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When I was little, my boogie man was a black shadow in the shape of the black spy vs spy character minus the hat. I don't recall ever having seen this show as a kid, we were poor and only got what the rabbit ears brought us. Until a couple years ago I was pretty sure I saw a US Stamp upside down and some how it became a boogie man in my dreams. I finally outgrew setting up a perimeter of stuffed animals to protect me from these bad, black, pointy nosed villains after a long day out on a boat. As I fell asleep I began feeling like I was on the boat, rocking to and fro, and my mind envisioned the "spies" rocking me to sleep.

Now I find it pretty hilarious as a child my boogie men were evil, long nosed, hiding in the shadow "spies," and here I am as an adult, making a full circle...

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When I was little, my boogie man was a black shadow in the shape of the black spy vs spy character minus the hat. I don't recall ever having seen this show as a kid, we were poor and only got what the rabbit ears brought us. Until a couple years ago I was pretty sure I saw a US Stamp upside down and some how it became a boogie man in my dreams. I finally outgrew setting up a perimeter of stuffed animals to protect me from these bad, black, pointy nosed villains after a long day out on a boat. As I fell asleep I began feeling like I was on the boat, rocking to and fro, and my mind envisioned the "spies" rocking me to sleep. Now I find it pretty hilarious as a child my boogie men were evil, long nosed, hiding in the shadow "spies," and here I am as an adult, making a full circle... xD

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Ghosts. Every bump in the night was some kind of freaking ghost to me.

I remember being ten and my mom was dating this maintenance guy who work at some hotel or something...I don't remember, I was ten. What I do remember is he gave her some delux showerhead to put in our bathroom because ours was broke. My mom found out it was disguarded debris from when a plane crashed into a hotel. She freaked out saying there was no way she could put that in her shower because the idea of where it came from was so morbid. That showerhead sat out near the bathroom for a week and I was scared shitless of it. I kept thinking about those stupid plane crash movies from the 1970's I had watched on TV....and I kept imagining their were dead passengers haunting it. I think my mom threw it in the trash eventually. But it freaked me out. I don't even know what plane crash, it couldn't have been big, it must have been something private. In my ten year old mi d though I was thinking mass scale destruction.

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Wow, that's funny. I've met people who were freaked out by things like that and it always seemed silly to me. Your description actually makes it make much more sense, especially with that little kid perspective.

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You poor thing!

This reminds me of when my step father died, and my mom had him cremated. He sat in a box in the living room for ages. Creeped me the fuck out.

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I also used to have reoccurring nightmares about an evil flying finger and it finally died in one dream. Then we put it in a show box and laid it to rest in a shoe box in a Raleys that had nothing but isles of shoe boxes filled with other dead flying fingers I assume. I think after the dream when it died I never had the nightmares again.

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Whoah, that's actually super trippy and creative of your subconscious mind! Our brains are so damned weird!

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I know it's really fucking weird lol

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Thats a fun way to "get over" one.

Do you think your flying finger came from getting blamed for something you didn't do as a kid and it haunted you?

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Pff, he totally did it, that guilty little brat!

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I don't know about a boogy man, but when I was younger I always imagined god as a vampire in a cape. Not necessarily an evil vampire, a good one but a vampire nonetheless.

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God can't be a vampire, because vampires suck!

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So I take it you're not a Nicolas Cage fan? https://youtu.be/Lct6x-XqWrw

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HOLY SHIT!! GOD REALLY IS A VAMPIRE!!

What the fuck movie is this from and how have I not seen it?! I am shame! He used to be my neighbor and everything, and I didn't even know that he was a vampire... but he did live in a weird tower... so in retrospect it all makes sense!

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Oh wow, I haven't thought of him in ages.

I had this weird super real seeming nightmare, I had them a lot for awhile, but there was this one particularly scary guy thing. The first time I saw him, he was outside my window, just standing there. I only saw like a silhouette on the curtain or something, so I opened it, and there's giant brainoid guy. He had to be 9 or 10 feet tall to just casually be standing there at that level. Also, his head was just a brain; no face, no eyes, nothing. All pink and weird and gross and I guess without eyes he could not really be looking at me, but I felt his gaze!!

Dumb weird nonsensical nightmares. I bet he's a real guy, though.

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This is pretty wild, imaginations as children are so neat!

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Hah! I sure did not consider that to be neat at the time!

But yeah. I wonder where the fuck my imagination or subconscious dredged that weirdness up from?! Like some crazy fucked up previous life or the dimension of the cenobytes or something! Except this was from well before the Hellraiser movies came out... but still.

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Have you ever watched The Nightmare? Really great documentary on bogeymen.

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Nope, is it a Netflix thing? Cause I don't intentionally pay for commie fucks to operate.

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No, it was its own documentary. Highly recommend it.

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Sasquatch, yes

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Hah that's kinda funny (not to a kid!). Any idea where the fear came from? Did you ever come to terms with it or just eventually realize he probably isn't real?

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Well my buddy was awake in a thunderstorm and heard uhhh uhh uhh.. then a few days later he saw three red blurrs 2 were 7ft one was about 5ft in the early twilght has he truned around after hearing a twig snap behind his cot thru the door way. They were gone. I've had wood knocks agsnt trees that alomst sound like gun shots in the middle of the night in the middle of the forest behind my porperty. It's real and it's covered up. I know it. Btw I opens my eyes and started doseing off worth my eyes open and saw a hughe hairy bald motherfuckers walk by myopen tent flap. I walk over where I saw it and I find my ladel that I haven't seen for weeks. Right were he was squating before he got up and walked Past. Also I saw a log that was smashed down like a trail in the middle of it right were he was walking like it was a trail hidden in front of my camp.

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Well, you can't really call him a boogie man then! lol

This is fun to read. I'm not sure I would be able to continue camping after an experience like that, but perhaps the fact that he didn't try to harm you is reassuring.

For a while I really enjoyed going down the rabbit hole of "things in the bible which are still around but people rarely see them," Sasquatch was one of them. Also those insanely long skull, coneheads, and the giants. I really like the giant silhouette forms in landscapes!

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bAbeS if you think you are alone in a room with no one else in it, you is naive!!!