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I Found the Boogeyman Under My Brother's Crib by Ben Farthing
5.0
You are always in for a good time when it comes to the I Found… Series.
Boogeyman is great because it’s something most of us already have/do fear. In this case, Rachel hears something in her baby brother’s room late at night and we she goes to investigate she sees an unnatural shape leaning over the crib.
Her parents don’t believe her and she’s starting to doubt herself too, blaming it on sleep deprivation. (Side note— I really disliked those parents for forcing Rachel to limit her sleep like that.)
She confides in her neighbor Landon about the incident and he tells her how the previous inhabitants of that house saw the figure too. It’s the Boogeyman.
I loved the imagery of the door and room under the crib. I was hoping Rachel would go into that otherworldly space. But instead it was just a reflection. Womp womp.
The ending is equal parts satisfying and surprising. And the description of the Boogeyman is truly horrifying: “I described how it looked in its tattered yellow raincoat, thick stiff arms but simple human hands, gray, rotting skin on its face, eyes that looked blurry like they were fading away, and that disturbing ring of scant teeth that pierced through the skin around its mouth.”
Boogeyman is great because it’s something most of us already have/do fear. In this case, Rachel hears something in her baby brother’s room late at night and we she goes to investigate she sees an unnatural shape leaning over the crib.
Her parents don’t believe her and she’s starting to doubt herself too, blaming it on sleep deprivation. (Side note— I really disliked those parents for forcing Rachel to limit her sleep like that.)
She confides in her neighbor Landon about the incident and he tells her how the previous inhabitants of that house saw the figure too. It’s the Boogeyman.
The ending is equal parts satisfying and surprising. And the description of the Boogeyman is truly horrifying: “I described how it looked in its tattered yellow raincoat, thick stiff arms but simple human hands, gray, rotting skin on its face, eyes that looked blurry like they were fading away, and that disturbing ring of scant teeth that pierced through the skin around its mouth.”