The phobia is often listed among more unusual conditions, like the fear of hair, dinner parties, or belly buttons. Yet while some odd phobias spark curiosity or compassion, this one is more frequently ...

With the exception of the Japanese pufferfish and some of my more disastrous moments in the kitchen (It still pains me to think about the time I nearly poisoned my ...

Fortunately, England is not in the Banana Belt, because Fran Dando, a 21-year-old resident of Hastings in East Sussex, has a rare phobia: a fear of bananas. When she was seven, her brother played a ...

You probably know someone who claims they're fine with everything. Honest, nothing bothers them. Yet watch them recoil when a spider skitters across the floor, or see their knuckles turn white when an ...