Any "unusual" fears as a young kid?

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When I was a kid I was really scared of most things in kids show that other people seemed to laugh at. Whereas it was the characters' motives, appearence or manic laughs they made, I was scared of everything weird in cartoons. I was also extremely unsettled by mildly graphic things like brain radiographics and digestive system models, wich other kids were curious and enthusiastic about.

I was afraid that airplanes would fall out of the sky and land on me.
I was afraid of the devil. Nuns at school would tell us the devil could take human form. I was afraid if I looked in the mirror I would see the devil standing behind me.

I went through a phase when i was like 8 or 9 where i was terrified to use toilets.. I have no ideal what the movie was called but my parents had made the mistake of letting me watch a horror movie that involved a ghost ripping out a guys intestines while he was sitting on the toilet... So i was horrified to even be around a toilet for awhile after seeing that lol..

ghost ripping out a guys intestines while he was sitting on the toilet...

That was 'Candyman' I think, or they did the same thing in that film at least...

Anyhoo, mine was.. And I'm slightly ashamed to admit still is, those big metal 'coolicon' lampshades... You know, like in 30s to 50s industrial premises. This was another childhood toilet thing where a 3 year old Jonesy got stuck in the (horrid) communal bogs at a holiday caravan site which had them... There I was busy having a meltdown and these things were swinging & clanging about in the wind blowing through the place. Cue nightmares for years afterwards and a full-on phobia that I still have of derelict toilets and lampshades!
Silly thing is, I taught myself electrical engineering and collect old light fittings these days... Maybe a subconscious thing about 'owning' a phobia..

I was scared of butterflies. I watched Tarzan and in one of the scenes a butterfly landed on his nose and I was scared a butterfly was going to land on my nose so every time I saw a butterfly, I ran away.

The doorknobs in the house I grew up in scared me. They were brass engraved with concentric circles, with the center left blank, and when one was pointed in my direction it looked like a round eye staring at me.

Discordant music deliberately composed that way; I think some Bartok and Schoenberg has deliberately clashing harmonic intervals and when I heard it on a radio as a child, I was scared by it.

I thought attics were scary, and I was scared to walk beneath a skylight in our upstairs hall ceiling that opened into our attic. I think this fear came from something scary on TV or hearing stories that ghosts or monsters favored dark, cobwebby attics.

Growing up, I'd go through phases where I'd be terrified/obsessed with one thing - tornadoes, volcanoes, getting diseases, car accidents, etc. It was really difficult. My fears would even cause panic attacks and vivid nightmares. Is this a typical aspire thing?

I was and am afraid of the dark and sleep with a nightlight.

I was scared that wolves would come out from underneath the dressing table in the hallway to eat me.

It was started by a very vivid lucid dream.

I was afraid of urinals, showers, and, uh, well, Fruit Gushers. I saw the old commercials where a person would eat one and then their head would turn into a giant piece of fruit and I absolutely did not want that to happen to me.

I don't know why, but I was so terrified of rabies that even seeing the word made me feel panicked.

Ventilation panels, bathtub drains, helicopters, the tram tour at Universal Hollywood, and the sound of a distorted guitar playing a single B note

loud sharp sudden noises. loud sustained noises. bees. anything that buzzed. the dark. enclosed spaces. onions [the stripes in them totally revulsed me and made me run in fear of the sight and strong harsh smell of them]. olives because they're so harsh in smell and taste. the brain monster hiding at the foot of the bed and the boogeymen underneath the bed. getting water in my eyes, especially if it has soap in it. submersing my head and getting water in my ears.

I used to be extremely scared of pool drains; I still am to this day, but not to the extreme extent like when I was a little girl. I used to think that they would pull me under the water.
I used to also be really scared of this creepy, realistic-looking wolf mask that my uncle would scare me with all the time. I believe he still has it to this very day ..