Y4 ds having bad dreams and can't sleep. Says it's because of a story his teacher read at school. I will say now, Ds is an anxious child (who camhs won't see as apparently it doesn't affect him but that's another story) and also has attention difficulties and so quite possibly missed parts of the story but he explained it as this;
A boy who was great at everything was fishing and saw smoke so he took his boat to the shore to investigate. A man told him he should leave so he started to walk away but could hear footsteps following him. Couldn't hide for some reason. He could hear a low whistling sound and it turns out it was a child catching monster who whistles out of a hole in his head.
I'm in no way complaining about his teacher. She is wonderful and very experienced. The story was linked to a drawing activity (draw the beginning, middle and end) But he's wide awake and I'm trying to find out what the story is as telling him it's just a story isn't cutting it and I'd like to be armed with facts so I can figure out why he thinks his teacher is reading him something that resembles a Stephen King novel and hopefully reassure him before I have a completely exhausted breakdown! I can speak to teacher tomorrow afternoon but hoping to find something, anything! to help tonight