

She ventures down into the dark basement, finds a lighter that belonged to her mother, and lights it to see. He tells her to go down to the basement and get rid of some of her mother’s things, which are packed away in boxes. Sadie goes back home and tries to tell her father the truth, but he doesn’t listen. Just like her family grieved over the loss of their child, Sawyer’s grief over her dead mother is like catnip to the supernatural creature. Now armed with a shotgun and half out of her mind, Rita explains why the Boogeyman stalked her family and now Sadie’s: it’s attracted to trauma. She finds his home address and breaks into his seemingly abandoned home, where she encounters the last survivor, wife and mother Rita. Sadie begins to investigate why the Boogeyman is there by going back to the source: Lester. Eventually, Sadie believes her little sister’s claims that there is a Boogeyman walking around the house, cloaked in the shadows because its seemingly only weakness is bright light. At first, only Sawyer experiences these occurrences. The Boogeyman’s origins 20th Century StudiosĪfter the police take away the body and the family settles back into their home, strange noises/sightings occur. She investigates and finds Lester’s dead body hanging on the back of a closet door. Just then, Sadie comes home and hears strange noises coming from her mother’s empty art studio. Lester has come to believe that his family has been staked by a demonic creature, a literal Boogeyman.Īfter being reassured by Will, Lester sneaks away and wanders upstairs. Bereft with grief, the family endures one trauma after another when both remaining children die under mysterious circumstances. His name is Lester Billings ( The Suicide Squad‘s David Dastmalchian), and used to be happily married with three kids. Will reluctantly agrees, and the man tells his story. One day, while the kids are at school, a strange man walks into the Harper household while the kids are at school and demands to be seen by Will. All three live in a spacious home somewhere in California and all three are still recovering from the recent death of wife and mother Cara in a car accident. His paintings, included portraits, are held in public collections including the Museum of Scotland, the Dick Institute in Kilmarnock, the McManus Galleries in Dundee, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, together with Perth & Kinross Council and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.The Boogeyman focuses on the Harper family: Will Harper ( Based on a True Story‘s Chris Messina), a father and stay-at-home therapist teenage daughter Sadie Harper ( Yellowjackets‘ Sophie Thatcher), and preteen little sister Sawyer Harper ( Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Vivien Lyra Blair). Cape Burn Murdoch on Laurie Island in the South Orkney Islands is named in his honour. After his marriage to Jane Usher, the daughter of Andrew Usher (1829-98), he moved to at Arthur Lodge in Newington, where he entertained polar explorers such as Roald Amundsen, Fridtjof Nansen and Robert Falcon Scott.

He also travelled to Spitzbergen, the Arctic, Burma, China and India.īurn-Murdoch was a good friend of Patrick Geddes and lived at Ramsay Garden. He went on to help Bruce plan the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-4, although he did not take part.

An enthusiastic piper, he was the first to play the bagpipes in Antarctica. This expedition also gave rise to the first of several books, From Edinburgh to the Antarctic (1894). Burn-Murdoch joined the Dundee Antarctic Whaling Expedition of 1892-93 as Bruce's assistant, recording the voyage in pictures from their departure from Camperdown Dock in Dundee Harbour. He completed his education in Antwerp and Paris. 'WG' was born in Edinburgh and studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he met William Speirs Bruce (1867 - 1921).
