Just when you’re happily shopping for a shirt, you turn around and the friendly mannequin is mistaken for Slenderman.. not a creepy pasta but an actual occurrence …

Police release SLENDERMAN crime tapes.. The girls not only thought SLENDER was watching them stab, but they also described how to pretended they'd go get help

Also, one admits she knew they’d be caught.
And they were..

Police release SLENDERMAN crime tapes.. The girls not only thought SLENDER was watching them stab, but they also described how to pretended they'd go get help

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Perhaps the dumbest but yet creepiest song I ever heard..

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Slendermen invade UK town?

“Slenderman” sightings in the UK have prompted paranormal investigation.. reports of an 8-foot man haunting people, causing sleep paralysis.. The term ‘slenderman’ came from a Creepypasta a few years back, but the notion of a tall slender man with a pale white face has been in culture for centuries. What is strange about this is how many similar stories of this type of man are suddenly coming from the UK mining town of Staffordshire..

Is this the BEST ABC news could do? 

In a recent story posted on the ABC NEWS website about the two girls who used Slenderman as an excuse in the stabbing and near-murder of their friend, they opted to use this photo, pictured with this post, of ‘one of the many internet depictions of the fictional character Slender Man.’ 

The choice of this image is bizarre to me.. First off, while it may an internet depiction, it actually ends up looking much more like a Monty Python skit than a Slender Man example? I have seen a tremendous abundance of Slender Man images all over since this tragic case took place, but this is the first time I have seen the giant big-bellied version of Slender Man..I even Google searched images for “Slender Man costumes” and I found no evidence of this ABC news ‘internet depiction’ ..  this really is more like the Big Boned Slender Man.. or even The Fat Bottomed Slender Man.. Perhaps Slender had a few too many buffet trips..

While the image has next to nothing to do with the story, nor the fact that one of the accused girls talks to unicorns and Voldemort,, I just found its use to be peculiar.. 

Fat Bottom Slenders make the rockin’ world go round.

MOVE OVER SLENDERMAN!! You’re going to take a back seat to the newest weird net phenom.. Get ready for a new internet meme: The Creepy Paddington bear. .. and any time someone destroys the innocence and beauty of youth, it’s creepy. Just as someone now has, pervading the memories of so many children comforted by Paddington Bear.. Welcome to the net, where nothing is sacred. 

Okay, you got me good with those links but I still don't think the shootings have no ties with Slenderman at all, just the fucktard news media wanted to blame on something (because again with their hard on for blaming anything other than people).

I agree. I actually tried to make the point originally that the media doesn’t know much at all about where Slenderman started, and now they will be using him as a sensational  angle to crime stories..

Faceless Slender Man Linked to More Slashings, Shootings

A fictional horror creature popularized by Internet memes is now linked to three violent crimes.

Another link that may help the anonymous questioner a few hours ago that tried to say I am making things up.. 

And to another questioner who called me names  (so I will not publish that one): I know Slenderman is not real.. I get he was made up. But the meme and tupla existed far longer than the Slenderman of internet fame.. the powerful image of a faceless tall man has been around for some time.

The real issue here is not that Slenderman has come alive and taken over minds, the real issue is that the media is going to sensationalize a monster that is not real..

Remember: There were never knives in apples on Halloween, even though we check every year.. And Slenderman is not real. Even though three crimes are now being blamed no him by mainstream media..

Faceless Slender Man Linked to More Slashings, Shootings

I see NOTHING in the article that one of them dressed as Slenderman or any photos of it. Calling bullshit on your click bait about it BIG TIME.

I think you were referring to my latest post about the Las Vegas shooter reportedly dressing as Slenderman.. 

I think you need to click through to an article I linked, such as this from CNN: 

While authorities have yet to identify them, a woman who says she lived near them told CNN affiliate KTNV that the married couple liked to dress up as the villainous Batman characters Joker and Harley Quinn.

The neighbor, Krista Koch, told the station the man also sometimes dressed as Slenderman, a fictional horror character that recently surfaced in the stabbing of a 12-year-old girl in Wisconsin.

Hope that helps.. And perhaps absolves me of ‘click bait’

MORE Slenderman related crimes!?

