When two 12 year-old girls attacked their friend in the woods of Waukesha, Wisconsin in May of 2014, they claimed to have done it to please Slender Man — a fictional monster created by Eric Knudsen, A ...

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What darkness lies in the dreamy imaginative minds of young girls? The mystery has been a source of inspiration for horror classics from “The Bad Seed” to “The Exorcist,” and it could have been a ...

The origin of culturally recognized monsters vary. Some are the result of ignorance of the world around those that invented them, constructed as a means to explain things that science at the time had ...

The new horror movie Slender Man ends with a vague, voiceover reminder: “we” spread the “virus” that is the antagonist. By sharing Slender Man’s mythos — through websites and drawings and late night ...

"Slender Man" does for YouTube what "The Ring" did for VHS, but really, really, really badly. A tasteless and inedibly undercooked serving of the internet’s stalest Creepypasta, “Slender Man” aspires ...