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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties and [[Trope Namer|things that go bump in the night,]] good Lord, deliver us!"''|'''Scottish Prayer'''}}
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Subverted in ''Supernatural Law''; the monster under the bed is inoffensive and the kid is a horrible brat who took a baseball bat to it.
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* [[Older Than Print]]: Grendel, from ''[[Beowulf]]''. He sneaks into the feasthall at night and eats people in their sleep. Because he lives in the swamp and hates music and dancing, he's associated with darkness, the primal, and the subhuman, making him a classic boogieman.
* [[Spike Milligan]]'s poem:
{{quote|''Things That Go Bump in the Night
''Should really not give one a fright.
''It's the hole in each ear
''That lets in the fear
''That, and the absence of light. }}
* ''[[Candyman]]'' from the eponymous movie and the [[Clive Barker]] novella which inspired it; he's actually summoned the same way as Bloody Mary. At first, anyway...
* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', ''many'' things go bump in the night. Fortunately, the titular wizard detective goes ''[[Kill It with Fire|fwoosh]]'' right back.
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* [[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 with That Axe]] moment at the end.
* [[Metallica]]'s "Enter Sandman," especially the bridge:
{{quote|''Hush little baby, don't say a word
''And never mind that noise you heard
''It's just the beasts under your bed
''In your closet, in your head }}
* [[The Cure|The spiderman is having you for dinner tonight....]]
* [[Creature Feature]], to nobody's surprise, has several songs sung about this trope, such Mommy's Little Monsters and The Unearthly Ones
{{quote|''Beware the bumps in the night
''The shadows on your wall
''The nightmares of your youth
''Believe in the bogeyman
''Hiding beneath your bed
''Just waiting to break loose }}
* SPF 1000's Horror Show
{{quote|''It's killed another kid.
''It snuck in, through the window.
''Close your eyes, go to bed.
''Maybe it won't find your bedroom. }}
* Daniel Glasser's "[http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/close-your-eyes.html Close Your Eyes] is a lullaby warning the child of the dangers of their bed.
{{quote|''Baby don't you cry
''or the demons won't wait until you're asleep
''before they eat you up }}
* [[Voltaire (musician)|Voltaire]]'s "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTyiddyIe9k Good Night, Demon Slayer]" is a ballad assuring the child that even if there are monsters, they're too badass for the demons to eat.
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** Another one featured two boogiemen frightened by the possibility that there may be something lurking on top of the bed.
* Calvin of ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' often had to battle under-the-bed monsters; one of the comic's strip-collections was even titled ''Something Under the Bed Is Drooling''. Another book contained an original poem (with some fantastic, if terrifying, illustrations) called "A Nauseous Nocturne" about such a monster attacking Calvin at night, but then getting scared away by a sleeping Hobbes.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* The real world, grown-up version of these fears is the urban legend of the criminal who hides underneath your car in the mall parking lot and grabs or slashes your ankles, and then either drags you under there screaming or crawls out to finish the job. According to Snopes the exact intent of this bogeyman varies from simple assault and larceny to rape to murder to ritual mutilation (having to collect a female body part as part of a gang initiation rite). Paranoia and fear over this actually reached a point where adults had to be escorted to their cars by police like a child insisted on being escorted and tucked into bed by their parents.▼
* Basic operational security training for all military and DOD personnel overseas pretty much demands this mindset when you are somewhere an attacker could reach. Check the car's interior before entering, watch for areas someone could hide, etc.▼
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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* 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''."
* Played with in ''[[The Simpsons]]''. When Marge gets addicted to slot machines in ''$pringfield'', Lisa's forced to turn to Homer when she has a dream about the boogeyman. Upon hearing the very word Homer freaks out, orders the windows and doors locked, grabs his shotgun, and holes up the rest of the family in his bedroom until Marge comes home. And by the time Marge gets home the door has a noticeable hole in it.
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* The real world, grown-up version of these fears is the urban legend of the criminal who hides underneath your car in the mall parking lot and grabs or slashes your ankles, and then either drags you under there screaming or crawls out to finish the job. According to Snopes the exact intent of this bogeyman varies from simple assault and larceny to rape to murder to ritual mutilation (having to collect a female body part as part of a gang initiation rite). Paranoia and fear over this actually reached a point where adults had to be escorted to their cars by police like a child insisted on being escorted and tucked into bed by their parents.
▲* Basic operational security training for all military and DOD personnel overseas pretty much demands this mindset when you are somewhere an attacker could reach. Check the car's interior before entering, watch for areas someone could hide, etc.
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