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The bogeyman is a legendary ghost-like monster. The bogeyman has no specific appearance and conceptions of the monster can vary drastically even from household to household within the same community; in many cases he simply has no set appearance in the mind of a child, but is just an amorphous embodiment of terror. This list looks at 15 bogeymen from around the world.
The Namahage visits each house on New Year’s to ask if any misbehaving children live there. If the parents are able to report that their children are not lazy and do not cry, he moves on to the next house.
The Korean bogeyman is called Kotgahm, which is the word for persimmon. The legend is that a mother told her crying child that she would feed him to a tiger if he did not behave. A passing tiger, hearing the threat, waited outside the door for his meal. Instead, the mother gave the child a persimmon, a kotgahm, and the crying stopped. The tiger thought the kotgahm must be a terrifically fierce creature to be more frightening than a tiger. Today, the kotgahm is most often visualized as an old man with a mesh sack who carries naughty children away.
Duérmete, niño, duérmete ya.
Que viene el coco y te comeráGo to sleep child, go to sleep now.
The coconut man will come and eat you.
If you think of a coconut as a head, with the three holes the features of a face, you can see how El Coco might be transformed in the mind of a child to a hairy little man. During the 16th and 17th centuries in Spain, there were orphan collectors, who took children away in sacks. The misbehavior? Refusing to go to bed and sleep.
One of the most unusual of the world’s bogeys is Groke, a giant blue blob who is so lonely and sad that the ground beneath her feet freezes as she walks. She is not malevolent, just lonely. But she frightens people, and they run from her.
There are many theories about the origin of the word “bogeyman.” One is that it devolved from “buggy man,” the driver of the cart picking up corpses during the Black Plague that decimated Europe. As in the United States, the bogeyman may be nothing more clearly defined than a mist or fog, scratching at windows, or he is sometimes thought of as a tall, gaunt, scarecrow-like man.
The boggart is a malicious fairy who causes personal calamities, small and large. It sometimes puts a cold hand on people’s faces at night. You must not name it, or it will become unreasonable and follow your family wherever you go. A horseshoe over the doorway will protect you from boggarts.
The Small Man has a rolling cart and captures children who are out after sundown. If he gets you, you will become a Small Person yourself, and ride in his cart forever.
The anti-Santa Claus, Baba Yaga’s evil partner, Torbalan lurks in the shadows in Bulgaria, waiting to snatch misbehaving children and carry them away in a sack.
Bubak is a scarecrow-like man who hides on riverbanks, making sounds like a lost baby to lure adults as well as children. He drives a cart driven by cats and weaves clothing for the souls he has stolen.
The Bolman has claws and fangs. He hides under your bed or in your closet waiting to grab you and put you in the basement if you don’t sleep.
Pugot Mamu is a gigantic, headless shape-shifter who lives in trees and deserted houses. Self-beheaded, he eats children through the hole in his neck.
The Bonhomme Sept-Heures – the seven o’clock man – may have been taken from the English “bone setter,” an old name for a traveling medicine man. The seven o’clock man steals children, but can only get you if you are awake.
The Nokken, a lake monster, will get you if you don’t come in when called.
The Jumbies live here, post-death misbehavers. They are shape-shifters, so children are taught not to play with random animals. There are several ways to defeat Jumbies, however. You can leave your shoes outside; Jumbies have no feet and will spend the night trying to get the shoes on. You can leave a container of sand or rice outside the door; Jumbies will have to count each grain. You can cross a river; Jumbies won’t cross water. You can leave a rope with many knots; Jumbies will have to untie each one.
Italy has l’uomo Nero, a tall man with an unseen face, a heavy coat and a black hat. He hides under the table and parents knock on the table to warn their children that l’uomo Nero is present and will take them away if they don’t eat their dinner.
October 24th, 2009 at 1:36 am
cool list
October 24th, 2009 at 1:37 am
These creations can only get more terrifying now that smacking children has been thrown out the door.
October 24th, 2009 at 1:38 am
Oh the many awesome ways people get their kids to behave
October 24th, 2009 at 1:39 am
Number 7 looks like Darth Nihilius
October 24th, 2009 at 1:41 am
Very nice list. In Brazil we have “the sack man” or ” homem do saco”, who puts children in bags and takes them away.
October 24th, 2009 at 1:41 am
Seems like these are all tricks to put the children at sleep.
Nasty parents everywhere !!!!!
October 24th, 2009 at 1:42 am
@max (3): No, you didn’t
October 24th, 2009 at 1:47 am
I won’t be sleeping tonight…
October 24th, 2009 at 1:52 am
terrifying our kids…
one of lifes little bonuses
October 24th, 2009 at 1:55 am
If there was a list on the less used buttons in a browser, ‘Refresh’ would be number one. You guys were not the first to comment! The fact that you think you were just prove that you’re slow readers…
October 24th, 2009 at 1:58 am
Interesting one that may or may not have been seen in research but it is another one of Hispanic origin, La Llorona. She carries away children who misbehave. Long history behind her too.
October 24th, 2009 at 1:59 am
The Nokken is interesting because he can turn into a beautiful horse and fool people into following him into the forest.
October 24th, 2009 at 2:23 am
Awww. The Finnish bogeyman is sooooo cute. She looks exactly like Grimace. Maybe she IS Grimace. We still don’t know. Also, I never knew we had a local version of the bogeyman here in the Philippines. All we have I think is the white lady & her son the grudge boy.
October 24th, 2009 at 2:31 am
Creeper from Jeepers Creepers has all the makings of the perfect bogeyman.
October 24th, 2009 at 2:34 am
@5 yep, number 7 is Darth Nihilus
October 24th, 2009 at 2:43 am
born and grew up in the philippines and i have never heard of that pugot mamu.. if he is dark and lives in trees, it could be the kapre..
October 24th, 2009 at 2:43 am
I’m too scared now.
October 24th, 2009 at 2:50 am
In the USA he’s called OBAMA! You should be scared, very very scared. Eight to eighty, blind crippled or crazy,
October 24th, 2009 at 2:56 am
Very interesting. In Brazil, they have the “Bicho-Papao”
October 24th, 2009 at 3:08 am
Ok now I don’t thin El Coco means the coconut man really.Never heard of such reasoning behind el coco story. I’m from mexico and I know it has nothing to do with coconuts
October 24th, 2009 at 3:08 am
The description’s too short. We need something that is enjoyable to read. Not just pictures.
