21 Weird Phobias You Won't Believe Are Actually Real

4. Bellybuttons

Quite what the fear suggests might happen remains to be seen. Perhaps something emerging? The smell? Ask Khloe Kardashian, as she is a self-confessed phobic.

3. Having No Phone

It sounds pretty much made up, but this is apparently a real phobia, no doubt concocted by somebody who was threatened with their phone being taken off them, or inserted forcibly inside them after some transgression. Hard to imagine anyone's going to be putting on any charitable benefits in sufferers' honour, but spare a moment for those many thousands of sufferers forced to face their fears every day for hundreds of years before anyone even invented the mobile phone.