Yet ANOTHER story that has a Slenderman tie in is making news today.. it was reported hours ago that a girl in Ohio who was fascinated by ‘Slenderman’ tried to stab her mother.. this after a Wisconsin stabbing a week ago by two 12-year-olds who wanted to visit Slenderman at his forest mansion.. And now this: A shooting occurred Sunday in Las Vegas.. Two right wing extremists yelled “this is a revolution” before they killed two police officers.  Then they ran into a Walmart and a killed a shopper before the wife killed her husband and then herself..  IT seems to have been political in nature, but there is a weird tie-in to Slenderman.

The couple reportedly named: Jerad and Amanda Miller (no official confirmation on the names yet). A neighbor told media that they dressed as the JOKER and Harley Quinn… and the Jerald reportedly dressed as Slenderman…..

A manifesto has apparently been found..

This is getting bizarre.. for a few reasons.

First off, this is not the first time the JOKER has been a meme involved in a crime.. nor, obviously, is it the first time that Slenderman has been, either.. 

I am not nearly as fearful of a fake Slenderman as I am the overdone sensationalized news coverage of him

I am not nearly as fearful of a fake Slenderman as I am the overdone sensationalized news coverage of him

The slick world of Slenderman

I read a reaction to my story yesterday on the “Slenderman” attempted slaying.. the author of another site had some valid points I wanted to mention.. Here is the site and here is what was said:

1) “Slenderman Slaying” implies someone was actually slain, which they weren’t.

2) Two idiots do not make up for the rest of the mature world. Parents who think their little monsters are stupid enough to pull something like that need to start doing their own jobs, not blaming the horror genre.

3) Horror has been around since the dawn of time. Horror did not drive a pair of stupid children to try to commit a murder, peer pressure and utter idiocy did. Give these dolts a Stephen King book and the dictionary and they might’ve just grown up weird like everyone else.

Valid points to all three..

I think it somehow also misses the point of what I was trying to say about Slenderman..

Slenderman is a fictitious character created on SOMETHING AWFUL in 2009.  The website CREEPY PASTA is getting the majority of the attention since the stabbings in Wisconsin by two pre teen girls.. Today the creator of SLENDERMAN, Eric Knudsen, released a public statement expressing his sadness over the attempted murder..

What I am trying to say is this: Slenderman entered into the internet world as a meme. It has not become a part of our culture, our horror, and our paranormal tales. The fiction aside, people actually claim they see Slenderman. They think they saw him when they were children.. some claim that Slenderman is a symbol of creatures already created—memes of the past or tulpas from history, such as the men in black, or Jack from THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, or the gentlemen from BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. In a sense, Slenderman does actually appear similar to mythological creatures that have been around for some time….

And enter this weird part: The attempted Slenderman slaying took place in a town called Waukesha Wisconsin. And there’s an interesting little factoid about what Waukesha means.. from the Loren Coleman blog COPY CAT EFFECT, this:

Waukesha: Over the years, many believed, incorrectly, that the origin of the name of the city was an Algonquian word meaning “fox” or “little foxes,” though it is actually an Anglicization of the Ojibwe proper name Waagoshag or the Potawatomi name Wau-tsha. Wau-tsha (sometimes written asWauk-tsha or Wauke-tsha) was the leader of the local tribe at the time of the first European settlement of the area. This is confirmed by accounts of Increase A. Lapham, an early settler and historian of the region. According to Lapham, the word for “fox” was pishtaka. Cutler also told visitors about Wau-tsha, who was described as “tall and athletic, proud in his bearing, dignified and friendly.”

(In appearance, Wau-tsha - without tentacles - sounds like Slender Man.)

Waukesha, Wisconsin has a long history of poltergeist, hauntings, and related stories. Also, the town was the epicenter for “phantom kangaroo” sightings in 1978, in Wisconsin.)

Yes, people who are experts in the occult or paranormal always have 20/20 hindsight.. they are able to put 2 and 2 together to equal 5, often ignoring logic and instead cutting through the veil that separates our reality from the esoteric reality around us.. But this strange paranormal history in this town gave me a bit of the creeps.. 

I also think back to Wes Craven’s NEW NIGHTMARE.. the plot being that Craven was nervous Freddy Kreuger was actually coming alive and entering into reality. While some may scoff at that idea, the notion is frightening to consider. 

And now Slenderman has somehow come alive. 

Yes, many are proclaiming that these two girls are using the Slenderman as an excuse for attempted murder.. 
But even if they are —or aren’t—what matters is that CNN, NBC, and other major news networks had Slenderman WITH HIS IMAGE as the top story for at least 12 hours yesterday.. The broadcast of Slenderman into the national conversation was done. He has entered the lexicon of our national conversation.