October 24th, 2009 at 3:17 am
In Hungary we have an owl with copper penis. If a child misbehaves it takes him/her.
October 24th, 2009 at 3:17 am
That last one sounds kinda cruel… and really funny
October 24th, 2009 at 3:22 am
In Brazil there is also Bicho-Papão (loosely, the Glutton Creature), who takes away children. It’s a character in a lullaby in which it’s asked to get down from the roof so that the child may sleep peacefully.
I once read (but can’t remember where) that during or immediately after the Crusades, a Boogeyman-like figure was created from Richard Lionheart. The Muslim would tell the children to behave, under the menace that Melek-Ric (sp?) would come and make them slaves.
October 24th, 2009 at 3:25 am
The Finnish Groke is actually just a character (albeit a scary one – I had nightmares about it as a kid) in the Moomin books by Tove Jansson. That picture is from the Japanese animation though, here’s the original one: http://www.ksml.fi/multimedia/dynamic/00103/Muumit_103182a1.jpg
We also have our version of the Nokken, which is called Näkki here. It also dwells in lakes, rivers and wells, and can get you if you go in to deep (but it can also be driven away by throwing rocks into the water before going in). A certain type of shell is also called a “näkinkenkä”, which means Näkki’s shoe.
October 24th, 2009 at 3:39 am
Waiting for the list for the most annoying things on the internet, I know what is FIRST.
October 24th, 2009 at 3:52 am
Parents have more imagination than children =P
October 24th, 2009 at 4:09 am
It sure is nice to know that Hollywood has a lot more potential horrible scary movies to make. Can’t wait to not see some of these at the theatre. (I spelled that for all the people from the Empire.)
October 24th, 2009 at 4:17 am
The Randall is far more horrifying than any of these!
October 24th, 2009 at 4:24 am
Boogeyman*
October 24th, 2009 at 4:30 am
I can just see traditional Italian parents knocking on tables!!!
October 24th, 2009 at 5:03 am
LMAO AT FINLANDDDD!!!
bahaha trust the peaceful scandinavians to have a blue blob as there SCARY BOGEYMEN!
October 24th, 2009 at 5:04 am
the ‘Bolman’ is not correct, it’s ‘Boeman’
October 24th, 2009 at 5:13 am
@sookie (27):
Well, it is true that the Groke pictured there is just from the Moomins tv-show but stories about a bogeyman similar to that have been collected for hundreds of years. It’s from ancient folk lore that Tove Jansson came up with the Groke. And already for 60 years now Tove Jansson’s Groke has been synonymous with “bogeyman” here so I think it is a well deserved spot in the list.
October 24th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Great List: It’s nice to see that parents worl-wide are a perverted mob who will resort to any length to terrify their children into compliance!
Australian Aboriginals have their own bogeymen – QUINKINS.
There are two types:
Imjim – short, fat-bellied, with large ugly heads long teeth and claws. They also had long, knobbly tails they used to travel in giant leaps across the land. They stole children who wandered away from, or could be tricked into being lured away from camp and took them home to their caves turning them into Imjim in their turn.
Timara (good) very tall (almost as tall as trees) and so skinny the lived in the cracks in the rocks. They hated the Imjim stealing children and would often rescue them – often fighting the Injim to do so.
So parents were terrifying their children in outback Australia thousands of years ago as well! Cool!
October 24th, 2009 at 5:33 am
lol! I’m not form mexico or spain, but my mom used to sing me the “coco”…also the cannibal witch that lives in the roof =S
that’s mean
October 24th, 2009 at 5:36 am
=O the one from Bulgaria also is very well known in Chile…but under the name “el hombre del saco” (the man with a sack)…creative ¬¬
October 24th, 2009 at 5:40 am
@Daemon (35):
I see, I was just about to comment that I’ve never heard of the ‘Bolman’. Boeman I know, but I don’t think it’s particularly Dutch, just a translation of ‘Bogeyman’.
My mother is from a rural area, where mist would come after sunset, which was said to be the ‘White women’, who would come to get you if you didn’t go home.
Another thing I remember is that my mom (and her sisters) would summon all kinds of forces of nature when I was small.
“Oh Water, if you don’t listen to me”
“Thunder, if you’re not home by dinnertime”
October 24th, 2009 at 5:41 am
@saopauloesquecida (8):
max clearly was the first one to comment you fool, since he is 1st on the comments list. i dont see how you could be confused by this?
anyways, good list, love the pictures
October 24th, 2009 at 5:47 am
Uhh…the korean one is kinda untrue…
Kotkam is just a dried persimmon and not an old man…
thats the magtaegi grandpa..plz get ur facts right
October 24th, 2009 at 5:57 am
There a lonely blue blob in the closet right now…
October 24th, 2009 at 5:59 am
great list! that one that decapitated itself and eats kids through the neck hole is scary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 24th, 2009 at 6:00 am
Really interesting list, much better than I expected from reading the title.
October 24th, 2009 at 6:00 am
im from the philippines and i have never heard of pugot mamu. lol.
October 24th, 2009 at 6:09 am
I was thinking the same thing about the pic on number 7 jason. except he has an axe and not a lightsaber lol
October 24th, 2009 at 6:12 am
I knew I was right in hating persimmons.
October 24th, 2009 at 6:23 am
haha great list !!!
October 24th, 2009 at 6:28 am
@Kaze (13): To expand your post, from Wikipedia:
“La Llorona is Spanish for “the weeping woman,” and is a popular legend in Spanish-speaking cultures in the Americas, with many versions. The basic version is that La Llorona was a beautiful woman who killed her children to be with the man that she loved and was subsequently rejected by him. He might have been the children’s father, and left their mother for another woman, or he might have been a man she loved, but who was uninterested in a relationship with a woman with children, and whom she thought she could win if the children were out of the way. She drowned the children then killed herself, and is doomed to wander, searching for her children, always weeping. In some cases, according to the tale, she will kidnap wandering children.”
