I actually have this. Couldn’t put my finger on it growing up, but I vividly remember getting scared by submerged objects. I remember swimming out to a buoy in a lak and then getting really freaked out when I looked down and saw the chain going down into the abyss. Such a freaky feeling.
Same, I was always uneasy with pool-cleaning robots, especially when they were moving,and never wanted to get too close. I get uneasy with buoys and seeing a plane underwater gives me the creeps
Maybe that was more a fear of the depth. The fear of what abyss below. Submechanophobia seems to be more about man-made things that are below water. Not considering the abyss or disgusting algae-covered surfaces, it is still a phobia and is basically irrational.
@@Poodleinacan fears of tangible objects and proven concepts arent irrational. irrational is like worrying bigfoot is dating your mum. also my mum says she fears seaweed. i never got what she meant til i was at a lake and looking over the dock i saw the tips of long seaweed emerging from an imperceptible void. i got a long stick, for science, and watched that sink into the void. water is spooky in so many ways 😨
@Poodleinacan No, it's different, he specifically said that the chain going down in the abyss was scary. I have this, and I'm not afraid of deepness, besides the very rational fear of being caught underwater, but the object don't need to be submerged deeply in the water to be scary. I think it's irrational too. There's no good reason to be afraid of inanimate object.
My biggest fear is diving somewhere in the Atlantic and opening my eyes to see a gigantic propeller or the front of some giant shipwreck. I get goosebumps just thinking about it.
I grew up going to a man-made lake that was once a small town. When the creek feeding the lake was damned under a FDR-era program, the entire town was submerged. As a kid, the idea of an entire town at the bottom of the lake I was swimming in left me with nightmares. But, more specifically I find the sight of bridge pillars disappearing into dark water the most terrifying. Such a large man made object spanning the entire depth of a body of water is so chilling. Swimming next to one makes me feel claustrophobic. Really the sight of any man-made object descending to the the bottom of a body of water, like a dock cable or boat anchor, gives me chills. All I know is these man-made objects are not supposed to be there and I perceive it as a threat.
In Oregon? 😅 We have some of those here and they make me feel sick If anyone wants to see pics of one of the dried lake beds they can look up "Oregon ghost town rises from drought-drained Detroit Lake." There are a bunch but that's the best known Also totally agree, i commented and said flooded towns too lol. It's not right
@@no_peace The lake I used to visit is in Northern Arkansas, Lake Norfork. It’s sad to know so many towns were destroyed this way across the country. All I can think about are all the homes and memories lost :/ I know I would be devastated to have it happen to me.
My biggest fear is I'm swimming in a big body of water and my foot brushes against something hard under me. I look down and it's a rusty airplane under the water. I'd simply freak tf out.
Ugh, reading that gave me a slight panic. Processing it, this doesn't seem scary to the average person, but it's straight up a short horror scenario for us with the phobia. It's so weird.
its a weird feeling both having submechanophobia yet still having a fascination with shipwrecks and even the occasional thought of learning how to dive to face my fears to visit said wrecks
I have Aquamechanophobia specific to pool drains and lights, so I can totally understand how someone with Submechanophobia could be affected by things as such.
Honestly after I heard a particular story I don't trust the drains. I don't remember if it was a drain or something else but it sucked this girl underneath a hot tub and she drowned because it was too powerful. So now I'll stay away from the drains and jets.
I think one reason why people have submechanophobia and not a fear of man made structures in space is that we meant to put the space stations and satellites up there but we didn’t plan to put boats and such underwater
Exactly. They only ever end up there because something went very wrong, and in some cases people would have lost their lives in the vicinity. It's an accidental totem of our flimsy mortality, left to sit in the cold, eerie silence until long after us and everyone we know have long since passed.
Similar to how I would describe it: 1) a feeling of "that doesn`t belong there!" and 2) in cases of sunken ships/submarines/airplanes the thought of ppl who went down with them (and whose remains could still be there):
Submechanophobia definitely has evolutionary factors involved. We are wired to be afraid of submerged objects as it is a natural human instinct to fear unfamiliar objects underwater.
Your videos are amazing... Even without being too complex, the way that your voice and the images is completely insane. I can feel goosebumps with your other videos. Keep on doing these videos.
Underwater animateonics is spooky, but also the thought of submerging my head underwater and hearing the motors and hydraulics working freaks me out too
The weirdly specific stuff that freaks my out the most is the bottom of ships, giant ship propellers, and the sight of a chain/ rope coming from a bouy or anchor just going into the abyss
Your mention of liminal spaces is extremely insightful! I’m very impressed that you put that together without having Submechanophobia yourself. I definitely have Submechanophobia and I’m fascinated with abandoned places and out of place structures and objects because they conjure up feelings much like Submechanophobia does, but without the overwhelming fear, since it’s on dry land and therefore I have much more control and full access to my senses.
One of the things that might scare people is the fact that they know you can't properly move underwater and there is not that much light and the damaged man made things combined make the human mind sometimes make you thing you are actually there and for some people they fear this
I know genuine danger when it comes to exploring ship wrecks. If you've ever seen the Staten Island boat graveyard you'll know what I'm talking about. There's just about a million things to get tangled up and then dragged down under.
I know I have this because two scenes from movies that stuck with me throughout childhood and scared me deeply were 1. The sinking plane in incredibles 2. The sinking CAT in happy feet Absolute chills and I've never forgotten them
I am deathly afraid of vents inside swimming pools. Especially the ones that make waves in surf-n-swim. Even black tiles in pools freak me out. I’ve had nightmares being stuck in some kind of underground tunnel filled with murky water. There was giant black vents under my feet with pool lights illuminating the holes beneath the vents. Terrifying.
This comment awakened a memory for me of the fear you’re describing. Looking at underwater vents always made me nervous especially in deep pools. Never thought much about it until now.
@@zachloken8219 oh man, I’m sorry! I honestly don’t even know why I’m afraid of them. I’ve forced myself to touch them and I know that they are generally harmless, but it’s just an irrational fear that I can’t explain haha
@@dalatina911 no need to be sorry haha. Your comment just made me realize that I have this fear to some extent. It helped me discover something new about myself, which is pretty cool actually.
Dude, there's a diving story from Mr. Ballen about these guys that find this huge submerged concrete building and swim inside it to check it out, only for one of them to get sucked into this huge tunnel in one of the walls
I remember being absolutely repulsed by toilet tanks and buoys from a very young age. When I was about 9, my mom took my two younger siblings and I to a water treatment facility and I was TERRIFIED of the dark, deep, dirty water with rusty stairs and gears partially submerged. I could never understand why, especially as a kid who always loved the water. More recently, while snorkeling in Bali, I was completely fine (if anything, relaxed) looking down into where the shallow beach met the deep trench, but almost lost it upon seeing the rope of a boat anchor just a few meters from me. CRAZY that so many others feel this way too! I will say I have more of a specific aversion rather than a phobia per-se.
Well I mean I think I'd be a bit more scared of tanks of water if they happened to be like 70% poop. Like... falling into a treatment plant tank would be an absolute horror. Potentially fatal.
My particular submechanophobia sub-group is being utterly creeped out by shipwrecks or underwater vehicles, but only when seen from the surface. And weirdly enough, the knowledge that, for example, a buoy has a chain reaching all the way down to an invisible bottom below it also gives me the heebie-jeebies. Maybe I should hop on the subreddit and see if there's a word for my version out there too.
omg I was just realizing this as I watched the video. The guy sitting in the engine of the plane didn’t bother me so badly, just kind of unsettling, but the plane with all the bouys above it made me physically recoil and screech lol.