Monsters are just people.
Behaviors of monsters become known every day..

Even if Slenderman is fake, created, and a meme from 2009, the game seems to have changed. After all, Slenderman is now alive and darker than before—as the darkness gathers and we claim it is from the devil or evil, maybe the real fright is that we are just seeing humans for what they are. Dark and evil.. at the core diseased in moral, lacking faith.. 

Nietzsche claimed that GOD was dead. TIME magazine did, too.
Maybe someone needs to claim SLENDERMAN is alive. 
Slenderman.. and every single evil bit of darkness that his tentacles represent.

The inner core of human beings exposed.. what are we? …slender in nature.. Dark in character.

Reality.

That is what scares me.

The complete, terrifying history of ‘Slender Man,’ the Internet meme that compelled two 12-year-olds to stab their friend

Slender Man was invented on a forum in 2009. But since then, he’s taken on a mythology all his own.

Ahhh yes.. Slenderman. People now believe in him, to the point where they actually think they can summons him if they kill someone else, as shown from this real news story from Wisconsin.

But I ask this: Could Slenderman actually be created by massive cultural consciousness? Did Slenderman made the jump from fiction to reality?

The complete, terrifying history of ‘Slender Man,’ the Internet meme that compelled two 12-year-olds to stab their friend

Life imitates fiction. Or reality. Or the collective reality that was created by fiction

Horror is not confined to movies and television shows anymore.. Lately, headlines of real events have been shaping up to be more frightening and disgusting than the tales of fiction.. One such headline comes from Wisconsin.. 

From what we know, a 12-year-old girl was stabbed 19 times in a wooded area of Milwaukee this weekend. Two other girls apparently lured her there.. after the stabbing, the 12-year-old crawled her bleeding body to her own rescue..

Someone riding a bike miraculously found her laying on the ground.

She is not dead. She is actually, again by a miracle of some sort, in stable condition.

But here is where things get a little creepy.

According to the police report, the girls who stabbed the other girl were compelled to do it after reading up on SLENDERMAN—the fictitious character that was created online as an experiment but somehow took on a life of its own.. people claim they see SLENDERMAN, hear him.. are haunted by him. But he only existed in contemporary paranormal circles. He was a creation. Some with an imagination think we created SLENDERMAN from nothing, an experiment gone haywire to the point that now he manifested like Freddy Kreuger..

But these girls took things further than others I have heard of.. According to the police, they were on CREEPYPASTA.. They said they were trying to get SLENDERMAN appear in their reality but that they had to kill someone first in order to summons him. Creepypasta has even been forced to respond to accusations that it fosters violence.. It most certainly does not. If you’ve never seen the site before, it’s primarily fiction literature.. it’s not meant to conjure up evil.. get a grip and understand reality before you point fingers at a website for doing absolutely nothing wrong.

Meanwhile…

Even more information is being revealed about their relationship to the would-be victim.. They had a sleepover with her Friday night. They attended the same school.. CNN is reporting this:

According to the criminal complaint, the suspects had been planning the attack since February.

They first thought to kill the victim by placing duct tape over her mouth while she was sleeping and stabbing her in the neck, the complaint read.

Next, the plan was to kill her in a bathroom where there was floor drain that could make cleanup easier, it continued.

But, finally, the girls decided to do it in a park while playing a game of hide-and-seek, the complaint read.

It states: “As they left for the park … (the victim) was walking in front of them and Geyser lifted up the left side of her white jacket and displayed the knife tucked in her waistband. Weier stated she gave Geyser a look with wide eyes and, when asked what that meant Weier stated, ‘I thought, dear god, this was really happening.’”

The girl was a ‘millimeter’ away from death as one stab wound was near her heart.. 

With this crime, I have read some parents and non parents clamoring for a ban on horror-related websites. You know, China and Australia style.. That would be difficult here in the free US of A with that pesky first amendment blocking censorship..

But with every passing day, each new website, and now the SLENDERMAN crime these two girls committed, SLENDERMAN is coming alive more and more.. he’s in the collective consciousness. He’s alive and well online. The paranormal entity took on a life of his own—and apparently is now inspiring crimes in his name.. 

This is disturbing and hopefully not a trend-setting moment.. 

12-year-olds need to be taught the separation of fact from fiction. A generation lost in space.. the kids aren’t alright.