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This Group Is Dedicated To The Fear Of Submerged Man-Made Objects, And Here Are 50 Of Its Scariest Pics (New Pics)
How do you feel when you imagine being submerged in water? Is your inner mermaid thrilled by the idea (wish I could be part of that woooooorld), or do you consider yourself much more of a land creature? If thinking about ships and submarines that are resting peacefully at the bottom of the ocean brings you immense anxiety, you just might have submechanophobia. (Try saying that 5 times fast!)
This phobia, or the fear of submerged man-made objects, has an entire subreddit dedicated to it. From photos of flooded cities to pics of underwater buildings, we’ve gathered some of the most frightening and fascinating posts from r/Submechanophobia that just might give you something new to be scared of. So strap on your snorkeling gear, or your life-vest if you’d prefer to stay above water, and enjoy this deep dive into the phobia of all things submerged.
Keep reading to also find an interview we were lucky enough to receive from Milena Spirova, the woman behind The Shipyard blog, and be sure to upvote the photos that give you the heebie-jeebies. Let us know in the comments if you think you might have submechanophobia yourself, and then if you’d like to swim even deeper down the rabbit hole of this curious phobia, you can find Bored Panda’s last article featuring this subreddit right here!
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#1
This Statue Disappearing Into The Waves
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#2
Underwater Diving Museum In Cyprus
#3
Victors Way Sculpture Park. County Wicklow, Ireland
#4
Louisiana, Untouched Since Katrina
#5
Funny How A Single Chain Can Freak Us Out
#6
A Coat Still Hanging Inside Uss Arizona
#7
Lake Mead. Not Only Is The 2021 Pic Bad News, But Also Creeps Me Out
Susan Reid Smith 3 years ago
It creeps me out and scares me like anything. The current drought is extreme.
#8
Ancient Relics Rediscovered Off The Coast Of Egypt
#9
Old Pier Piece That Looks Just Like A Hand. It Is Larger Than It Looks
#10
The Hoover Dam Spill Way.. 50 Feet Wide, 600 Feet Deep.. I Cant Stop Thinking About Falling In…
#11
Sitting In A Sunken Commercial Airplane
#12
Train Tracks Disappearing Into Lake Tahoe, Ca
#13
The Vastness Of Fishermen’s Nets
#14
Flooded Autopsy Theatre In The Basement Of A Charity Hospital
#15
Underwater Dragon Statue
kitten levels tokyo 3 years ago
…which has caused many unsuspecting scuba divers to poop their wetsuits.
#16
"A Pool With Holes" I Saw This And I Thought Y'all Would Have Something To Say About This
#17
Pedestrian Passageway Flooded After Recent Rains In Shizuoka, Japan
#18
Friendly Reminder That There Is A Jason Vorhees Statue At The Bottom Of A Minnesota Lake
#19
"Ocean Atlas" The Largest Single Underwater Sculpture. Nassau, Bahamas
#20
Creepy Lady Of The Lake Statue In Shrewsbury
#21
Century Old Sunken Ship Preserved In Perfect Condition Beneath Lake Superior
#22
Reservoir Overflow In Armenia. These Have Always Fascinated And Scared Me Since I Was A Kid
Lord Mysticlaw 3 years ago
At least this one has the decency to look cute like a flower or something, not just a gaping hole. I hate overflows.
#23
Flooded Cemeteries. I Don’t Even Want To Look At The Picture
#24
Aftermath Of Amoco Cadiz Sinking
#25
The Costa Concordia Wreck Gives Me Chills…
#26
Submerged Tanks
#27
Motorboat Nearly Swept Over A Dam Spillway In Texas
#28
A Japanese House Floating In The Pacific Ocean After The 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake And Tsunami
Dan Padgett 3 years ago
In my head, a dude has woken up and gone to get his morning paper. "Wtaf!"
