Thunderstorms. I was fine until there was this one huge storm when I was 3/4, I actually enjoyed watching them. Mum started freaking out because water was coming into the house which scared little me. I tried to hide under and in things and mum kept dragging me out, screaming at me for being stupid, hitting me for it as well. I had a severe fear of thunder after that which lasted until I was a teenager.
Being thrown out of the house. As a little kid we lived in a city, there was a lot of pollution where we lived because we were close to a motorway. I constantly had chest infections, colds that never went away etc. It must have been awful since I was constantly coughing. Mum didn't take me to the doctor for it, only if it got really bad because it was wasting her time. The coughing was going on all night though so she started threatening to throw me out of the house for it so she could get some sleep. She told me I was only doing it to upset her. She never did get the issue sorted, the doctor told her I was developing asthma but she never took me in for the tests so I could get an inhaler to stop the constant coughing. The only reason it stopped was because we moved to a small town and my chest cleared up pretty much instantly. Didn't stop me being scared of being thrown out though since mum actually did it a few times for stupid crap.
Getting in trouble. Mums temper would flare up at the slightest thing. Any little mistake, an accident or not could result in her blowing up. I remember one horrible beating happened when she asked me to go dust these antique cups when I was far too young to be handling them (I was 3, maybe 4). I picked up a cup, held it carefully, put my hand in it to dust it and it broke in two. I panicked and had to tell mum because I couldn't fix it. I told her it was an accident as she screamed at me and hit me over and over for being a bad kid. I was terrified of her growing up, as an adult I don't like being around her and try my best not to see her.
Ghosts. I was six when the show Elidor was airing on CBBC. It was awesome, but very, very creepy. At the same time my nan loved this show called Strange but True which always had episodes on ghosts. Strange but True never really bothered me but Elidor terrified me. I ended up not being able to sleep at night because I was scared the bad men from Elidor were going to come and get me through the walls. Mum thought I was scared of the TV show my nan liked, I didn't dare tell her a kids TV show was the cause of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Wq2NBEh3m_I#t=931 This clip has the kid being stabbed by the men in Elidor, then the creature tastes the kids blood. I hated those creatures, they terrified me as a kid.