The "Slender Man?"

[Sindaine]

Some say he's a tulpa. Some insist he was never real.

Others whisper that he lures children away, playing the voices of their loved ones like a music box. They're found again weeks or months later, impaled in trees--all their organs having been taken out, wrapped up in a sticky membrane and shoved back inside in the wrong order. Where he goes radio signals go out of whack, squealing and screaming before fading away into static.

Yeah really spooky and I suppose kinda scary, weird thing is it was a totally fictional character made at some forum. How people can report sightings of the damn thing is bazaar.

Oh, it's not hard to spot him, if you know where to look. That shadow settling across the ground as the sun sets? That thick stand of trees at the very edge of your yard? Notice how odd and...branchy, they appear. The air feels different suddenly; there's a screaming tension that just keeps racheting up and up and up. Eventually your nerve will break, and you'll run for the safety of your house and huddle under a ratty old blanket. All night long the branches will torment you, tapping ceaselessly at your windows. All the more terrible because there are no trees remotely close to your house.

No one will be more surprised than you are when you set the house on fire; you'll have no memory of why or how you did it. It's okay though; they can shuffle you off to an asylum to spend the rest of your days in heavy sedation, scribbling crayon pictures of the face-that-wasn't.

 

[TheAceTheOne]

He's slender, single, neat, and detail-oriented.
Yeah - I think we know what his real secret is...

Oh, I got it! Is he.. MONK? He's Monk, isn't he? Isn't HE?

 

[AgentNein]

creepy ass modern day internet era invented folklore meme, as a guy who's still a sucker for Halloween I love this kinda shit.

 

[Rnr1224]

yeah ive heard of this. i came upon it recently tho. havent watched marble hornets yet but i maybe will sooner or later. looks wicked creepy tho

 

[Loop Stricken]

Yeah really spooky and I suppose kinda scary, weird thing is it was a totally fictional character made at some forum. How people can report sightings of the damn thing is bazaar.

Simply: Things similar to it existed in folklore long before it. So now we get to attribute all these old weirdnesses to a new shiny multilimbed abomination.

 

[Trolldor]

um... it's a 2 year old or so meme.

the fear of it is.. just-shut-the-fuck-up retarded.

0he slender man can kill two stones with one bird...

Thats Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris couldn't fight his way out of a hypothetical wet paper bag.

 

[Yokai]

Much of the myth's scariness of comes from the fact that it developed into something so expansive, so quickly, and for a while it was pretty much uniformly terrifying to anyone who heard about it. It struck a chord with some kind of primal fear instinct in a hell of a lot of people.

Less scary now that more people know about it and we have dozens of blogs and videos of mediocre quality trying to add something to the mythos, but the basic idea is still incredibly disturbing and the Marble Hornets guys are still geniuses.

To newcomers: honestly, ignore everything except MH and the original Something Awful thread if you can find it. They're both deliciously creepy, but most everything else...isn't.

 

[Raddra]

Splendor man > slender man

 

[Hiphophippo]

There's nothing to be afraid of kids!

 

[AgentNein]

I am so bloody sick of hearing about this stupid, idiotic, moronic meme. You want something properly frightening? Look at real life. Look at the potential for devastating, world-destroying combat which still hangs over us at all times. Look at the potential for the spread of disease caused by the ability for people to move around the world so rapidly, including from countries that have extremely sub-standard disease prevention systems in place. Compared to those, I can't see how anybody would ever be frightened of a pathetic meme like the Slender Man.

What a load of guff.

Yeah, everyone has heard this before any time anyone completely misses the point of why people enjoy horror.

 

[ace_of_something]

Interesting how the idea of a 'new' cryptid is passed around like a meme. In my day we watched documentaries with rednecks, white trash, and or crazy people proclaiming the existence of champ/bigfoot/shadowy government men whathave you.

 

[Littlee300]

um... it's a 2 year old or so meme.

the fear of it is.. just-shut-the-fuck-up retarded.

0he slender man can kill two stones with one bird...

Thats Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris couldn't fight his way out of a hypothetical wet paper bag.

Why would you quote me on something 6 months ago?

 

[AgentNein]

I am so bloody sick of hearing about this stupid, idiotic, moronic meme. You want something properly frightening? Look at real life. Look at the potential for devastating, world-destroying combat which still hangs over us at all times. Look at the potential for the spread of disease caused by the ability for people to move around the world so rapidly, including from countries that have extremely sub-standard disease prevention systems in place. Compared to those, I can't see how anybody would ever be frightened of a pathetic meme like the Slender Man.

What a load of guff.

Yeah, everyone has heard this before any time anyone completely misses the point of why people enjoy horror.

If you're going to watch horror, watch some proper horror. I'm [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054215] sure [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/] it [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505] isn't [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070047/] difficult [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056869] to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072271/] find [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010323/] some [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077402/]. (We'll put aside the fact that none of the films out of this lot that I've seen have even come close to frightening me, because frankly, I'm particularly resilient to horror films.)

I do enjoy proper horror, I just feel things like the Slender Man creepypasta accomplish (or for that matter any good camp fire tale) the same thing for people.

Real life horrors suck. Yeah they're scary, but never in a fun way. Good horror fiction allows us to deal mentally and emotionally with real life horrors in an indirect way, which can be nice.

 

[evilstonermonkey]

Ah, slender man... I don't get creeped out easy but paradoxically manage to creep myself out constantly. Slender man is one of those things that did initially creep me out, then I got over it, and then it started fuelling my self-horrifying side. For example... I have a small gap in my curtain, but I never bothered fixing it because it only looks on to a very, very small portion of my room. Unfortunately that portion of my room includes the back of my head at this moment. And as soon as someone mentioned slender man, I immediately felt like he was watching me through it.

But don't worry, I looked. There's noone there. You might want to check your windows though.

 

[Fraught]

Watch the Marble Hornets series on YouTube. It pretty much epitomizes Slender Man, in all his freaky goodness.

Though it gets lamer and lamer the longer it goes on.

I loved the first few. The last few just...haven't been as exciting and creepily scary.

 

[Marmooset]

He's slender, single, neat, and detail-oriented.
Yeah - I think we know what his real secret is...

Oh, I got it! Is he.. MONK? He's Monk, isn't he? Isn't HE?

You might have a point there.
But he looks a bit more like Disher.

 

[PinkiePyro]

I have made this thread 20% cooler by adding the link to this slender man/FiM crossover fanfic
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hgY9tE0bMMXGoPcUMghqua91lpLR4z7UOTlBVqlBATA/edit?hl=en&authkey=CKGqps0G#