If You Can't Make It Through This Post Without Cringing, You Might Suffer From Chaetophobia

    Do these images send a thousand shivers down your spine?

    1. For many people, pictures like this are just regular old photos.

    2. But for others they instill fear, disgust, nausea, and unimaginable dread.

    3. This happens to people who have chaetophobia, the so-called fear of hair.

    4. How do you feel while looking at this photo?

    5. Does it make you feel nervous?

    6. Imagine if this was someone else's hair on your belongings:

    7. Or what if you returned home, only to find this in your bathroom:

    8. For some, just one glance at this photo makes their stomach twist into a million knots.

    9. It sends a thousand shivers down their spine.

    10. And a monstrous beard such as this one makes their skin crawl all over.

    11. For them, this close-up is everything that's wrong with the world.

    12. The stuff of nightmares:

    13. Even this is too much to bear:

    14. What is to many people an adorable, cuddly creature is to those with chaetophobia a terrifying beast.

    15. So, if this image makes you squirm...

    16. ...and if even shampoo commercials make you break out in a cold sweat...

    17. I hope you NEVER experience such horrors.

    18. Nor cross the path of this treacherous man.

    This post was translated from Portuguese.