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The Boogey Man



Estimated reading time — 2 minutes

It started with my 3 year old son screaming in his room in the middle of the night. When I came in to check on him he was in hysterics. Tears ran down his little cheeks as he cried about how the Boogeyman had frightened him. I let him sleep with my wife and I for the night, thinking it was just a bad dream.

The next evening he didn’t even want to be in his room, but I convinced him that the Boogey Man was just a figment of his imagination. I was awoken once more by his screams. I rushed to his room, to find him in tears again.

On the third night I set up a camcorder in his room, in order to show him that there was no monster. That evening there was no screaming and no crying. I was refreshed when I woke up in the morning after having gotten my first good nights sleep in three days. However, my son did seem fatigued. He didn’t even put up his usual fuss in the morning when we got him ready for preschool. When my wife took him to day care, I decided to review the camera’s tape in order to find out how he had slept. I’ll never forget what I saw.

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At around 2AM while my son was asleep his closet door slowly creaked open. Out of the shadows crept a pale, naked, veiny, woman with long white hair and solid black eyes. Her body was bony and frail, like that of a holocaust survivor. When she turned to the side, I could see her spine protruding from her hunched back like a dinosaur. She reached into my son’s crib with her unnaturally large hands and covered his mouth. He was trying to scream, but he couldn’t. The palm of one of her hands easily enveloped his head, muffling his cries. She snatched him up with the ease that a person of her frame should not have had, then walked back into the closet with him in her arms. An hour later she returned with what looked like a wriggling maggot the size of a duffle bag and placed it in my son’s bed before retreating once more into the closet.

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Over the next 2 hours I watched it twist and writhe while it grew and mutated until it looked just like my baby boy. Once the transformation was complete, it got out of bed and slipped on a pair of his pajamas, then slid back between the covers and waited for us to come in. I don’t know what that thing is that left with my wife this morning, but I know it’s not my son.

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Credit To – Vincent Vena Cava

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44 thoughts on “The Boogey Man”

  1. Why do they run?

    I like this one a lot. You really know how to paint a picture without over complicating things. It was also pretty scary. 8/10

  2. Well, at age three, I knew what a boogeyman was, because my dad flat out told me. I remember that I used to like going into the basement in the dark, until dad told me the boogeyman would get me. Now I run like hell if I have to go into the basement.

  3. Oh, you idiots. All of you fools keep asking the same damn question ; ‘Why did she wait until there was a camera?’ She waited until she was being monitored in order to make a point; that she exists, she can do what she likes, and you can’t do anything to stop her. It’s called showmanship, you philistines.

  4. well its a pretty decent story but very simmaler to a few others Ive read in real life..meaning in books lol..all in all not bad

  5. TheGingerBreadMan

    It was ok i like reading a shorter one every once and a while you could use more description of the feelings also if your going to make more you should use this creacher more 7/10

  6. I loved this story. It reminds me of the old folk tales of changelings. Thank you very much, glad I got to read this!

  7. I thought the premise what great but the ending was terrible! You had great buildup and some good similies, but a child that needs a crib wouldnt understand a camcorder and how it would help. Also, the ending “I dont know what that thing is that left with me wife, but it isnt my son.” was terrible. So much potential, try making another type though. This women boogyman can be great if put to good use! 4/10, but if you improve the story Ill easily raise this.

  8. I liked the woman booheyman idea. Also the imagery concerning the boogeyman. Pretty original story with an overused idea. But still not convincing baby stuff. 7/10

  9. As a mother this gave me chills to think of my child being taken, especially at 3 since that is how old my son is now. A 3 year old could easily know of a boogeyman if they happened to have seen a scary movie about it or someone told them about it so any scary monster would be called this. I am careful to give my son nothing to fear while he is so young, but some parents like my cousin use fear to control. My cousin would tell her daughter if she didn’t go to bed in time the boogeyman would get her, that he only leaves good little children who are asleep when they should be. I smacked her when I found out and made sure to tell my baby cousin it wasn’t true.

    1. I have a 3 year old also which made me especially empathetic towrds the child in this story. Everything about this story was lil off….but not a bad read..

  10. Not a bad start but it seems you forgot to write the rest of your story. 3/10. Half a rating for half a story. You should finish it.

  11. Uh… how convenient that the creature failed to kidnap the baby twice in a row, then without apparent reason, nothing having changed, succeeds exactly when the camcorder is in place. The first failure might be explained with the creature failing to take into account that the baby would cry, but the second screams “plot device” at the top of its lungs.
    And why did the baby mention a Boogeyman when the creature was evidently a woman? Wouldn’t he say bad woman, or witch, or something like that?

    1. The Old King Critic

      The thing is trauma induced kids have a bad memory he thinks something scared him. Oh and about the camcorder thing on the THIRD night its a religious or literary number everything comes in sets of three sixes sevens twelve’s or 13s its just how it works. Plus if it was something scaring your kid would you not do something like this? And to ShapeShafter its a toddler in preschool I knew the word boogeyman from a young age so why cant the character’s son.

      1. I have no problems with the camcorder being there, or being there the third night, I have problems with the woman waiting for the camcorder to be there before actually snatching the child.

    2. We do not know for certain who were the visitors of previous nights. Perhaps Boogeyman did visit the kid before. Maybe the closet has a portal to some other world and visits of different creatures are a common phenomenon in his bedroom. It was probably too dark in the room for the kid to see the appearance of the entity. The gaunt woman had likely been cautious the previous nights to see if anyone would stop her before actually snatching the boy. This is a case where there can be many explanations.
      What i do know for sure is that, for a story so short, this is simply fantastic. It has excellent potential for a spinoff/sequel/prequel.

    1. Have you ever seen a holocoust survivor? They can literally be skin and bone! Its an amazing sentence and a great similie. Look it up before you judge.

    2. I did think it was a funny line and a strange simile to use. I even read it back to my husband and we laughed, BUT it is actually a great little micropasta, and worth the finish. I liked it a lot and I’m going to be adding it to my favorites list.

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