Bogeymen

Folks use the term for general scary things and when I was growing up, it was even used to redicule

little ones who are afraid of the unknown. A tape at the library about old sailing ships around the

world said the bogeymen were a group of pirates in a particular place in the area of  Indonesia who

would board a ship in the still of nite and cut the throats of all the crew, without warning.They were

so quiet and seemed to come out of the nowhere that special care had to be taken in certain waters

to survive. Based in history....not fiction.