Or very specific military vessels at the bottom of the ocean. I get very creeped out by images of ships like the Bismarck, Kursk, Yamato, Yorktown, etc. all sunken at the bottom of the ocean. I think it’s because you know that these are all war graves; places where hundreds, if not thousands, of sailors have lost their lives. But it’s not just that, it’s also seeing them in a state of such rustic decay and disrepair. Also because shipwrecks almost never go down straight up and down: they’re always one one side or split in half or completely upside down. That’s another thing that creeps me out to no end.
i think one of the best things is not just manmade objects underwater, but massive ones, especially with people in frame, like that one with the guy sitting in a plane's engine, i think it combines submechanophobia and megalophobia into one, just seeing something large and unmoving stretch off into the abyss is really unsettling, especially something where it just looks like a wall that stretches off into forever, cause you have no clue how big it actually is, it could be the size of a city or the size of a large house, you can never know cause of your limited vision
I was lucky enough to be brought to a small local amusement park every summer. I first noticed my Submechaniphobia when we'd be riding the log flume rides and I'd see the machinery under the water. It always made my skin crawl but thankfully not enough to make me avoidant. Later, i end up living in Hawaii and book a tour with Shark biologists to swim with a group of Galapagos sharks while they're schooling together (i.e. not hunting) in open deep pelagic waters a handful of miles off the coast of Oahu. The biggest of these sharks was a 12ft female who decided to rudely body check me (which is normal and just means, back off, im the baddest bitch here) and i was completely unphased and very happy to be with the sharks. But i was extremely nervous because we were in the water holding onto sturdy lines, attached to the hull of the boat. So you are essentially grasping the hull the entire time to avoid drifting and preventing being snuck up on from behind. It was bothering me more than being body checked by a 12 ft shark.
I think for me it can be described most with: say you’re in the middle of the ocean on a boat. Something gets twisted around the propellor and you are asked to jump in the water and swim under the boat to cut it loose.
The images of submerged objects are scary to me because they look uncanny (like said in the video) Like at first glance they look like they might be in air, but then you realize it’s in water. It’s like you could imagine yourself in the picture, but once you recognize it’s in water you realize you would die if you were in that image lol. It feels forbidden because you can’t survive being there. I think man made objects in space would be scary if there were abandoned spaceships just floating around out there. I think that will definitely be a phobia in the future when more people go to space and if any space stations or ships become abandoned.
I think you explained it perfectly. I Never understood why the images of the Titanic, Giant ship propellers and massive anchors and cement columns going down into the depths made me uneasy. The comparison you made to liminal spaces I think is spot on. There's an eeriness to seeing manmade things in the abyss.
I live close to a large body of water that was a town they intentionally flooded a hundred years ago or so. When the water level lowers In droughts you can see a church steeple beneath the water. I can’t hardly handle driving by it or watching other people cliff dive into ig let alone get in the water myself. I basically clung to the cliff faces in 5 feet of water the last time I was invited to go with friends, lol. Thankfully I wasn’t alone, a couple other people with me were freaked out by that place too! Idk if they moved the cemetery/relocated the coffins before they flooded it or not, but that creeps me out even more than thinking of the people who’ve drowned or have drove off the roads into the water w/o being found. For some reason lakes scare me more than the ocean. No idea why.
I don’t know if I have this phobia or not. On one hand, I love creepy/scary things. And shipwrecks don’t bother me. Maybe because ships are meant to be on the water, being in it is the next logical step? On the other hand, submerged animatronics deeply disturb me. Like the photos of 2000 leagues under the sea when the ride was drained? Nightmare fuel
I feel the same way about shipwrecks. they were designed to be on water, so it isn't as scary. submerged airplanes on the other hand? hell no. that shit is supposed to be in the sky
I fall into the same category of submechanophobia as you, mainly because of that DAMN sea serpent!😖 I've had nightmares of giant underwater sea monsters!😭
I've gone through like half the comment section and it surprises me no ones talked about Subnautica. i love the game but some of the sunken parts of the aurora that you can find scare the crap out of me when all i can see is the flashing of the broken wire and the slight outline of the aurora's pieces. another part that unsettles me is the wrecked architect building, so many places that theoretically you could get trapped in. don't get me started in the back of the aurora
Freaking hate the back of the Aurora. It's probably cause other than just triggering submechanophobia it also triggers megalophobia. Just thinking of those big tube structures makes me anxious.
Good video, about 5 years back my family and I went snorkeling off the coast of Cartagena and I got really spooked when we observed one of Escobars submerged planes.
When i was a kid our public aquatic center had this separation structure between the deep end and the lap pool. As kids we had rumors about kids trying to swim down under the barrier which had a small space at the bottom of it that if u really wanted to u could swim under it and to the other side. I remember being so afraid of it, attempting to try it. Knowing i could if i just push myself but if anything did go wrong it really could have not worked out. I ended up overcoming my fear and it felt good but the rumor and respect lived on about the things that could have gone wrong over the course of time. So i can relate to this feeling, the best thing is to be smart and respect these things because we are definitely not meant to handle much in the water so always be smart and respect the water.
insane video… i too have this IMMENSE fear and i couldn’t even LOOK at some of the pictures you presented lol. I remember back then it was such a distinct fear of mine i didn’t even know the term of it. But as i was watching this video you gave the perfect outlook on it, brava!🙌🏻🔥 What a bizarre fear right?
I have a version of this fear, which is to be trapped in or under a submerged object. Had it since I was a very young - your use of Silent Hill music to start the video is apt, as when I played a scene drowning in submerged car in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories had be drenched head to toe in nervous sweat.
I'm obsessed with the fact that I have submechanophobia. Sometimes when I'm in the shower, I close my eyes and visualize with my mind's eye the hull of a ship underwater or a submarine passing right over me while I'm underwater. Terrifying! I'm obsessed, I can't help it. I'm also terrified of being in a pool's deep end alone (I'm fine if there's other people). An earlier commentator (@cadillacdevile) mentioned ''Aquamechanophobia'', I don't know if that's a thing or it's all related to submechaphobia but I have that too... the fear of pool drains and lights along the wall. I dread olympic sized pools and deep underwater apnea pools. I have many other fears related to water, I think it stems from a childhood traumatic event in a pool where I almost drowned if it wasn't for my dad that saved me. Anyways, I'm glad I'm not the only one with this phobia... Is there a facebook group for this?
I have a fear and a fascination of shipwrecks. On one hand not all submerged man made objects give me such a strong feeling of dread and fear, but others very much do. I feel fear towards very specific shipwrecks. To give some examples: Titanic, Lusitania, Britannica, Andrea Dorea, Yamato, Yorktown, Bismarck, Kursk, Taiho, and many, many others. I think there are multiple reasons as to why I’m so terrified of these ships in particular: one being that they are all graves in which hundreds, if not thousands of people lost their lives. Another being the rustic sorry state of decay all of these ships are in after being underwater for upwards of 100 years. And finally the last being how they got there. Shipwrecks almost never go down straight up and in one piece; they’re always on their side, or split in half, or completely upside down. I think it’s all those factors that lead me to think that these shipwrecks are so terrifying.
So I live very near Lost Creek Lake in Oregon, and we swim in it frequently in the summer. Now, I can swim out nearly to the middle with no issue. However, the bottom of the lake used to be a town that got flooded, people typically refer to it as Old Prospect. So it's a man-made lake. And the place where we swim is known as the stairs, because there are concrete stairs that go all the way down to Old Prospect. For obvious reasons, you'd need diving gear to go all the way down to where the old town is. However, sometimes they let a lot of water out of the lake so it doesn't flood from all the run off from the high mountains. So the climb to get down the stairs gets further and further down, and along the side of the stairs there's these big slabs of concrete that were under water but can now be seen when the lake is low. When I swim too close to the stairs, and I'm right next to these slabs that are half-submerged half-not, looking up at them as I'm floating in the water, I always panic and quickly swim back to where I feel safe. I never realized this was part of a real phobia before.
I have a fear of large underwater geographical features such as mountains, valleys, canyons etc. Not sure what to call this fear. Just the thought of swimming in the ocean and then looking down just to see a valley or the top a mountain directly below me freaks me out.
