![]() On June 8th, 2009, a user on the internet culture forum Something Awful started a thread with an implicit challenge: "Create Paranormal Images." Two days later, fellow forum-dweller Eric Knudsen, posting under his alias "Victor Surge," created the first snapshot of the Slender Man: a faceless, wire-thin, suit-wearing man - like Tim Burton's take on Rene Magritte's The Son of Man. This is how the Slender Man evolved from modern myth to a legitimate terror. Still, despite having infinite information at our fingertips (and skepticism to match), few know the chilling story that brought us to this moment. Today the Slender Man thrives across multiple mediums and, with a now-streaming HBO documentary on the subject, along with percolating big-screen prospects, has become a prized possession of Hollywood. It stands apart from those legendary creatures thanks to a traceable origin: While most monster lore takes hundreds of years to evolve, the being that drove two young girls to attempt murder was born in a matter of weeks, incubated in well-lit expanses of the internet. Like Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, or the chupacabra, the Slender Man is total fiction, an internet meme blurred by curious minds into something resembling reality. I didn't want to find out what would happen if we didn't." She also said that she knew that if she didn’t follow through with the attack, Slender Man would "kill whole family in three seconds." "I was afraid of what would happen if I didn't. "I wanted proof that he existed," Weier told investigators. They intended to murder their classmate in the name of "the Slender Man." As the retreating pair would later confess to authorities, the attack was an act of ritual sacrifice. They found the third girl in the nearby woods, fighting for her life after having been stabbed 19 times with a large kitchen knife. The next morning, authorities found two of the girls, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, walking along the highway. On the evening of May 30th, 2014, three 12-year-old girls gathered for a sleepover in the small Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha. ![]()
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