Are you afraid of The Boogie Man?

You just sent a huge chill down my back. Yes I know he’s not real, but people can be worse than a boogie man. Or are you referring to how I dance?

@Adirondackwannabe lol How you dance? No just wanted to know if you were scared of him, I feel brave enough to face him when he comes.

When I was a child I was afraid… I needed a whole bunch of stuffed dolls and pillows to hurl at the invisible electro- static man at night. I found that If I stayed awake at night and slept during the day that life got better, I just skipped school and went to sleep during day hours.

@talljasperman That sounds tough! How long did this go on?

If you mean politics and the media’s latest intended person or issue of outrage.

No.

That said I do fear the dimwitted that will fall for such people and ideas.

@Broken_EarthAngel It lasted until I was 16 and I moved to live with my mom in grade 10.

Haha…well, not usually but last night was a spooky night here on the ranch property. I was home alone and watching murder mystery documentaries.
Totally secluded here on 10 acres behind an electric gate, no neighbors within ear shot, several large outbuildings, shop, hay barn, horse barn about 200 yards from the house.
I was out on the big front porch around 10 having a few puffs of an American Spirit cigarette, house all dark, dark clouds drifting past the full moon, breezy and things going “bump” in the night.
The dog started barking in the house. 0–0

I had a creepy moment visualizing the perfect horror movie moment.
A deranged killer in the house waiting for me, finding our prosperous knife collection in the gourmet kitchen, so many choices.
Scream all you want nobody can hear you.
Meh..it lasted about 30 seconds then I had some cookies and went to bed.
I woke up alive. lol

I am not afraid of Romulans.
They are without honour.

A couple times a year I’m awakened in the dead of the night by an unfamiliar sound in the house, and my adult mind immediately goes to the childhood boogie-mannish notion that an evil stranger is lurking downstairs or just outside my bedroom door. I lie awake for a few moments in heightened awareness and slightly more-than-mild fear… and then I fall back asleep.

In addition, I rarely have them anymore, but for years I had a frequent nightmare in which someone of something was lurking just outside my field of vision or chasing me, and I’d wake up screaming. If that wasn’t the boogie man I don’t know who/what is. Yuk!

You been chasin’ it haven’t you? Yessier y’have, I seen it in yer face, back there in the dust! Been huntin’ the bastard mesself for the last 30 years, give or take. Came close a time or two. Too damn close.
Evil don’t die like a normal man, mister!