#29
The Only Thing Left Above Water Of The Venezuelan City Of Potosi, Is The Top Of The Churches Bell Tower
#30
Stairwell That Leads To Creepy Underwater Cave
#31
Somewhere In The North Sea
#32
The 'Ghost Fleet' Of Mallows Bay, Maryland. A Fleet Of Hundreds Of American Ships Built Of Wood Due To Wartime Steel Shortages. Most Of These Ships Were Obsolete Upon Project Completion After The End Of The War And Left To Rot
Anyone-for-tea? 3 years ago
Shame they couldn’t have recycled these somehow, it seems so wasteful.
#33
Reservoir Overspill
#34
Scrolling Through Listings Of Houses For Sale. Found This In The Basement
#35
Literally My Worst Fear. Queen Mary Propellor Room
#36
A Church Underwater, Located In Llsesee Via Undertow_photography
#37
Tonnes Of Nuclear Waste - Sellafield UK
Giles McArdell 3 years ago
Sellafield had (still has to some extent) such a nuclear waste problem they ended up developing what are now some of the best nuclear waste reduction technologies in existence, other countries pay Sellafield to process their nuclear waste (it gets reduced, vitrified in glass and returned to it's country of origin for storage).
#38
Exposed Shipwreck In Scotland
#39
The Edmund Fitzgerald, What Remains Of It Today At The Bottom Of Lake Superior
#40
After Walking 50m In To A Narrow, 150 Year Old Gold Mine, This Vertical Shaft Emerges
Susan Reid Smith 3 years ago
This is not uncommon in mines. They are dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.
#41
Sailor Waiting To Be Rescued From His Sinking Ship
#42
Abandoned Rollercoaster
#43
Flooded Beer Brewery Under Kőbánya, Budapest, Hungary
#44
One Of The Water Tunnels Inside Diablo Dam In Washington
#45
Water Ride From A (Now Closed) Italian Theme Park
#46
Cleveland Ledge Lighthouse, Falmouth, Massachusetts
#47
Went Past A Wind Turbine Farm On A Cruise. My Other Half Was Terrified!
#48
Apparently This Submerged Little Guy Was Found After 20 Years
#49
This Pool Is The Most Unsettling Pool I’ve Seen In Real Life
#50
An Underground Spillway, Part Of The G-Cans Project
#51
Diana, The Figurehead Of The Uss Hamilton In The Murky Waters Of Lake Ontario
#52
The Inside Of Nuclear Reactors Are Extremely Disturbing For Many Reasons
#53
Movie Set For The Abyss. They Filled It Entirely With Water For Filming
#54
My Own Submechanophibia, That's 4 Feet Deep Raw Sewage In My House
#55
One Of Neufchâtels Sharks
#56
Not So Fun Fact: There Are Nuclear Divers
Dan Padgett 3 years ago
Keep a thought for the Japanese engineers who went into pools like this without any protection during the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
#57
Don't Wanna Know What's Under All The Algae. Found This In Berlin
#58
Brand New Boeing 737 Fusalges Partially Submerged, Following A Train Derailment
#59
Freediving In Hawaii Whilst Tugging On A Chain Of A Buoy Underwater
Shyla Bouche 3 years ago
If he's clinging to the old ball and chain, he only thinks he's free diving.
#60
Passing *under* An American Spearhead Class Transport Ship
#61
An Underwater Class A Rv In A Quarry Dive Site
#62
The Titanic, Viewed Through A Submarine Porthole
#63
Mine Diving
#64
Mv Sea Eagle Sunk In Limak Port, Turkey (No One Injured Or Death)
#65
Where I Live There Is A Lake Created By A Meteor Which Is 115 Meters Deep. These Are Some Photos Our Free Press Released Of It. Not A Fan
#66
Out Of All The Things That Trigger My Submechaniphobia, Sunken Planes Give Me The Most Anxiety
#67
Hurricane Ida
#68
Submarine Just Breaching The Surface
#69
Two Of Titanic’s Rusticle-Ridden Engines. Below Is What It Would Look Like Out Of Water. These Structures Are About Four Stories Tall
#70
1985, Patrick L Stevens Tested Whether You Would Immediately Sink Inside A Wastewater Aeration Tank By Going In Himself, Attached To A Tether, Then Having The Machine Turned On
Snacking on cats 3 years ago
Why didn't he wear a diving suit???? AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH, wastewater being absorbed through the skin.