I had a dream once when u was 6ish, i was in the water as a large tanker ship moved by within arms reach . From that point forword i have been very uncomfortable in any water with anything man made in it . However a pool is completly fine .
I went down a rabbit hole of learning about shipwrecks since Ocean Gate, and I've had this eerie feeling about sunken ships that I couldn't really explain. You just put a name to it! Thank you! Lol
I don't have any phobias except thalassophobia,I was standing on top of the highest dam in my country and the meltwater was so crystal clear that i could see giant fishes swimming deep...scared the shits out my arse.
What really gets me is the touching of an object which is submerged, the thought of touching a chain with your foot which you can't see, and which would require you to enter a world which you are not adapted to surviving in to observe
Just found and subscribed today. I suffer from this and i agree its only man-made things like ships, subs and planes which is also an extension of the megalophobia and thallassophobia that i also suffer with. The pictures of ships and props from underwater literally make me have to look away. Same with videos that show saturation and regular divers while they are working on those gigantic oil rig posts. As awesome as scuba diving ship wrecks would probably be, i couldn't get anywhere near it. I also have that same issue on dry land there's no way i could be anywhere near a jet in the tarmac without being on the gangway to get on the plane, or be near a ship in dry dock, but neither of these come anywhere close to imagining being on something like a military ship or any other big ship and like I've seen people do in videos jump in the water and swim right next to something that huge. Just sends me into a panic attack. Theres another phobia i have that i didnt know was a fear others felt also and thats called "call of the void" which is the intense fear of wanting to jump off very high structures when at the top of them whether its a building or a bridge and it isnt a suicidal impulse but it is at times very scary with how strong ans intense the urge can be and it seems to get worse the higher the structure is.
@Lindasaur. you're definitely not alone. I've had this fear since I was a kid and didn't know why or that it is an actual phobia. Before we moved to Florida when I was 12 my family would vacation here to visit my aunt and uncle and they would take us to this lake to go water skiing, knee boarding and stuff like that and every time I got in the water I would instinctively pull my knees as close to my chest as possible so my feet weren't dangling bc I was always afraid I'd kick something I couldn't see or that something would grab my feet and drag me down. I still can't go in water if I can't see my feet
I think the source of the fear is that it was once an object that was built for humans to exist around and live in. Now that object is completely engulfed in a hostile environment. You picture yourself using that machine that is currently too dangerous and mutilated to be used. Just a thought. Edit: As I got further into the video you explained my exact thoughts 😂 Also, everyone that likes the vibe in these pictures should check out a game called SOMA. It’s underwater like this and it’s a horror game of sorts.
I think it's a simpler reaction, even. I think it's simply coming across something we know we made in a clearly ruined and abandoned state. With the shipwreck we know already the ship ended there due to tragedy. I think it's just a very stark proof that death happened near there. Death caused by the very thing you'd be submersed in while seeing the wreck.
I am terrified by submechanophobia, but it still fascinates me. Same with thalassophobia and sea creatures. I would never, NEVER scuba dive in deep dark ocean waters to find gigantic sea creatures and man-made objects, but I love seeing them as terrifying as they are.
The content you create touches on topics that I'm interested in and you do so in such a manner that's good quality! I thought you had waaay more subscribers than this. I'll be another one to your count o7
my biggest fear, ever since i was a child were and are mooring blocks, also bouys and chains, but specifically mooring blocks.... i dont know why.. but if i see one in the shallow waters it absolutely terrifies me and i could never swim there ... its so weird and silly...
6:20 “Gives off the feeling you might be next..” this quote is so potent. The reality is that we aren’t far off as of now for this to become a reality. Climate Change and the melting of glacial ice could sink hundreds of cities and that will live on in the memories of millions of people. Submechanophobia might be niche now, but people will have a very real view of it if the glaciers melt completely.
Horizon forbidden west does underwater really well like at one point in Horizon you explore the ruins of Las Vegas under a dome but it’s flooded and there are machines robots swimming around I would think that this might combine many phobias for some people
Great video, you just showed the essence of those complex fear-related feelings, and I love that you have amplified that feeling with music. I'm especially fixated on the 2:22 moment in the video. Could you share what music you used at that moment?
So glad I found this channel! Really great content. Actually, I love all the Solar Sands-like channels, like Solar Sands, Cresendex (you), Jacob Geller and Bourkey (the 40 year old Scottish Solar Sands). Did I miss anybody? If you know of similar channels, let me know what they are. I have a lot of free time while I procrastinate.
5:30 For me at least, a major part of why machines underwater are scary and machines in space *aren't* is because of how the water & depth shrouds the former. Images of, say, the space shuttle show you the whole vehicle clearly visible; likewise for the ISS. Heck, that's even the same for other planets & moons. By contrast, pictures of even something as relatively small as a sunken boat (consider some of the small fishing boats or harbor vessels seen in this video), even when sunk in the shallowest, clearest waters, still have some occlusion thanks to the water. So the voice in the back of my mind keeps going "Okay, you see *one* spooky sunken ship. How many *more* are there, just outside of visible range from the camera?" Similar effect for the large sunken machines which are down deep enough (or in water murky enough) that you just can't see even a large portion of the machine all at once. Think of the famous image of Titanic's upper bow, where the railings and hull just disappear off into the darkness.
My first experience with submechanophobia was when I was 4-5 yo canoeing with my mom on a lake and we went over an old slimy submerged wharf crib, I'll never forget
It’s most just giant propellers and just the sheer massive size of these ships. Just the thought of sinking down into the vast ocean is terrifying. It’s hard to wrap my brain around how gigantic these cruise ships are now. Idk it’s irrational, but I guess I’m just scared of objects/animals soooo much larger than humans.
Same. The fear of massive objects/creatures is called megalophobia and has some overlap with submechanophobia, at least for me. Something about a big manmade object underwater is just so unnerving.
The New World Mall in Bangkok actually has a very interesting story behind it. The reason the roof was removed was because of the owner disregard of zoning laws. They somehow be able to build and almost finished the building but the government filed a lawsuit which leads to the removal of the mall's roof and subsequent abandonment of the mall itself. Without the roof to prevent rain water, the mall become flooded. Then comes the mosquitos. And people who lives around there solves this problem by putting fish there. Which leads to the spectacle you can see in those pictures. They even become some sort of travel attraction at some point. But now, they have cleared the fish out and already drain water out in a plans to renovate into a new community mall.
My submechanophobia is more fear of being in a suit next to a shipwreck or underwater structure If I was in a submersible, the fear would not be as great.
this is crazy i could never put my finger on this growing up! Ive had nightmares of huge sunken submarines and ships beneath me, oddly enough I chose to be a commercial diver for my career doing underwater construction such as welding and also maintenence. I did ships husbandry and it was scary asf! I had to swim out to a cargo ship, and go to the bottom of the ship to clean the bottom and take photos for proof of inspection and cleaning all at night. It was terrifying! and to make matters worse, my comms and light on my helmet went out for a few minutes because the generator needed fuel and there was heavy current! It feels weird touching the metal of the ship and being right next to/beneath that huge object in the water let alone at night and its a feeling I can never forget. I was hyper ventilating and my heart was racing the ENTIRE time. Crazy how theres an actual term for this! Submechanophobia!
Shipwrecks are like a giant corpse. I have the fear of shipwrecks and crabs! I just can't! I cannot whatch this! I can only listen. I am happy knowing im not the only one.
At a local swimming pool with a wave machine, the massive gratings and suctions/outlets terrified me. I hated going down the end and thinking my feet were close to them. I didn't go close to them if I could help it.
Growing up, we used to swim in a pond surrounded by construction equipment. As soon as someone pointed out the outline of a backhoe below us, I no longer swam in that water.
