Usually means: Noises or fears during darkness.
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  1. things that go bump in the night: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. things that go bump in the night: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. things that go bump in the night: Wiktionary
  4. Things That Go Bump in the Night: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (things that go bump in the night)

noun:  (informal, humorous) Frightening imagined creatures; ghosts or other supernatural beings.

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