October 24th, 2009 at 6:30 am
#12 Groke
That’s how I feel. Don’t know what to do about it.
October 24th, 2009 at 6:34 am
Interesting list. The picture for number 5 creeped me out.
My dad had his own version of the boogeyman that he would terrorify us kids with. He called it the atennea monster. It lived in the basement of our old home. There was a break in the wall under the foundation that had a sort of tunnel that we would play in…until he told us this story. He said anyone caught on the stairs going up to the 2nd floor after 9pm would be dragged down to the basement by the monster.
He told us this story shortly after my sister and I got finished watching a scary movie with him. It was Friday night at 11pm. Of course this got us moving and we all ran for the stairs and made it to the top without an incident. However, we forgot to turn off the light and my dad (the jerk) turns to me and tells me to go back and turn it off. It took five minutes of him trying to console me then threatening grounding before I would move. I don’t think I touched the ground as I flew down to turn it off. As I came running back up the stairs, my sadistic dad shouts out “It’s right behind you!!”…
To this day I have trouble going up stairs.
@astraya (31): hehe…maybe we should use that on idiotic posters. “Watch out or the Randall with get you!”
October 24th, 2009 at 6:36 am
@oouchan (52): …will get you!….
sigh….can’t type this early.
October 24th, 2009 at 6:38 am
I’m also from the Philippines, but this is the first time I’ve heard the “pugot mamu”. I’m more familiar with the “kapre” though, as was said in an earlier post to inhabit trees, and the white/black ladies
October 24th, 2009 at 6:55 am
Wow. I, too, am from the Philippines. Being a fan of scary bedtime stories, urban legends, and the like, I’m pretty surprised I hadent heard of any “Pugot Mamu” watchamacallits. I know Pugot Ulo (Headless Head. So wrong.) and Kapre–none of which fits the description, though.
XP
October 24th, 2009 at 7:05 am
In Finland, the only word for godeyman is Mörkö, witch is also the finnish name for Groke. The Groke in Finland was named after the finnish boogeyman, fisch also, is Nakken, or in here, Näkki.
October 24th, 2009 at 7:36 am
I’m scared of the bogeyman, as well. I prefer PARman and the occasional BIRDIEman… nice list.
October 24th, 2009 at 7:37 am
I think Jumbies might be OCD.
October 24th, 2009 at 7:53 am
I live in quebec and i’ve never heard of the bonnehomme sept-heures
October 24th, 2009 at 7:54 am
Excellent premise although I would have preferred a little more in-depth history of the various bogeymen and their originating cultures. It is amazing what parents will do to elicit cooperation. Some of it sticks too! You certainly don’t have to be a child to be afraid of monster that lives in the cellar – I was well into adulthood and still ran up the basement stairs, heart a pounding, hoping that whatever it is didn’t grab me by the ankle on my way up. An active imagination is all that is required.
October 24th, 2009 at 7:54 am
Hmm… not familiar with Pugot Mamu either. With most things I’m not sure of but feel like I should, I assume it’s Illocano and google kind of confirmed my guess that it is, lol. You’d have been better off with aswangs (werewolf types), the kapre (a giant hairy thing..sort of like sasquatch) or even the manananggals. Those are women with detachable torsos who sneak into your homes in the middle of the night to suck up your fetus with a long probscisus tongue. Lol…you could probably make a ten list just of Filipino things that go bump in the night.
Now my personal Filipino boogeyman… When I was little, our village had this small, plain white brick building with barred windows. When I asked her about it, my aunt told me that is where they take the bad children and turn them into mannequins. I believe that’s the origins of my irrational adult fear of mannequins, dolls (the realistic kinds. Chuckie’s alright but Susy Wets-a-Lot is creepy) and white, box-like buildings.
No offense Jamie, but the pictures aren’t very scary
Number 4 looks like he’d steal into my house late at night just to tell a lame joke so he can make a belly laugh.
October 24th, 2009 at 7:57 am
Actually in some spanish speaking countries the COCO is refered to as CUCO which is children slang for FEAR meaning the monster is so frightening his name is “fear” but the word CUCO is actually pretty funny thus creating a sort of paradox.
specially in CHILE
October 24th, 2009 at 7:58 am
Huffsa should be nummber 1.. Everybody who have watched the child program where they took the picture from know what i mean… She still gives me freaking nightmares! and im 20!!!
October 24th, 2009 at 8:06 am
In Dominican Republic, besides el coco, we also have “la bruja”, “the witch”. The only difference is that she will eat all the childs she comes across, your only defense is spot her and run like hell. The witch is an old woman that has her legs marked or scrapped because from there she starts taking off her costume. She likes newborn the most, so to protect the children mothers have to put a broom behind the door so she can enter, if she visits you have to put scissors under the chair she’s sitting, so she won’t be able to stand up. If a child saw them without their costume, he will die, when she notices.
La ciguapa is a bogeyman for male adults, the story says that in rainy days a woman appears in fields and woods screaming, when men go to check out they find a naked woman, with long hair and backward legs, if you go after her, noone will never hear from you again.
October 24th, 2009 at 8:10 am
Now I know why my mother told us to stay inside the house or else “pugot” will take us. Maye that is mamu pugot.
October 24th, 2009 at 8:23 am
What about Satan? Made-up, terrifying creature intended to scare children/people into line with visions of hell. Why do people outgrow all the other bogeymen, but still cling to the God/Devil? There is just as much evidence for the Groke as there is for Satan.
October 24th, 2009 at 8:23 am
My grandmother used to tell me that ‘Black Jack’ was coming. I don’t remember how this started, but Black Jack was a tall man in a long black hooded cloak, never speaking a word, who would (I was told) appear outside the house first. Then if I continued to misbehave, he would appear somewhere in the house (you get the idea, slowly getting closer to my room). So my gran would say “Oh you hear that? It’s Black Jack, he’s in the house!” This is invariably had me peeping round doorways and downstairs etc until I wore myself out and went to sleep. Which I always, always did. She also made up stories about him for when I was good, so he was always a figure in my mind.
Worked like a charm! I plan to use it on my nephew when he’s old enough. hahaha!!
