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Bogeymen Quiz

Can you name these things that go "bump in the night"?
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First submittedNovember 1, 2012
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Description
Scary Thing
Person that turns into a wolf
Werewolf
Sun-fearing bloodsucking creature
Vampire
Female caster of spells
Witch
"Undead" person
Zombie
Also known as an extraterrestrial
Alien
The bad guy in the Bible
The Devil
Minion of the above
Demon
My what big teeth it has
Big Bad Wolf
Embalmed Egyptian corpse
Mummy
Spirit of a dead person that
haunts a place
Ghost
In the Northwest,
he is called sasquatch
Bigfoot
Description
Scary Thing
Scythe-carrying harbinger of death
Grim Reaper
Wailing Irish spirit
Banshee
Mischievous gold-hording Irish dwarf
Leprechaun
Latin American creature that
feeds on animal blood
Chupacabra
Female spirit who seduces men,
especially sleeping ones
Succubus
Creature that lives under the bridge
Troll
Evil spirits that hunt Frodo
Wraith
Tempted Eve with a tasty apple
The Serpent
Elm Street movie monster who will
haunt your nightmares
Freddy Krueger
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Level 20
Oct 31, 2012
I can't believe I missed the devil, lol. Judas was my first guess haha.
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Level 48
May 15, 2014
The Bible really doesn't mention Satan that often.
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Level 73
Oct 31, 2015
My first thought was "which one"? Judas was my guess.
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Level 89
Oct 30, 2019
I guessed God. Lol
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Level 51
Oct 30, 2019
I said Judas too
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Level 61
Oct 31, 2012
Nearly didn't get the Bible one my first thought was Herod. As for the scythe carrying harbinger of death- all I could think of was Death and his horse Binky!!! :-)
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Level 52
Sep 17, 2015
I just cant see him as evil due to this!
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Level 26
Oct 31, 2012
Leprechauns aren't scary!
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Level 74
Oct 31, 2012
You obviously haven't seen the film with a young Jennifer Aniston. You may change your views if you do...
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Level 82
Apr 15, 2013
I saw it. They're still not scary.
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Level 65
May 10, 2017
Difficult to spell though.
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Level 51
Oct 31, 2012
It's serpent not serpeant
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Level 37
Oct 31, 2012
Glad Nazgul is accepted, didn't even think of wraith. Damn chupacabra, I always forget what they're called
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Level 21
Jul 8, 2016
me too, but it did take me a while to get it, all i could hear was them shrieking
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Level 35
Jun 16, 2018
...me too...
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Level 88
Oct 30, 2019
Definitely easier if you speak Spanish...Chupa = sucks, Cabra = goat. It's name is literally goatsucker. :)
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Level 65
Nov 16, 2019
Just think chupachups (the lollipop)
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Level 51
Nov 1, 2012
Should be "chupacabras." Compound words like this are pluralized in Spanish. Chupa = "(it) suck(s)" Cabras = "(female) goats."
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Level 51
Apr 10, 2015
I could be mistaken, but I believe the Spanish word for goat is always "cabra", so putting the female part in there is kind of silly.
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Level 65
Oct 30, 2019
It's both the generic and the feminine. There's a word for male goat which is "cabrón", though it is most often used as an insult meaning "bastard" than to refer to the actual animal ;)
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Level 22
Nov 1, 2012
You should also accept el chupacabra. good quiz
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Level ∞
Nov 1, 2012
Okay.
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Level 27
Nov 1, 2012
What's the name of the movie with evil leprechauns? And where is Bigfoot meant to be evil? I always thought he is a misunderstood creature ;-)
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Level 33
May 1, 2013
Leprecahaun
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Level 84
Dec 27, 2014
Who said bigfoot is evil? The title of the quiz is "Bogeymen" and he (it?) definitely qualifies.
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Level 65
Apr 7, 2020
One of the possibilities for the etymology for bogeyman is that it comes from bochelman or boggelmann where the first part means hump/bump/bend basicly translates as hunchback. You can see how the connection would be made. People scare their children with a deformed figure (not politically correct, but it happened(/s)

There are actually several familynames like that, bockelman, bogeyman, bogchelman

Another possible explanation is bockeman as in buck. Like half man, half goat, ring any bells?

The third option is boe(s)man buschemann. meaning bushman. I seriously remember being threatened with that when I was young, again not very politically correct. But with the same aspect something unknown and different than average. (When I was really young I thought that meant men hiding in little shrubs..)

So you cooould say, if it does not have a hump/is hunched, is not from the bush, or is not half goat, it is not a bogeyman ;)

