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CABLE WORLD STAFF
Discovery Gets Scary Phobias and fears. Appropriate topics during this most frightening of seasons and the subject of a survey and six-part series, Things That Go Bump, by Discovery Health Channel.
According to a nationwide survey, Discovery Health found snakes engender the highest degree of extreme fear in Americans, scaring the you-know-what out of 25% of those surveyed. Fear of being buried alive placed second at 22%, followed by fear of heights at 17%.
Fear of being bound or tied up was fourth at 15%, although there was no record of what ratio of respondents take extreme pleasure from such a situation.
Rounding out the top 10: fear of drowning - 14%; fear of public speaking - 13%; fear of hell - 12%; fear of cancer - 11%; and fear of fire and fear of tornadoes/hurricanes - 10% apiece.
On the box Oct. 22-27, Discovery Health's Things That Go Bump takes viewers through phobia journeys, offering solutions for people to defeat their fears.
The series also looks at some of the innovative techniques used to conquer phobias and examines a wide range of phobias from the common to the obscure.
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