The Slender Man
By AdalieM
@AdalieM (1134)
United States
March 4, 2011 2:49pm CST
Many people tells me that I shouldn't believe in such things. I tend to have faith in my grandmother and mentor when it comes to the paranormal phenomena. If they tell me not to mess with a Ouija board or demon possessions are real, I'll believe it. I have seen things that are hard to explain.
Anyway, back to the slender man. I was doing a research on Shadow people, when the subject of the Slender man came up.
He wears a black suit, has no face, and his arms can stretch for miles. Once his arms are outstretched, you go into hypnosis. He is responsible for kidnapping children, and for some reason he is seen before the kids disappeared, (gone missing)
Well, I know the story is fabricated, but why some people claim to have seen him? Just like people claims they have seen aliens?
Let's just think is the real deal.
Your thoughts? Or similar stories?
Can fabricated stories be authentic?
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@cream97 (29086)
• United States
4 Mar 11
Hi. AdalieM. I am not so sure about this. I have never heard of this story before. This is terrifying! I hope that my kids have never laid eyes on him at all. This is something that I would fear to the core. I hope that there aren't any kids that will ever go missing by seeing this shadow man.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
5 Mar 11
Hello Adalie,
I find the Slender Man distinguished in his black suit, and a good creature to make kids understand that it is better to not go alone in the woods
. Maybe is it the goal of this urban legend : they have sometimes only a moral goal, and sometimes there is also a real deal behind an urban legend and many folkloric myths
. I am sure that you have heard about "Wild hunt" -- Flying hunters in the sky -- called "Ghost Riders" in your country : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Hunt
I have heard something that people were calling "wild hunt" -- never mind the name -- : it was during a night in autumn, very noisy, and very impressive. During the day, it would have not been a real mystery, you would have seen this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3YbfedYyVg
It is a migration of cranes, but the folk legend of the "wild hunt" has thousands of years now, and these birds have not changed their behavior : they always take the same roads when they migrate. If you are not in their air corridor, you never hear or see them. Imagine a migrating tribe : these people are in an unknown land, afraid, risking an hostile encounter, and they hear during the night these sounds for the first time. Nothing bad happens and the sounds disappear. What was that ? It cannot be anything else than hunters flying in the sky
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. Maybe is it the goal of this urban legend : they have sometimes only a moral goal, and sometimes there is also a real deal behind an urban legend and many folkloric myths. I am sure that you have heard about "Wild hunt" -- Flying hunters in the sky -- called "Ghost Riders" in your country : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Hunt
I have heard something that people were calling "wild hunt" -- never mind the name -- : it was during a night in autumn, very noisy, and very impressive. During the day, it would have not been a real mystery, you would have seen this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3YbfedYyVg
It is a migration of cranes, but the folk legend of the "wild hunt" has thousands of years now, and these birds have not changed their behavior : they always take the same roads when they migrate. If you are not in their air corridor, you never hear or see them. Imagine a migrating tribe : these people are in an unknown land, afraid, risking an hostile encounter, and they hear during the night these sounds for the first time. Nothing bad happens and the sounds disappear. What was that ? It cannot be anything else than hunters flying in the sky.
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@AdalieM (1134)
• United States
5 Mar 11
Hello, Topffer =)
HA-ha. The slender men knows how the stand above the crowd. I sometimes wonder if it is possible for a fabricated story to become authentic, you know what they say the lie becomes the truth. Perhaps is just a way to scare your children; my grandmother used to tell me all kinds of scary things when I was being bad.
I love seeing birds migrate. Migrating Geese are very interesting to watch and make beautiful sounds.
Is only fair after all to be scare of something that you have never seen before. I am just glad most of them are fabricated, I don't want the slender man coming after kids or hunting me lol. Sometimes there's nothing out there or perhaps there is. I guess is better not to understand some reasons. As for the slender man, somebody wanted to blame their bad parenting skills on him LOL "My kids went missing becasue I was not paying attention" The people who came up with the legends had a vivid imagination or NOT?
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@topffer (42156)
• France
5 Mar 11
When I was a toddler my grand mother was saying that an old man would take me during the night if I was nasty. It scared me till 6 or 7. The slender man is a variant. You and me have not been kidnapped because we were not nasty enough and we risk nothing today. Children need to believe in Santa Claus, fairies, the slender man, and many others. I would like to be a child again 
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I saw a few photos online of groups supposed to have disappeared because of the slender man, but was it true ? TV news would have spoken of these disappearances, and I do not remember to have heard such news in the 80's, though I have a good memory, so I believe it is totally fake.
. Children need to believe in Santa Claus, fairies, the slender man, and many others. I would like to be a child again .
I saw a few photos online of groups supposed to have disappeared because of the slender man, but was it true ? TV news would have spoken of these disappearances, and I do not remember to have heard such news in the 80's, though I have a good memory, so I believe it is totally fake.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
6 Mar 11
surely you do not believe this. have common sense, without a face nobody could breathe or even live. this is so silly its just a falsehood and a scary st ory told around a campfire and has no basis in reality the whole story is preposterous and absolutely ridiculous. arms three miles long oh give me a break. nonsense. really nonsense
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@CaptAlbertWhisker (32748)
• Calgary, Alberta
11 May 11
where the hell am i when this discussion is posted, I never heard about that folklore but it it sounds very interesting. the most similar story i can say, is the "face less woman" who had been a staple in Japanese horror stories but she doesn't kidnapped children. I have to wiki this creature to know more. Its been while since i talked about legendary creatures.
@CaptAlbertWhisker (32748)
• Calgary, Alberta
26 Feb 16
@AdalieM There is a documentary about him and it seemed like he have tentacles coming out of his back. He use those tentacles to kill his victims.
@goggles213 (735)
• Philippines
25 Aug 11
I think most of these legends are based on real facts - just exagerrated. From one mouth to the other, the stories become all too real and some are added, remove and of course bloated to the person's liking. Once it becomes a legend, all we would hear is the exagerrated truth.
@RaineLockheart (219)
•
23 Nov 12
Slender Man comes from Creepypasta! He's not real but the idea of him is indeed very scary. You should read a Slender Man story. www.creepypasta.com
Don't read anything on that site if you have nightmares easily though because that is just what the stories are there for. They're called paranoia and nightmare fuel! And going off what I have just read from some of you, it seems to be working!
