23 Horrifying Underwater Photos That'll Make You Say, "I'm Gonna Pretend I Didn't See That"

You may have heard of thalassophobia, aka the fear of deep bodies of water.

Terrifying from thalassophobia

Perhaps you've also heard of megalophobia, which is the intense fear of large objects.

Tallest statue in Africa from megalophobia

Well, thanks to my obsession with terrifying subReddits, I've discovered a phobia that seems to combine both of these. It's called submechanophobia, and it's the fear of partially or fully submerged man-made objects. If the following 29 photos cause you extreme discomfort, there's a chance you have it.

1. This fish blood pipe:

Apparently there's a pipe that shoots diseased fish blood into the ocean. from submechanophobia

2. This smiling shark statue:

Underwater shark statue at Lake Neuchatel from submechanophobia

3. This wreckage from the Titanic:

The grand staircase of Titanic before and after from submechanophobia

Magite Historic / Alamy Stock Photo

4. This birds-eye view of a car with a skeleton in it at the bottom of a pond:

Google Earth photo of pond helps find car with skeleton of Florida man missing since 1997 from submechanophobia

5. This abandoned shipping container:

Just occurred to me how the sea bed must be littered with shipping containers. Yikes. from submechanophobia

6. This morbid sign:

Warning deep in a cenote - if I saw this I'd shit my diving suit from submechanophobia

7. This creepy oil rig:

Oil rigs scare the crap out of me from submechanophobia

8. This lurking U-boat:

German U-boat spotted from the air from submechanophobia

9. This enormous engine:

Sitting in the engine of a sunken L-1011 from submechanophobia

10. This leering relic:

After 2300 years underwater, a cache of ancient relics have been rediscovered off the coast of Thonis-Heraclion in Egypt. They’ve been waiting, watching. from submechanophobia

11. This sunken plane:

Diving in a sunken plane from submechanophobia

12. This one,  too:

“Hey let’s swim out to those buoys!” from submechanophobia

13. This flooded autopsy theater:

Flooded autopsy theatre in the basement of a Charity Hospital from submechanophobia

14. This surreal dolphin enclosure:

This is where I realized my fears; the Indianapolis Zoo dolphin enclosure. I always refuse to return here. from submechanophobia

15. This weird water-filled stairwell:

Water reservoir in Emmendingen, BW, Germany from submechanophobia

16. These submerged mine shafts:

Silver islet mine shafts near Thunder Bay ON from submechanophobia

17. This subway reef:

Retired NYC subway car dumped off the coast as an artificial reef from submechanophobia

18. This enormous gear:

Artificial reef in the Philippines from submechanophobia

Credit: Rotary Action Group for Peace

19. This horrifying model of Jason:

Some artist made a life-size Jason Voorhees statue and placed it at the bottom of a deep lake in Minnesota. from submechanophobia

20. This trace of former life:

Fully Submerged Plane for your Daily Dose of NOPE. from submechanophobia

21. This reactor:

The inside of nuclear reactors are extremely disturbing for many reasons from submechanophobia

22. This deep, deep, launch pad:

131 ft deep swimming pool in Padua, Italy. That “landing pad” at the bottom especially freaks me out. from submechanophobia

23.And finally, these nightmare gnomes:

H/T: r/submechanophobia