October 24th, 2009 at 8:25 am
As for the Bonhomme Sept-Heures, it is said that he only comes to get you if you are awake after seven O’Clock. In french, “seven O’Clock” translates to “Sept-Heures”.
The idea of the Bonhomme Sept-Heures is old, they say that he is an old man, wearing a cap, a cane, a cape and a bag. Depending where you’re from, the bag can contain sand, that he would throw in the children’s eyes, or the bag could be large enough to put the childrens in it.
A theory about his origins comes from the late 1800, when the bomb setters existed, these bomb setters had to manually lamp light posts that ran on oil or gaz. The name “Bonhomme Sept-Heures” could come from the deformed way the french said “Bomb Setter”.
October 24th, 2009 at 8:28 am
To J Frater
Your site is having problems, pop ups and more worryingly mis directed sites, ie Chinese museam of sex for examples.
Please look into this as I like the lists.
I am having to run clear up programs everytime this happens and it is now happening often.
Most worrying is on one occasion it was hardcore and would not clear. I have grandkids who look at this site.
October 24th, 2009 at 8:37 am
@Winchestre (64): I don’t have the time nor sufficient knowledge to elaborate on that now, but the very fact that you are asking suggests that there probably IS a difference, and that Satan isn´t simply a boogeyman. That does not mean I am stating it’s real, just that people relate to it in a different manner than to boogeymen.
October 24th, 2009 at 8:39 am
Here in philippines we call our boogeyman “kulto”. He really beheads children. But I don’t believe in this shit. : ))
October 24th, 2009 at 8:47 am
Sweet list. When i was a youngling my parents never told me of any creatures that would take me away if i didn’t eat my dinner/go to sleep. Instead i got a spanking (gasp!) and contrary to popular belief, i did not grow up and become a sociopath from getting my ass whupped. I feared the strict hand of Dad more than any boogeyman.
October 24th, 2009 at 8:56 am
@sookie – ooooh I loved the Moomins when I was young! I thought I recognised that cute purple blob!
October 24th, 2009 at 8:59 am
in puerto rico is called ‘el coco’ or ‘el cuco’ too… and i think in many other places too like dominican republic and maybe cuba…
October 24th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Thought you could get away with using a Sith Lord as a picture of the Boogyman? I think you could have tried a little harder, the internet must have some actual visual representation of a Bubak somewhere. That is just laziness. What are the other nine actually pictures of?
October 24th, 2009 at 9:08 am
Brilliant! This list should also be named 15 ways to get your children to behave. BWAHAHAHA… now I know why my parents liked to scare me so much, especially since i was particularly naughty.
October 24th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Can’t sleep… various bogeymen will eat me..
Can’t sleep… various bogeymen will eat me..
Interesting list by the way, I sort of want to hug Finland’s Groke though.
October 24th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Poor Groke, I pity here. She almost doesn’t belong on the list, does she?
And am I the only one who thinks she looks like one of the blobs from that old TV show, I think it was called Barbapapa?
October 24th, 2009 at 9:20 am
We had a boogeyman. It was called “BELT” and it looked like a long black piece of leather with a buckle on it. If we didn’t eat our food or go to bed, “belt” would strike us.
It always worked.
Good list btw!
October 24th, 2009 at 9:20 am
You should put in bonuses the fact that it’s theorized that the american boogeyman came about as a result of Albert Fish. Who was a serial killer that kidnapped, tortured, and canabalized children.
Here’s a link if you wnat to read about him.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/fish/index.html#
or just wikipedia him.
October 24th, 2009 at 9:23 am
it’s so fun to scare kids. but they get you back when you can’t get them out of your bed at night! now i’m scared.
October 24th, 2009 at 9:33 am
@ nyota0uhura
Yeah she doesn’t, she seems like just a lonely soul looking for company.. coupled by the fact that she is not malevolent.
October 24th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Cools list, as usual.
Hey, #7 looks like the Sith from Knigths of the Old Republic II. Now I wonder how many times they have took inspiration for games or characters from this kind of legends?
Keep the good job!!!!
October 24th, 2009 at 9:36 am
In South Africa we have the Tokoloshe… Short monster that is sent by a witch docter to attack, rape or kill you.
October 24th, 2009 at 9:38 am
@Junqueman (18):
Um, did you recently suffer from a head injury?
#14 was fantastic! I love the backstory.
October 24th, 2009 at 9:41 am
http://www.star-wars.com.pl/files/image/kotor2_sith_1024×768.jpg
See? It’s almost exactly the same guy!!!!
October 24th, 2009 at 9:42 am
You mention Baba Yaga in #8, but she has no entry of her own. Get with it!
October 24th, 2009 at 9:44 am
I grew up with El Coco, except we would call him El cococaacaa. He lived in my grandma’s attic and would take us away if we went into her attic (I spent a good part of my childhood at my grandma’s). My cousins and I would always taunt El cococaacaa by opening the attic door then slamming it shut as we ran away screaming.
October 24th, 2009 at 9:53 am
The Ireland one is really scary because he is always right next to you.
October 24th, 2009 at 10:03 am
@Cubone (77):
You’re funny.
If all these creatures had an overlord to bow to, it would be “Belt.”
October 24th, 2009 at 10:06 am
In Argentina, I remember the hearing about el Cuco (phantom) will get you if you misbehave.
October 24th, 2009 at 10:30 am
nice list, pretty good. ^^
October 24th, 2009 at 10:35 am
I think its hilarious that all these myths started becau parents *needed* someway to threaten their children to make them behave. :/
October 24th, 2009 at 10:35 am
@57 Jon : …maybe because you’re anglophone. Every francophone in Quebec knows about Bonhomme Sept Heures.
October 24th, 2009 at 10:46 am
In the American south, we have two such creatures. (1) “Soap Sally” grabs little kids that won’t come into the house after dark. She’s never described, so one can only guess what she looks like. (2)” The Whompus” is a large black cat with a red tail that eats little kids who venture too far into the woods or that don’t come in at night.
October 24th, 2009 at 10:55 am
lol great list, im not actually sure most kids would be so scared of these any more they would have seen scarier on a Ben 10 film or know them as make believe by the age of about 5 now anyway, children arent so gullible anymore and after rading the list that may actually be a good thing! lol
October 24th, 2009 at 11:00 am
@57: I didnt grow up here in quebec, and i still know about the bonhomme sept-heures. I always thought it sounded like bottom setter.
