I saw the Boogeyman once as a kid. He was kneeling next to my bed, and the light was just enough to see his enormous head, sharp teeth, and ghoulish ears, only inches from my face. I screamed, diving under my covers---because everyone knows the Boogeyman suffers from object constancy issues---and when my parents ran in, flinging open the door, and flicking on the light, the family German Shepherd sat, licking her lips and smiling, having eaten the Boogeyman whole, just as a good dog should. (Edit: oh, and I love this series, too)
This special Halloween series is really great Lady! Here in Argentina we have legends like the Pombero, it varies according to the region but is like a small elf, who will catch you if you walk without your parents permission at the nap time or if you are walking though the countryside in the middle of the night. If you hear someone whistle from a distance, never answer because he will find you.
As a kid, I was never frightened of the dark or what might be "out there." My English grandmother told me that God would protect me and my siblings from anything -- real or imagined. The only "inhabitants" of my closet was an occasional spider. I like spiders. 🕷When I was younger, I would walk about a neglected cemetery. I never feared what lay underground or above ground. Later in life, I worked as a cemetery groundskeeper and occasional gravedigger. I viewed my work as honourable and often sad but never creepy. Cheers -- W
I couldn’t imagine lying to a kid like that. I don’t tell my kids everything is doom and gloom but I teach them to look out for themselves and be aware or their surroundings.
The movie about the Boogeyman the one that just came out recently it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be and I've always liked the Boogeyman design on the cartoon The Real Ghostbusters.
Where i live, in the Southern US, “boogey” or “boogie” is a kind of spirit. You hear about it in old blues song sometimes possessing people so that they are forced to dance it out. Later a whole genre of dance music called “boogie” developed. Dancing is the best way to deal with having the boogey in you. Left unexercised (unexorcised?) it will cause you to do all kinds of mischief and nonsense.
There is a short story in one of Larry Niven’s Known Universe compilations about a creature on a planet that feeds on fears. It is called the Nonsuch. The colonists believe that it is imaginary and if you don’t fear it you would be safe. The creature disappears eventually through it not being believed to exist and there should be no fear for it to feed on. (Yes, it lives off of the emotion of fear).
Fun fact: in Alsace, the traditional bogeyman is "der Schwed", "the Swede"... It sounds silly nowadays, but it comes from the Thrity Years War, when Swedes were not placid depressed furniture salesmen as they are today, but rather militaristic terrors of central Europe
In my country we have Baba Roga, but at no point did I have terrors of her. I knew of her as a witch used to scare children, nothing more, unlike the "Babau" my older sister used to scare me with for no reason at all.
I suspect the bogeyman is a retrospective monster. By the time you learn that there is a name for the terrors of the night, its power has already faded. I imagined the floor of my bedroom was crawling with giant insects and scorpions. I wouldnt dare touch it in the dark. My daughter sometimes talks of monsters in her room. I gave her a toy sword and told her that the monsters should be afraid of her.
I love seeing and learning about similar tales/myths throughout the world. In France we have the Croque-Mitaines (literally the "hand-eater") who captures misbehaving children in a huge bag and brings them to his lair to eat them/their hands
Really enjoying this seasonal spooky series! Hope you keep it going past Halloween, especially seeing as the Holiday Season has its own ghost story traditions
Check out the Moon Of Gomrath by Alan Lee. That novel features the bodach. The chilling, brutal nature of that entity as that novel describers it is incomparable, even as the bodach is assimilated to the level of the orcs in The Lord Of The Rings.
Lisa: Well, I know it's absurd, but I dreamed the boogeyman was after me, and he was hiding under... Homer: Ahhhhhhhhhh! Boogeyman! You nail the windows shut, I'll get the gun! [Homer bursts into Bart's room] Bart, I don't want to alarm you, but there may be a boogeyman or boogeymen in the house! Bart: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Slavic peoples have a similar entity called babay (not to be confused with Baba Yaga) with same functions and vague appearance. There's even a Ukrainian horror fiction zine of the same name
I know that most myths and legends have some basis in fact, so the Boogeyman is quite the terrifying character. Having had an encounter with a shadow person when I was a child, I have to wonder if that's where the legend started.
I personally Love the Disco Song Boogie Man 🎵 from KC and the Sunshine Band... 🌞 😅 life is a Disco... Sometimes Light and Dark... with that Wonderful Mirror Ball Shinning 🪩 The Moon 🌚 keeps me Dancing 🕺
When I was a child I developed a fear of 'what goes bump in the night,' I never gave it a specific name, and it used to keep me up at night. I then decided that the furnace in the house, which I liked because it brought warmth and comfort on those long, cold winter nights, would create a sort of force field that filled the house and push bad things away. It helped me to sleep because whenever those feelings of dread would come up I would wait to hear the furnace turn on and remember that it created that force field that flowed out like the heat and could then fall back asleep. When my son was about the same age he would wake up in the night with the same nameless fears and I told him the story of the heater and how it worked and all he had to do was remember that when the heat came on in the house that was a force field that kept out all the bad things. After telling him that story he no longer called out in fear. Don't know why but those feelings always came during the winter and I never experienced them during the summer. Maybe it was because of the longer, colder nights.
