![]() Something about Slender Man's combination of eerie imagery, a sense of the unknown, and his truly creepy design has made him the outsized star of the creepypasta world. In December 2017, one of the two Waukesha attackers was committed to state mental care for 25 years in February 2018, the second attacker was ordered to spend 40 years in a mental hospital. A small number of incidents connected in various ways to the Slender Man myth followed in its wake. In 2014, Slender Man made the jump from the world wide web to the nightly news when two girls in Waukesha, Wisconsin repeatedly stabbed their schoolmate, claiming that they carried out the attack in the name of Slender Man. It's also how, in a few tragic cases, the character seeped into reality. ![]() This shapeshifting quality is part of the reason why Slender Man caught the imagination of so many-it has gone on to inspire everything from internet shows to films, video games, and books. Inherent to the Slender Man myth is the mystery surrounding the character itself: Is Slender Man a malevolent creature that preys upon people, or a sinister yet strangely comforting presence that lords over children? Could it be both? In some images, Slender Man stalks through the woods in others, it appears as a monstrous friend hand-in-hand with a little girl. Each image featured a group of children at play-but lurking in the background was slender, spectral figure dressed in a black suit. The fictional character dates back to 2009, when Eric Knudsen (under the online name Victor Surge) posted a pair of doctored images to a scary photo contest on Something Awful. Like all great ghost stories, the tales on Creepypasta inhabit that terrifying gray area between fact and fiction.Ĭreepypasta’s best-known creation is most likely Slender Man, also known as Slenderman. Though was first registered as a domain name in 2008, the images and stories collected there may have started as chain e-mails stretching back to the early 1990s. The internet is just the place to make all your nightmares come true.
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