October 24th, 2009 at 11:09 am
Great list! Let the Halloween fun begin! (I’m about ready to submit some Halloween-related lists myself).
My aunt and, I’m told, my ex-wife’s grandmother used to do that knocking on the table thing, to summon the Italian bogeyman. It was always treated as a joke.
HOWEVER… I grew up in this huge old house–built about 1840, I think… and as is the case with such houses, you know… nothing was ever quite “right” with it. Weird angles, strange settling noises, creaking staircases, all that. For a while I had the bedroom at the top of the stairs… and I was simultaneously in love with this room and terrified with it, because A) being at the top of the stairs, I heard every little creaking noise in the hallway and from the stairs that went on… and there was a hall light outside that threw strange shadows into my room… and then the room itself was an odd shape… longer than it was wide, with one enormous, tall window. So not only would I see strange shapes and shadows out the window at night, from the moonlight and the trees swaying outside… but the long, narrowness of the room made the far corners fill with odd, angular shadows that sometimes, I fearfully imagined, were the bogeyman, staring at me as I slept. This was NOT helped by some old portrait paintings that were stored in the room (I wasn’t old enough at the time to insist on my own decorating tastes, or to banish the paintings from my presence) so that there were these staring eyes looking across at me… gack. Creepy. When I was about 15 my sister finally moved out, and I was allowed to take over her far more vast–and less eerie–space.
October 24th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Nice!
How about a list of top 10 Investments these days? something useful for a change?
October 24th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Interesting list in that all countries seem to have some stylized version of a bogeyman.
What I find more interesting is that in asking adults what they feared as bogeymen as children the stylized version is almost never mentioned. These versions usually stem from tales the children themselves share amongst themselves, or come from half remembered dreams upon which they build an entire story.
I had three.
One lived beneath my bed (my bed was a high-rise double). If I needed to go to the bathroom during the night, the hardwood would open and allow the creature to rise and grab me by the ankles to pull me down under the ground. There was a ritual I had to go through before leaving the bed to give my self a chance of making it safely to the door. Once I made it out safely I was good for the night.
The second was a sort of gremlin who lived in the top far right hand corner of my room, up near the ceiling. I could see him quite well, sitting cross-legged and wearing a funny sort of cap. He wasn’t scary at all.
The third was the best, and my favorite. It was entirely auditory, and I eventually named it The Music of the Spheres. It sounded as I imagined space sounded, enormous, both empty and full at the same time, and endlessly beautiful.
I was glad to grow out of the first one. I was glad to find the second one was the way shadows fell across the curtains. I was devastated to lose my music.
October 24th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Great subject matter but some of the descriptions are only a sentence long!
And what’s with the photo of Darth Nihilus for #7? In fact a lot of the pics don’t seem to match the descriptions at all. Did you just grab random monster pics?
VERY disappointed.
October 24th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
I first thought The Bolman was giving me the finger. Then I thought, “wow, The Bolman’s a dick”. Then I realized my brain does not function at full capacity while on PCP
October 24th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
I’m still scared of the Pugot Mamu until now… And I’m 20 XD
October 24th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
I’d hoped the Wendigo would be on here. From northern Maine and Canada. But great list, just in time for Halloween.
October 24th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
I think the groke just needs a hug.
October 24th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
These Boogeymen really need to update there skill sets for the 21 century.
I have an awesome image of some freaky ass looking thing trying to train cats to pull his cart, How many cats are talking here?
October 24th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
@Karl (13):
She is probably upset because as we all know grimace left her for Birdie.
So sad but true.
October 24th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Nokken can also shapeshit to a beautiful white horse, and beautiful young man.
October 24th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
I know for sure that Groke exists, because she is a former collegue of mine, and her real name is Helen.
October 24th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
As for the #4.. the seven o’clock man- he can get to you.. if you are not away by seven o’clock… this is where the name is from.. and I am from Québec.. so I kind of know..
Good list, it was light, short and sweet.. perfect.
October 24th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
I’m from Poland. Never heard about Bubak.
October 24th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
I always thought the Groke (aka “Morko” in Finnish) had not a blob-body, but was covered with long shaggy hair. I read a lot of Tove Jansson as a kid and always saw her as drawn by the author as a shaggy creature, of a non-descript greyish-brown colour.
October 24th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
There is no such thing called the Bolman in the Netherlands. As someone else mentioned, there is something called a Boeman, but I never heard of it having claws or fangs or anything.
October 24th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
I am surprised no one mentioned the Aswang. I learned about her from Lynda Barry’s CD, “The Lynda Barry Experience.” She talks about her Filipino grandmother, who smokes a cigarette backwards (with the lit end in her mouth), and tries to scare Lynda with stories of the Aswang. The Aswang is a shape-shifter, who is much like a vampire, but flies around with only her upper body at night, trying to grab victims. During the day, she takes on many forms. “If you see a dog during the day, whose hind legs are longer than the front legs, THAT is the Aswang in the daytime!”
You can read about the myth at absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Aswang
When one of my friends or I see something strange, we always say, in the grandmother’s accent, “THAT is the Aswang in the daytime!”
It’s a terribly funny CD, I highly recommend it.
October 24th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
They all remind me of my neighbour after she’s had a few. ;D
The Philippines has many other ghosts too. Like… the White Lady. o.o
I’ll post when I can think of more. XD
October 24th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
No bunyip? Or maybe he is not considered a bogeyman. All I know is I saw a cartoon when I was little called “Dot in Australia” or “Dot Down Under” (I forget which) and it there was a segment about a bogeyman called the bunyip that traumatized me for years.
I feel sorry for Groke! Poor lonely Groke. I too think she looks like Grimace, of McDonald’s fame.
Some of these are pretty damn scary even for adults, let alone kids. The Small Man is especially scary IMO, and the picture of the Nokken is so creepy.
October 24th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
@Randall (96): What type of Halloween lists?
October 24th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
@flamehorse (102): Wasn’t the Wendigo that one from Native American legend, that was the wind or something?
