Why the Boogeyman hated Santa.Belief was one of those funny things. It only took a single life-changing act, and wham. Life changed, ideals rewritten, childish fantasies banished, belief stopped.The Boogeyman found the last two on that list the most distressing because the only way that he maintained his already meager existence was by skipping from place to place and hiding under the beds of five-year-olds, and even then it wasn't easy. Special effects were making kids savvier and less likely to believe that the thing that lurked under the floorboards was actually real and not just a combination of latex and facepaint designed to keep the curfew, and where did that lea