3 Unique Yet Weird Phobias

3 - Deipnophobia 

As you couldn't guess from the name or picture, deipnophobia is the fear of dinner conversations. Dinner conversations can be awkward at times, usually when you're not talking in between eating, but some people have such an extreme fear for conversing over dinner that they avoid dining out scenarios all together.


2 - Pentheraphobia 

This irrational fear has become a well known meme within the United States.  The fear of one's mother-in-law.  As you might have guessed, this fear affects mainly (only) married people.  Of the various ways to treat such a fear, it seems that divorce is the most widely used method because being honest about being afraid of your mother-in-law takes way too much effort.

1 - Cathisophobia

Ever sit on something sharp or possibly have a bad case of hemorrhoids? You might just acquire the fear of sitting down.  The reasoning being that painful past or current experiences with sitting down can lead a person to form a horrible fear of sitting again.  When put into the situation of having to sit down the person usually tends to quickly develop symptoms such as sweating, heavy or short breathing, an anxiety.  I now feel pretty great about a whoopi cushion being the worst sitting experience I've had in the past.

Historically Bizarre Encounter with Supposed UFO

Portage County Chase

On the early morning of April 17th, 1966 in Portage County, Ohio, two deputies, Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff, were investigating a car that was abandoned on the side of a rural road. What happens next I couldn't describe any better than the direct statement signed from Deputy Sheriff Dale Spaur:

"Spaur noticed a light over the trees on the hill next to the berm, and called Neff’s attention to it. As we watched, the light came closer and a large, self-illuminated object was seen as its source. The object came directly overhead and hovered above us. Its light lit up the ground where we were standing, and our cruiser, P-13. It was too bright to look at without hurting the eyes."

To which they took it as a sign that it's good time to high tail it back to their patrol car.  Once back, they called in the bizarre object which at this point had started traveling away from the area.  The two deputies proceeded to pursue the object in a high speed car chase across Ohio.  Five more officers joined in the pursuit that would last over half an hour and would cross state lines into Pennsylvania before losing sight of the object.

An official report of the incident was released and acquired by an Air Force Base near by.  Their official judgement on the entirety of the situation was that the bright lit object the half dozen officers chased was merely the planet Venus and that it appeared to be moving due to atmospheric factors.  The deputies were livid when they found out it was being insinuated that they were stupid enough to confuse a planet for something that made them and 5 other officers engage in a high space chase for over half an our crossing states in the process.  Even more unfortunate is that Police Chief Gerald Buchert had encountered a bright saucer-like object on his property prior to this whole ordeal and even had a enough time to snap a picture of it before it took off.  The negatives of that photo were sent to the Air Force Base as well to come back as "fogged images" that proved nothing, thus the negatives have yet to be seen since.