October 24th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
I’m Dutch and I’ve never heard of the Bolman. I’ve heard of a Boeman, but I have no idea what that is, either xD Guess I didn’t really grow up with that kind of stories.
I do, however, know about Witte Wieven (‘white women’), don’t know the details but it’s an old tale in the east of the Netherlands…
October 24th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Yeah, Mexican-American here and never heard the “coco”, though I HAVE heard of “el cucui”.
October 24th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Not actually the bogeyman but the Vashta Nerada scare the sh*t outta me. They live in the shadows, not all shadows, but any shadows. I’m so sleeping with the light on lol.
October 24th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
My family used the Coco, but for some reason in my part of Mexico its pronounced Cucuy or called, La Mano Peluda; “The Hairy Hand” instead. It was mainly used to make the kids hurry up in the bathroom, so that the offending adult can use it(we only had one bathroom). Imagining a hairy hand reaching for you while u sit on the toilet was very effective for us, lol. Must be why I cant stand carpet or shaggy rugs in the bathroom.
October 24th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
EcoPhD Interesting Bogeymen: Over here in Australia we also have a Whompus (though we spell it without the ‘h’ – Wompus).
However, our Wompus isn’t a Bogeyman – it’s a snake (a fantasy snake). Locals will often regale ‘New Chums’, Tourists and/or gullible city dwellers with tales of the dreaded “Wompus Python” which will hold its tail in its mouth and roll after victims, drop on them from trees and swallow them whole (or eat cattle/sheep/kangaroos etc whole), or it’s flaming ruby-red eyes and tongue which can impale small animals – and of course it’s the ONLY snake in the world with six little legs at the back end (that’s how you can really tell a Wompus Python from any other).
October 24th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
The big purple one is the freakiest
October 24th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
The name of the boogeyman in my house had two names,during the day her name was mama, and at bed time the boogeyman came out and her name was “THE BELT”, and I can tell you it worked. The guy living under my bed was even scared.
October 24th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
The Groke is a character from the Moomin stories (created by Tove Jansson)…not Finnish bogeyman ‘history’.
October 24th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
@winchestre (64):
Stupid atheist. Satan is real. He is what you call the father of all the bogeymans in the list (except for the Groke, of course). I mean, If there is good then there is evil. Just like if there is male, there is female. The universe is balanced because of opposites. Most people still cling to God & the devil because most people believe in them more than the bogeyman. Why, do you like the thought of somebody out there who helps you in your problems everyday (that’s God) & someone out there who causes those problems (that’s Satan)? The bogeyman is just something from the imagination, a superstition. God is something that is eternal & good & NOT superstition. Religion is not superstition (Evidence for this: The Roman Catholic Church said that believing in superstition is a sin.). Look, I don’t want a debate with you, okay? That debate would sound off-topic to what we are supposed to talk about.
Anyway, I have researched & the Gorke is not something from Finnish folklore. It’s from the Moomin book series.
And as I stated above, I have never heard of the “Pugot Mamu”, whatever that is. Here in the Philippines, we have the Kapre, which I think is more famous than that “Pugot Mamu” crap. I have also read in some of the comments that most of the “bogeyman” were never heard of.
October 24th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Québec made the list yes!!!!
October 24th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
@Karl:
Lol, you say that you don’t want to discuss, yet you start your post by calling him “stupid”.
Either way, he’s right, there’s as much evidence for the Groke (or any of these bogeymen) as there’s for Satan or the Devil. If that fact hurts you, then it’s your problem.
As for the topic:
I’m Mexican and “El Coco” has nothing to do with Coconuts. There’s also “La Llorona” (the weeping woman) and “el Viejo del Costal” (the man with the sack)…
October 24th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
What about the Chupacabra? I think it’s a “monster” that kills goats in Peurto Rico, Mexico and the USA. Has anyone heard of that one? Every once in a while you read about a sighting of one on the cover of that horrendous tabloid, The Weekly World News.
October 24th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Yes, in Mexico – around the year of 1994 – the Chupacabra was a popular story. However, it wasn’t a “bogeyman”… its stories didn’t revolve around attacking children that didn’t obey their parents. It was more like a mystical creature that attacked animals… specially goats… and was vampire-like…
However, there wasn’t any evidence of it. At the end, most of the people in Mexico concluded that the Chupacabra was a story created by the Mexican government to divert attention from an economic crisis that was about to start.
October 24th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
A couple of things-don’t know what country the rat tail mother is from but it is another bogey creature.I read the story as an adult and it scared the bejeezus out of me.My ex-husband’s dad hated the kids sitting on the heating vents in the floor during the winter-he was sure it ran up the heating bill-so he told the kids if they did it the monster in the vents would come up and eat them.His mom also told him that his bellybutton was a plug.If he misbehaved she could unscrew his bellybutton,deflate him,put him in the box he came in and return him to the store.needless to say he has issues.
October 24th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Jajajaja “El Coco” or “cucuy” like I was told, certainly scared me. I was sung that song that was mentioned. But I remember it sounded so sweet, like a lullaby.
Mexico’s folklore is so good. I mean La Llorona, El Cupacabras, ghosts, etc. I really wonder why I am not traumatized. And now with the “Day of the Dead” coming up I’ll hear enough stories to make me have at least a tiny light on or my phone close by.
Damn all those Halloween marathon movies & Paranormal Activity that aren’t really scary but make you stop and think that things like that can ocur.
October 24th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
hmm.. Pugot Mamu? Never heard of it.. Maybe it’s a regional belief, y’know with the Philippines having thousands of islands and so many regions…
Nice list btw…
October 24th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
this is a really cool list!! the Jumbie sound like a person with OCD…i might be a Jumbie!!!!! I do have a hard time puttin on shoes…
October 24th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
this was a great list concept (especially so close to halloween), but the entries were just way too short, i would have liked to have had more of the details of the various legends.
so, thank goodness our excellent commenters were able to fill in the blanks and even tell better stories about other “boogiemen” too
and what’s up with the apparently world-wide theme of stuffing naughty children into sacks?
October 24th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
i’m pretty sure the english equivalent of the groke is eeyore -he’s blueish/purplelish, from a story book, and oh-so-sad! let’s hug them both!
