Phobia about holes is not officially recognized, but U.K. scientists look into it. ... The other was a close-up of a lotus-flower seedpod — a flat-faced pod pocked with small holes.

It's been in the spotlight this month after people claimed to be distressed by a TV show's adverts for an apparently innocuous reason: they feature small holes. Trypophobia is the creepy phobia ...

If so, you might have trypophobia − the fear of clusters of small holes. Though rare as far as phobias go, this particular one can still be severely debilitating, driving some people to avoid ...

People with a phobia of HOLES are horrified by new American Horror Story ads that show a gruesome holey tongue and gaping honeycomb brain Becky Pemberton Published : 15:28, 3 Sep 2017 ...

Yum honey. Yuck holes. Wikipedia/Merdal Wilkins and his co-researcher Geoff Cole published the first study of trypophobia in 2013 with the theory that this strange revulsion could be rooted in ...

THE new season of American Horror Story is playing on an intense phobia that many people haven’t heard of – trypophobia. The phobia is a severe revulsion to the sight of a cluster of holes in ...

Trypophobia, the fear of clustered patterns of irregular holes, is the most Googled phobia in Maryland, with over 145,000 searches. The list of Maryland’s most Googled phobias was compiled by ...

Trypophobia is a fear of holes, like those in this lotus flower seed pod. (Image credit: battle182royal | Shutterstock ) A strange phobia makes people feel panicked or ill at the sight of holes ...

Trypophobia - or the fear of holes - may not be a real phobia after all, a new study has suggested. The term, which was first coined in 2005 and made its rounds on social media, ...

Trypophobia - Fear of holes. People who suffer from this phobia have a fear of small holes, and usually associate these with danger. You know, say, a honeycomb, a sponge, etc.

Mr English - who runs a hypnotherapy clinic in the city centre - said: "I spoke to one client who was suffering from trypophobia. She mentioned a fear of holes - things like honeycomb and a ...