#71
A Chair Sitting On The Ocean Floor Somewhere Off The Coast Of Us
#72
Shipwreck In The Caribbean
#73
Super Creepy Abandoned Pool
#74
Underwater Staircase, I Dont Know Anything Else About The Image
Blazej Kowalczyk 3 years ago
Most likely put there as a way for divers and swimmers to get in and off the sea :)
#75
So As Lake Mead Continues To Get Lower Its Revealing Old Sunken Boats. Here Is The Infamous 1940s Wwii Landing Craft
#76
Abandoned Australian Submarine. Sinking This Week
#77
This Unstable Grate Inches Above A Dark Reservoir
#78
The Hydro Electric And Bypass Intakes For Lake Murray In South Carolina, Popular Fishing Spot Too But I Don't Even Like Taking The Boat Near Them
#79
Pipe Going Into The Midnight Zone
#80
One Of The Most Dangerous Jobs, Underwater Welding
kitten levels tokyo 3 years ago
Straddling that nasty old pipe with a bunch of sharp barnacles growing on it isn’t helping matters.
#81
Found On Fb - “Salt Water Slowly Eating Away Pablo Escobar’s Plane. By @sal_qu”
#82
Inside The Capsized Costa Concordia (Credits: News Pictures/Rex Features)
#83
For The Cost Of About $60,000 You Can Live In A Wwi Seaport Built Between 1915-1919 Off The Coast Of England
#84
The Flooded Chamber In Abandoned Slate Mine, Info In Comment
#85
Wreck At Tabaiba, Tenerife
#86
The Wreck Of The Soviet Cruiser: The Murmansk. The Wreck Is Somewhere On The North Coast Of Norway
#87
Flooded Car Park In Oz
#88
Coral World Underwater Observation Tower
#89
Found A Sunken Jeep Near Key West, Fl Via Google Maps. So A Friend Of Mine Went To Check It Out In Person. Swipe To See
#90
Old Tunnel From Yugoslavia Time
#91
This Flooded Basement, Stairs That Disappear Into Black Water
#92
There's Something Big At The Bottom Of This Dam
#93
Dauphin Island, Al The Houses Are In The Water. There Are Plots In Front Of These Houses Priced For $1k Because They’re Literally In The Ocean
Ivo H 3 years ago
Pricing something, even so low, just because "it's a real estate", even it's SUBMERGED IN WATER is peak of human stupidity. It's the same as selling plots on the moon, when humanity was even able to land there only several times. Why do we have to be like that? Why must we split and (at least try to) sell every f*****g inch of ground we don't even own?
#94
The Main Cabin Of The Frank W. Wheeler Remains Eerily Preserved Under About 600 Feet Of Water In Lake Superior
#95
Stairs, But Underwater. My Anxiety Is Through The Roof Looking At This Photo
#96
Bow Of The Ss America Which Is Just Below The Surface. Re-Uploaded Cuz I Had Some Incorrect Info In The Title Originally
#97
A Tidal Turbine About To Be Submerged Off The Coast Of Scotland
#98
Tidal Power Is Pretty Cool, But The Turbines Are Terrifying
#99
Bruce Lying In Wait At The Universal Studios Tour Jaws
#100
Mt Haven’s Massive Propeller
#101
A Beached Buoy During Huricane Henri
#102
This Small Lake In My Town Has A Max Depth Of About 18 Meters. In The Middle There's A Large Sloping Cement Board, Held By 2 Metal Pillars
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canalul_Siret%E2%80%93B%C4%83r%C4%83gan It was meant to be a part of a canal.
#103
A Ship Lowering A Deep Sea Oil Pipeline
#104
Wreck Of The German Cruiser Prinz Eugen Photographed By Mark B. Hatter. Anyone Wanna Dive There? How About At Night !
