But when you read about the would-be murderers, think long and hard about what they did and why they did it.Īre those the faces of two little girls? Or is there something more sinister smoldering-perhaps something in a black suit with impossibly long fingers? These two girls are to blame for what they did. I’m not saying that one shouldn’t be interested in horror or that Creepypasta is to blame. It’s Slender Man’s haunting, self-assured nature that has audiences captivated. He likes to stalk, abduct, and murder children.Īny man over six feet tall and dressed in a suit could be Slender Man, and children aren’t running and screaming from that, nor are they effectively plotting to sacrifice young victims to that image, either. They may not have been wearing suits or dangling impossibly long fingers in their victim’s face, but the suit and the fingers aren’t what makes Slender Man truly scary-it’s Slender Man’s remorselessness that makes him terrifying. In doing so, they birthed a nightmare into real life. They made themselves proxies of the character they idolized. The two young girls acted exactly as Slender Man would have. Why? Because Slender Man is an idea, and as long as he is thought about, he is real and effective. By doing exactly what Slender Man does-by stalking, stabbing, and intending to kill another child-the two girls temporarily morphed from two human preteens into Slender Man himself. The scariest thing about this stabbing is that because of a belief in something evil, two human beings perpetrated something evil. It’s not that these girls were “duped” by a horror story. It’s not that the wounded child dragged herself out of the woods after being tricked by people she thought were best friends. The scariest thing about this stabbing is not that these young girls perpetrated such a heinous crime, although that in itself is quite scary. In light of the recent events involving the stabbing of a young girl by two of her peers, I would like to tell you all that Slender Man is real, but not in the way you think he is.
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