DO YOU REMEMBER THE BOOGIE MAN DOWN BY THE LANE?

I'm wondering how many of us remember the scariest man on earth - the Boogie Man who lived in the very creepy house beside the laneway on Milverton Avenue, at the foot of Coleridge Ave.? I remember so vividly when we were children that we were totally terrified of this spindly little man and we were sure he was going to capture us and do terrible things to us if we even walked near his house! Many of us believed that he would kill us and probably eat our bodies too. He would stand on his front porch and point his knarled, discoloured, wrinkly finger at us when we tried to go past his place. We knew that it meant that we would be next to die and go into his soup pot!!!

Tony Banner reminded me that the Boogie Man had a son who was much older than us kids and he had been terribly abused by the Boogie Man as a child. The son would come over occasionally and have it out with the old man. There were many violent confrontations between them. I wonder how he escaped the pot?

I remember being so terrified of the Boogey Man that I refused to walk anywhere near his house. I would stay on the other side of the street, even though I was also scared of Steven Bishop's father too, but Steven's father seemed to be the lesser of the two evils. As soon as I would walk close to the corner of Coleridge and Milverton, I would run like heck to the corner store just to avoid being killed and eaten! We were convinced that the old man ate kids like us.

I wish I had a photo of him because everyone would agree with the impression we had as kids. This man was really, really scary. I'm sure the house he lived in was haunted too. It was so decrepid, void of any hint of paint and many windows were missing. The few curtains that did exist in the windows were literally in threads. If that house wasn't haunted then, I'm darn sure it is haunted now because the Boogie Man is long since dead. Thankfully, none of us kids were the cause of that!