Hi everyone hope someone can help - last night we put ds down to sleep about 7.30/8pm and he went straight to sleep then after less than an hour he woke up sobbing and when we went in he was pointing at something in his room that he was really scared of but we couldn't see anything. He was wide awake and talking to us. We sat and held him for ages and sat with him in our room to take him away from the situation, but when we took him back in he was still scared and wouldn't go to bed and kept pointing to the same place. Even though we said it was "gone", and dh tidied up his toys where he was pointing. So in the end we took him downstairs with us and took him back up when we went to bed at 10.30 (he wasn't sleepy at all) but he still was scared of his room - I wasn't there but dh said he was looking for "it" and looked under the bed a couple of times. Dh questioned him a bit about it and he said it was an animal but that was all he said. In the end we had no choice but bring him in with us and he slept in our room all night. This morning so far he hasn't mentioned it and played in his room for a bit this morning quite happily. Has this happened to anyone else and what is the best way to deal with it? Many thanks - K