Legendary horror filmmaker Wes Craven once said that his Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, which has churned out double-digit movies, a TV show, and infinite night terrors, was inspired by a mysterious real-life story he read in the Los Angeles Times. The article Craven credits with sparking the idea for the slasher film was about a string of puzzling cases where the victims complained of haunting nightmares before subsequently dying in their sleep.

The terrifying true story inspired the premise for A Nightmare On Elm Street, but it was other aspects of Wes Craven’s life and memories that painted the portrait of Freddy Krueger, the knife-fingered burn victim that haunts your nightmares and never lets you wake up again. A Nightmare on Elm Street sent chills down the spine of the entire world and Freddy landed a surefire shot on the Mount Rushmore of Slashers.

Freddy was built by Craven piece by piece, inspired by a combination of a bully that tormented him as a child, a disfigured homeless man that scared him one time, and the song “Dream Weaver” by Gary Wright. Actually makes a lot of sense.

But ‘70s pop songs weren’t the only way Freddy crossed over into mainstream culture, not even close. Krueger became an icon, infiltrating not just our nightmares but every nook and cranny of pop culture.

From TV shows and comics to toys and video games, Freddy is no longer being held by the bounds of your nightmares, and he’ll pretty much pop up anywhere.

In honor of The Hundreds collaboration with A Nightmare on Elm Street, we’ve dug through every corner of the internet to find all the times Freddy crept into the frame of some other thing you were watching without the slightest expectation of being scared shitless.