Out of all the hyper-specific fears discussed on this channel, this is the only one that I’m absolutely sure I have…. I think it’s kind of funny (or ironic… idk the correct word to describe this) because OP more or less said that this is the only fear that he’s sure that he doesn’t have, but I digress. Although OP cited the Egyptian statues as extremely haunting, I personally found those images to be some of the least haunting images in this video. I don’t find the poolrooms or any other room that was specifically designed to be filled with water to be scary either. I also personally don’t find flooded buildings to be frightening, mostly because there’s still a chance of escape so long as your feet can touch the ground… but I’m not trying to speak for everyone with submechanophobia, I’m just trying to describe my own feelings about this subject. I don’t think I have generalized thalassophobia, but there’s something about seeing a massive shipwreck that disturbs me on a level I can’t fully explain or understand. I’m fully aware that there is no real threat posed by the existence of a shipwreck, but it certainly strikes a chord. Maybe it’s summed up by the last sentence in this video “our creations, try as they like, can never truly breach the horrors of the water”…. I think it might just be that our industrialized world gave me a sense of safety, and seeing a relatively modern shipwreck just reminds me that humans are not the all-powerful creatures that we often claim to be. It reminds me that nature is still more powerful than humankind. Ancient Egypt might be so far removed from the post-industrial era that it can’t evoke the same fear as an image of the titanic. Maybe it’s a combination of Thalassaphobia, and Megalophobia… neither of which evoke any strong feelings for me, but maybe when they’re combined it creates a sense of dread. Or maybe its just the fact that it simply shouldn’t be there, or the fact that there’s potentially dead bodies onboard the shipwreck. Maybe it’s a combination of everything I’ve already said, or maybe I’m just over-analyzing this… maybe this fear just makes no sense. I’m honestly just trying to rationalize an irrational fear of mine. I’d still scuba dive into a shipwreck if I were given the opportunity, so I don’t know if my fear is strong enough to really speak on this, but I am also just drawn towards scary things (I’ve explored supposedly-haunted abandoned asylums at night, and just have a general sense of morbid curiosity I guess) Overall; these images give me the same feeling that you get when you’re alone in the woods at night: You know there’s no real danger. You know that animals are the only thing that are even potentially able to hurt you. You know that you’re statistically safer than you would be in a highly-populated area…. But there’s just some primal feeling that something/someone is going to hurt you. I don’t know if any of this made sense, since my fear doesn’t really make sense to begin with… but this is my best attempt at rationalizing it.
That description of seeing a product associated with our power being overcome by nature actually fits in perfectly for why I think I have this phobia. You're not alone on thinking it's partially also megalophobia either, since I go insane every time I see a picture of a big submarine underwater.
When I was in the Navy and we would swim alongside the ship out at sea, I was always petrified of the shafts, props, and stabilisers. I used to swim really fast when getting close to the ship to just get to the net and climb out. I didn't like the look of submerged items around the jetty when we were alongside, or jetty legs, and things like that.
I love this video and all of the other ones your videos just make me feel different kinda comfortable but also curious you should make a video about like music like six forty seven or like the “backrooms music” cause me and other people feel different when they hear that.
I thought I was crazy but, I have a fear of space. The thought of the fact we live here on earth and are actually on a planet being surrounded by others terrified me growing up.
Literally my worst fear i always have a stupid crappy thought of what if i teleport out of nowhere down there while im in bed falling asleep ? ( I hate my brain so much sometimes )
I don't believe I really have submechanophobia, but submerged things freak me out a lot, especially if they're humanoid, animatronics, statues and such (I actually have a phobia of statues). But what freaks me out the most is how disgusting they become if they are submerged for a long time. All the algae and barnacles and underwater life that gather around those structures make me shudder
Ngl I still have mechanophobia. Sometimes even non water based mechanical freak me out often. Jusr... Claustrophobic af. Even though I'm autistic and enjoy small spaces to "nest" in. However when I visited the USS Lexington and went to the mechanical room I just... Ueghhhhhhhh. With water? Even worse. Subnautica at least seems vast and open so it doesnt bug me as much. If it's man made? Its gonna creep me tf out
I am the complete opposite of you lmaooo. Unfortunately I'm slow and I didn't know astrophobia was a thing, even tho space is like the scariest thing ever. But I'm completely fascinated by it, I absolutely adore all subjects and I'm so interested in figuring out whats out there. I would die to get to visit the ISS.
I think I have whatever the opposite of this fear is... I remember as a kid in a waterpark I used to imagine myself swimming through nuclear plant cooling systems, underwater research labs etc. I'm still fascinated by underwater infrastructure to this day and I'd love to try diving a wreck once
ive always had this fear but never thought that it was such a big thing, there is nothing worse to me than seeing huge metal things lercing in deep water, or have my toe tuch agiast something wall swiming and looking down to see a huge mass ofmetail
For me it's the propellers and jet engine intakes under water that trigger a submechanophobic response from me, and you'll never ever get me on a submarine. I actually find the pool rooms intriguing and calming, and flooded buildings don't trigger anything from me
i’ve had this fear for as long as i have been alive. One of my earliest memories is a dream i had where i fall off a boat and slowly sink as the boat floats further away from me. I also can’t play any sort of game with underwater missions or anything like that. When the cayo perico heist came out for gta i fr was mad i couldn’t do it because of the whole submarine aspect of it. So much so that i have never taken my kosatka underwater and everytume it spawns in out of nowhere when requesting it it actually jumpscares me. Also there was this one time where i jumped my motorcycle in paletó and fell into the ocean right next to that crashed plane and had to legit turn off the game.
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I actually have this. Couldn’t put my finger on it growing up, but I vividly remember getting scared by submerged objects. I remember swimming out to a buoy in a lak and then getting really freaked out when I looked down and saw the chain going down into the abyss. Such a freaky feeling.
Same, I was always uneasy with pool-cleaning robots, especially when they were moving,and never wanted to get too close. I get uneasy with buoys and seeing a plane underwater gives me the creeps
I remember kayaking on our pond as a kid and going around the shallow edges and going over submerged trees. Always freaked me out.
Maybe that was more a fear of the depth. The fear of what abyss below.
Submechanophobia seems to be more about man-made things that are below water. Not considering the abyss or disgusting algae-covered surfaces, it is still a phobia and is basically irrational.
@@Poodleinacan fears of tangible objects and proven concepts arent irrational. irrational is like worrying bigfoot is dating your mum.
also my mum says she fears seaweed. i never got what she meant til i was at a lake and looking over the dock i saw the tips of long seaweed emerging from an imperceptible void. i got a long stick, for science, and watched that sink into the void. water is spooky in so many ways 😨
@Poodleinacan No, it's different, he specifically said that the chain going down in the abyss was scary. I have this, and I'm not afraid of deepness, besides the very rational fear of being caught underwater, but the object don't need to be submerged deeply in the water to be scary. I think it's irrational too. There's no good reason to be afraid of inanimate object.
My biggest fear is diving somewhere in the Atlantic and opening my eyes to see a gigantic propeller or the front of some giant shipwreck. I get goosebumps just thinking about it.
Same whenever I shower I have bad thoughts like I leave and boom I’m underwater though it won’t happen
@@Youraverageterribleditorsame, wtf
Reading that made me want to throw up
Idk why but submerged propellers scare the shit out of me
For me it's the under of a boat. Specifically, giant propeller's fans
I grew up going to a man-made lake that was once a small town. When the creek feeding the lake was damned under a FDR-era program, the entire town was submerged. As a kid, the idea of an entire town at the bottom of the lake I was swimming in left me with nightmares.
But, more specifically I find the sight of bridge pillars disappearing into dark water the most terrifying. Such a large man made object spanning the entire depth of a body of water is so chilling. Swimming next to one makes me feel claustrophobic. Really the sight of any man-made object descending to the the bottom of a body of water, like a dock cable or boat anchor, gives me chills. All I know is these man-made objects are not supposed to be there and I perceive it as a threat.