Boogeyman folklore js very fascinating, and I personally would be so terrified if some monster tried to get me or any of my friends, btw my best friend is absolutely terrified by this legendary creature when we were kids and I always teased them about
I was scared of the dark as a kid but never really understood the idea of the Boogeyman enough to be afraid of him. No one could explain the concept so I never took it in.
I was never scared of the dark, until I played Knights of the old Republic 2 at age 12. The combination of loads of dead bodies and an assassin droid that systematically kill an entire space station was a little too much for my mind at the time.
With honest respect, whilst I can see your concern, the "scandal" was debunked a few months after it happened. A lot of UA-camrs, including Philip Defranco, regretted responding so violently to audience demands over something that was easily disproven. I've used BetterHelp for over two years since that "controversy" and it saved my life. People are very quick to judge something that got debunked, but never blink an eye at things like Scottish land companies which are literally profiting from the massacre of tens of thousands of indigenous Scots
When I was little, I was very afraid of the dark. When we went to bed at night, we kept the bedroom door cracked so as to let a little light in from the hallway.
I always find the idea of the bogeyman very interesting because it doesn’t seem to be something that appears in English folklore and seems to be more of an American thing. I suppose we have our own nocturnal supermarket creatures which haunt our dreams, but they don’t necessarily live in our wardrobes. I would be very interested to hear about your take on the legend of the Sandman, which I know, appears a lot of German folklore and mythology .
In Spanish we call the boogeyman “El Cuco” and now I’m a grown woman I call any dude who gives unsolicited sexual advances “el Cuco” as in 🗣”Hey mamacita let me get it in” (me): “NOT TODAY EL CUCO” 🏃🏽♀️ 💨
I was afraid of the dark as a kid and even as a nearly 40 year old mom I don't like sleeping in the dark and crave some kind of light. I have night lights all over my home. I don't know if was the fear of monsters though I was definitely exposed to inappropriate films as a child including Child's Play and Gremlins not to mention Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
I own a large amount of property in North Louisiana that has been in the family for over 200 years and before that it was home to a Caddo Indian village and we have encountered Bigfeet, Thunder Birds, Dogmen, and Native American spirits. I'm not kidding, multiple people have seen these things on the property including the current Sheriff and past Sheriff's and Deputies and one US Marshall and I myself have been in law enforcement my whole life as was my grandfather and my father was a US Air Force Colonel who was part of the Defense Atomic Support Agency and the Special Weapons Project and we have all encountered these entities. We have photo and video proof.
I saw the Boogeyman once as a kid. He was kneeling next to my bed, and the light was just enough to see his enormous head, sharp teeth, and ghoulish ears, only inches from my face. I screamed, diving under my covers---because everyone knows the Boogeyman suffers from object constancy issues---and when my parents ran in, flinging open the door, and flicking on the light, the family German Shepherd sat, licking her lips and smiling, having eaten the Boogeyman whole, just as a good dog should.
(Edit: oh, and I love this series, too)
Love it!
This special Halloween series is really great Lady! Here in Argentina we have legends like the Pombero, it varies according to the region but is like a small elf, who will catch you if you walk without your parents permission at the nap time or if you are walking though the countryside in the middle of the night. If you hear someone whistle from a distance, never answer because he will find you.
“John Wick is not the Boogyman: John Wick is the man you hire to KILL the Boogyman.”
The Boogeyman doesn't need to fill the pages of novels, just watch the nightly news, especially as a child.
Im 44 and i still dont let my feet dangle over the bed
I’m 52 and I’m the same
As a kid, I was never frightened of the dark or what might be "out there." My English grandmother told me that God would protect me and my siblings from anything -- real or imagined. The only "inhabitants" of my closet was an occasional spider. I like spiders. 🕷When I was younger, I would walk about a neglected cemetery. I never feared what lay underground or above ground. Later in life, I worked as a cemetery groundskeeper and occasional gravedigger. I viewed my work as honourable and often sad but never creepy. Cheers -- W
I couldn’t imagine lying to a kid like that. I don’t tell my kids everything is doom and gloom but I teach them to look out for themselves and be aware or their surroundings.
@@guaporeturns9472 Exactly! You're a great dad!
The movie about the Boogeyman the one that just came out recently it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be and I've always liked the Boogeyman design on the cartoon The Real Ghostbusters.
You are keeping us fed this Spooky Season! Keep up the good work!
