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== [[Film]] ==
* The movie ''[[Monster in
** Also a pun. The compulsory [[Touch of the Monster]] moment is not with a woman but ''[[Ho Yay|a man]]''!
* The (comedic) film ''Little Monsters'' is about a young boy getting dragged into the monster-filled world under his bed.
* Briefly shows up in ''[[The Monster Squad]]'', when the [[Mummy]] is hiding in one kid's closet.
* [[A Nightmare
* Cesare from ''[[
* The movie ''[[Darkness Falls]]'' transforms the otherwise innocuous childhood mythological figure of the Toothfairy into one town's bogeyman, and one man's life-long nightmare.
** Tooth Fairies are given a similiar treatment in ''[[Hellboy II]]''. As Prince Nuada puts it: "I will show you why you once feared the dark."
** And again in ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''.
* Speaking of [[Hellboy (
{{quote| '''Professor Broom''' "There are things that go bump in the night, Agent Myers. And we are the ones who [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|bump back"]]}}
* The Shape (aka Michael Myers), from the original ''[[Halloween (
* The ''Boogeyman'' series of films.
** [[Similarly Named Works|And]] ''[[The Boogeyman]]'' series of films.
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I am the one hiding under your stairs<br />
Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair }}
* The film ''[[Monsters, Inc.]].'' depicts this general situation from the monsters' point of view.
== [[Literature]] ==
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** King seems to really like this trope; it also makes an appearance in ''[[The Langoliers]]'', where the titular monsters begin as a boogieman story but turn out to be very real.
** Ditto with ''[[The Tommyknockers]]'', although they're rather different from the legends.
** Also appears in ''[[
** In several of King's works, the term "allamagoosalum" is applied to these types of creatures.
* [[Robert Sheckley]]'s scifi short ''Ghost V'' is about two troubleshooters hired to investigate the bizarre events on a far-off planet; they belatedly realize that the planet brings your subconscious imaginings to life, and so they have to spend the entire return trip to Earth battling the bogeymen of their shared childhood. They finally {{spoiler|survive by, yes, hiding under the blankets on their bunks.}}
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** A fireplace poker also works, in a pinch.
** This trope also manifests itself in ''Hogfather'', when the Tooth Fairy's tower defends itself with things that scared the robbers when they were kids. {{spoiler|Makes sense, since the original Tooth Fairy started life as the ''original'' Bogeyman.}}
* [[Older Than Print]]: Grendel, from ''[[
* [[Spike Milligan]]'s poem:
{{quote| [[Things That Go Bump in
Should really not give one a fright.<br />
It's the hole in each ear<br />
That lets in the fear<br />
That, and the absence of light. }}
* ''[[
* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', ''many'' things go bump in the night. Fortunately, the titular wizard detective goes ''[[Kill It
* In [[Dr. Seuss]]' ''There's A Wocket In My Pocket'', there is the Vug under the rug, pictured only as a shadowy lump beneath the aforementioned carpet.
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* The '80s ''[[Twilight Zone]]'' revival did an episode with a "Shadow Man" who lived under a kid's bed when he wasn't out terrorizing the neighborhood. The kid's attempt to use this fact to his advantage {{spoiler|ended very very badly.}}
* An episode from the '90s version of ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' featured [[Captain Ersatz|not-Mulder and not-Scully]] investigating missing children for this reason.
* A very young Seth Green starred in an episode of ''[[Tales
** He also appeared in an ''[[Amazing Stories (TV series)|Amazing Stories]]'' episode wherein his Voodoo Babysitter called up similar beasties ( a Jumbie) to ensure good behavior from him and his brother.
* A skit on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' once featured a kid (played by [[Gilda Radner]]) being tormented by her parent's insistence on bringing every last childhood bogeyman to life: letting a band of child-stealing gypsies live under her bed, keeping an [[Ax Crazy]] killer in the closet, etc. etc.
** Though the killer in the closet was what she'd found after her parents had yelled at her to stop bugging them - [[Fridge Horror|she never actually tells them about that one]].
