Spiders and tornadoes.  I live nowhere near a tornado zone, but Wizard of Oz gave me so many nightmares growing up, that I developed a fear.  Um, I think my fear of spiders started with horror movies too, you know those creepy turantula movies where hundreds of big, fat hairy spiders surround you and you have no escape?  Yeah, and this was long before Arachnophobia came out.  That movie didn't help either.  Although, nowadays I can handle the site of a spider a lot better than I used to, for the sake of my kids not seeing their mommy freak out like a mad woman and running the opposite direction from s little the pencil-eraser sized invader.