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Originally Posted by Cohaagen
I thought I was the only one who had this odd phobia!
I think it stems from when I was a small child. I was fascinated by the sea and my father bought me Robert Ballard's book on the wreck of the Titanic, which he had recently discovered. I literally had to cover my eyes every time I turned a page, and gradually peek at the photographs one section at a time. Over 20 years later it still frightens me, especially that famous shot of the ship's bow looming into view out of the darkness. Shipwrecks, particularly warship wrecks, alternately fascinate and terrify me. There is a photograph of the wreck of the Karlsruhe, sunk at Jutland, which shows a part of the ship where there are a number of human skulls amongst the wreckage - it is one of the most horrifying things I've ever seen, but every so often I have to look at it!
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Looking at the pictures of the Titanic, I can understand why it would scare a kid. I mean, just look at the state of the wreck and the utter blackness of the ocean that far down. The lights cast eerie shadows upon the skeleton of the great ship, and the rusticles that have formed on it transform it into a cavernous-like thing, that one knows was constructed by humans on the surface almost a hundred years ago.
Things like photographs of actual sinking ships and bodies and things being destroyed has disturbed me since the end of the war in 1988. Skeletons, however, I don't mind them as must (the same for mummies). Ever seen that picture of the HMS Queen Mary blowing up at Jutland? That one bothers me, a lot.