

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Beck
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I read this is a snow drift. Like snow blown into piles. It was not that high everywhere.

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Tina Harnish
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you're referring to the 1966 snow, yes it was that deep in some places. Yes, some places had less snow, but it was really high in a lot of places.

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Ash
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reminds me of The Long Winter in the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder... She talks about being able to see the horses' hooves going past out of the top half of the second storey windows... because that's how high the snow was.

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idrow1
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whole houses must have been encased. That's incredible. I was just talking about how much snow Buffalo is getting - 7.25 feet. And this is 40!

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Emily M.
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ya know in Quebec they get so much snow they have doors on the second floor so people can leave their houses in the winter(this is what a man from Quebec told me)

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Tina Harnish
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I lived in Quebec. Never saw houses with doors on the 2nd floor. I also saw older houses from the 1800s and they had no doors on the 2nd floor. Also a friend told me that the snow in Nova Scotia got really deep there. Only lived in N.S. when I was young and don't remember deep snow.

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Yaksha Maan
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My god. I wonder how much salt it might have taken to melt this much snow

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Liz-ard
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wonder where he came from… and if it was a house in the area how the heck did he got out of it???

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Keley Babs
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I accidentally read "4 feet of snow. Was like "why are the phone lines so small in North Dakota?!?"

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Tina Harnish
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When the pandemic first hit my roommate and I watched a lot of YouTube. One very good documentary was about the snow of 1966.

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Billy Maguire
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That was back when a consensus of the world's scientists were predicting a new Ice Age.

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Fish Fingers
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Godawful miserable inhospitable death place. 'Americans' let's build a shop!

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Abby
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

anyone have to take a double take on whether or not, this was a color picture? had to zoom in on the dude standing there, to realize it was black n white.

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G86
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well at least they could work on the power lines better, right?

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aG aG
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

See! We've been through worse in history. Just that the current social media generation is chicken $hit and media sensationalizing is a disease.

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33Possums
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not the media, it's those dumb scientists. Someone needs to tell them they don't know anything. /s

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Lu
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Question is what or who is buried under that 40ft

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#15

I Hate Hot Air Balloons In General, But These?? With Faces?? Looking At Me?? Absolutely Not

I Hate Hot Air Balloons In General, But These?? With Faces?? Looking At Me?? Absolutely Not

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Point Nemo, The Spot Farthest Away From Any Land In The World, Where You Are Closer To Astronauts Aboard The Iss Than Humanity

Point Nemo, The Spot Farthest Away From Any Land In The World, Where You Are Closer To Astronauts Aboard The Iss Than Humanity

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#18

Just Something About This Being Able To Float Is Stressing Me Out Somehow

Just Something About This Being Able To Float Is Stressing Me Out Somehow

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A Giant Statue Of Chinese Warrior Hero Guan Yu

A Giant Statue Of Chinese Warrior Hero Guan Yu

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#21

Quetzalcoatlus, As Tall As A Giraffe, The Largest Known Flying Animal In History. Imagine This Flying Towards You

Quetzalcoatlus, As Tall As A Giraffe, The Largest Known Flying Animal In History. Imagine This Flying Towards You

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Excuse me do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior Quetzalcoatl?

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#22

Supercell Forming In Wyoming

Supercell Forming In Wyoming

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Deborah Harris2
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It looks like one of the four elephants has stepped off the giant turtle onto Earth :o

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#24

A Blanket Of Mammatus Clouds Dwarfing A Plane

A Blanket Of Mammatus Clouds Dwarfing A Plane

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#25

The Fog... Oh God

The Fog... Oh God

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How I imagine the Mary Celeste may have looked, minus the people of course.

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Face In The Clouds

Face In The Clouds

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Solid Pileo
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ominous and unsettling. Pareidolia, of course but I'd still run away from it as fast as I could.

