What is "things that go bump in the night"

n. (context idiomatic English) frightening imagined creatures; ghosts or other supernatural beings.

"Things That Go Bump in the Night" is the sixth episode of the sixth series of the British television sitcom Dad's Army that was originally transmitted on 5 December 1973.

Things That Go Bump in the Night is the penultimate line in a traditional Scottish poem:

From ghoulies and ghosties / And long-leggedy beasties / And things that go bump in the night, / Good Lord, deliver us!

Things That Go Bump in the Night may also refer to:

• "Things That Go Bump in the Night" (Dad's Army episode), a 1973 episode of the British television Dad's Army
• "Things That Go Bump in the Night", a 1975 episode of the British TV sitcom Rising Damp
• "Things That Go Bump in the Night", an episode of In a Heartbeat
• "Things That Go Bump in the Night", an episode of Midsomer Murders
• "Things That Go Bump in the Night", an episode of The Bill
• Things That Go Bump in the Night, a 1989 TV film by Christine Cromwell starring Jaclyn Smith
• Things That Go Bump in the Night, a 1960s band of which Eric Carr was a member
• "Things That Go Bump in the Night", a song by allSTARS*
• Things That Go Bump in the Night, a 1943 DC Comics story arc
• Things That Go Bump In The Night, a New York Times bestselling book by Patrick Carman, also the first book in series 3:15
• And Things That Go Bump in the Night, a play by Terrence McNally
• Things That Go Pump in the Night, a 1990 music video by Aerosmith
• Things That Go Bump In The Night Film Fest (Bump Fest), a film festival in Bay City, Michigan