In Oregon? 😅 We have some of those here and they make me feel sick
If anyone wants to see pics of one of the dried lake beds they can look up "Oregon ghost town rises from drought-drained Detroit Lake." There are a bunch but that's the best known
Also totally agree, i commented and said flooded towns too lol. It's not right
@@no_peace The lake I used to visit is in Northern Arkansas, Lake Norfork.
It’s sad to know so many towns were destroyed this way across the country. All I can think about are all the homes and memories lost :/ I know I would be devastated to have it happen to me.
That sounds AWESOME. Not the loss, but the end product of a submerged town.
@@lpnp9477you'd love bioshock probably
Dude you were in Wet Dry World.
My biggest fear is I'm swimming in a big body of water and my foot brushes against something hard under me. I look down and it's a rusty airplane under the water. I'd simply freak tf out.
Very creepy thought.
Reading that just gave me chills.
I had a similar experience, it was a rusty barrel under my feet, i freaked out mentally but stayed calm physically
Ugh, reading that gave me a slight panic. Processing it, this doesn't seem scary to the average person, but it's straight up a short horror scenario for us with the phobia. It's so weird.
shit shit shit this is scary
its a weird feeling both having submechanophobia yet still having a fascination with shipwrecks and even the occasional thought of learning how to dive to face my fears to visit said wrecks
Same, I find shipwrecks awesome to learn about, but as soon as I see a giant submerged propeller I get freaked out
Im fascinated by it but you can't pay me enough to do it 😅
I have Aquamechanophobia specific to pool drains and lights, so I can totally understand how someone with Submechanophobia could be affected by things as such.
Damn i had the exact same thing while growing up. Drains felt like they were gonna suck me in 😅
Honestly after I heard a particular story I don't trust the drains. I don't remember if it was a drain or something else but it sucked this girl underneath a hot tub and she drowned because it was too powerful. So now I'll stay away from the drains and jets.
Interesting, so I wasn’t the only one scared of those things lol.
I always hated those but the worst was the automatic vacuums that crawl around the surface
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I wonder how many billionaires have this now
None
They have no soul so they have no phobias
@@ackvevo Lizards experience fear so I don't see why they can't
AYoooo
I wonder how many Americans are scared of towers and planes 🤔
@@Jajawalizards are actual living beings though
I think one reason why people have submechanophobia and not a fear of man made structures in space is that we meant to put the space stations and satellites up there but we didn’t plan to put boats and such underwater
Exactly. They only ever end up there because something went very wrong, and in some cases people would have lost their lives in the vicinity. It's an accidental totem of our flimsy mortality, left to sit in the cold, eerie silence until long after us and everyone we know have long since passed.
Similar to how I would describe it: 1) a feeling of "that doesn`t belong there!" and 2) in cases of sunken ships/submarines/airplanes the thought of ppl who went down with them (and whose remains could still be there):
Submechanophobia definitely has evolutionary factors involved. We are wired to be afraid of submerged objects as it is a natural human instinct to fear unfamiliar objects underwater.
My source is that I made it the fuck up!
@@moldysshoe8639 nah it makes sense bc croccodiles
Your videos are amazing... Even without being too complex, the way that your voice and the images is completely insane. I can feel goosebumps with your other videos. Keep on doing these videos.
Agreed
Underwater animateonics is spooky, but also the thought of submerging my head underwater and hearing the motors and hydraulics working freaks me out too
That gave me a chill down my spine
The weirdly specific stuff that freaks my out the most is the bottom of ships, giant ship propellers, and the sight of a chain/ rope coming from a bouy or anchor just going into the abyss
Your mention of liminal spaces is extremely insightful! I’m very impressed that you put that together without having Submechanophobia yourself. I definitely have Submechanophobia and I’m fascinated with abandoned places and out of place structures and objects because they conjure up feelings much like Submechanophobia does, but without the overwhelming fear, since it’s on dry land and therefore I have much more control and full access to my senses.
I don't have submechanophobia, but I totally get it and can see why manmade objects or machinery underwater would be scary. I do find them unsettling.
One of the things that might scare people is the fact that they know you can't properly move underwater and there is not that much light and the damaged man made things combined make the human mind sometimes make you thing you are actually there and for some people they fear this
I know genuine danger when it comes to exploring ship wrecks. If you've ever seen the Staten Island boat graveyard you'll know what I'm talking about. There's just about a million things to get tangled up and then dragged down under.
@@mrbiglarge8820 ye I get u since while diving your leg can get stuck on some wreck in wich case you have a time limit to get it out
I know I have this because two scenes from movies that stuck with me throughout childhood and scared me deeply were
1. The sinking plane in incredibles
2. The sinking CAT in happy feet
Absolute chills and I've never forgotten them
I am deathly afraid of vents inside swimming pools. Especially the ones that make waves in surf-n-swim. Even black tiles in pools freak me out. I’ve had nightmares being stuck in some kind of underground tunnel filled with murky water. There was giant black vents under my feet with pool lights illuminating the holes beneath the vents. Terrifying.
This comment awakened a memory for me of the fear you’re describing. Looking at underwater vents always made me nervous especially in deep pools. Never thought much about it until now.
@@zachloken8219 oh man, I’m sorry! I honestly don’t even know why I’m afraid of them. I’ve forced myself to touch them and I know that they are generally harmless, but it’s just an irrational fear that I can’t explain haha
@@dalatina911 no need to be sorry haha. Your comment just made me realize that I have this fear to some extent. It helped me discover something new about myself, which is pretty cool actually.
Dude, there's a diving story from Mr. Ballen about these guys that find this huge submerged concrete building and swim inside it to check it out, only for one of them to get sucked into this huge tunnel in one of the walls
@@OMG.youre.right. 😳 omg that is nightmare fuel. I have to see if I can find that episode now haha
I remember being absolutely repulsed by toilet tanks and buoys from a very young age. When I was about 9, my mom took my two younger siblings and I to a water treatment facility and I was TERRIFIED of the dark, deep, dirty water with rusty stairs and gears partially submerged. I could never understand why, especially as a kid who always loved the water. More recently, while snorkeling in Bali, I was completely fine (if anything, relaxed) looking down into where the shallow beach met the deep trench, but almost lost it upon seeing the rope of a boat anchor just a few meters from me. CRAZY that so many others feel this way too! I will say I have more of a specific aversion rather than a phobia per-se.
Well I mean I think I'd be a bit more scared of tanks of water if they happened to be like 70% poop. Like... falling into a treatment plant tank would be an absolute horror. Potentially fatal.
My particular submechanophobia sub-group is being utterly creeped out by shipwrecks or underwater vehicles, but only when seen from the surface. And weirdly enough, the knowledge that, for example, a buoy has a chain reaching all the way down to an invisible bottom below it also gives me the heebie-jeebies. Maybe I should hop on the subreddit and see if there's a word for my version out there too.
WHAT IS IT ATTACHED TO
EXACTLY
Same on the chain.
omg I was just realizing this as I watched the video. The guy sitting in the engine of the plane didn’t bother me so badly, just kind of unsettling, but the plane with all the bouys above it made me physically recoil and screech lol.
Or very specific military vessels at the bottom of the ocean. I get very creeped out by images of ships like the Bismarck, Kursk, Yamato, Yorktown, etc. all sunken at the bottom of the ocean. I think it’s because you know that these are all war graves; places where hundreds, if not thousands, of sailors have lost their lives. But it’s not just that, it’s also seeing them in a state of such rustic decay and disrepair. Also because shipwrecks almost never go down straight up and down: they’re always one one side or split in half or completely upside down. That’s another thing that creeps me out to no end.
You are so underappreciated man! Please keep making such amazing stuff!!
i think one of the best things is not just manmade objects underwater, but massive ones, especially with people in frame, like that one with the guy sitting in a plane's engine, i think it combines submechanophobia and megalophobia into one, just seeing something large and unmoving stretch off into the abyss is really unsettling, especially something where it just looks like a wall that stretches off into forever, cause you have no clue how big it actually is, it could be the size of a city or the size of a large house, you can never know cause of your limited vision
I was lucky enough to be brought to a small local amusement park every summer. I first noticed my Submechaniphobia when we'd be riding the log flume rides and I'd see the machinery under the water. It always made my skin crawl but thankfully not enough to make me avoidant.
