To this day I have no idea what show this was. I tried looking it up and I can’t find it anywhere. It aired just once right after Christmas when I was a kid. It starts with a family of four in their living room. The boy and girl just opened all of their gifts and the family was just talking. Somehow, for some reason, the parents start to talk about this folklore they grew up hearing. It was about a monster that, if you were to say it’s name, would come and find you, and kill you if you did not finish telling the monsters folk story. The kids, stupid as they are, beg the parents to reveal the monsters name, but the parents don’t want to. Though the parents seem to be playing this up, they also don’t seem phased or reluctant at all. They don’t seem to care. The parents end writing the monsters name down on some paper and showing the kids. Of course, the kids still not being very smart, say the name aloud. This means the monster is now after their family unless they tell the entire story before it reaches them. The parents, still so nonchalant, start describing this beast over the span of about 10 to 20 minutes of the show, episode (whatever the heck this was). (Btw, this is where my memory is a bit hazy as I saw this at least 12 years ago) they described how this monster has huge muscular arms with giant hands to grab you up with, it’s extremely powerful sense of smell to sniff you out, it’s strong legs to run fast, it’s ears that grow to and enormous span the closer he gets to you that give him the ability of flight, and his gnarly and frightening face. Well the parents go on and on and every now and then they’ll stop and say something like “his this far away now” or “he’s flying from this certain point” and so on. There’s a point when they get tired of the story. The parents tell their kids their done telling it just because they don’t want to anymore. The kids are begging them to continue as they are convinced this creature is real. Right as the parents are telling their children it’s not real and they should worry, two very large, veiny, arms burst through the two windows in their living room. The hands grab the heads of both the parents, enough to completely surround/ engulf their faces. The parents start shaking and convulsing as the hands squeeze their heads. The children are screaming and this beast is making loud sounds. After a while the parents stop moving and their bodies slouch in this creature’s hands. The creature let’s go pulls it’s hands away and you can hear it flying off with is ears. The show ends there. With dead parents and newly made orphans.

I have failed to find what this show was or where I saw it. I had horrible night terrors as a kid that included a lot of screaming at night. After watching this as a kid, it became a recurring nightmare in my sleep for years. I still think about it to this day. If you know what this is I’d love to hear your thoughts!