This Thomas the Tank Engine Bed is Truly the Stuff of Nightmares

A father shared a creepy photo of his son's Thomas the Tank Engine bed and Twitter users are not happy.

Nathan Thomas shared the photo of Thomas the Tank Engine's face lurking in the dark and said: "My son has a Thomas the Train bed and now I'll never sleep again."

The tweet has more than 480,000 likes at the time of writing and more than 88,000 retweets and comments.

Sarah Marshall retweeted Thomas' post and said: "His name is Thomas the Tank Engine and if you'd bothered to learn that he might not want to kill you."

There were plenty more tweets from users correcting the mistake, with another user stating: "Thomas is not a Train, he's a Tank Engine. A train is what he pulls."

However, others agreed with the sentiment expressed in the original tweet.

Dan Pozo shared a photo of Bart Simspon's scary clown bed from The Simpsons and said the Thomas the Tank Engine bed reminded him of the creepy clown.

Deb Johnston shared her own unsettling image and said: "Still freaks me out every time I drive with the Captain America car seat," with an image of the offending car seat seen in the reflection of the car mirror.

Another Twitter user, Alex Johansson, shared a cartoon about a robot vacuum cleaner and said: "Your Tweet feels like the sequel to this comic."

One Twitter user said: "Thomas be like:" and shared an image of Gordon from Thomas the Thank Engine with a message that said: "Not even the children will be spared."

But Thomas told Newsweek that: "[The bed] never really has creeped me out, to be honest. We just rearranged the kid's room and it caught me by surprise.

"I'm glad people are finding it funny. Hopefully, it brings them to the animated series I make with my son—the owner of the bed—because the show is just about joy."

Thomas the Tank Engine first appeared in The Railway Series books by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry and his son, Christopher Awdry, which was first published in 1945.

Reverend Wilbert Awdry was inspired to write The Railway Series when as a child in Wiltshire, England, he listened to the steam engines puffing and thought it sounded like they were speaking to each other.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the characters, including Gordon and Percy, inspired cardboard models and toy sets, and in the 1980s the animated television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends was aired in the U.K., and later in the U.S.

In 1996, the first U.S. Day Out With Thomas family event took place in Wisconsin, which allowed aspiring young engineers the chance to take a ride with a 15-ton replica of Thomas.

Thomas Land, a Thomas the Tank Engine-inspired theme park opened in Fujikyu Highland Theme Park in Japan in 1998, and in 2000, the first feature-length film release inspired by the book series, Thomas and the Magic Railroad, was released in theaters.

The series continues to be popular to this day and has inspired more books, toys, and apparel—as well as beds that look like they're watching you from the shadows.