The Boogeyman | The Unknown Monster Under Your Bed

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Hey there, I’m Cinzia DuBois. I’m a part-time, self-funded PhD student and YouTuber, Podcaster and writer. I’ve been creating videos for over thirteen years. On this channel, I talk about dark and ancient history, literature and folklore. I discuss productivity, personal development, PhD, academia, and mental well-being on my second channel.

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I am just a random student on the internet who loves reading, especially about ancient history and classics. My videos aim to make classics and ancient history interesting and accessible to everyone. I am not a professional or qualified educator, “expert”, historian or classicist. However, I ensure that all the information I use in my video scripts has been collated from numerous credible sources. Additionally, I am dyslexic, and I will mispronounce words. This does not stem from willful ignorance, and I try to research how to pronounce words before filming, but I often misread my phonetic spelling. In light of this, please do not rely on my video for an authoritative or reliable source of how to pronounce certain words.

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0:00 Introduction

[J_LorraineK]

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)

[holyfreak]

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.

[mch]

The Boogeyman doesn't need to fill the pages of novels, just watch the nightly news, especially as a child.

[g.v.]

“John Wick is not the Boogyman: John Wick is the man you hire to KILL the Boogyman.”

[allisonseamiller]

Me, an intellectual: I know it's really Clara Oswald under the bed grabbing my ankles.

[grapeshot]

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.

[walterfechter]

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

[AMoniqueOcampo]

You are keeping us fed this Spooky Season! Keep up the good work!

[koston_varjo]

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.

[goblinwizard]

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.

[BeatrixBetwixt]

My spooky soul is always delighted to watch your videos.🖤 Thank you for them!

[theCommentDevil]

Im 44 and i still dont let my feet dangle over the bed

[ChristianHandwerk]

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

[michaeltelson]

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).

[robo]

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.

[cunningba]

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.

[RM-wepx]

I’m more sad that Cinzia had trauma. Someone that smart. Loves books and dogs should have a happy, healthy life. Happy Hallowe’en!

[rolandovillareal]

Thanks for the research and interesting history of the bogeyman. Bravo

[winterburden]

Thanks for this neat boogeyman video Cinzia!

[mathieuleader]

I consider the concept of the Boogeyman to be a mythological genus