Where i live, in the Southern US, “boogey” or “boogie” is a kind of spirit. You hear about it in old blues song sometimes possessing people so that they are forced to dance it out.
Later a whole genre of dance music called “boogie” developed.
Dancing is the best way to deal with having the boogey in you. Left unexercised (unexorcised?) it will cause you to do all kinds of mischief and nonsense.
There is a short story in one of Larry Niven’s Known Universe compilations about a creature on a planet that feeds on fears. It is called the Nonsuch. The colonists believe that it is imaginary and if you don’t fear it you would be safe. The creature disappears eventually through it not being believed to exist and there should be no fear for it to feed on. (Yes, it lives off of the emotion of fear).
My spooky soul is always delighted to watch your videos.🖤 Thank you for them!
When I was a kid, I always thought the name boogeyman was derived from the word booger. I am no longer willing to defend that etymology.
Me, an intellectual: I know it's really Clara Oswald under the bed grabbing my ankles.
The Doctor understood.
I consider the concept of the Boogeyman to be a mythological genus
Fun fact: in Alsace, the traditional bogeyman is "der Schwed", "the Swede"... It sounds silly nowadays, but it comes from the Thrity Years War, when Swedes were not placid depressed furniture salesmen as they are today, but rather militaristic terrors of central Europe
In my country we have Baba Roga, but at no point did I have terrors of her. I knew of her as a witch used to scare children, nothing more, unlike the "Babau" my older sister used to scare me with for no reason at all.
When I tell you I have been waiting and searching for a channel like yours!
All the stories and how you tell them really paint a picture.
Exciting, a new lady of the library, a quickie , Loving All Your Work Thankyou!
Thanks for this neat boogeyman video Cinzia!
I suspect the bogeyman is a retrospective monster. By the time you learn that there is a name for the terrors of the night, its power has already faded.
I imagined the floor of my bedroom was crawling with giant insects and scorpions. I wouldnt dare touch it in the dark.
My daughter sometimes talks of monsters in her room. I gave her a toy sword and told her that the monsters should be afraid of her.
I love seeing and learning about similar tales/myths throughout the world. In France we have the Croque-Mitaines (literally the "hand-eater") who captures misbehaving children in a huge bag and brings them to his lair to eat them/their hands
Thanks for the research and interesting history of the bogeyman. Bravo
I was always afraid of something coming through the window for me when I was a child.
Really enjoying this seasonal spooky series! Hope you keep it going past Halloween, especially seeing as the Holiday Season has its own ghost story traditions
The bogeyman definitely lived under my bed.
I'd love to get a list of all the different Boogeymen from different cultures
Oh Cinzia! Your videos are marvellous and you are just fabulous. Big, big thanks.
I learned about the Boogeyman the first time through The Powerpuff Girls, and a second time through Calvin and Hobbes.
I thought the boogeyman or Bogie-man was a type of malevolent Fae known as a Bogie?
I've been loving these lil frequent snacks that are your videos!
I learn so much, and you're a great presence to listen to!
Boogiedom sounds like a very funky place
Check out the Moon Of Gomrath by Alan Lee. That novel features the bodach. The chilling, brutal nature of that entity as that novel describers it is incomparable, even as the bodach is assimilated to the level of the orcs in The Lord Of The Rings.
Can you make a video on Anne Palmer, often referred to as the “White Witch of Rose Hall”, is a figure from Jamaican folklore.
Love the video. I actually wrote a boogeyman short story a while back and it remains my best piece of work to date
Another amazing video. I am loving this series.
For me, it was flying skeletons
Thank you for another lovely video, I so enjoy your video's they always make my day a bit brighter! Even when we talk about scary things, hahaha!
Another super video thank you very much ^_^
I guess "boggart" comes from the same root?
Wot no Fungus? He would have made a fine addition my drear.
Lisa:
Well, I know it's absurd, but I dreamed the boogeyman was after me, and he was hiding under...
Homer:
Ahhhhhhhhhh! Boogeyman! You nail the windows shut, I'll get the gun!
[Homer bursts into Bart's room] Bart, I don't want to alarm you, but there may be a boogeyman or boogeymen in the house!
Bart:
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Don't forget the Fae. You beautiful archivist.
Slavic peoples have a similar entity called babay (not to be confused with Baba Yaga) with same functions and vague appearance. There's even a Ukrainian horror fiction zine of the same name
I know that most myths and legends have some basis in fact, so the Boogeyman is quite the terrifying character. Having had an encounter with a shadow person when I was a child, I have to wonder if that's where the legend started.
Greatest irony of the Boogeyman? Not much of a dancer.
Cheers from Brazil. Seus vídeos são muito bons. Adoro conteúdos góticos e de horror.
Good content 🎉
Love your work! I enjoy your channel and subject matter. Just fyi, witches are real, but it’s not like in the movies.
