Bogeymen

## Appearance and Physical Traits

Due to bogeymen being highly malleable shapeshifters that can only survive in the dark no one really knows what their true form looks like or even if they can be said to have one. Despite this they have been described as vaguely simian shaped with various numbers of Limbs, glowing eyes slitted like a cat’s or in the form of circles, and they have the feel of skin, fur, or scales when touched.

They smell like toys and sugared cereal

## Socio-Cultural Characteristics

Bogeymen always act cowardly until they have the upper handwhich is why they prefer grabbing kids as even relatively weak adults can overpower them in the day.

Bogeymen use their ability to travel through dark places to their advantage sleeping where they want and generally spying on other people for entertainment purposes.

## Skills, Abilities and Weaknesses

**Shapeshifting:** can change every part about themselves on a moment-to-moment basis from size, number of limbs, eye color and shape, and even determining if they have skin, scales, or fur.

**Darkness Empowerment**

* **Enhanced Strength**: they becomes stronger in the dark

**Darkness Teleportation:** has access to a shadow dimension that connects dark places like underneath beds and closets.

* **Darkness sense:** do to their teleportation ability they can sense the dark places they can go

**Conversion:** can turn humans into Bogeymen

**Light:** weakness, one of the most light-sensitive Monsters even a nightlight light can hurt them, only gains full strength and size at night in the dark.

**Teddy bears:** phobia, teddy bears will cause Bogeyman to panic and flee.

**Night blindness:** despite light being fatal to Boogeymen they cannot see in the dark.

## Notable Bogeymen

* Lurkimer Closett
* Murphy Bedd

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Location 4405)
2. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 4395-4397)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Location 1590)
4. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 1606-1607)
5. ↑ There was something under my bed. Something with a hairy arm and some frightening grip strength. Something with big glowing eyes, black and white, and slitted like a cat’s. A bogeyman. […] I kicked at what I thought was head, catching it on what felt like scales. […] I scrambled to my feet and absurdly noted that the bogeyman’s pupils had gone from vertical slits to wounded circles. His eyes had changed shape, too, now downturned and sad. […] The bogeymen lurched to his feet. In the darkness, I only made out a vague, simian shape that had far too many arms, all reaching for me. […] The bogeyman advanced in an odd, tumbling gait. Though his arms flailed all around, his glowing eyes—once again almond-shaped and vertically slitted—fixed on me. - A Creature Was Stirring
6. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Location 4367)
7. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 4433-4436)
8. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 1600-1601)
9. ↑ Wolfman Confidential (Kindle Locations 4350-4356)
10. ↑  Lurkimer Closett liked to watch. Didn’t matter what. Illicit rendezvous, sure, but he could be happy just watching someone else’s TV as they dozed off after a long day. Even the mundane chores of life had some appeal when viewed in secret. The things you could see from a closet door or under a bed or even an attic trapdoor boggled the mind. As long as they didn’t know anyone was watching, people dropped their masks. Let their devils out to play. He had regulars, the pathways to them deeply worn furrows in his mind. - Tombstone Math
11. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 4395-4397)
12. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 4433-4436)
13. ↑ He was under the bed, in a darkened room, and now he had frightened prey. That was like the Charles Atlas program for those creeps. - A Creature Was Stirring
14. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Location 1612)
15. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 4393-4395)
16. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Location 4386)
17. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 1600-1601)
18. ↑ Instead of the cold iron poker, my hand mashed into something soft and fuzzy. I grabbed it, putting it between me and the monster. It was a teddy bear with a red ribbon tied around his neck. The bogeyman shrieked in terror, tumbling back into my bedroom. I got up, holding the teddy bear out like a cross. “Mr. Bear’s here! He’s right here! Mr. Bear’s gonna get you!” - A Creature Was Stirring
19. ↑ He had regulars, the pathways to them deeply worn furrows in his mind. They had to be. Between was dark, and Lurkimer couldn’t really see in the dark. - Tombstone Math