Everyone’s scared of something, but some phobias are more unusual than others.

Inspired by a recent trip to The Science Museum, here are 10 of the world’s most unusual and wonderfully weird phobias. Read on, if you dare…

• Coulrophobia: an acute fear of clowns
• Lachanophobia: a fear of vegetables
• Somniphobia: a fear of falling asleep
• Triskaidekaphobia: a fear of the number 13
• Omphalophobia: a fear of bellybuttons

• Papaphobia: a fear of The Pope
• Allodoxaphobia: a fear of opinions
• Barophobia: a fear of gravity
• Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia: a fear of long words (ironically)
• Panophobia: a fear of everything!

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Images:ALYSSA L. MILLER, MOHAMMED ALNASER, STEVE JURVETSON and THOMAS HAWK via Flickr