It tells of a fictional film school friend named Alex Kralie, who had stumbled upon something troubling while shooting his first feature-length project, Marble Hornets.
SLENDER THE EIGHT PAGES ALL EXTRAS SERIES
The first video series involving the Slender Man evolved from a post on the Something Awful thread by user "ce gars". One of the earliest additions was added by a forum user named "Thoreau-Up", who created a folklore story set in 16th-century Germany involving a character called Der Groẞman, which was implied to be an early reference to the Slender Man. Many aspects of the Slender Man mythos first appeared on the original Something Awful thread. Divorced from its original creator, the Slender Man became the subject of myriad stories by multiple authors within an overarching mythos. Like fairies, Slender Man is otherworldly, with motives that are often difficult to grasp like fairies, his appearance is vague and often shifts to reflect what the viewer wants or fears to see, and, like fairies, the Slender Man calls the woods and wild places his home and kidnaps children.ĭevelopment The Slender Man soon went viral, spawning numerous works of fanart, cosplay, and online fiction known as "creepypasta"-scary stories told in short snatches of easily copyable text that spread from site to site. In her book, Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man: The Development of an Internet Mythology, Professor Shira Chess of the University of Georgia connected the Slender Man to ancient folklore about fairies. Knudsen's intention was "to formulate something whose motivations can barely be comprehended, and unease and terror in a general population." Other pre-existing fictional or legendary creatures which are similar to the Slender Man include: the Gentlemen, black-suited, pale, bald demons from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Hush" Men in black, many accounts of which grant them an uncanny appearance with an unnatural walk and "oriental" features and The Question, a DC Comics superhero with a blank face, whose secret identity is "Victor Sage", a name similar to Knudsen's alias "Victor Surge". Burroughs, and the survival horror video games Silent Hill and Resident Evil. Lovecraft, the surrealist work of William S. Other inspirations for the character were the Tall Man from the 1979 film Phantasm, H. Knudsen was inspired to create the Slender Man primarily by Zack Parsons' "That Insidious Beast", Stephen King's The Mist, reports of shadow people, Mothman and the Mad Gasser of Mattoon. Subsequent posters expanded upon the character, adding their own visual or textual contributions. These additions effectively transformed the photographs into a work of fiction. 1986, photographer: Mary Thomas, missing since June 13th, 1986. Actual photograph confiscated as evidence.
Deformities cited as film defects by officials.
Notable for being taken the day which fourteen children vanished and for what is referred to as “The Slender Man”. One of two recovered photographs from the Stirling City Library blaze. The quote under the second photograph read: 1983, photographer unknown, presumed dead. 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… The quote under the first photograph read: Although previous entries had consisted solely of photographs, Surge supplemented his submission with snatches of text-supposedly from witnesses-describing the abductions of the groups of children and giving the character the name "The Slender Man". Forum poster Eric Knudsen, under the pseudonym "Victor Surge", contributed two black-and-whiteimages of groups of children to which he added a tall, thin, spectral figure wearing a black suit.
The thread was a Photoshop contest in which users were challenged to edit everyday photographs to appear paranormal. The Slender Man was created on June 10, 2009, on a thread in the Something AwfulInternet forum.
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