what do you call the monsters in the country you grew up in

n the country I grew up in we had these monsters called aswang and there were a few tens of types some of them were:
mananangal: these thing are women who have the ability to cut their bodies in half and grow bat-like wings on their backs
chanak: think of them as zombie babies that can walk and jump from 10-50 meters
tuktuk: these are lizard type things that make the same sound as their name and they usually hang from ceilings and have long tongues that they use to insert in pregnant womens belly and proceed to eat the fetus
I forgot the others if I remember I'll edit this post

We call them politicians.

My birth country in the language we call them demoni. Here in America it just whatever politicians are.

Yo so you're filipino eh. Just gonna add a few

Kapre


Tikbalang


Matruculan

I wasn't scared of monsters as a kid, I was scared of night time in general. Used to trip the fuck out when the sun went down and I dunno whether things I saw at night were hallucinations, but they scared the hell out of me.

[size=14]In England we call the monsters "scousers"[/h]

We call them fobs.

No rich mythology here (well, save for Native American ones)- but as a child, I was deathly afraid of mirrors at night, because I would be paranoid about looking into it and seeing my reflection not doing the same thing as me.

In my country, we call them "Josh's".

Chavs. They walk the night streets and shout in some strange language.

Same here. It wasn't so much the monster I can see that scared me, but the one that I couldn't see. Those and some incredibly surreal dreams involving encounters with the paranormal that if I didn't approach in a skeptical manner I could believe they were real. Darkness, itself, brought about a huge fear of the unknown for me, that I still carry with me, to a lesser extent. Curiosity brings me to favor the unknown though.

As for monsters and their names:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin-walker
Person who could transform into animals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbird_(mythology)
Causes lightning storms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot
I don't think I need to add.

Na-Ha-Ha-Itkh - Water serpent similar to Nesie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Native-American_Demons

I'm not sure if "mythical beast" and "demons" count so I just added them. All found from a few quick searches on native American monsters, regretfully I did not look hard enough to find the word.

Side-note, I'm slightly interested in Manananggal, Chanak, and Tikbalang now.

So you to had a night light buddy?

Mass Murders
Serial Killers
Gunmen

I think you get the point.

Jackalote: A mix between a Jackrabbit and a Coyote.

Chupacabra: Monster that drinks the blood of goats.

That and pictures.... if you stare long enough they move... i promise you

Would probably have benefitted from it but I didn't have one. Room was too much of a mess to have one anyway as my dad used it to horde his shit until I was 8 years old when my mum and I cleaned it out, by then I'd grown out of fearing the dark. Literally could not see the floor and it was a struggle getting to my bed.

You must have been a god because if I couldn't see in my room and couldn't use my night buddy with me then I wouldn't sleep in the room.

We call them mods

Here, we call them Politicians.

Republicans. Those are the monsters in the U.S.