Later, i end up living in Hawaii and book a tour with Shark biologists to swim with a group of Galapagos sharks while they're schooling together (i.e. not hunting) in open deep pelagic waters a handful of miles off the coast of Oahu. The biggest of these sharks was a 12ft female who decided to rudely body check me (which is normal and just means, back off, im the baddest bitch here) and i was completely unphased and very happy to be with the sharks. But i was extremely nervous because we were in the water holding onto sturdy lines, attached to the hull of the boat. So you are essentially grasping the hull the entire time to avoid drifting and preventing being snuck up on from behind. It was bothering me more than being body checked by a 12 ft shark.
I think for me it can be described most with: say you’re in the middle of the ocean on a boat. Something gets twisted around the propellor and you are asked to jump in the water and swim under the boat to cut it loose.
The images of submerged objects are scary to me because they look uncanny (like said in the video) Like at first glance they look like they might be in air, but then you realize it’s in water. It’s like you could imagine yourself in the picture, but once you recognize it’s in water you realize you would die if you were in that image lol. It feels forbidden because you can’t survive being there. I think man made objects in space would be scary if there were abandoned spaceships just floating around out there. I think that will definitely be a phobia in the future when more people go to space and if any space stations or ships become abandoned.
Your videos give me the same vibes as EmpLemon's video docs, and frankly I love it and I hope you keep it up.
I think you explained it perfectly. I Never understood why the images of the Titanic, Giant ship propellers and massive anchors and cement columns going down into the depths made me uneasy. The comparison you made to liminal spaces I think is spot on. There's an eeriness to seeing manmade things in the abyss.
I live close to a large body of water that was a town they intentionally flooded a hundred years ago or so. When the water level lowers In droughts you can see a church steeple beneath the water. I can’t hardly handle driving by it or watching other people cliff dive into ig let alone get in the water myself. I basically clung to the cliff faces in 5 feet of water the last time I was invited to go with friends, lol. Thankfully I wasn’t alone, a couple other people with me were freaked out by that place too!
Idk if they moved the cemetery/relocated the coffins before they flooded it or not, but that creeps me out even more than thinking of the people who’ve drowned or have drove off the roads into the water w/o being found. For some reason lakes scare me more than the ocean. No idea why.
I don’t know if I have this phobia or not. On one hand, I love creepy/scary things. And shipwrecks don’t bother me. Maybe because ships are meant to be on the water, being in it is the next logical step? On the other hand, submerged animatronics deeply disturb me. Like the photos of 2000 leagues under the sea when the ride was drained? Nightmare fuel
I feel the same way about shipwrecks. they were designed to be on water, so it isn't as scary. submerged airplanes on the other hand? hell no. that shit is supposed to be in the sky
I fall into the same category of submechanophobia as you, mainly because of that DAMN sea serpent!😖
I've had nightmares of giant underwater sea monsters!😭
@@cadencase5216 I hope Nessie stops haunting you! I’m sure they’ve either been completely destroyed, or restored and look all pretty again
I’m the most scared of the animatronics in the water. Like they were left there to rot
I resonate with your specific fear of submerged animatronics.😣
I am scared shitless of underwater animatronics!🏃♂️💨
@@cadencase5216theyre already uncanny. It's almost like they remind us of dead bodies in the water.
I've gone through like half the comment section and it surprises me no ones talked about Subnautica. i love the game but some of the sunken parts of the aurora that you can find scare the crap out of me when all i can see is the flashing of the broken wire and the slight outline of the aurora's pieces. another part that unsettles me is the wrecked architect building, so many places that theoretically you could get trapped in. don't get me started in the back of the aurora
Freaking hate the back of the Aurora. It's probably cause other than just triggering submechanophobia it also triggers megalophobia. Just thinking of those big tube structures makes me anxious.
Good video, about 5 years back my family and I went snorkeling off the coast of Cartagena and I got really spooked when we observed one of Escobars submerged planes.
When i was a kid our public aquatic center had this separation structure between the deep end and the lap pool. As kids we had rumors about kids trying to swim down under the barrier which had a small space at the bottom of it that if u really wanted to u could swim under it and to the other side. I remember being so afraid of it, attempting to try it. Knowing i could if i just push myself but if anything did go wrong it really could have not worked out. I ended up overcoming my fear and it felt good but the rumor and respect lived on about the things that could have gone wrong over the course of time. So i can relate to this feeling, the best thing is to be smart and respect these things because we are definitely not meant to handle much in the water so always be smart and respect the water.
Man you are seriously so incredibly underrated. I'm subbed.
insane video… i too have this IMMENSE fear and i couldn’t even LOOK at some of the pictures you presented lol. I remember back then it was such a distinct fear of mine i didn’t even know the term of it. But as i was watching this video you gave the perfect outlook on it, brava!🙌🏻🔥 What a bizarre fear right?
I have a version of this fear, which is to be trapped in or under a submerged object. Had it since I was a very young - your use of Silent Hill music to start the video is apt, as when I played a scene drowning in submerged car in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories had be drenched head to toe in nervous sweat.
I'm obsessed with the fact that I have submechanophobia. Sometimes when I'm in the shower, I close my eyes and visualize with my mind's eye the hull of a ship underwater or a submarine passing right over me while I'm underwater. Terrifying! I'm obsessed, I can't help it. I'm also terrified of being in a pool's deep end alone (I'm fine if there's other people). An earlier commentator (@cadillacdevile) mentioned ''Aquamechanophobia'', I don't know if that's a thing or it's all related to submechaphobia but I have that too... the fear of pool drains and lights along the wall. I dread olympic sized pools and deep underwater apnea pools. I have many other fears related to water, I think it stems from a childhood traumatic event in a pool where I almost drowned if it wasn't for my dad that saved me. Anyways, I'm glad I'm not the only one with this phobia... Is there a facebook group for this?
I have a fear and a fascination of shipwrecks. On one hand not all submerged man made objects give me such a strong feeling of dread and fear, but others very much do. I feel fear towards very specific shipwrecks. To give some examples: Titanic, Lusitania, Britannica, Andrea Dorea, Yamato, Yorktown, Bismarck, Kursk, Taiho, and many, many others. I think there are multiple reasons as to why I’m so terrified of these ships in particular: one being that they are all graves in which hundreds, if not thousands of people lost their lives. Another being the rustic sorry state of decay all of these ships are in after being underwater for upwards of 100 years. And finally the last being how they got there. Shipwrecks almost never go down straight up and in one piece; they’re always on their side, or split in half, or completely upside down. I think it’s all those factors that lead me to think that these shipwrecks are so terrifying.
Same
So I live very near Lost Creek Lake in Oregon, and we swim in it frequently in the summer. Now, I can swim out nearly to the middle with no issue. However, the bottom of the lake used to be a town that got flooded, people typically refer to it as Old Prospect. So it's a man-made lake. And the place where we swim is known as the stairs, because there are concrete stairs that go all the way down to Old Prospect. For obvious reasons, you'd need diving gear to go all the way down to where the old town is. However, sometimes they let a lot of water out of the lake so it doesn't flood from all the run off from the high mountains. So the climb to get down the stairs gets further and further down, and along the side of the stairs there's these big slabs of concrete that were under water but can now be seen when the lake is low. When I swim too close to the stairs, and I'm right next to these slabs that are half-submerged half-not, looking up at them as I'm floating in the water, I always panic and quickly swim back to where I feel safe. I never realized this was part of a real phobia before.
I have a fear of large underwater geographical features such as mountains, valleys, canyons etc. Not sure what to call this fear.