#105
A Lake Drainage Pipe Under Thin Glass Ice, And Six Feet Of Water
#106
The Remains Of Flooded Towns Under The St Lawrence Reservoir, Seen From Google Earth
#107
A Photo Of The Collapsed Crimean Bridge Span Taken From Below
#108
"Swim Call' From R/Submarines
#109
Gun Turret On Board The Uss Johnston 21,222 Ft Under The Sea
#110
The Way The Stern Disappears Into Nothingness Is Unsettling
#111
This Flood Defence System In Venice Appeared On A Youtube Video And I Was Not Prepared For The Horror
#112
That Time I *did* Paddle Over A Wreck And Realized This Phobia Was A Thing. Sherkston Wreck, Lake Erie (Canadian Side)
#113
Drunk Driver Outside Bridgeport, California Yesterday Morning
#114
Came To Brighton Today Just To See This Beautiful Monstrosity
#115
Cargo Hold Of The ‘Ms Zenobia’ Wreck / Cyprus
#116
The Lights Under The Water
#117
Half Submerged Colombian Drug Cartel Submarine
#118
Lake Superior
#119
North Dakota Flooding Today
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 years ago
That's a real white knuckle ride. Not like you can turn around and go back.
#120
I Always Pass This On The River. Creeps Me Out Thinking What May Be Inside
kitten levels tokyo 3 years ago
Get a flashlight and go some dark night and find out. Face your fears!
#121
The New World Mall
#122
This Bts Photo From Jaws: The Revenge
kitten levels tokyo 3 years ago
PSA: BTS is a South Korean boy band also known as Bangtan Boys.
#123
An Abandoned Underground Submarine Base In Albania
#124
Diver Exploring Flooded Soviet Prison Camp
#125
The Flip Research Vessel Submerges Itself, For A Controlled Capsize, To Achieve Unparalleled Stability At Sea. It Works Much Like The Ballast Legs Of Deep Water Platforms
#126
Noble Globetrotter 2 Reported To Have Suffered Damage And Taken On Water During Hurrcaine Ida
#127
Found This Terrifying Gas Rig In The Gulf Of Mexico
#128
Stairway Into Nothingness, Jersey City Waterfront
#129
An Spm. That Underwater Part Gave Me The Chills
#130
Didn’t Know Conduits Could Be Scary…
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 years ago
Conduits are ALWAYS scary. Wet, dry, doesn't matter. 480V with nothing more than a 1mm thick layer of plastic and aluminum is not comforting.
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Dinah Brand 3 years ago
I never knew there was an actual name for this phobia! I couldn't even finish scrolling through this post.
Load More Replies... Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
One of the eeriest and yet most beautiful and serene experiences I've ever had is when I was overheated and restless one night and decided to go down to the lake for a swim - all by myself, in the dark, with just the moon and stars for company. While I was floating there in the black water I started to get a bit nervous, and then I heard a series of strange, high-pitched sounds coming from all around me. I got even more nervous until I realised what it was. It was a flock of little bats, swooping over the water to catch insects. I wasn't alone after all. 🦇
Chich 3 years ago
We spent what? a billion years or two getting out of the water. I see no need to go back.
Dizavid 3 years ago
Unfortunately we seem determined to bring the ocean back to *us*.
Load More Replies... Dinah Brand 3 years ago
I never knew there was an actual name for this phobia! I couldn't even finish scrolling through this post.
Load More Replies... Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
One of the eeriest and yet most beautiful and serene experiences I've ever had is when I was overheated and restless one night and decided to go down to the lake for a swim - all by myself, in the dark, with just the moon and stars for company. While I was floating there in the black water I started to get a bit nervous, and then I heard a series of strange, high-pitched sounds coming from all around me. I got even more nervous until I realised what it was. It was a flock of little bats, swooping over the water to catch insects. I wasn't alone after all. 🦇
Chich 3 years ago
We spent what? a billion years or two getting out of the water. I see no need to go back.
Dizavid 3 years ago
Unfortunately we seem determined to bring the ocean back to *us*.
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