Instead, it was replaced with the original theme, except when the word 'Goosebumps' appeared through the door of the house, the word continued to move. When the episode first aired, it was originally intended to have the theme that ' The Cuckoo Clock of Doom' and ' The Girl Who Cried Monster' had.In the Goosebumps Presents book, Billy says he is 13, when in the book he was 12.

This episode was adapted into Goosebumps Presents book #3.

This episode was filmed at Camp Samac in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.

Instead of being in a canoe, Larry shoves Billy into the water after a struggle and runs away.

Billy never saves Larry from drowning after he falls off the canoe.

Jay is less of a joker, with Roger taking on the joker role.

In the episode, this happens while Billy is investigating the forbidden bunk.

In the book, Dawn and Dori approach Billy while he is talking a walk to tell them about what is going on in the girl's camp.

Instead, it is Jay and Colin who get in a canoe accident.

The campfire scene is extended to include Billy comforting Mike.

In the book, Roger doesn't speak until later while in the episode, he speaks for the first time near the start.

Sabre did not physically appear in the book at all and in the episode is revealed to be a robot created by the lab.

The kids are attacked by a lupine monster named Sabre, instead of wolf creatures.Dawn is the only girl to hide in the woods.In the TV version Uncle Al gives the boys vague devices that resemble crossbows. During the sequence where the camp goes on a manhunt for Dawn: in the book version, the boys are given rifles.And who or what is this vicious beast everyone calls 'Sabre'? Things are getting worse by the minute! So why doesn't Uncle Al, the camp director, seem worried? Does the mystery of the Forbidden Bunk have something to do with Billy's fellow campers disappearing one by one? Either way Billy has had it! He is determined to find out what is going on before it is too late. The summer camp of Billy's dreams is turning out to be a total nightmare.

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