
Man the eight pages” was created by Mark J., as an interactive take on the The ‘Slender Man Stabbing’ in which a 12-year-old girl from Waukesha, Wisconsin was stabbed by two of her friends who claimed they “wanted to prove the Slender Man sceptics” wrong and is what some would say the peak of The Slender Man story.Ī rendering of “Slender Man” by artist Nick Tyrell Slender Man himself was one of the reasons for the peak popularity of creepy pastas and because of the ‘Slender Man Stabbing’ helped gain exposure across the world. Growing in infamy from the original post, Slender Man became the subject of many different creepy pasta stories around the internet, many of which depict young children been abducted by Slender Man. This is the first exploration of the online community taking on the task of traditional horror story authors and creating and spreading more content around the internet.

They include gruesome tales of murder, suicide, and otherworldly occurrences in which its audience peaked in 2010.

These Internet entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories intended to scare readers. Creepypastas are horror-related legends or images that have been copied and pasted around the Internet. The Slender Man was then adopted quickly by the Creepy Pasta community online due to his viral sensation and was adapted into many different stories. The text described the abductions of the groups of children by theĮntity known as “The Slender Man” The original photographs of Slender Man posted on the Something Awful forums Groups of children to which he added a tall, thin, spectral figure wearing aīlack suit. Persona “Victor Surge”, submitted two black-and-white images of

Its originsĬan be traced back to a thread in the ‘Something Awful Internet’ forum was a photoshop contest that saw individualsĬhallenge to “create paranormal images”. Slender Man was an online phenomenon was created on June 10, 2009.
