Before I get into the story itself, people around here describe the Boogeyman as a creature that is pitch black with red eyes, but as I grew older, I learned that perhaps these are just evil spirits that roam around the world until they're purified and called back to the beyond to reincarnate. Now back to my experience, I have this really vivid memory from my childhood, I was perhaps 3 to 4 years old, where I was at my crib crying and my dad came to my room and lit the lights, and there by the corner of my room was a pitch black thing with two red dots that I can only suppose were its eyes staring straight at me, since I was the only one able to see it, with my dad asking me what was wrong. It's said that children are more sensitive to spirits and such, as we're still fresh from the immaterial plane and not bound by the material experience. My dad picked me up and the creature was still looking straight at me, but as my dad cuddled me, it disappeared and I slept with my parents that night. I don't know if my mind made this memory up, but it's so vivid I cannot discard it really happened.