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#28

Earth Next To Jupiter

Earth Next To Jupiter

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#29

Oil Rig Platform Being Towed Into The Sea. The Platform Itself Is Dwarfing The Luxurious Hotel On The Left

Oil Rig Platform Being Towed Into The Sea. The Platform Itself Is Dwarfing The Luxurious Hotel On The Left

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#30

150 Ft Iceberg Floating By A Small Town In Newfoundland, Canada. Gives Me The Heebie Jeebies

150 Ft Iceberg Floating By A Small Town In Newfoundland, Canada. Gives Me The Heebie Jeebies

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#31

Recently Got A 17 Hour Ferry And Looking Out Into Nothing At 3am Was Terrifying

Recently Got A 17 Hour Ferry And Looking Out Into Nothing At 3am Was Terrifying

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looking up and seeing the milky way in all of its glory is breathtaking though.

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#33

A Cave

A Cave

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love caves, but at the same time, despise them with all my being. Looking at this, I feel waves of calm and wonder, and also "HOLY S**T F**K NAH NOPE S**T GET IT AWAY"

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#34

Statue Of Unity In India. The Biggest Statue In The World At Present

Statue Of Unity In India. The Biggest Statue In The World At Present

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The Biggest Bug Known To Ever Live. The Arthropleura Millipede That Predates The Dinosaurs And Grew Up To 100 Pounds.

The Biggest Bug Known To Ever Live. The Arthropleura Millipede That Predates The Dinosaurs And Grew Up To 100 Pounds.

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#38

150 Meter Aluminum Sea Serpent Skeleton Sculpture In Saint Brevin Near Nantes

150 Meter Aluminum Sea Serpent Skeleton Sculpture In Saint Brevin Near Nantes

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

damn. even though i know it’s fake, i still think it’s amazing. the sheer size of the beasts in the past never fail to amaze!

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#40

Ponte City Apartments In Johannesburg, South Africa. The Tallest Residential Building On The African Continent

Ponte City Apartments In Johannesburg, South Africa. The Tallest Residential Building On The African Continent

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#42

Each Frame Of Interstellar's Black Hole Took Over 100 Hours To Render

Each Frame Of Interstellar's Black Hole Took Over 100 Hours To Render

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#44

Burning Man Festival

Burning Man Festival

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Burning man used to be cool. Now, not so much. When a kardashian attends your festival, it's a sign of lame.

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A Research Team Surveys A Remote Area In Antarctica Where There Have Been Historical Accounts Of An “Ancient Giant Frozen In Ice”. Its Exact Size And Location Were Never Given. If Real, Scientists Suspect The So-Called “Giant” To Be A Mummified, Prehistoric Animal. The Team Is Looking For Traces

A Research Team Surveys A Remote Area In Antarctica Where There Have Been Historical Accounts Of An “Ancient Giant Frozen In Ice”. Its Exact Size And Location Were Never Given. If Real, Scientists Suspect The So-Called “Giant” To Be A Mummified, Prehistoric Animal. The Team Is Looking For Traces

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#48

“Duga” Was A Soviet Radar System Used As Part Of The Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile Early-Warning Network. These Things Were So Powerful It Interfered With Radio Signals Half Way Around The World

“Duga” Was A Soviet Radar System Used As Part Of The Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile Early-Warning Network. These Things Were So Powerful It Interfered With Radio Signals Half Way Around The World

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The Typhoon Is A Class Of Nuclear-Powered Ballistic Missile Submarines Built By The Soviet Union. With A Submerged Displacement Of 48,000 Tonnes, The Typhoons Are The Largest Submarines Ever Built

The Typhoon Is A Class Of Nuclear-Powered Ballistic Missile Submarines Built By The Soviet Union. With A Submerged Displacement Of 48,000 Tonnes, The Typhoons Are The Largest Submarines Ever Built

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The Inside Of 160 000m³ Long Containment Tank

The Inside Of 160 000m³ Long Containment Tank

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not big enough to fit all the banana for scale comments ever made on BP

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