October 25th, 2009 at 12:04 am
Your entry reminded me alot about this entry: http://tinyurl.com/yjn47zg
October 25th, 2009 at 12:46 am
Wow! Fantastic list. The Coconut man reminds me of El Burlon, a bogeyman who lives on the moon and comes down to maniacally laugh in the face of a child who stays up too late. I’m not too sure if it was a story my sisters made up or if it’s an actual legend.
October 25th, 2009 at 2:15 am
@amo (39): He appears as number 3 for me.
October 25th, 2009 at 4:27 am
“Pugot Mamu” (ano yun?) What’s that! I’m scared! Waaaahhh! lol. (not real)
October 25th, 2009 at 4:42 am
Hey you are really scaring me. It looks like real monster.
October 25th, 2009 at 5:59 am
Number one is just horrible. Italy should be ashamed of itself.
October 25th, 2009 at 8:25 am
@Freddy (120):
=O My mother also used the “mano peluda”..but I think it came from a radio show from the 70s, “dr. mortis” …I think…
October 25th, 2009 at 9:17 am
Cool List…But I live and was raised in the Bahamas and never heard of #9, could you tell me where you got that one??
October 25th, 2009 at 9:22 am
The Groke is Mörkö in Finnish.
Funny thing is, Mörkö is also the Finnish name for Hobgoblin from Marvel’s comic universe.
I know several friends and other kids who are terrified at Groke. My childhood friend could not sleep if someone mentioned her.
Her voice was pretty freaky (she only had one actual line in the series) and in one episode it was shown that her touch is freezing… She even puts out fires with the cold aura around her. Her first appearances in the series were pretty damn scary in the eyes of a small child so no wonder she can be used to scare kids.
As a kid I thought she was a he though – we refer to men and women with the same word and I don’t think her gender was mentioned separately. Personally I liked the character, one of my favorites.
Nice list – there was a couple of new ones for me ;D
October 25th, 2009 at 9:42 am
I’m from the Netherlands and I’ve never heard from that Bolman!
October 25th, 2009 at 9:56 am
@ Chicle (143)
Oh good so my family isnt as crazy as I thought. Good to know the origin as well.
October 25th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Here in the USA, we have the tooth fairy. She sneaks in your house at night and rips your teeth out.
October 25th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Lol. So many monsters to make children behave!
October 25th, 2009 at 10:38 am
I was always told by my brother and sister that the Bogeyman (American) lived in the closet and came out at night to make noises, like floor creaking, pounding on the door, etc. “He” always came out to make noises in our rooms so that our parents would yell at us to get to bed, even though we already were. After growing up I realized it was either my sister making noises so that me and my brother got blamed, or the wind from our window. My sister was mean…
I always pictured the Bogeyman as a small green-skinned hunched-over man in a black hooded druid robe, and he had a long green nose and his face looked like the comic book version of the Green Goblin from Spider-Man, complete with wide sinister smile.
October 25th, 2009 at 11:03 am
@BooRadley (128): Here’s a little ditty about the chubracabra, hope it helps.
October 25th, 2009 at 11:05 am
D’oh! it’s chupacabra
October 25th, 2009 at 11:06 am
Hey I’m so glad to see Bonhomme Sept-Heures. My mother used that guy to get me to go to sleep.
October 25th, 2009 at 11:42 am
Bogeyman??
It’s Boogeyman.
October 25th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Everyone knows the real Boogeyman lives under my bed.
October 25th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
hahahah Number 12 is the best!!!
October 25th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
@Shifty (151): Thanks, Shifty! That was great! The chorus is so catchy that I can’t stop singing it:
There’s a buggy-eyed creature that we call the Chupacabra
Four feet tall like a mutant winged Chihuahua
In Mexico City, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua,
HEY! Chupacabra!
October 25th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
I am a Filipino but I have never heard of Pugot Mamu (5). Haha.
October 25th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
It’s “el cuco” not “el coco”. And “el cuco” is present in every single Spanish speaking country.
October 25th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
I think God should be number one on this list.
except its not to keep just children in line, its to keep an entire species under wraps.
“Believe in me, or you will go to the big bad guy under the earth!”
” dont cuss or i will send you there as well!”
“question anything i say and you are a sinner and will burn forever”
I dont think there is a boogey man more feared than god
October 25th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
I remember my parents always telling me about the jumbies, since we are trinidadian.
October 25th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Haha, the one from Finland looks like Grimace.
October 25th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Like an earlier commenter mentioned, it’s probably “El Cuco” instead of “El Coco”. Though from what I’ve heard from my parents, “El Cuco” or “Don Cuco” is the devil.
And regarding another commenter who mentioned Australian Aboriginal boogeymen, would the Bunyip also count as a boogeyman? If anyone’s ever seen the animated film “Dot and the Kangaroo”, that thing’s freaky the way they drew it.
October 25th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
What about the jackofasaurus?
October 25th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Where’s no face? XD
October 25th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
I agree with Segues (98) – I think it’s interesting that despite thousands of miles and huge cultural differences, there is a strong commonality among the boogeymen. The collective consciousness is alive and well!
October 25th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
I enjoy the lists where a common theme is represented from various parts of the world. Good list. Thanks.
October 25th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
I was raised to think that Ted Bundy was the bogeyman, before he was caught and fried. I’d be playing with a friend in the yard and my mom would always shout “Come inside or Ted Bundy will get you!”
October 25th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
I never really heard of the Pugot Mamu. But we have many bogeymen(and women) here. One that really freaked me out(when I was a kid) was the Babaeng Uling(The Charcoal Woman).
A woman with charcoal painted on her face, she carries a sack filled with charcoal. My mom told me that when children doesn’t follow their parents’ orders, the Babaeng Uling will drag you from your bed at 12MN. You can’t escape her even if you hid under the blanket. She would just freakin’ show up your bed and you’ll see long black fingers with dirty fingernails stroking your feet. That’s the last thing you’ll ever remember because the next thing you know, well, I don’t know. Hahaha.. Some say she’ll eat them but I think she’ll burn you and put your charred body in the sack. SCARYYYYY….
