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The Slenderman Phenomenon
I have been watching yet another documentary on these 'creatures' ,and the hysteria it created online and off,and the killings it sparked was incredible.
Black suit,no face,white skin,tentacles that can strangle,occassionally .
Anybody,i would think mainly our cousins across the pond in the US,have any experiences regarding this ?
At least,it is a fantastic example of 'mass hysteria' spread by the internet,leading to real killings.
Black suit,no face,white skin,tentacles that can strangle,occassionally .
Anybody,i would think mainly our cousins across the pond in the US,have any experiences regarding this ?
At least,it is a fantastic example of 'mass hysteria' spread by the internet,leading to real killings.
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No, it's just spooky niche games with jump scares. That's the current hip trend. Well not so much now but a few years back when both those games came out it was.
Aimed more at middle schoolers and high schoolers it seems.
Nothing more than that ? ..why were these kids so freaked out ? ..and what is Wikipasta ?
That's pretty much it. I think the hysteria might be over exaggerated. Wikipasta, or creepypasta are just scary stories spread all over the internet.
That's the latest documentary I'm watching right now..and it appears that this a series of stupid jokes,ala the clown phenomenon last year,but he is giving a classic 'bogeyman' vibe and he targets children.
Meaning unstable kids,after seeing all the fake videos,go one step too far .
They are making the film now ,CR ?
Comes out in May!
Wanna know something worse? My parents almost bought the house from the Texas chainsaw massacre film a day after I watched the movie.. we toured the house all while some guys were chainsawing some trees down.
I must admit I've never seen the film,it wasn't a true story was it ?
At the time they acted like it was a true story. The 2003 version. A story went around that it was a true story. It was based on serial killers and a story of a man killing people with a chainsaw so in a way yes. If you YouTube the 2003 and I believe 2006 version you’ll understand why it was so scary. I find it scarier than slender man honestly...
The character was then used in video games, one a very simple game where you walk around a small area collecting 8 pages warning of Slender Man while he stalks you at night. As you collect more and more of the 8 pages Slender Man becomes harder to escape, and you can easily be captured by him. A game with the sub-title The Arrival expanded the Slender Man story a couple of years later and continued to craft the legend.
In college I took a criminal justice class that studied why kids kill and the Slender Man inspired attempted killing by the young girls @Some_Kind_Of_Hero mentioned was referenced, and we even watched a full length video that went into the case and interviewed the girls. Apparently they were enticed by the Slender Man myth and I think brought their friend into the woods to act as a sacrifice to him or something along those lines. Very unnerving, and a sign of how the fictional can be treated as reality by the impressionable or unstable.
That's the documentary I watched last night Bradders,it was a 2hour documentary and very explicit .
Apparantly both girls were schizo/bi-polar/multiple personality but that's a heck of a coincidence in a small town.
Terrible.
They are so realistic now..for vulnerable kids its real,basically.
I almost took criminal justice. May I ask what you do now?
@CASINOROYALE, I studied and recently graduated with a degree in writing and art, a little over a year ago now. I hope to do something involving illustration, design or creative writing or journalism. Still seeking a purpose at the moment and trying to get a foot in, which is pretty hard these days.
When I was at college the criminal justice classes were the elective courses that most fascinated me outside of my major, and that was what really drew me to them. I've always been fascinated by morality and how gray it gets, and law enforcement is one of the best areas of study for those so inclined in that interest. I learned a lot from the courses I took and was stimulated on a number of tough issues like abortion, gun control, self defense murder, torture and more that only made me see even more issues as complex problems with no easy solutions.
My favorite teacher from all my time on campus was also the assistant professor of criminal justice there, and I created a strong relationship with her over my four years there that ended with me going with her and a group of other criminal justice students to Ireland where we toured their prisons and rehabilitative centers to compare their law enforcement policies and style to the American one. I became really great friends with quite a lot of the criminal justice students, even more than I did those who actually shared my major, and it soon became a running joke amongst the other kids and myself when I showed up in so many CJ classes despite not even minoring in the subject. My fondest memories at college, which I didn't particularly enjoy, are almost all attached to those classes and those involved in them, with the Ireland trip being the ultimate highlight of my college career with no other competition in sight.
It actually started as tale told on a website called Creepy Pasta, the game came much later.
https://www.creepypasta.com/slenderman/ (Original story started in 2010)