* A few critters on ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' use this trope, such as Bloody Mary. Well illustrated in this quote:
{{quote| '''Sam:''' "Yeah? When I told dad when I was scared of the thing in my closet he gave me a .45."<br />
'''Dean:''' "Well what was he supposed to do?"<br />
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* The enemies of the [[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]], the Gedoushu, are these. They can even crawl out of crevices literally everywhere on Earth.
* Sci Fi's ''[[Sanctuary]]'' is promoted lampshading this: "Even things that go bump in the night need protection"!
* The Woogyman (mispronounced as such due to young Phoebe's buck teeth) from ''[[
== [[Music]] ==
* This is the theme of the allStars song ''Things Go Bump In The Night''.
* [[Radiohead]]'s song "Climbing Up the Walls" is this trope crossed with [[Properly Paranoid]]. If the [http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/r/radiohead/climbing_up_the_walls.html lyrics] don't get to you, it's probably going to be the loud guitars, screeching strings, electronic noises and Thom Yorke's hair-raising [[Careful
* [[Metallica]]'s "Enter Sandman," especially the bridge:
{{quote| Hush little baby, don't say a word<br />
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In your closet, in your head }}
* [[The Cure|The spiderman is having you for dinner tonight....]]
* [[
{{quote| Beware the bumps in the night<br />
The shadows on your wall<br />
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or the demons won't wait until you're asleep<br />
before they eat you up }}
* [[Voltaire (
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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* Boogeymen are detailed as [[The Fair Folk|evil fey]] visible only to children in the 3E ''[[Ravenloft]]'' supplement ''Dark Tales & Disturbing Legends''.
* "The Thing Under The Bed" is a monster detailed in the ''[[Deadlands]]'' role-playing game.
* ''[[
* ''[[Don't Rest Your Head]]''.
* ''[[Monsters and Other Childish Things]]''.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[The Heartless]] of [[Kingdom Hearts]] ''started out'' as these, according to the first game's [[All There in the Manual|Ansem Reports]]. They lurked in dark places like the rarely-visited sealed off dungeons under the rather gothic castle at Hollow Bastion. Indeed, in the prequel [[Birth By Sleep]], the Heartless were well nigh absent in most areas (with the less deadly Unversed being the main enemies). Unfortunately, by the time the games take place, they've eaten their way out from the shadows and infest almost all outdoor areas, leaving the untrained protagonist Sora dumped into hostile environments with [[Things That Go Bump in
* The final monster in the [[Infocom]] [[Interactive Fiction]] game ''The Lurking Horror'' is described in these terms.
* The main premise of videogame ''[[Scratches]]''.
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* The [[Pokémon]] Darkrai could be considered as an inversion, as according to its Pokedex entry, it only creates nightmares if it is threatened.
* The Locust from ''[[Gears of War]]'' are the basis for Seran legends about these sorts of creatures.
* The flash game [[Tower Defense|Toys Vs. Monsters]] was inspired by the head programmer's son having a nightmare and her telling him a story where his toys drive the monster from it away, and her have recently played [[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[Family Guy]]'', the Evil Monkey living in Chris' closet is a parody of this.
* Gets a huge [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]] from the ''[[
{{quote| Hush little King, please don't cry.<br />
We're going to sing you a lullaby.<br />
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* The first ''[[Martin Mystery]]'' episode has a boogeyman as the [[Monster of the Week]]. He kidnaps naughty children and takes them to his storybook bog world.
* One of these showed up in a short of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''. Unfortunately for it, the bed he tries hiding under belongs to [[Enfant Terrible|Heloise]].
* The stop-motion animated series ''[[Bump in
* The rather obscure 80's cartoon show ''[[My Pet Monster]]'' had the titular monster being so bad at scaring kids, it made friends with one of them; of course, this doesn't sit well with the rest of his species, who are rather traditionalist when it comes to monster-kid interactions.
* Referenced in [[Tiny Toon Adventures]] ; Buster and Babs were scaring each other so they could introduce the show. At one point, Babs comes out of a closet wearing a Varley type vampire costume behind Buster, and says "''Bump''."
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