I'm glad I could be of assistance. Hmmm that sounds familiar, but it might have been an episode of Tales From The Darkside. LOL, I've seen so many episodes of many different horror tv shows that sometimes it's hard to tell what came from which series. The one that scared me silly as a kid was an episode of Tales From The Darkside called The Grither. This creepy grandfather is telling a story to his grand kids about an evil monster called the Grither, that can hear over thousands of miles and likes nothing better than eating children. The crux of the story is that to keep the Grither at bay once you have mentioned its name you have to finish telling the story before the creature manages to hunt you down. I can't remember how that one ends but boy did it ever give me nightmares.