Spooky
🎃
The boogy man can be raw head and lbloody bones.
It’s not El Coco, it’s El Cucui.
💜💜💜
sadly there are not much novel about Cyclops😂😂😂
Good stuff, Kiddo.
Kiddo?
XOXO 😮😮😮
Don't date your therapist.
Oof betterhelp is a data company
I personally Love the Disco Song Boogie Man 🎵 from KC and the Sunshine Band... 🌞 😅 life is a Disco... Sometimes Light and Dark... with that Wonderful Mirror Ball Shinning 🪩 The Moon 🌚 keeps me Dancing 🕺
When I was a child I developed a fear of 'what goes bump in the night,' I never gave it a specific name, and it used to keep me up at night. I then decided that the furnace in the house, which I liked because it brought warmth and comfort on those long, cold winter nights, would create a sort of force field that filled the house and push bad things away. It helped me to sleep because whenever those feelings of dread would come up I would wait to hear the furnace turn on and remember that it created that force field that flowed out like the heat and could then fall back asleep. When my son was about the same age he would wake up in the night with the same nameless fears and I told him the story of the heater and how it worked and all he had to do was remember that when the heat came on in the house that was a force field that kept out all the bad things. After telling him that story he no longer called out in fear.
Don't know why but those feelings always came during the winter and I never experienced them during the summer. Maybe it was because of the longer, colder nights.
Boogeyman folklore js very fascinating, and I personally would be so terrified if some monster tried to get me or any of my friends, btw my best friend is absolutely terrified by this legendary creature when we were kids and I always teased them about
I was scared of the dark as a kid but never really understood the idea of the Boogeyman enough to be afraid of him. No one could explain the concept so I never took it in.
I was never scared of the dark, until I played Knights of the old Republic 2 at age 12. The combination of loads of dead bodies and an assassin droid that systematically kill an entire space station was a little too much for my mind at the time.
My only criticism is the sponsorship. Does no one remember the scandal with BetterHelp anymore?
What scandal, I’d love to know please
With honest respect, whilst I can see your concern, the "scandal" was debunked a few months after it happened. A lot of UA-camrs, including Philip Defranco, regretted responding so violently to audience demands over something that was easily disproven. I've used BetterHelp for over two years since that "controversy" and it saved my life. People are very quick to judge something that got debunked, but never blink an eye at things like Scottish land companies which are literally profiting from the massacre of tens of thousands of indigenous Scots
@@CinziaDuBois thank you for explaining
@@CinziaDuBois as a proud Scottish man I thank you for that last part it’s disgusting
Thanks Cinzia. Love to see your dogs too.
When I was little, I was very afraid of the dark. When we went to bed at night, we kept the bedroom door cracked so as to let a little light in from the hallway.
This is why, that to this day, nothing can fit under my bed, or inside of my closet.
I always find the idea of the bogeyman very interesting because it doesn’t seem to be something that appears in English folklore and seems to be more of an American thing. I suppose we have our own nocturnal supermarket creatures which haunt our dreams, but they don’t necessarily live in our wardrobes. I would be very interested to hear about your take on the legend of the Sandman, which I know, appears a lot of German folklore and mythology .
I always enjoy listening to you, this spooky series is a favourite, thank you
That was great! Thank you.
That boogeyman movie was absolute ass, but this video was an excellent resource.
In Spanish we call the boogeyman “El Cuco” and now I’m a grown woman I call any dude who gives unsolicited sexual advances “el Cuco”
as in 🗣”Hey mamacita let me get it in”
(me): “NOT TODAY EL CUCO”
🏃🏽♀️ 💨
I was afraid of the dark as a kid and even as a nearly 40 year old mom I don't like sleeping in the dark and crave some kind of light. I have night lights all over my home. I don't know if was the fear of monsters though I was definitely exposed to inappropriate films as a child including Child's Play and Gremlins not to mention Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
I’m more sad that Cinzia had trauma. Someone that smart. Loves books and dogs should have a happy, healthy life. Happy Hallowe’en!
😂 🧌🛌😱🫣
Great video with the research you diligently do showing through.
Children's imaginations are powerful, terrifying things.
Thank god we invent weapons that are scarier than each monster we dream up.
If its a symbol it can be summoned.
I own a large amount of property in North Louisiana that has been in the family for over 200 years and before that it was home to a Caddo Indian village and we have encountered Bigfeet, Thunder Birds, Dogmen, and Native American spirits. I'm not kidding, multiple people have seen these things on the property including the current Sheriff and past Sheriff's and Deputies and one US Marshall and I myself have been in law enforcement my whole life as was my grandfather and my father was a US Air Force Colonel who was part of the Defense Atomic Support Agency and the Special Weapons Project and we have all encountered these entities. We have photo and video proof.