Were you told of the 'Boogey Man' when you were a child?

[Umaril Has Returned]

     My cousin Todd (three years older) told me about the Boogy Man, who would "get" me, whatever that meant; he also told me that if I jumped off the garage roof with my mother's umbrella, I'd float down like Jiminy Cricket....I bought it all.

A bit off the topic here, but with regards to jumping off the roof with umbrellas, my cousin Jim and I got our asses beat for doing the same thing...I was around 4 or 5 and Jim was 7 or 8, and we jumped off of the first story roof with umbrellas as parachutes after seeing some WW2 movie with Airborne soldiers in it. Funny thing is, the umbrellas actually slowed our falls when we hit the ground!  Funny thing wasn't, what happened when we were caught doing it...

The summer before I started first grade, I showed my sister how to jump out of a tree without hurting herself.  And I fractured my wrist.

Well you have to look at the logic in breaking your wrist..you did show your sister how to jump out of a tree without getting hurt by showing her how NOT to jump out of the tree.   

[Chainsawmidget]

I watched a lot of Unsolved Mysteries as a little kid.  That's like having a News Report come on and tell you the Boogey man was real... and there was MORE THAN ONE!

[Newt]

When my family were visiting another family's home, their kids told me about the boogey man.  I must have been about six but I do recall being gobsmacked that they were actually afraid of some lame imaginary 'bad guy'.  My own imaginings were much, much scarier.

eta:  I also clearly recall being shocked that parents would tell their kids such a thing.  Could not wrap my mind around that one at all.

[dean]

Haha, this reminds me of a movie I saw the trailer of the other day:

The Babadook (2013) Official Trailer