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Rug Boogie — Description

As the name suggests, Dwellus covoras, the Rug Boogie's preferred habitat is the bedrooms of small children. Their boneless bodies lie flat on the ground, while specialized pigments on their backs blend them into the carpet or floor. Their hooked edges allow them to remain rooted to the ground, to avoid being dislodged or removed. They come in many shapes and sizes, picking environments that suit their body type. At night, the Rug Boogie uproots itself and slithers across the floor, looking for food. It has the normal Boogie diet, fear, but they also consume small items and objects, which is believed to aid in digestion. Though they have sharp teeth, they prefer to swallow prey whole, waiting for children to climb out of bed before pouncing on them. It does not digest the child, rather it traps them inside of them and harvest their fear as they try to break free. Specialized sensors can pick up vibrations, which allow them to vomit out their victim and blend back into the floor before the parents arrive.
Rug Boogies lay dusty, dirty cocoons that house their young, usually depositing the egg underneath old, unmoved furniture. Once hatched, these spider-like larvae allow themselves to be cleaned up and dumped in the garbage or outside. There they will develop into an adult Rug Boogie, flattening their anatomy and growing the proper organs. They migrate into houses on warm, breezy nights, gliding upon the wind and looking for an open window to slip into.
Rug Boogies continually grow throughout their life, reaching incredible sizes. Tales of haunted houses where families and children disappear can usually be attributed to an ancient Rug Boogie, which have grown so large that they can cover an entire room. Though normal sized adults do not have the proper mouth and stomach acids to quickly kill human prey, older, larger Rug Boogies can actually constrict and crush prey within them, pulverizing them into easily-digested fluids.
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It is interesting how you can find so many phases when you look back at old drawings. This guy came with the idea of boogiemen actually being a family, genus, species within the real world. There would be hundreds of different species that varied around the world, each one adapted for specific environments and scenarios. Specialized exterminators would remove such pests, tracking and hunting these creatures that are unknown to the public and believed to be fantasy and imagination (But at the time, I don't think I was aware of how many times this scenario had been used).