Stories of elementary school fires and missing children continue to pour into the very same thread that housed Knudsen’s original “meme.” You can access the 46-page thread here. The photo has since been removed, but it led the way for multiple users to formulaically add on to the mythos. The first Slender Man story is baited with the following hook: “I’ve been seriously debating sharing these, but after Victor Surge’s posts I feel I have to.” This user recounts a case of missing teens who vanished while camping, claiming he was given a photo of the Slender Man by his uncle, a police officer still vexed by the incident years later. June 12th, 2009: The Internet Crowdsources Its Own Stories of the Slender Manįellow Something Awful users begin uploading their own photos and interpretations of the Slender Man. The aforementioned facility does not exist. Some of the accounts are extremely graphic, mentioning a “mass of blood and human tissue present on the camera” that was allegedly found and turned over to authorities by a patient at the “Woodview Mental Hospital and Psychological Rehabilitation Clinic.” According to a follow-up post, 33 patients were later missing from the institution. Knudsen returns to the Something Awful forum and posts a fictional doctor’s note that recounts several alleged Slender Man victims from the 1990s. Burroughs, and couple games of the survival horror genre Silent Hill and Resident Evil.” Knudsen later revealed in an interview that his inspiration for Slender Man came from “H.P Lovecraft, Stephen King (specifically his short stories), the surreal imaginings of William S. – 1986, photographer: Mary Thomas, missing since June 13th, 1986.” Actual photograph confiscated as evidence. … Fire at library occurred one week later. Notable for being taken the day which fourteen children vanished and for what is referred to as ‘The Slender Man’. This time, the caption reads: “One of two recovered photographs from the Stirling City Library blaze. In the image, several children smile towards the camera, while those in the back gather around a tall figure in a suit, summoning them with long and eerie arms. Knudsen’s second photo was stamped with a fake library seal. Meet the Creators and Activists Leading Social Media's Next Wave In the first of two photos, an unnaturally tall and spectral being in a prim black suit is seen in the shadows behind a group of young teenagers, followed by the vague caption: “‘We didn’t want to go, we didn’t want to kill them…’ -1983, photographer unknown, presumed dead.” Activity and praise for Surge’s tall, faceless ghoul flourished around the post immediately. The idea was to see who could use their Photoshop skills to create the best new mythological creature. On June 8, 2009, a blogger by the alias Victor Surge – later identified as a Florida man named Eric Knudsen – uploaded two Photoshopped images to a thread titled “Create Paranormal Images” on the comedy website Something Awful. The origin of Slender Man could not be more precise. Here’s how a horror meme, created as a joke, led to the crowdsourcing of the Internet’s very own boogeyman. What was this strange monster from the Internet and why were 12-year-old girls willing to kill for him? Just last week, a Wisconsin appeals court made the highly controversial ruling to uphold the decision to try both Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier as adults. Their victim survived, and her harrowing story of being stabbed 19 times sparked international interest in the legend of Slender Man. Two Wisconsin pre-teens shocked the country in 2014 after attempting to murder their classmate, a sacrifice to a fictional phantom known online as Slender Man.
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