The HORROR INC. Tournament of FEAR!

Most of us have some kind of phobia. Something that scares us, be it a situation or a thing, a person, a concept - most of us fear something. The dark, spiders, small spaces, snakes, heights....there are a lot of different types of phobia out there, and some are more common than others.

So over at HORROR INC. we have been wondering: what is the freakiest thing EVER? What is the one thing that scares us most?

In that spirit, we bring you the Tournament of Fear!

Here are the rules:

1. Each round, we will be voting between two frightening things. The winner of each round will be entered into the end of tournament face-off.
2. Remember that in each case you are obviously voting for whichever you think is scariest out of the two.
3. I will be posting the matches, but if you have an idea for something you would like to see included, feel free to PM me or mention it in the comments below.
4. First to five wins it. If no clear winner is declared after 48 hours, the current winner goes through.
5. If there is a draw at the deadline, both will be entered into the face-off, and the winner decided later on. A new match will then be posted.
6. Once all matches have been posted, the tournament will go into face-off mode until a winner is declared.
7. Death is not an acceptable suggestion. Obvious fear is obvious >_<
8. Have fun, peeps!

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Round One winners:

Round Two winners:

Round three winners:

Alright, first match!

ARACHNOPHOBIA (spiders) vs COULROPHOBIA (clowns)

ARACHNOPHOBIA....

Arachnophobia,clowns have never scared me but spiders creep me out,I think its all those legs.

Sweet, I will throw in my vote for clowns, just because I really like spiders :)

@bumpyboo: You really like spiders?

@pyrogram:

Yeah, they're cute ^_^

Clowns every day, all day.

Spiders are just little animals but Clowns are guys that go out in make up and wont to play with kids all day.

@bumpyboo:

@pyrogram:

They are misunderstood!

Spiders 2

Clowns 2

:)

Clowns

Although I hate walking through a web and I hate when you feel a spider crawling on you.

Spiders

if im trying to sleep and i see a spider, i will not be able to sleep at all, i will be thinking theres a nest of something by my bed n than my imagination goes wild. anyways clowns arent scary there funny

3-3!

You know like me Ref?

@bumpyboo

Spiders.

I like both so..null

Eeek, it is looking like spiders for the win! 3-4!! O_O

I like both but I adore spiders --- AWWWWWWWWWWWW

I missed the vote

GAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Ill go with Clowns. :)

Is that the clown from Supernatural? Then I choose him.

@deranged_midget: thats actually the clown from the movie i.t.

DING DING!!

Alright, I count 5 votes for clowns, so they go through. It's time for the next pair.

Which is scarier??

ODONTOPHOBIA (fear of going to the dentist) vs ACROPHOBIA (fear of heights)

I used to be afraid of heights so I guess Acrophobia.

@deranged_midget:

Used to? O_o

I'm gonna go with dentists. HATE THEM.

acrophobia, even tho i worked in construction

Dentists exist solely to inflict pain

@bumpyboo: Heh, why do you hate the dentist?! And yeah, doesn't really bother me anymore :P

@deranged_midget:

O_O

@bumpyboo: D'aww, that song ruined you huh? I became used to it after pulling twelve teeth out at once :D

Fear of heights

@deranged_midget:

Ouch!! Ohhhh no, I am a three times day gal, I don't want any trouble! I don't mind the actual feeling of the drilling and whatnot (wait, that sounds wrong O_O), it's having someone poking around in my mouth, their face all in my face...aw god it freaks me out soooo much >_<

Oh and I should add:

dentists - 2

heights -2

EDIT - make that 2 -3 to heights lol ^_^

@bumpyboo: LOL! Someone has a dirty mind to be able to catch her own innuendo :P

@deranged_midget:

Hehe! I see it everywhere O_O

I'm soooooooooo scared of hieghts.......

Heights.

Heights wins it!

Next up:

Which is worse??? O_O

AUTOMATONOPHOBIA (fear of dummies, dolls etc) vs OPHIDIOPHOBIA (fear of snakes)

Do statues count for Automatonophobia? 0.0

@lykopis:

Yes, it is anything that looks like a person but isn't. Is that a vote? :D

ahhh i hate dolls and ish that have eyes

Dentist @bumpyboo:!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mmhmm. It is then. O_O

DUMMIES

This is actually the closest thing I have to a real phobia

Snakes.....

Dummies 3

Snakes 1

@pyrogram:

Damn you and such -_-

Dolls ftw

Snakes not scared of them per say just not really keen on them,and they are lethal (or certainly can be) so for that reason alone they are more frightening than an inanimate object.

Speaking of dolls and whatnot,wonder if anyone would be alright with these in their bedroom :P

@mrdecepticonleader:

No.

Dummies

Heh heh I knew you would say that

But if you set one of them up next to your door or window and a burglar breaks it could always scare them off :)

@mrdecepticonleader:

That's a yes O_O

And Automatonophobia goes through!

Next Match - which is scariest?

Phasmophobia (fear of ghosts) vs Musophobia (fear of rodents)

Well ghosts don't exist so I will say rats since they do and can carry disease so yeah rats,not scared of them though.

@bumpyboo: You would be alright with that?

@mrdecepticonleader:

I love that you took the practical approach there hehe :D And yeah, I love stuff like that! Absolutely ;)