Just the thought of swimming in the ocean and then looking down just to see a valley or the top a mountain directly below me freaks me out.
Dude I’ve been trying to figure out what this fear was called! I have this fear… now I know what it is thanks
I had a dream once when u was 6ish, i was in the water as a large tanker ship moved by within arms reach . From that point forword i have been very uncomfortable in any water with anything man made in it . However a pool is completly fine .
Reactors don't hit that button tho , or flooded areas . The pools rooms look like paradise in some ways
And now I have a name for the fear I've been trying to describe for so long. Thanks!
I went down a rabbit hole of learning about shipwrecks since Ocean Gate, and I've had this eerie feeling about sunken ships that I couldn't really explain. You just put a name to it! Thank you! Lol
I don't have any phobias except thalassophobia,I was standing on top of the highest dam in my country and the meltwater was so crystal clear that i could see giant fishes swimming deep...scared the shits out my arse.
What really gets me is the touching of an object which is submerged, the thought of touching a chain with your foot which you can't see, and which would require you to enter a world which you are not adapted to surviving in to observe
Just found and subscribed today. I suffer from this and i agree its only man-made things like ships, subs and planes which is also an extension of the megalophobia and thallassophobia that i also suffer with. The pictures of ships and props from underwater literally make me have to look away. Same with videos that show saturation and regular divers while they are working on those gigantic oil rig posts.
As awesome as scuba diving ship wrecks would probably be, i couldn't get anywhere near it.
I also have that same issue on dry land there's no way i could be anywhere near a jet in the tarmac without being on the gangway to get on the plane, or be near a ship in dry dock, but neither of these come anywhere close to imagining being on something like a military ship or any other big ship and like I've seen people do in videos jump in the water and swim right next to something that huge. Just sends me into a panic attack.
Theres another phobia i have that i didnt know was a fear others felt also and thats called "call of the void" which is the intense fear of wanting to jump off very high structures when at the top of them whether its a building or a bridge and it isnt a suicidal impulse but it is at times very scary with how strong ans intense the urge can be and it seems to get worse the higher the structure is.
Hello fellow submarine-fearer. Glad I'm not alone in this aspect of the phobia.
@Lindasaur. you're definitely not alone. I've had this fear since I was a kid and didn't know why or that it is an actual phobia.
Before we moved to Florida when I was 12 my family would vacation here to visit my aunt and uncle and they would take us to this lake to go water skiing, knee boarding and stuff like that and every time I got in the water I would instinctively pull my knees as close to my chest as possible so my feet weren't dangling bc I was always afraid I'd kick something I couldn't see or that something would grab my feet and drag me down. I still can't go in water if I can't see my feet
another amazing vid. amazing job with this one
I have this so strong haha. One of my uncles works as an underwater welder….scariest job ever to me 😂
i love how you cover all the topics i like
I think the source of the fear is that it was once an object that was built for humans to exist around and live in. Now that object is completely engulfed in a hostile environment. You picture yourself using that machine that is currently too dangerous and mutilated to be used.
Just a thought.
Edit: As I got further into the video you explained my exact thoughts 😂
Also, everyone that likes the vibe in these pictures should check out a game called SOMA. It’s underwater like this and it’s a horror game of sorts.
I think it's a simpler reaction, even. I think it's simply coming across something we know we made in a clearly ruined and abandoned state. With the shipwreck we know already the ship ended there due to tragedy. I think it's just a very stark proof that death happened near there. Death caused by the very thing you'd be submersed in while seeing the wreck.
Omg I was hoping you'd cover this, thank you!
I am terrified by submechanophobia, but it still fascinates me. Same with thalassophobia and sea creatures. I would never, NEVER scuba dive in deep dark ocean waters to find gigantic sea creatures and man-made objects, but I love seeing them as terrifying as they are.
As someone who is utterly intrugued by liminal spaces, this explains why underwater objects are also so interesting to me.
The content you create touches on topics that I'm interested in and you do so in such a manner that's good quality! I thought you had waaay more subscribers than this. I'll be another one to your count o7
my biggest fear, ever since i was a child were and are mooring blocks, also bouys and chains, but specifically mooring blocks.... i dont know why.. but if i see one in the shallow waters it absolutely terrifies me and i could never swim there ... its so weird and silly...
Gotta watch out for them mooring blocks. They'll getcha
I love the game subnautica, but every time I play it I always feel SO uneasy it’s terrifying
6:20 “Gives off the feeling you might be next..” this quote is so potent. The reality is that we aren’t far off as of now for this to become a reality.
Climate Change and the melting of glacial ice could sink hundreds of cities and that will live on in the memories of millions of people.
Submechanophobia might be niche now, but people will have a very real view of it if the glaciers melt completely.
Horizon forbidden west does underwater really well like at one point in Horizon you explore the ruins of Las Vegas under a dome but it’s flooded and there are machines robots swimming around I would think that this might combine many phobias for some people
I feel like I have a fear of just the ocean in general and everything in it
Yep. Keep me as far away from that mess as possible, thanks.
Ahhh it's a sunken animatronic bear!! Oofff, luckily its just a leviathan.
Great video, you just showed the essence of those complex fear-related feelings, and I love that you have amplified that feeling with music. I'm especially fixated on the 2:22 moment in the video. Could you share what music you used at that moment?
Six Forty Seven - Instupendo !
in relation to Iron Lung, Markiplier liked the game so much that he's making a full-blown Iron Lung movie
5:21 literally jumpscared me and made me anxious af
So glad I found this channel! Really great content. Actually, I love all the Solar Sands-like channels, like Solar Sands, Cresendex (you), Jacob Geller and Bourkey (the 40 year old Scottish Solar Sands). Did I miss anybody? If you know of similar channels, let me know what they are. I have a lot of free time while I procrastinate.
5:30 For me at least, a major part of why machines underwater are scary and machines in space *aren't* is because of how the water & depth shrouds the former. Images of, say, the space shuttle show you the whole vehicle clearly visible; likewise for the ISS. Heck, that's even the same for other planets & moons.
By contrast, pictures of even something as relatively small as a sunken boat (consider some of the small fishing boats or harbor vessels seen in this video), even when sunk in the shallowest, clearest waters, still have some occlusion thanks to the water. So the voice in the back of my mind keeps going "Okay, you see *one* spooky sunken ship. How many *more* are there, just outside of visible range from the camera?" Similar effect for the large sunken machines which are down deep enough (or in water murky enough) that you just can't see even a large portion of the machine all at once. Think of the famous image of Titanic's upper bow, where the railings and hull just disappear off into the darkness.
Hello just discorverded you'r channel and I love it, Continue like that !!
Great video! Ate this while eating pesto pasta which greatly enhances the viewing experience 10/10 I recommend
I’m about to actually eat pesto while eating this too!
@@BlenderRenderChickenTender LOL
pesto + chicken + pasta = godlike experience
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How was the pesto?
The pool rooms would be my perfect afterlife.
An unending maze of simple places would be bliss.
My first experience with submechanophobia was when I was 4-5 yo canoeing with my mom on a lake and we went over an old slimy submerged wharf crib, I'll never forget
Great, another thing I didn’t know I was afraid of until RUclips told me about it… 🤦♂️
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It’s most just giant propellers and just the sheer massive size of these ships. Just the thought of sinking down into the vast ocean is terrifying. It’s hard to wrap my brain around how gigantic these cruise ships are now. Idk it’s irrational, but I guess I’m just scared of objects/animals soooo much larger than humans.
Same. The fear of massive objects/creatures is called megalophobia and has some overlap with submechanophobia, at least for me. Something about a big manmade object underwater is just so unnerving.
