Colorado’s Biggest Fear By Far is Trypophobia – Know What That is?

By Shawn Patrick on October 19, 2023
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If you ever watched me play golf you’d swear that my biggest fear was Trypophobia, or the fear of holes, but all joking aside, according to a new report it is Colorado’s biggest fear and it’s not even close! 

As Halloween approaches, the team at BetCarolina.com dug up data that reveals what residents in Colorado are most afraid of the most. 

According to the new report, Trypophobia is the most Googled phobia in the state with residents searching the fear of holes over 145,000 times.

Here are the rest of the fears we’re searching for… 

Rank

Fears

Searches in the last 12 months

1

Trypophobia:  fear of clustered patterns of irregular holes

145200

2

Thalassophobia:  fear of the ocean

47040

3

Claustrophobia:  fear of closed spaces

29040

4

Emetophobia:  fear of vomiting

20280

5

Acrophobia:  fear of heights

14400

6

Arachnophobia:  fear of spiders

13680

7

Scopophobia:  fear of being stared at

9240

8

Megalophobia:  fear of large objects

9240

9

Coulrophobia:  fear of clowns

5640

10

Trypanophobia:  fear of needles

5040

 

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