Someone introduced him as a character in Minecraft. Creepypasta, the fanfiction horror website, published countless stories about Slender Man. He became become the subject of e-books, web series, YouTube clips, video games, fan art. But good stories have a way of breaking their imprisonments, and soon Slender Man stepped a long, mantis leg over the border and began spreading his tentacles into nearly every corner of the internet imagination. Perhaps he influenced them to do terrible things on his behalf.Īt first, making up Slender Man stories was the exclusive pastime of the paywall-protected Something Awful message board. Who was he? What did he want? He preyed on children, or he kidnapped them or lured them away.
The Slender Man’s appeal was so fascinatingly ambiguous that message-board members piled on eagerly, elaborating on his backstory. Notable for being taken the day which fourteen children vanished and for what is referred to as ‘The Slender Man.’” One poster marveled, “This is going to give me nightmares.” In a bit of morbid flair, he captioned it, “We didn’t want to go, we didn’t want to kill them, but its persistent silence and outstretched arms horrified us and comforted us at the same time…” (He added “1983, photographer unknown, presumed dead.”) The second showed the same distant figure behind a playground, captioned, “One of two recovered photographs from the Stirling City Library blaze.
In the first, he added a blurry, ominous figure, tall and sticklike, behind a group of children.
The pictures were his entries in a contest called “Create Paranormal Images,” held in part to see who could come up with the the most evocative and disturbing fake photo. In June 2009, Eric Knudsen uploaded two Photoshopped pictures to a web forum called Something Awful.
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