David, I believe in something that would, in my opinion, offer an alternative explanation to your story. I believe in some sort of genetic memory. In other words, I believe that some traumatizing memories can be passed from parent to child.
First, let me say that I only met my genetic father when I was 15.
It's a little off topic, but let me tell a story.
I have always been afraid of closed bath curtains. Throughout my childhood and well into my teenage years, whenever I walked into a bathroom and the bath curtains were closed, my legs felt weeks, my stomach felt sick, and I had to slowly walk to the curtain and jerk it open, always half expecting to find something behind it. I mean, I was terrified. Always have been. And no, I never watched the movie Psycho as a child. 
Then one day, after I had known my genetic dad for a few years, he tell me a story that traumatized him. When he was a child, his parents were porr so they rented a room to a student for a little extra momey. Well, apparently one day my dad (he was about 10 years old) walked into the bathroom, and pulled the bath curains opened, and there was the student tenant dead in the water bath, both wrists slashed opened. He said that ever since that day he was always terrified of closed bath curtains.
And you know what, after he told me that story, I never was afraid of closed bath curtains. As if, knowing where my fear came from cured me of it. Anyway, since then, I've talked to some psychiatrists and doctors their opinion on this, and they all say that although it would be a novel idea, there is nothing scientifically that could make it impossible.
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