I got rid of one of my strongest phobias during childhood, thanks to a MAD pocket book about pets with a chapter about a case of elk phobia. It was not serious, but taught the principles of phobia therapy. So I learned to expose myself more and more until the phobia went away. Thank you, MAD. And guess what it was?
Phobia of disflated balloons. I mean, when they had been inflated, and lost their air, and become creepy in the sense that they contract themselves when you touch them. During my childhood, I had long periods where i was even afraid of entering a room with such a baloon in it. I could cure it thanks to this MAD book strategy.
During my childhood, I also had a phobia of what was mirrored in my chocolate drink in the morning. There was this lamp and I saw its reflection in double and both became one over and over again, opticfally, as the mirror effect was special. I became afraid of my breakfast drink. This has faded away though.
Otherwise, spiders or snakes, cover me in them and I'll stay cool and break the Guinness world record.