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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.
* [[Phil Foglio]]'s ''[[XXXenophile]]'' had a couple of adult twin sisters find out there really is a monster under their bed listening to their [[Twincest|fun]]
== [[Film]] ==
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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:
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Should really not give one a fright.
It's the hole in each ear
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== [[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
* The final monster in the [[Infocom]] [[Interactive Fiction]] game ''The Lurking Horror'' is described in these terms.
* The main premise of videogame ''[[Scratches]]''.
* In Adventurer Mode of ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'', peasants warn you about not traveling at night or sleeping somewhere outside civilization, lest the bogeymen get you. Bogeymen are quite real; infinitely spawning little blighters that will [[One-Hit Kill]] you if you're asleep, and dissolve in the sunlight.
* When the sun sets in the world of [[Minecraft]], you'd better be inside behind a locked door or bury yourself in a cave with a nice bright torch because that's when all the monsters come out. While there isn't a lot of bumping, there is a great deal of groaning, rattling and hissing.
** And think twice before you sleep in a bed to skip ahead to
* 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.
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