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Level 65
Apr 7, 2020
The dutch word for bogeyman is boeman (and for bushman it is bosjesman)
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Level 77
Nov 1, 2012
I first went with Cain on the Bible one. Never got any further into that book.
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Level 67
Oct 30, 2019
The twist ending is pretty good.
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Level 82
Apr 15, 2013
Got 100% on this... but there are a hundred or so correct alternate answers you could include. Too many to get into in the comments section.
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Level 68
Jan 8, 2014
The first two answers I tried for "sasquatch" were "yeti" and "abominable snowman". I think these are more appropriate answers and should be accepted.
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Level 75
Oct 30, 2019
They don't usually use those terms in the Pacific Northwest of the US.
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Level 80
Dec 3, 2023
Those aren't more appropriate, they're completely wrong and should not be accepted.
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Level 69
Jan 9, 2015
How about imp as a minion of the devil?
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Level 75
Oct 30, 2019
That was my first answer but I quickly got the correct one on the second try. (I once walked into a room where my grandmother and mother were sitting and I assumed they had been talking about me because my grandmother said, "Speak of the devil and his imps will appear.")
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Level 28
Feb 12, 2015
100% with 2:00 left. Next time, try finding more mythical creatures from mythology rather than icons from films and the Bible.
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Level 64
Oct 30, 2019
What's wrong with including mythology from the Bible?
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Level 37
Oct 31, 2015
I put 'the mummy' and got it wrong, but technically correct ?!? :) hehe
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Level ∞
Oct 31, 2015
Is there just one mummy? Nevertheless, "the mummy" will work now.
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Level 55
Oct 31, 2015
For Brendan Fraser there was.
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Level 76
Oct 31, 2015
The barrow wights also hunt Frodo and company, so perhaps wight could be included?
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Level 62
Nov 5, 2015
Do they hunt him or do they just kind of find him?
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Level 43
Nov 2, 2015
Haha I got Chupacabra from an episode of Dexters Laboratory.
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Level 65
Nov 3, 2015
Bats are the only mammals that can fly, but vampire bats have an even more interesting distinction—they are the only mammals that feed entirely on blood.

(...)

The common vampire bat is found in the tropics of Mexico, Central America, and South America.

REF: http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/common-vampire-bat/

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Level 22
Nov 9, 2015
Add the Cookie Monster!!!! And the Monster-Who-Lives-Under-your-Bed!!!!!
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Level 21
Jul 8, 2016
true they do go bump in the night ( cookie monster needs to open he cookie jar and the monster who lives under your bed obviously makes a noise)
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Level 65
Apr 7, 2020
Cookie monster is tooo cute! Used to be a big fan ( still sort of am ;) But I also for a period had quite the fear of putting my feet right next to the bed haha, or sticking out from under the covers.. always made a big step! I saw a scary scene when I was pretty young, guess it left it's impact. Though I believe it is a common fear. (Also had this weird thing when I had to go to the toilet in the middle of the night, I flushed the toilet and ran up the stairs as quick as I could haha )
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Level 43
Jul 18, 2016
I'm sad that currently only 39% of people are LotR obsessed.
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Level 38
Sep 10, 2017
You should accept Beelzebub for minion of the devil.
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Level 82
Dec 27, 2017
Can never remember the name of that mexican blood sucker
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Level 36
Feb 6, 2018
The Serpent and the Devil are the same being. And regardless, in its Serpent form it's not a bogeyman as it only appears in that one instance. Witches are not necessarily female.
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Level 35
Jun 16, 2018
...and adam was the one who ate the apple...eve just suggested he eat it...which just goes to show...............................;-)
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Level 76
Dec 19, 2018
Nowhere in the Bible does it say that the serpent was the Devil.
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Level 73
Mar 8, 2019
Also nowhere does it say it was an apple.
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Level 76
Nov 24, 2018
Too bad trolls don't live under no bridge no more.
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Level 45
Mar 6, 2019
The first thing that popped into my head while trying to remember chupacabra was "capybara" :P
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Level 65
Nov 16, 2019
Haha that is funny (though I guess you meant capibara)
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Level 45
Mar 6, 2019
I get nazgul, but I miss demon. *face palm*
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Level 89
Oct 30, 2019
Wouldn't Michael Myers be a better fit than Freddy Krueger? He's referred to as the bogeyman a couple of times in the first Halloween movie.
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Level 67
Oct 30, 2019
He's an actual person, though, and I feel that it wouldn't fit the trend of the quiz
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Level 89
Oct 30, 2019
I thought they just had to be scary. I don’t see any indication that they have to be fictional or irregular people. Anyway, it’s just a suggestion.
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Level 88
Oct 30, 2019
There are endless female spirits who seduce sleeping men.
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Level 34
May 3, 2020
i thought siren should be accepted for that one
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Level 76
Jan 7, 2024
Nah, sirens don't seduce sleeping men, they entrance sailors with their songs and get them to crash on rocks.
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Level 84
Oct 30, 2019
Please accept my mother-in-law as a correct answer for almost every one of these.
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Level 51
Oct 31, 2019
When I was younger I thought that Little Red Riding Hood and Robin Hood were distant cousins.
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Level 65
Apr 7, 2020
Their parents were both from the hood ;)
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Level 72
Oct 31, 2019
Am I the only one here bothered by the fact that poor snakes are lumped in with a bunch of mythical monsters and bad guys? Poor snakes. They are just trying to live their lives and keep rodent populations down for us, next thing ya know, they are lumped in with Chupacabras.
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Level 65
Nov 16, 2019
(The word) demon was not referring to anything evil originally. It actually meant (guardian) spirit of deity. Ofcourse after christianity there could only be one god and other (lesser) deities were eventually presented in a bad daylight. At first demon still meant deity, not hellcreature but just heathen spirits/deities, but looked down upon/seen negatively. Later on it got, well demonized I guess and turned into evil beings.

Hope I explained it well enough in english. Hard to make descriptions in another language, especially in text. But if you didnt know this already, educate yourself and research it.

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Level 82
Apr 7, 2020
Freddy at the end seems oddly specific compared to all the other entries.
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Level 65
Apr 7, 2020
Evil spirits that hunt frodo? Dementors? No? hmm well... Somehow managed to eventually dig nazgul from my brain.
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Level 83
Aug 23, 2022
My nitpick is using "Northwest" as opposed to "Northwest US." The directional term on its own might be confusing to non-Americans.