A friend of mine recently revealed his chronic fear of realistic puppets.
When I asked why, he said that he accidentally knocked over a shelf in a locked closet when he was a child and flooded the room with hundreds of puppets, squashing and almost suffocating him. Amazingly, the puppet fear is bigger than claustrophobia, since he says that while he was in there all he could think about were those staring eyes.
(Avnas dosh!, Sat 1 Mar 2014, 5:54, Reply)