October 26th, 2009 at 12:02 am
In Mexico we also have “El Viejo Bichi” That means “The old naked bad man” Jejeje
October 26th, 2009 at 1:28 am
where’s Pocong from Indonesia?
October 26th, 2009 at 1:32 am
uhm… never heard of Pugot Mamu… what is it again?
October 26th, 2009 at 1:36 am
For more about the African TOKOLOSHE, see http://www.vanhunks.com/tokoloshe1.html. Very interesting!
October 26th, 2009 at 1:58 am
In the Netherlands we do have the bogeyman (boeman) but our Santa Claus (sinterklaas) is also a bogeyman.
He comes every year to bring presents but he has a book with all the good and bad children’s names in it. The bad children will be put in a sack and taken back to Spain.
So a mix of Torbalan and Baba Yaga in one.
October 26th, 2009 at 2:44 am
Wow. The Pugot Mamu stuff isn’t well known here. I, from the Phil. And that certainly means BULLSHIT
October 26th, 2009 at 2:57 am
South Africa has the Thokoloshi, read more at http://www.tokoloshe.tk/ if interested.
October 26th, 2009 at 3:55 am
In SA we got Tokoloshe that plays with children who don’t get indoors after dark. He will no allow you to go back into the house
October 26th, 2009 at 9:41 am
No Banshee? (It’s an Irish messenger of death)
October 26th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
What about the Leyak from Bali – a female, floating disembodied head (with entrails intact) that eats babies out of pregnant women? It’s in the movie “Mystics in Bali”
October 26th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Im from the Netherlands and i never heard of the Bolman.
Looks to me this list is bull shit.
October 26th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
#14 is wrong. Kkotgahm is just a dried persimmon. It has nothing to do with bogeyman. Dokkaebi should be Korean bogeyman.
October 26th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Yeah quebec represent!!
my mom used to scare me and my brother/sister with th bonhomme sept heures.
When i saw this list i thought of him right away, so I was pretty psyched to see him on the list!!
October 26th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Another poster from the philippines here, and yeah, I also have never heard of the pugot-mamu. I don’t think that was well researched. Anyway, some of the others were interesting
October 26th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
What about La llorona???
October 27th, 2009 at 6:07 am
“Coco” which is pronounced Coo-co (as in Cookie) not coco as in coconut, means “monster”, “bogey man” a scary being, etc.. Thought I’d share that…..
October 27th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
In Switzerland there’s the Kindlifresser (or Chindlifresser if you want it REALLY Swiss German) which means ‘child eater’.
The story goes that he’s a big, scary, ugly man who carries a sack to fill with children who misbehave. When he gets hungry he eats them.
The best part about this one is that right in downtown Bern (the capital city of Switzerland) there is a fantastic fountain depicting this terrifying Bogeyman. Google it, it’s great
October 27th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Yeah, I really want to go to sleep now…
October 28th, 2009 at 1:30 am
You left out the Tokoloshe from South Africa. Scary little bugger. I remember our maid always putting her bed on bricks so she could see if he was hiding underneath.
October 28th, 2009 at 2:06 am
@Karl (125):
I’m from the philippines and you are stupid. But that’s ok, I completely understand, you’re catholic! Makes sense
October 28th, 2009 at 3:16 am
I’m interested to know where SharonE got the info about ‘Pugot Mamu’. Like the other Pinoy posters here, I have NEVER heard of it. Not in the northern provinces where I live and travel, not in the south where one of my parents hails from. Could JFrater do something about this?
October 28th, 2009 at 11:36 am
are these true?
October 31st, 2009 at 11:00 am
I love this list! I love international ghost stories. Here’s my list of Caribbean Spirit-Monsters. Jumbees are on there, but all the others are different: la Jablesse, la Ciguapa…check it out: http://heatherleila3.blogspot.com/2009/10/monsters-of-caribbean.html
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:15 am
Nice to see Trinidad and Tobago on the list….go trinis
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:50 am
Took me time to read all the comments, but I enjoyed the article.
November 5th, 2009 at 7:47 am
does anyone know the name of the number 12 anime?
that image terrified me when i was a child i would actually see that image when i dream or have high fever, the first time i saw that episode i couldn’t the night… i wonder why?
November 5th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
The Norwegian Nøkken isn’t a monster, he is a water spirit, and allthough he is to be found in many scary stories where he sets off with people – or teaches them how to play a mean fiddle – he isn’t really used to scare children with. For that we have Buse or Busemann, a spirit related to the Bogeyman and the German Butzemann.
November 7th, 2009 at 6:21 am
Hey you missed a couple good ones from Paraguay. We have Pombero at nigtht, Jasy Jatere at noon, and Kurupi also. Pombero is a wild furry creature that runs really fast. Jasy Jatere is a boy who walks around the woods at noon and rapes kids who are not at home. Kurupi loks for young girls wandering around and rapes them also (his “member” is wrapped around his waist). They are all part of the Guarani mythology. You can google them or look them up on wiki. Great website though, Ive been following it for a while. First time im commenting tho
November 12th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
The Czech Republic and Poland monster looks just like Darth Nihilus, from KOTOR 2….
Anybody else notice that?
November 28th, 2009 at 7:29 am
I’m glad to see that my husband and I aren’t the only ones to make up some horrible creature to get our children to behave!
December 17th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Yay, Trinidad! Jumbies, are called moko jumbies, are just the start of the scary stories we have down here… We’ve got Soucoyants (fireball nocturnal creature, that I myself have seen), La Jablaisse, Douen, Papa Bois, etc… Scary, disturbing stuff…
December 23rd, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Thanks, was looking forward to such info, what took you so long for sharing it. Hope to see such informative stuff in future
as well.
dissertations
December 29th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
The Poland and Czech republic one was adowable!~
I wanna take it home!~
January 7th, 2010 at 6:33 pm
I can’t believe the Binyip from Australia isn’t on there. It’s a horrible type of monster that lives in swamps and rivers. It was my bogeyman as a child.
There was a song about it in a cartoon I used to watch as a kid, I used to run and hide whenever it was played lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtrYO-Mog60
The Bunyip song. Check it out.
January 18th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
in my family, we call it El Cuco. My parents used it to scare me when i was little, we still use it to scare the younger kids in my family.