Chilling Truths

The beating of your heart is thundering in your chest as your greatest fear is coming to life right before your eyes. Ba-Bump, Ba-Bump, Ba-Bump. 

Every single day people deal with their fears, but with phobias at South, it’s a different story.

There are so many different types of phobias but many students share the same ones.

 “Trypophobia… it’s small holes clumped together… It’s just crazy. Actually, I took a trip to the Florida Keys with my school, and we had to look at coral. And during class we were actually looking at brain coral and I like started freaking out I was like I can’t look at this anymore, it really freaks me out, like I’m getting goosebumps thinking about it,” said Emma Dake, freshman. 

Trypophobia is the fear of small holes. Dake wasn’t the only person that had this fear either. There are many more students at South who deal with the same thing. 

“Ok so thalassophobia is the fear of the ocean, what’s inside the ocean and boats…It started in a pool and I’m not scared of pools but I was at Oceans of Fun and my dad took me there and I went into the wave pool, from what I can remember, because I never went back after this, there’s the deeper side with bigger waves, well I went down there, though I wasn’t supposed to and I almost drowned and died,” said Sabina Long, freshman. 

Thalassophobia was another common phobia that many students said. However, the most common phobia everybody said was the fear of spiders, arachnophobia.  

“Arachnophobia, yes, I hate spiders. They have eight legs, and you know in your human life you eat 3 spiders in your sleep. It’s disgusting, that’s nasty. I just kill spiders, I kill them because I feel like I won’t kill a spider if it’s outside but if it is inside of my house… it’s just disrespected me, it just walked into my house without asking and it deserves to die,” said Braden Francois, senior.  

There are many things to be scared of in the world, because it’s so big and not even half of it has been fully explored yet. So, when you feel your heart racing again, Ba-Bump, Ba-Bump, Ba-Bump, just remember: there’s more to be scared of than just spiders and oceans.