Oogey Boogey

As a child in the 80's with an extremely overactive imagination (and an impassioned fear of the dark), I was actually terrified at night that Gadhafi was hiding in the shadows in my room. I sometimes forget that singular  part of the word "Boogeyman" that makes it the most frightening - "man." Man, who despite our attempts at aggrandizing, is most certainly mortal.