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The Slender Man

The Slender Man


The Slender Man was created at the Something Awful Forums in a thread entitled "Create Paranormal Images." He is described as wearing a black suit strikingly similar to the visage of the notorious Men In Black, and as the name suggests, appears very thin and able to stretch his limbs and torso to inhuman lengths in order to induce fear and ensnare his prey. Once his arms are outstretched, his victims are put into something of a hypnotized state, where they are utterly helpless to stop themselves from walking into them. He is also able to create tendrils from his fingers and back that he uses to walk on in a similar fashion to Doc Ock, the Spider-Man villain in the Marvel Universe. The superhuman stretching ability could also be seen as a similiarty between himself and Mr. Fantastic of the Fantastic Four. Whether he absorbs, kills, or mearly takes his victims to an undiclosed location or dimension is also unknown as there are never any bodies or evidence left behind in his wake to deduce a definite conclusion.

The Slender Man

Not much is known, as no specific information has been found about origins, but his objective and habitat are made very clear. He has the need to kidnap children, and is seen right before the disappearance of a child or multiple children. He seems to prefer fog enshrouded streets and wooded areas as a way to conceal himself from being noticed. It should also be noted that children have been able to see him when no other adults in the vicinity could. Children also have dreams or nightmares concerning The Slender Man before their disappearance. Confiding these stories to their parents are met with the usual parental admonition: overactive imaginations.

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Sightings


Even though The Slender Man is fairly new in the media, people have already claimed sightings. He appears to the unwitting mostly at night, and most always peering out of wooded areas or near rivers. He has also been reported to peek inside left open windows and to walk out in front of lone motorists on long uninhabited roads. The Slender Man or men, have appeared everywhere from Japan, Norway, and America to name a growing few.

The Slender Man
"we didn't want to go, we didn't want to kill them, but its persistent silence and outstretched arms horrified and comforted us at the same time..."

1983, photographer unknown, presumed dead.



One of two recovered photographs from the Stirling City Library blaze. Notable for being taken the day which fourteen children vanished and for what is referred to as "The Slender Man". Deformities cited as film defects by officials. Fire at library occurred one week later. Actual photograph confiscated as evidence.

1986, photographer: Mary Thomas, missing since June 13th, 1986.


A sighting of Slender Man was possibly inspiration for the famous Johanne Goethe poem and Schubert song "Der Erlkonig" (translated- "Night King" or "Boogeyman). The poem and ballad are about a father and his son riding horseback to their home, the son fearfully talks of visions of the "Erl Konig" while the father tries to comfort and dismiss the visions. The Erl Konig and Slender Man have surprising similarities in their appearance and actions when looking at a translation.

"My son, wherefore seek'st thou thy face thus to hide?"
"Look, father, the Erl King is close by our side!
Dost see not the Erl King, with crown and with train?"
"My son, 'tis the mist rising over the plain."

-Exerpt


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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3150591&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1



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Anonymous slenderman 0 Yesterday, 1:36 PM EST by Anonymous
 
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them pictures are so photo shopped
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Anonymous Weird Coincidence? 0 Tuesday, 7:50 PM EST by Anonymous
 
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kinda creepy i never even heard of this guy and i had a bad dream about something that looked like this. i suffer from night terrors so im used to seeing messed up things but i also research them afterwards to see what they mean and i wrote "tall demonology" in google and i think it was on the second page i first read about "slender man" and its creepy cause its down to a tee of what they say he looks like. so personally idk if this is odd coincidence but at the same time our imaginations are driven by something subconcious so for all we know he could be real and we just made a myth to go on about it like a parody. face it weve always had thoughts of something that looks like him at one point with nothing to really influence it at all o.o so im still currently looking on info on this guy so if you guys have info on where it started or some extra background info send me an Email sometime and tell me what you know thanks. email: misfit_2_culture52@hotmail.com
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Anonymous Slender Man Sightings 4 Tuesday, 11:02 AM EST by Logic_Chair
 
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It's a little disturbing isn't it? The fact that there have suposedly been 1) sightings of supposed Slender Men 2) Kidnapped children around the time of a sighting and such.... It's more than a little disturbing? It may be possible that there is some truth to the myth, perhaps people utilising the myth for their nefarious purposes? Though I recall once, on a long drive from Preston (N.W england) to Newcastle (N.E england) I assumed to have seen the Headless horseman riding next to us in a dark graveyard, I blinked and it was gone, tricks of light, hallucinations and overactive imagination can cause mass effects
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