This makes me more afraid for when the Iron Lung movie comes out :^(
The New World Mall in Bangkok actually has a very interesting story behind it. The reason the roof was removed was because of the owner disregard of zoning laws. They somehow be able to build and almost finished the building but the government filed a lawsuit which leads to the removal of the mall's roof and subsequent abandonment of the mall itself. Without the roof to prevent rain water, the mall become flooded. Then comes the mosquitos. And people who lives around there solves this problem by putting fish there. Which leads to the spectacle you can see in those pictures. They even become some sort of travel attraction at some point. But now, they have cleared the fish out and already drain water out in a plans to renovate into a new community mall.
Friday night + new Cresendex video = Happiness
My submechanophobia is more fear of being in a suit next to a shipwreck or underwater structure If I was in a submersible, the fear would not be as great.
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your videos have helped take my mind off things, thank you for that
I also freak over seeing or thinking about submerged trees in rivers. Going for a ride on an old river paddle steamer as a kid did my head in.
this is crazy i could never put my finger on this growing up! Ive had nightmares of huge sunken submarines and ships beneath me, oddly enough I chose to be a commercial diver for my career doing underwater construction such as welding and also maintenence. I did ships husbandry and it was scary asf! I had to swim out to a cargo ship, and go to the bottom of the ship to clean the bottom and take photos for proof of inspection and cleaning all at night. It was terrifying! and to make matters worse, my comms and light on my helmet went out for a few minutes because the generator needed fuel and there was heavy current! It feels weird touching the metal of the ship and being right next to/beneath that huge object in the water let alone at night and its a feeling I can never forget. I was hyper ventilating and my heart was racing the ENTIRE time. Crazy how theres an actual term for this! Submechanophobia!
For some reason, I enjoy watching this dudes videos
Shipwrecks are like a giant corpse. I have the fear of shipwrecks and crabs! I just can't! I cannot whatch this! I can only listen. I am happy knowing im not the only one.
At a local swimming pool with a wave machine, the massive gratings and suctions/outlets terrified me. I hated going down the end and thinking my feet were close to them. I didn't go close to them if I could help it.
Growing up, we used to swim in a pond surrounded by construction equipment. As soon as someone pointed out the outline of a backhoe below us, I no longer swam in that water.
Out of all the hyper-specific fears discussed on this channel, this is the only one that I’m absolutely sure I have…. I think it’s kind of funny (or ironic… idk the correct word to describe this) because OP more or less said that this is the only fear that he’s sure that he doesn’t have, but I digress.
Although OP cited the Egyptian statues as extremely haunting, I personally found those images to be some of the least haunting images in this video. I don’t find the poolrooms or any other room that was specifically designed to be filled with water to be scary either.
I also personally don’t find flooded buildings to be frightening, mostly because there’s still a chance of escape so long as your feet can touch the ground… but I’m not trying to speak for everyone with submechanophobia, I’m just trying to describe my own feelings about this subject.
I don’t think I have generalized thalassophobia, but there’s something about seeing a massive shipwreck that disturbs me on a level I can’t fully explain or understand. I’m fully aware that there is no real threat posed by the existence of a shipwreck, but it certainly strikes a chord.
Maybe it’s summed up by the last sentence in this video “our creations, try as they like, can never truly breach the horrors of the water”…. I think it might just be that our industrialized world gave me a sense of safety, and seeing a relatively modern shipwreck just reminds me that humans are not the all-powerful creatures that we often claim to be. It reminds me that nature is still more powerful than humankind. Ancient Egypt might be so far removed from the post-industrial era that it can’t evoke the same fear as an image of the titanic.
Maybe it’s a combination of Thalassaphobia, and Megalophobia… neither of which evoke any strong feelings for me, but maybe when they’re combined it creates a sense of dread.
Or maybe its just the fact that it simply shouldn’t be there, or the fact that there’s potentially dead bodies onboard the shipwreck.
Maybe it’s a combination of everything I’ve already said, or maybe I’m just over-analyzing this… maybe this fear just makes no sense. I’m honestly just trying to rationalize an irrational fear of mine.
I’d still scuba dive into a shipwreck if I were given the opportunity, so I don’t know if my fear is strong enough to really speak on this, but I am also just drawn towards scary things (I’ve explored supposedly-haunted abandoned asylums at night, and just have a general sense of morbid curiosity I guess)
Overall; these images give me the same feeling that you get when you’re alone in the woods at night: You know there’s no real danger. You know that animals are the only thing that are even potentially able to hurt you. You know that you’re statistically safer than you would be in a highly-populated area…. But there’s just some primal feeling that something/someone is going to hurt you.
I don’t know if any of this made sense, since my fear doesn’t really make sense to begin with… but this is my best attempt at rationalizing it.
That description of seeing a product associated with our power being overcome by nature actually fits in perfectly for why I think I have this phobia. You're not alone on thinking it's partially also megalophobia either, since I go insane every time I see a picture of a big submarine underwater.
Criminally underrated channel
When I was in the Navy and we would swim alongside the ship out at sea, I was always petrified of the shafts, props, and stabilisers. I used to swim really fast when getting close to the ship to just get to the net and climb out. I didn't like the look of submerged items around the jetty when we were alongside, or jetty legs, and things like that.
I love your videos dude :) Keep being you!
Amazing video, underrated
I love this video and all of the other ones your videos just make me feel different kinda comfortable but also curious you should make a video about like music like six forty seven or like the “backrooms music” cause me and other people feel different when they hear that.
I thought I was crazy but, I have a fear of space. The thought of the fact we live here on earth and are actually on a planet being surrounded by others terrified me growing up.
Literally my worst fear i always have a stupid crappy thought of what if i teleport out of nowhere down there while im in bed falling asleep ? ( I hate my brain so much sometimes )
I don't believe I really have submechanophobia, but submerged things freak me out a lot, especially if they're humanoid, animatronics, statues and such (I actually have a phobia of statues). But what freaks me out the most is how disgusting they become if they are submerged for a long time. All the algae and barnacles and underwater life that gather around those structures make me shudder
Ngl I still have mechanophobia. Sometimes even non water based mechanical freak me out often. Jusr... Claustrophobic af. Even though I'm autistic and enjoy small spaces to "nest" in. However when I visited the USS Lexington and went to the mechanical room I just... Ueghhhhhhhh.
With water? Even worse.
Subnautica at least seems vast and open so it doesnt bug me as much. If it's man made? Its gonna creep me tf out
As someone with a severe case of Astrophobia. I can very well understand submechanophobia or thalassophobia without really having it myself.
I am the complete opposite of you lmaooo. Unfortunately I'm slow and I didn't know astrophobia was a thing, even tho space is like the scariest thing ever. But I'm completely fascinated by it, I absolutely adore all subjects and I'm so interested in figuring out whats out there. I would die to get to visit the ISS.
Loved the space video and this one as well great stuff please make more
I think I have whatever the opposite of this fear is... I remember as a kid in a waterpark I used to imagine myself swimming through nuclear plant cooling systems, underwater research labs etc. I'm still fascinated by underwater infrastructure to this day and I'd love to try diving a wreck once
ive always had this fear but never thought that it was such a big thing, there is nothing worse to me than seeing huge metal things lercing in deep water, or have my toe tuch agiast something wall swiming and looking down to see a huge mass ofmetail
For me it's the propellers and jet engine intakes under water that trigger a submechanophobic response from me, and you'll never ever get me on a submarine.
I actually find the pool rooms intriguing and calming, and flooded buildings don't trigger anything from me
Oh God....those huge propellers . When there's a person next to it 😱😩
i’ve had this fear for as long as i have been alive. One of my earliest memories is a dream i had where i fall off a boat and slowly sink as the boat floats further away from me. I also can’t play any sort of game with underwater missions or anything like that. When the cayo perico heist came out for gta i fr was mad i couldn’t do it because of the whole submarine aspect of it. So much so that i have never taken my kosatka underwater and everytume it spawns in out of nowhere when requesting it it actually jumpscares me. Also there was this one time where i jumped my motorcycle in paletó and fell into the ocean right next to that crashed plane and had to legit turn off the game.
I love that you gave the silent hill shout out on point bruh