Buttons, balloons and the colour yellow among people's strangest fears

What are you scared of?

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People have revealed their most bizarre fears - with buttons, balloons, and the colour yellow making the list.

Researchers polled 2,000 adults for craft beer makers, Beavertown, to reveal their eclectic mix of phobias with trypophobia - the fear of small holes – and nlaiguphobia – the fear of tin openers both featuring.

Nomophobia – the fear of being without your mobile phone – is also a ‘popular’ phobia – as is arachibutyrophobia – the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.

Heights, spiders, snakes and enclosed spaces topped the list of most common fears, along with dentists, ghosts and the dark.

It also emerged that 77 per cent of adults have a phobia of something – with 15 per cent admitting to having what might be considered an unusual fear.

Other obscure phobias included the fear of belly buttons – omphalophobia, trees – dendrophobia, and the colour red – erythrophobia.

While some of the more common ones are listed below:

COMMON FEARS

1.            Heights

2.            Spiders

3.            Snakes

4.            Enclosed spaces

5.            Dentists

6.            Ghosts

7.            The Dark

8.            Needles

9.            Clowns

10.          Flying

11.          Blood

12.          The devil

13.          Water

14.          Being home alone

15.          Old houses

16.          Birds

17.          Small holes

18.          Halloween

19.          Being without your mobile phone

20.          Aliens

21.          Balloons

22.          Large/ open spaces

23.          Tin opener

24.          Belly buttons

25.          Numbers

26.          The colour yellow

27.          Buttons

28.          Peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth

29.          Trees

30.          The colour red