I've been thinking and I found out that most irrational fears of things can all be traced back to a single bad experience with them, which primarily occur in early childhood. For example, I have a bad fear of deep water when I almost drowned in a pool when I was about 6 years old. What do you guys think?

I think they do but in some cases people are just.... well not to offend any women but some people are the "P" word, so for some people its just they don't feel like learning it so they just say their scared. Like my cousin he says hes scared of snakes and tbh he hasn't even seen one. I held a snake. It wasn't too much fun cause it was boa-constricter and was heavy as hell. I don't like snakes to this day though because I found a snake in my yard and didn't see it till the last second and it almost bit me. But in anycase its just comes down to what type of person you are.

It unnatural cases, yes. For example, if you put a bucket of snakes in front of a child, and a high powered rifle, the child would be more likely to play with the high powered rifle. There are things we fear naturally, like heights, and snakes, that are evolutionary traits we have gained so we don't die.

Irrational fears can be caused by many things, and I am certain that while there are fears caused by events in our lives, they are just to make us more likely to survive long enough to pass along our genes.

There are also fears that can be caused by conditioning. I can condition a person to flinch in fear every time they hear a certain word.

This can be accomplished in different ways, and I don't feel that I need to clarify the method.