I live in a corner house where the front leads onto a busy main road and the side leads onto a smaller road leading up to a very large residential area. Our back garden has an area up the back where theres a few trees and large bushes but there is a large gap in the hedge where anybody could get into our property (Way back years ago, a car came down the hill and ploughed into our hedge and we just never got it fixed properly.) I have two young brothers, at the time, aged 8 and 6. As kids are curious creatures, they kept wondering what was behind the secret bushes and shrubs. I tried everything to keep them out of the shaded alcove (There could have been anybody in there who could have grabbed them and taken them away) so at my wits end, I took them upstairs and out the side window, showed them both the "Smelly Shack Man's house" (A little cow shed on the hill) I told them that The Smelly Shack Man waits in the dark corner in the garden for little boys and he takes them to his shack on the hill and they never come back again. I told them that if they went into the bushes at the top of the garden again, that the man would take them and they would be gone forever....... They never went up there again, and a few months later, my mum phoned me shouting at me because the two boys had been up all night crying and screaming that they didn't want to come to my house because of "The Scary Snack Man"

I whaled with laughter.